Call for gender justice response

Spectrum Staff | August 20, 2007

By Alexander Carpenter
Adventist Gender Justice blogger, Trisha Famisaran has been working with a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who is doing a study on how members of our church community create empowering space for women. (Tangential to this, I recommend Ben MacArthur’s letter regarding Seeking a Sanctuary in the current issue of the journal.)
Trisha writes:

Courtney Crenshaw posted a survey on Adventist Gender
Justice several months ago and received great feedback. Courtney has
several more questions for our community to answer. The questions and
her contact information are available on Adventist Gender Justice.

Courtney is interested in getting responses from active bloggers,
but she is also interested in the broader perception of gender equality
and spaces of empowerment in the wider church. It would be especially
helpful if you might consider linking over to Courtney’s post from your
own sites so that she gets as much response as possible. So please
spread the word!

I think it’s exciting that a non-Adventist from the University of
California, Santa Cruz, has chosen to focus on women’s empowerment in
our church community. Courtney’s work will be useful to us and
I will try to get a hold of her research when it’s complete.

Click here to answer her five questions.

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