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...Carter Heyward, perhaps the most vocal and outwardly radical of these priests, was called to the priesthood at an early age. "I always had some sense of belonging," says Heyward, who teaches at EDS in Cambridge. "But I shelved all notions of being ordained in the back of my mind because I wasn't really thinking of it as a realistic possibility...
...Heyward's doctoral dissertation topic is entitled "Toward an Androgenous God: A Theology of Sexuality." She speaks of it while referring to her ministry, "We have lost a sense of who God is and who we are in God's image. God is as much a mother as a father, a sister as a brother. People don't realize this because they tend to give God a name, a sex and a role...
...womanhood, and of her openly hostile attitude toward the church Heyward says, "I am a woman but that's secondary. My vocation now is to be doing what I'm doing and that includes doing battle with the Episcopal church...
Just two days after the ruling, Beebe again invited two women, Alison Cheek and Carter Heyward, to celebrate Communion, and told TIME he will continue to do so no matter what church officials decide. In Washington, Wendt's church announced that Cheek will join its staff and preside at Communion on July 27, even though the bishop there does not recognize her ordination...
Three of the eleven Episcopal women ordained as priests in Philadelphia last July laid public claim to their priesthood at a Eucharistic service on Reformation Sunday last week in Manhattan's interdenominational Riverside Church. Calling their deed "a celebration of women in ministry," the Rev. Carter Heyward, 29, the Rev. Alison Cheek, 47, and the Rev. Jeannette Piccard, 79, joined in consecrating three home-baked loaves of bread and wine in three ceramic goblets. Piccard, who won fame decades ago for stratospheric balloon flights with her husband Jean Piccard, pronounced absolution; and Cheek gave the solemn blessing...