illustration -
Episcopalian
Anne Braden interviewing Rosa Parks
Image Courtesy of Kentucky Educational TV
Background:
Episcopal Church begins
dismantling segregated church organizations and seminaries.
A truce has ended the
Korean
conflict, but the cold war continues
The Episcopal Church
shares in
the widespread rise in church membership; new parishes and building
emerge in the growing suburbs.
The Lambeth Conference
rejects
Hong Kong's experiment in women's ordination.
General Convention refuses
to
seat women elected as deputies.
The number of women
missionaries decline as Church puts more emphasis on ordained
missionaries and less on social services.
Women
continue their parish ministries and guilds, leading in parish life and
christian education, serving at diocesan conventions and provincial
synods, publishing religious materials, teaching in church schools and
Sunday Schools, serving as organists and choir directors or
members, serving as domestic and foreign missionaries, joining
and founding religious orders, running hospitals and other social
service institutions, and funding the United Thank Offering and other
ministries.
Women
allowed to take some courses at Episcopal seminaries.
Women
form Association of Professional Women Church Workers
Order
of Deaconesses opens Central House in Sycamore, IL.
Women
respond to church growth by raising money to aid parish building plans.
What would women be
doing in
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