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Evangelical & Ecumenical Women's Caucus (EEWC)
EEWC is an international organization of women and men who believe that the Bible supports the equality of the sexes. The purpose of this organization is to encourage and advocate the use of women's gifts in all forms of Christian vocation, to provide educational opportunities for Christian feminists to grow in their belief and understanding, and to promote networking and mutual encouragement within the Christian community.

The Center for Progressive Christianity
The Center for Progressive Christianity provides guiding ideas, networking opportunities, and resources for progressive churches, organizations, individuals, and others with connections to Christianity. This organization promotes work that eases the pain, suffering, and degradation inherent in many of the structures of society; work that keeps central to the Christian life fair, open, peaceful, and loving treatment of all human beings; and respect for other religious traditions.

Ebenezer Lutheran Church, San Francisco, California
Ebenezer/herchurch Lutheran is an open and affirming congregation. This is a diverse community standing firmly within the Christian tradition in order to re-image the divine by claiming her feminine persona in thealogy, liturgy, church structure, art, language, practices, leadership, and acts of justice.

Alliance of Baptists
The Alliance of Baptists is a movement of progressive Christians—individuals and congregations—seeking to respond to the continuing call of God in a rapidly changing world.

The Christian Godde Project
The Christian Godde Project is the work of women and men who are called by the Holy Spirit to help restore gender equity in churches by exploring the Divine Feminine within the Christian Godde. These women and men believe that since women as well as men are created in Godde’s image (cf. Genesis 1:27), Godde is revealed in Scripture using feminine as well as masculine imagery (cf. Isaiah 66:13).

The Association of Welcoming & Affirming Baptists
The Association of Welcoming & Affirming Baptists (AWAB) is an organization of churches willing to go on record as welcoming and affirming all persons without regard to sexual orientation or gender identity, and who have joined together to advocate for the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons within Baptist communities of faith. The Association also includes group and individual Friends who seek to join with AWAB in broadening the welcome to all.

Roman Catholic Womenpriests
Roman Catholic Womenpriests (RCWP) is an international initiative within the Roman Catholic Church. The mission of Roman Catholic Womenpriests is to spiritually prepare, ordain, and support women and men from all states of life, who are theologically qualified, who are committed to an inclusive model of Church, and who are called by the Holy Spirit and their communities to minister within the Roman Catholic Church.

Baptist Women in Ministry
The mission of Baptist Women in Ministry (BWIM) is to be a catalyst in Baptist life, drawing together women and men in partnership with God, to illuminate, advocate, and nurture the gifts and graces of women.

Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER)
WATER is an international community of justice-seeking people who promote the use of feminist values to make religious and social change. WATER offers programs and publications, liturgical planning and consultation, workshops and retreats, counseling and spiritual direction to help people create and sustain inclusive communities in society and religion.

Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America
The mission of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America (BPFNA) is to gather, equip and mobilize Baptists to build a culture of peace rooted in justice. BPFNA labors with a wonderful array of peacemakers to change the world.

Broadway Church, Kansas City, Missouri
Broadway is an inclusive, theologically progressive, healing
community focused on the spiritual transformation that comes from following Jesus Christ. Broadway Church uses female and male names and images for God, and affirms and welcomes all persons of any sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, differing abilities, religious affiliation, socioeconomic status, or any persons who have been spiritually disenfranchised.

St. Hildegard’s Community, St. George’s Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas
St. Hildegard’s Community’s services incorporate inclusive and expansive language for divinity and humanity into the beauty and drama of Anglican worship. This Community offers a supportive environment for seekers, those open to the wisdom of other sacred traditions and to exploring emerging Christian theologies, including feminist liberation theology.

Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh, North Carolina
Pullen is a social justice-oriented, inclusive, LGBT-affirming, and innovative church, which intentionally uses inclusive language in worship services. This includes changing scripture to gender-neutral language and using a variety of feminine, masculine, and non-gender images in referring to God and humanity in hymns, litanies, prayers, choral offerings, and other worship elements.

Hill Connections: Linking Contemplation and Social Justice, faith with action
Rooted in Catholic traditions, this site welcomes those of every faith tradition who value community, spirituality, compassion, healing, solidarity, and social justice. The site offers rituals and art inclusive of the Divine Feminine.

Rev. Dr. Susan Newman
United Church of Christ pastor Rev. Dr. Newman currently serves as one of the ministers of All Souls Church in Washington DC, and is a community advocate, teacher, chaplain, and author. Her publications include With Heart and Hand: the Black Church Working to Save Black Children; Oh God! A Black Woman’s Guide to Sex and Spirituality; and Your Inner Eve: Discovering God’s Woman Within.

Rev. Dr. Monica A. Coleman
Rev. Dr. Coleman is a womanist theologian, African American Episcopal pastor, Associate Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions at Claremont School of Theology and Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies. She has authored The Dinah Project: a Handbook for Congregational Response to Sexual Violence and Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology.

Bishop Bridget Mary Meehan
Bridget Mary Meehan is an ordained Roman Catholic priest and bishop, currently priest of Mary Mother of Jesus Catholic Community in Sarasota, Florida, and an international advocate for a renewed model of priestly ministry through Roman Catholic Womenpriests. She has published books on the Divine Feminine in the Christian tradition, including Exploring the Feminine Face of God, Delighting in the Feminine Divine, and Heart Talks with Mother God.

Connections Online Newsletter
“Connections” is a newsletter by Barbara Wendland, a United Methodist laywoman with a theology degree. This newsletter urges church members to take action to help make their personal lives, the institutional church, and the world more like what Jesus advocated; to revise their beliefs and their churches' methods when new insight or information seems to make revision necessary; to talk openly in the church about how the gospel may apply to current issues and how the church might become more faithful and effective. Barbara’s publications include Misfits: The Church's Hidden Strength.