About the Women’s Center at LPTS
- The Women’s Center at LPTS is a space for and program of mission, the goal of which is the envisioning and construction of gendered structures and practices that do justice to the full humanity of all people. We recognize sexual difference as an original and integral constituent of that full humanity (see Genesis 1:27).
Where people have made sexual difference the justification for domination and violence, wrong has been done, and we believe we are called to speak and to act against it.
Where people have worked within a context of sexual difference to enrich our human life together, we believe we are called to celebrate.
The Women’s Center is located at
100 White Hall
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
1044 Alta Vista Rd.
Louisville, KY 40205-1798
email: womenscenter at lpts.edu
About Heather Thiessen, Acting Director
- Heather Thiessen is a graduate of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (M.Div. 2000, Th.M. 2002) and former student coordinator of the Women’s Center. In addition to serving as Acting Director, Heather is a student in the Humanities Ph.D. Program of the University of Louisville, where she is slowly working on completing a dissertation titled “Utopian Discourse in the Work of Three Late Twentieth Century Philosophers: Theodor W. Adorno, Luce Irigaray, and Giorgio Agamben.” She lives in Corydon, Indiana, with her partner, her daughter, and a large number of cats and dogs.
About Debra Trevino, Student Coordinator
- Debra Crawford, in addition to being Student Coordinator for the Women’s Center, is a second-year M.Div. student at Louisville Seminary and a member of the Chapel Ministers team. Deb is always to be seen with crochet hook or knitting needles in hand, and is particularly proud to have initiated a prayer shawl ministry through the Women’s Center to benefit people living with HIV/AIDS. Deb has also turned her talents to the Women’s Center’s interminable fundraising efforts, with handcrafted donations to sales and auctions even preceding her tenure as Student Coordinator. She looks forward to many further opportunities to serve the LPTS community.
About Johanna Bos, Faculty and Financial Liaison
- Rev. Dr. Johanna Van-Wijk Bos has been deeply committed to and involved with the Women’s Center at LPTS since its inauguration in 1995. She has served as Faculty Advisor, as the first Director of the Women’s Center, and now as Faculty and Financial Liaison. As Faculty Liaison, she maintains the Women’s Center’s connections to key Seminary structures. As Financial Liaison, she works tirelessly to deepen and stabilize the financial foundation of the Women’s Center, which is entirely supported by outside donations.
April 23, 2009 at 8:12 am
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