Women and the Word
Synod 2008:
Put Women Back in the Biblical Picture

Dear International Friend of Women's Equality in the Church:

Please help "put women back in the Biblical picture" at next October's Synod on "The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church" by sending an e-postcard addressed to Archbishop Nikola Et Bishops, the Pontifical Biblical Commission, and the Pope.

Your e-postcard will communicate your concern about women's biblical leadership to Vatican Synod organizers.

If you know the email addresses of Bishop delegates from your country, please include them in the cc: line of the email.

FutureChurch has also compiled a list of 22 female biblical scholars. If you would like to receive the list to share with your bishop delegates, or add to the list with female biblical experts from your country, please contact chris@futurechurch.org

Act Now - Our voice - and the voices of hidden biblical women must be heard.

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Dear Archbishop Eterovic, Thank you for acknowledging the "many contributions of the lay faithful" to the Synod on the Word. Pope Benedict has three times spoken about the need to "offer more space, and more positions of responsibility to women" (March 2006). Please include the following in your preparations for the Synod: -Invite women biblical experts. No women theologians were included in the 2005 Synod. -Devote more pastoral attention to Jesus and St. Paul's inclusion of women leaders. -Expand opportunities for women preachers so both women and men can hear the Word through the lens of female experience. -Restore biblical women leaders to lectionary readings in which their witness was diminished or deleted. (see Sr. Ruth Fox's article from May/June issue of LITURGY 90, (c) 1996, available at www.futurechurch.org) I would appreciate your reply.

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