Cathy Ross - The Invisibility of Women (N32)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2011

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Cathy Ross is lecturer in contextual theology and pioneer leadership and is the General Secretary for the International Association for Mission Studies. So Cathy seemed like a pretty good person to talk to about how women have been overlooked in mission, both overseas and at home. She explores how this came about and what can be done about it. She also recommends some resources to help us dig deeper into this important issue.

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0:00.0	Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church.
0:16.0	Hello and welcome to Nomad podcast, the podcast dedicated to exploring issues surrounding church, Christian community and mission.
0:25.0	On this week's show, the man we call Tim Nash spoke to Kathy Ross about women in mission.
0:45.6	On this month's podcast, we're speaking to Dr. Kathy Ross about the role of women in mission.
0:47.0	Kathy, welcome to the show.
0:48.1	Thank you.
0:51.4	You're the first person that we've had to ask to redo an interview.
0:54.2	Nick was halfway through interviewing you when his computer crashed, so we're doubly thankful for you speaking to us today. Could you begin by perhaps just telling us a little
0:59.9	bit about yourself? Okay. Kiyora, my name's Kathy. I come from Artiero, New Zealand. Been in Britain
1:06.9	five years until we recently working for the Church Mission Society now lecturing at
1:11.7	London School of Theology. And I guess my passion and interest is women and commission.
1:18.1	Yeah, well, I mean, that's the reason why we're speaking to you today, because some of our listeners
1:22.2	have noticed that the majority of our guests that come on the show to discuss mission have been men.
1:28.3	Now that certainly wasn't intentional on our part, but it seems the case that the majority of resources on mission, the books,
1:34.3	the teaching, the conference that we've been engaging with have been coming from men.
1:38.3	So we're wondering whether you could begin by giving us just some insight into the history of women's participation in mission so
1:45.1	that we can begin to understand why that might be the case.
1:47.8	Okay, well what got me interested in this was partly being a missionary wife, so to speak,
1:54.8	because my PhD research was on missionary wives to New Zealand in the 19th century.
2:00.3	And I was looking at the CMS register from the 19th century.
2:04.1	The first missionaries went out in the early 1800s.
2:07.3	And they were noted as Reverend Alfred Brown comma M.
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