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Breaking Hegemony: Hopes for True Equality in the Church

by Merrie Beard | Sep 21, 2016 | Around the House

I had the experience of coming into the Episcopal Church with priestly (Elders) ordination in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church which had been ordaining women since 1894. Having been nurtured in African Methodism I grew up expecting women’s ordination to be...

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