History of the Helen Barrett Montgomery Conference
Since 1995, the Program for the Study of Women and Gender in Church and Society at CRCDS has sponsored and hosted annually the Helen Barrett Montgomery, to address contemporary issues.
Topics have included violence against women; women as partners in the churches' dialogue about sexuality; women and a livable economy; women, health, and healing; Womanist-feminist conversation; and women in religious leadership.
Prominent national and international keynote speakers have been Rachael Adler, Mary Daly, Toinette Eugene, Marie Fortune, Yvonne Haddad, Aruna Gnanadason, Beverly Wildung Harrison, Rosemary Haughton, Musimbi Kanyoro, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Mercy Oduyoye, Ofelia Ortega, Kwok Pui-lan, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Letty Russell, Jane Smith, Renita Weems, Delores Williams, and Miriam Therese Winter.
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