The Revd Hazel M Aucken writes, “I’ve been following Sue’s blogs of early Christian female pioneers with interest, not least because I trained for ordination at St Hild’s College, based in Sheffield, Mirfield, York and online. It’s an amazing seat of inspirational learning, founded as recently as 2017, with a name `chosen to capture our rootedness inContinue reading “Abbess Hilda of Whitby”
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Celebrating Women Pioneers of the Early Church
Women Poets and Writers As a writer, I was fascinated to discover that women were writing their thoughts, hopes and ideas way back in antiquity, and women writers are not a new thing. I want to round off this series of women pioneers of the Early Church with a look at three women writers toContinue reading “Celebrating Women Pioneers of the Early Church”
Celebrating Women Pioneers of the Early Church
Women Theologians and Bible Translators My last blog told the story of five women martyrs of the first three centuries of the Christian Church. In this post, I explained how I bought a book on 2,000 years of church history and only 7.8% of the people mentioned in the book were women, and I wonderedContinue reading “Celebrating Women Pioneers of the Early Church”
Leaving Bethany 