LET'S MAKE HISTORY: ORDAIN DEACONESSES IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH TODAY

               

by Carrie Frederick Frost | ελληνικά | Русский

March is Women’s History Month, when we particularly witness women’s vital roles in our past, including in the Orthodox Church. These stories deserve our attention and appreciation, but let’s not just look to the past, let’s also look to the future. Let’s make history. 

TOWARDS A REASONED AND RESPECTFUL CONVERSATION ABOUT DEACONESSES

by the St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess Board: AnnMarie Mecera, President; Caren Stayer, Ph.D.; Gust Mecera; Teva Regule, Ph.D.; Carrie Frederick Frost, Ph.D.; Helen Theodoropoulos, Ph.D.

Η ΔΙΑΚΟΝΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΑ ΓΥΝΑΙΚΕΙΑ ΧΑΡΙΣΜΑΤΑ

Της Κάρι Φρέντερικ Φρόστ (Carrie Frederick Frost)  |  English

Εάν επανεντάσσαμε την χειροτονηθείσα γυναικεία διακονία στην σημερινή Ορθόδοξη εκκλησία, θα βλέπαμε μια έκχυση γυναικείων χαρισμάτων. Μια νέα και αναγκαία πηγή που θα μεταμόρφωνε τόσο την Εκκλησία όσο και τον κόσμο.

WOMEN DEACONS IN AFRICA; NOT IN AMERICA

Carrie Frederick Frost, Public Orthodoxy

History was made on February 17, 2017 when five women were consecrated deaconesses in the Orthodox Church. For many of us, this is a welcome but shocking development.

“WOMEN WILLING TO OFFER THEMSELVES”: THE HISTORIC CONSECRATION OF DEACONESSES IN AFRICA

  

Carrie Frederick Frost, PhD is a scholar of Orthodox theology, Professor of Theology at Saint Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Seminary, and a Board Member of Saint Phoebe Center for the Deaconess, a US-based non-profit advocating for the rejuvenation of the female diaconate. THE WHEEL

A PENTECOST ON CRETE? THE ORTHODOX CHURCH'S HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL

.commonwealmagazine.org

 Carrie Frederick Frost

Pope Francis recently made headlines in the West by meeting with Orthodox Patriarchs Bartholomew and Kirill, and joining with them to address the refugee crisis.