Full List of Speakers Announced for Women & Diaconal Ministry Conference

October 2014

St. Phoebe Center for the History of the Deaconess has announced the full list of speakers for its first conference “Women & Diaconal Ministry in the Orthodox Church: Past, Present & Future” to be held Saturday, December 6, 2014 at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Speakers include Sister Rebecca of New Skete Monastery; Susan Ashbrook Harvey, PhD; Valerie A. Karras, ThD., PhD; AnnMarie Mecera; Clio Pavlantos, MDiv; Teva Regule, PhD (candidate); Caren Stayer, PhD; Rev. Fr. Steven Tsichlis; and Phyllis Zagano, PhD. Full speaker bios can be found here: http://orthodoxdeaconess.org/women-diaconal-ministry-conference/.

Specific topics and a full agenda will be forthcoming.

The conference is geared to both lay people and academics, and men and women in all jurisdictions interested in learning about the rejuvenation of the entire diaconate—for both male and female—for the building up of the Church today.

Registration fee is $50 (until November 15; $60 after November 15) and $35 for students, and includes lunch,refreshments & all conference materials. Register here http://orthodoxdeaconess.org/women-diaconal-ministry-conference/.

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Please share this information with others who may be interested in this topic, and post the attached flyer in your bulletin and on your website.

Participants may also want to attend the 6th Annual Sophia Institute Conference being held Friday, December 5 at Union Theological Seminary. The theme for this conference is Healing Reconciliation & Forgiveness in Eastern Orthodox Perspectives. More information here: http://sophiainstitutenyc.org/conference/.

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