American Women — Religion

  • Interview with Marsie Silvestro

    Interview with Marsie Silvestro, campus minister at Manhattan College and member of the National Core Commission of the Women’s Ordination Conference. Today they will be talking about religious careers.

  • Interview with Mamie Williams

    This July is WPFW’s tribute to women month, and Upstream is celebrating with programs about “living legends.” This episode is an interview with Reverend Mamie Williams of the Calvary United Methodist Church in Northwest Washington, D.C. Produced by Nikki Jeter and Marie Smith. Program opens with a song “Cosmic Climax”(?) artist unknown and “The Creator…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: July 6, 1983

    Production reel for the July 6, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, hosted and produced by Eileen Zalisk. First segment is “The Utah papers,” excerpts from a journal of an ERA mission to Salt Lake City during the 1982 conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, written and read by Karen Perlman,…

  • The true believers

    Discussion of the parallel experiences of women who grew up in various ideologies. Guests are Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, who grew up a Jehovah’s Witness; Brett Harvey Vuolo, a Catholic who spent a period of time in a convent; Vivian Gornik, who grew up in a leftist, progressive home; and Laura Scanlon, who grew up Italian…

  • A grey Christmas / interviews by Aurelia Morris

    Aurelia Morris interviews religious leaders about the Christmas holiday and the role of women played or could have played in the holiday, and women’s roles in religion in general. Guests are Janice Young, former regional coordinator in the US for the National Coalition for Women’s Ordination to the Priesthood and to the Episcopacy; The Reverend…

  • Women in the Judeo-Christian tradition / Rosyln Lacks

    A lecture and discussion with Roslyn Lacks, writer for the Village Voice, of the religious/cultural background of Judaism and/or Christianity and its effect on women.

  • Population and birth control / moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson

    A panel discussion in the KPFA studio regarding population and birth control, moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson, with Father Eugene Boyle, KPFA commentator; Father Anthony Zimmerman, Society of the Divine Word, Sacrae Theologiae Doctor, author of “Overpopulation”; and Dr. Harold A. Harper, Professor of Biochemistry, U. C. Medical Center in San Francisco, Faculty of the…

  • A new Jewish agenda for the ’80s

    This series documents the Conference for a New Jewish Agenda for the ’80s, held at the 4-H building in Washington, D.C., Dec. 24-28, 1980. Although the purpose of the conference was to establish a new national Jewish organization, the speeches and discussion contained herein were of interest to a broader audience. Topics include the political…

  • Women in the Metropolitan Community Church / moderated by Ronald Gold.

    Assistant Pastor Ann Montague of the Manhattan Metropolitan Community Church and three other women church members – Judy Miller, Charlene Taylor and Gail Zudeikis[sp?] — discuss the Church, which professes a special ministry to the gay and lesbian community. Montague discusses the Church’s attempts to build a community in which “people take each other seriously”…

  • Mary : our lady queen of feminists / Ann Plogsterth: interviewed by Viv Sutherland.

    Viv Sutherland interviews Ann Plogsterth, member of Catholic Women for the ERA, the National Organization for Women (NOW)’s Sexism in Religion Committee, and a doctorate candidate at Columbia University about the Virgin Mary, the first feminist, in honor of the holiday season. Produced in cooperation with NOW-NY.