March is Women’s History Month

March is Women’s History Month. Women’s History Month is an annual declared month set aside to highlight the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. What we now know as the month long observation in the USA, began as Women’s History week in a county in California in 1978 as an intentional extension of International Women’s Day (March 8th).

It’s been estimated that roughly one percent of recorded history focuses on the unique contributions of women even though half the world’s population identifies as female.

I have put together a little Women’s History Month Theologians Calendar. For each day in March I have highlighted a living theologian, a theologian from history (recent or ancient), and a faith ancestor from Hebrew or Christian Scripture. There is no real order to the list, nor can it be comprehensive, and I listed just one of each theologians’ written works. I have simply highlighted three women for each day to hold in my heart with gratitude.

Peace, dwight

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Women’s History Month: Theologians

Women’s History Month	Holding with Gratitude	Living Theologians	Thought Leaders from History	Ancestors in Scripture
March 1		Angela Parker If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority	Monica of Hippo	Mary Mother of Jesus Luke 1:26-56
March 2		Chelle Stearns Handling Dissonance	Hilda of Whitby	Junia Romans 16:7
March 3		Aruna Gnanadason Asian Women in the Ecumenical Movement: Voices of Resistance and Hope	Irene of Athens	Tabitha/Dorcas Acts 9:36-42
March 4		Musa Dube Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible	Antoinette Bourignon	Bathsheba 1 Kings 11:11-2:19
March 5		Grace Ji-Sun Kim Intersectional Theology	Bridget of Sweden	Deborah Judges 4-5
March 6		Kelly Brown Douglas Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God	Hildegard of Bingen Scivias	Elisabeth Luke 1:5-80
March 7		Sarah Coakley God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity’	Pope Joan	Esther The Book of Esther
March 8		Ruth Padilla DeBorst Mission of the Church: Five Views in Conversation	Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love	Eve Genesis 2-3
March 9		Ivone Gebara Out of the Depths: Women’s Experience of Evil and Salvation	Madame Guyon Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ	Gomer Hosea 1-3
March 10		Delores S. Williams Sisters of the Wilderness: The Challene of Womanist God-Talk	Mother Teresa No Greater Love	Hagar Genesis 20:17-21:21
March 11		Ellen Davis Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament	Catherine of Siena The Dialogue	Anna the Prophetess Luke 2:26-38
March 12		Shelly Rambo Resurrecting Wounds: Living in the Afterlife of Trauma	Teresa of Avila Interior Castle	Lydia of Thyatira Acts 16:14-15
March 13		Emilie M. Townes In a Blaze of Glory: Womanist Spirituality as Social Witness	Joan Bocher	Martha John 11
March 14		Rosemary Radford Ruether Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions	Anne Hutchinson	Mary Sister of Lazarus  John 12:1-11
March 15		Meredith Minister Trinitarian Theology and Power Relations: God Embodied	Elizabeth Pepper	Miriam Exodus 2:1-11
March 16		Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite Women’s Bodies as Battlefield: Christian Theology and the Global War on Women	Thérèse of Lisieux The Story of a Soul	Naomi The Book of Ruth
March 17		Monica Coleman Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith	Sallie McFague The Body of God	Phoebe Romans 16:1-2
March 18		Amy Levad Redeeming a Prison Society: A Liturgical and Sacramental Response to Mass Incarceration	Evelyn Underhill Mysticism	Pauh Exodus 1:11-20
March 19		Mitzi J. Smith I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader	Catherine Booth Aggressive Christianity	Ruth The Book of Ruth
March 20		Kwok Pui-lan  Introducing Asian Feminist Theology	Anne Hutchinson	Tamar 2 Samuel 13
March 21		Elaine Padilla Divine Enjoyment: A Theology of Passion and Exuberance	Phoebe Palmer The Way of Holiness	Zipporah Exodus 4:18-31
March 22		M. Shawn Copeland Knowing Christ Crucified: The Witness of African American Religious Experience	Mary Daly Beyond God the Father	Tryphena of Rome Romans 16:12
March 23		Kathryn Tanner Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity	Katie Cannon Black Womanist Ethics	Sarah Genesis 12
March 24		Frances Young God’s Presence	Edith Stein The Hidden Life	Sheerah 1 Chronicles 7:24
March 25		Jacquelyn Grant White Women’s Christ and Black Women’s Jesus: Feminist Christology and Womanist Response	Katharina von Bora	Samaritan Woman John 4:4-26
March 26		Melba Padilla Maggay Global Kingdom, Global People: Living Faithfully in a Multicultural World	Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz Mujerista Theology	Rahab Hebrews 11:31
March 27		Elizabeth Johnson Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril	Marguerite Porete The Mirror of Simple Souls	Mary Magdalene Matthew 27:54-61
March 28		Phyllis Trible Texts of Terror	Heloise The Letters	Syntyche Philippians 4:2-3
March 29		Mary McClintock Fulkerson Places of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church	Ursula of Munsterberg	Medium of En Dor 1 Samuel 28
March 30		Rita Nakashima Brock Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire	Kassia	Rachel Genesis 29
March 31		Mercy Oduyoye African Women’s Theologies, Spirituality and Healing: Theological Perspectives from the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians	Marie Durand	Priscilla Acts 18:1-26