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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.

Read our statement of purpose and mission

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The Women’s Center is located at
100 White Hall
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
1044 Alta Vista Rd.
Louisville, KY 40205-1798
(502) 895-3411 ext. 285
(800) 264-1839 ext. 285
direct (502) 894-2285
email: womenscenter at lpts.edu

About Heather Thiessen, Director (part time)

Part-time Director Dr. Heather Thiessen

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 part time as Director, Heather most recently successfully defended her dissertation, Messianic Light: Utopian Discourse in the Work of Theodor W. Adorno, Luce Irigaray, and Giorgio Agamben, to complete her Ph.D. in Humanities at the University of Louisville. She shares a home in Corydon, Indiana, with her partner, her daughter, and a large number of other cherished members of the creation.

About Johanna Bos, Faculty and Financial Liaison

Faculty and Financial Liaison Rev. Dr. Johanna Bos

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.

More about Johanna Bos

About the Women’s Center Student Coordinator

Amy Hartsough, 2011-2012 Women's Center Student Coordinator

Amy Hartsough, who will be a first-year M.Div. student at LPTS in Fall, 2011, will be the Women’s Center Student Coordinator beginning in September, 2011. The position of Student Coordinator is integral to the operation of the Women’s Center. The Student Coordinator works closely with the Director to plan, publicize, interpret and implement the programs of the Women’s Center. The Women’s Center is happy and fortunate to have Amy fill this position, as she comes to us with experience as a freelance writer, and also the Student Events Coordinator at the Women’s Center of the University of Louisville. It was in organizing a set of activities focused on young adult women’s spiritual lives that Amy first embarked on the journey that has led her to seminary. We look forward to being part of that journey during the coming year.