Thursday, March 27, 2025

SojoMail - Meet the women shaping the church in 2025

This week: 12 faith leaders to watch in 2025, Rev. Munther Isaac’s Christ in the Rubble, and providing spiritual care during a Texas execution.

12 Christian Women Shaping the Church in 2025

In this week’s SojoMail, we’re featuring women who are leading through empathy, building community, and fighting against rising tides of hopelessness with messages of radical and inclusive love:

For the ninth year in a row, we honored Women’s History Month with an article highlighting revolutionary women shaping the church. This year’s list includes theologians, filmmakers, illustrators, musicians, pastors, and academics. Our nominees engage in diverse work, but these women are united through a fearless pursuit of justice.

These women shape policy, raise awareness, and mobilize communities around a variety of vital causes. Whether they’re strengthening pluralistic democracy, protecting reproductive justice, resisting Christian nationalism, defending asylum seekers, or upholding immigrant rights, these women choose to lead through faith.

We asked each woman to share why their work is so important at this time and to offer us a blessing for 2025. May their bravery, kindness, and devotion inspire you along your own faith journey.

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