These are just a few of the many events and offerings the Women’s Group has been involved with. For any further questions, please contact Mary Johnson or Lynn Hartmann.
2026
In collaboration with the Liturgy Committee and the Imaging and Imagining team, we createed a 5-week program during Lent 2026 entitled “Revealing the Divine Feminine.” We chose to feature five women of history who have helped to move humankind from darkness into light: Ruby Bridges, the prophet Miriam, St. Brigid of Kildare, Dorothy Day, and Harriet Tubman. During the series, sermons and educational forums were centered on the lives and work of these five women and how they embodied divine energy. The Imaging and Imagining team commissioned five portraits of the women by St. John’s talented artist Chris Sanders, which have now been permanently installed in the Parish Hall.
2024
Annual Women’s Brunch
2023
The Philadelphia Eleven documentary. We had the privilege of screening this new documentary on April 7, in conjunction with the St John’s Faith Formation Commission, led by our Associate Rector, Rev Craig Lemming. Of note, our own Rev Karen Mosso attended the Ordination Ceremony for these courageous women in 1974. Below she has provided scanned copies of the original bulletin, along with “A Chronology of Events Concerning Women in Holy Orders in the Episcopal Church”, and “Women Who Made History in the Diocese of Minnesota”. Click the images below to open.
2022
In 2022 the Episcopal Church in Minnesota passed a resolution restating the wider Episcopal Church’s position supporting Reproductive Rights and Bodily Autonomy. The St. John’s Women’s Group added their voices to this statement by reading portions of it together as a witness to the fact that at St. John’s, we stand with women and support reproductive rights and bodily autonomy.
