This book presents an overview of the ministry of women associated with Princeton Theological Seminary over the last two hundred years. Beginning with a historical overview of early pioneering women at the seminary and a chapter highlighting selected trailblazers in ministry, it goes on to showcase twenty-eight first-person narratives by women from diverse racial-ethnic, geographical, and denominational backgrounds in a variety of ministry settings. It concludes by developing new understandings and directions for Christian ministry and theological education to challenge the twenty-first-century church. The book includes the newly commissioned hymn ‘Faith of Our Mothers, Living Still, ‘ along with several appendixes that feature time lines and highlight Princeton Seminary faculty and alumnae. Faith of Our Mothers, Living Still celebrates the diverse ministries in which women are called to serve God and others, which inspire a holistic vision for theological education that can benefit seminaries, the church, and the world.
About the author
Abigail Rian Evans is Charlotte Newcombe Professor Emerita of Practical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she taught for eighteen years. She has spent over fifty years in ministry as a missionary in Brazil, Presbyterian church pastor in six states, synod executive, Columbia University chaplain, seminary and medical school professor in the United States and abroad, and consultant on health care and bioethics to agencies including the National Institutes of Health, the White House, and the World Council of Churches. She is the author of numerous books, including Is God Still at the Bedside: The Medical, Ethical, and Pastoral Issues of Death and Dying and Healing Liturgies for the Seasons of Life, published by Westminster John Knox Press. She currently serves as Co-Coordinator for Princeton Theological Seminary’s Women in Ministry Program, as senior Scholar in Residence at the Pellegrino Clinical Bioethics Center, and as adjunct professor at Georgetown University Medical School.
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