Celebration of Ordination of
Women is at LPTS March 26-27

Wind and Flame: Women Claiming Sacred Space is an event celebrating the ordination of women, to be held at Louisville Seminary March 26- 27, 2006. It is sponsored by the Women’s Center of the seminary, the Mid-Kentucky Justice for Women Committee and the Presbyterian Women of Mid- Kentucky Presbytery.

Keynote speaker at the opening celebration dinner will be Katie Geneva Cannon, whose address will inaugurate the Katie Geneva Cannon Lectureship, which will feature racial ethnic women scholars. Cannon was the first African American woman ordained as a minister in the United Presbyterian Church (USA). She is a professor of Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia.

The event will feature eight workshops on a variety of topics. A brochure with complete information and registration card can be found on-line at www.lpts.edu. Brochures may also be obtained from the Seminary office of Communications (502/895-3411).