Join the Diocesan ECW Board for our Retreat and Annual Meeting, featuring guest speaker, The Rev. Canon Whitney Rice.
Explore American orthodoxy and orthopraxy around our bodies—who society says we are and how we should treat ourselves around appearance, weight, age, sexuality, gender identity, race and ethnicity, ability/disability, motherhood and fertility. Through scripture study, imagine how Jesus wants us to see and care for our bodies, and then write and use in worship a Creed and Covenant of Women’s Living Incarnation modeled after the Nicene Creed and Baptismal Covenant.
Canon Whitney is a graduate of Yale Divinity School, where she won the Charles S.Mersick Prize for Public Address and Preaching and the E. William Muehl Award forExcellence in Preaching. She has taught undergraduate courses, contributed to LectionaryHomiletics and other publications, and served as a researcher and community ministrygrant consultant. She is currently a staff writer for the Episcopal Digital Network’sSermons That Work. A communicator of the gospel at heart, she writes and teaches on avariety of topics including rethinking evangelism, stewardship, women’s theology of thebody, mysticism and spiritual development. When she’s not thinking about theology,particularly the intersection of evangelism and justice work (which is all the time, seriously), you’ll find her swing dancing. Find more of her work at her website Roof Crashers & Hem Grabbers (roofcrashersandhemgrabbers.com).
Please register in advance for this event by downloading a form at
www.diocesemo.org/episcopal-church-women/. (Registration due by 10/9.)Cost of $30 (shared room) or $45 (single occupancy) includes overnight accommodations, meals and activities. $15 commuter option for meals and activities only.For more information, contact Susan Goen at 314-374-2152 (voice/text) or susangoen@sbcglobal.net (email).