Advent Reflections

http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2004/decemberweb-only/12-6-52.0.html

Art with a Message

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114328601

A helpful and informative blog on human trafficking

Women in Pakistan

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32708511/ns/dateline_nbc-picture_stories/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1

Pictures are worth more than 1000 words… there is much work to do.

Why Women’s Studies Today?

 Because 500 days of Summer is NOT a love story, but a story about love…

And because women and children of the world remain the “poorest of the poor” of the world’s populations today. UNIFEM press release, www.unifem.org

And because “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:1, 27)

Women’s Studies as an academic discipline was created to educate women and society in general of feminist thought and women’s rights during the mid-twentieth century. Women’s Studies at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) is a thoughtful Christian response to the history and development of feminist philosophy in the academy and popular culture.

It is an opportunity to study the philosophies at play in culture regarding gender and sexuality as understood through the biblical narrative, resulting in compassionate and intelligent ministry in postmodern culture.