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Stumbling Over Women: Stones of Remembrance

August 23, 2016 by Gail Wallace

On a recent tour of Germany I came across the Stolpersteine Project. Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small brass-plated blocks or stones embedded into the streets to commemorate victims of Nazi oppression. Each stone is made and laid by hand. They are usually placed just outside the place where the person named on the stone was forcibly taken from their home or business. Each stone begins with HERE LIVED…… One stone. One name. One person. The idea came about while German artist Gunter Demnig was painting a white line through the city of Cologne to commemorate the historical deportation of 1000 gypsies. The line would show where they had been chased to the train station. One day an older woman stopped to scold him, insisting that there had never been any gypsies in Cologne. Shocked, he investigated and found evidence that in the 1930s thousands of gypsies, as well as Jews, had lived side by side with Germans. To combat the human tendency to forget, he designed the first stones. To date, over 48,000 stones have been laid in more than 20 countries. In a sense, The Junia Project is very much like the Stolpersteine Project.

Filed Under: Women and the Church, women in church history Tagged With: Argula von Stauff, Gail Wallace, Katie Luther

Women in Church History: Footnoted and Forgotten?

March 1, 2016 by Michael Wiltshire

Women have always played a crucial role in the establishment of the Christian church, but I’ve noticed that their contributions are often footnoted and forgotten. When we read philosophy and theology addressing the roles of pastor, apostle, disciple, missionary, etc., we subtly assume a masculine context unless women are specifically brought up. In this post […]

Filed Under: Women and the Church, women in church history Tagged With: Anne Hutchinson, Argula von Stauff, Calvin, Egeria, Jarena Lee, Julian of Norwich, Katherine Schutz Zell, Margaret Fell Fox, Martin Luther, Melania, Michael Wiltshire, Perpetua, Proba, Teresa of Avila

More Than Footnotes Part 3: Women in The Reformation Era

March 18, 2015 by Michael Wiltshire

Part 3 in a series examining the role of women in different phases of Church history. See also Part 1 -Women in Early Christianity, Part 2 – Women in Medieval Christianity, Part 4 -Women in the American Colonies. THE CONTEXT The status of women throughout the Protestant Reformation is best understood through the teachings of Martin Luther and later by […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Argula von Stauff, Calvin, Katherine Schutz Zell, Martin Luther, Teresa of Avila

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