First Things RSS Feed - Kathy Kersten https://www.firstthings.com/author/kathy-kersten en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:55:23 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/kathy-kersten 60 A New Heaven and a New Earth https://www.firstthings.com/article/1994/03/a-new-heaven-and-a-new-earth https://www.firstthings.com/article/1994/03/a-new-heaven-and-a-new-earth Tue, 01 Mar 1994 00:00:00 -0500 “R E-imagining,” a conference “by women for women and men,” marked the midpoint of the World Council of Churches’ “Decade in Solidarity with Women.” Held last November 4-7 at the Minneapolis Convention Center, the conference drew 2,200 participants from forty-nine states and twenty-seven countries. RE-imagining was sponsored by the Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area and the Minnesota Council of Churches, and underwritten by a $65,000 grant from the Presbyterian Church (USA). Among the mainline organizations that lined up to provide additional funding were the National Ministries of the American Baptist Church, the Division of Congregational Ministries of the ELCA, the Board for Homeland Ministries of the United Church of Christ, the Women’s Division of the United Methodist Church, and several orders of Roman Catholic nuns.

Continue Reading »

]]>