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"UNITED METHODIST DAILY NEWS" by SUSAN PEEK on Aug. 11, 1991 at 13:58 Eastern,
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         Nashville, Tenn. (615) 742-5470            Dec. 17, 1996

Women to lecture at annual
Perkins Minister's Week

     DALLAS (UMNS) -- For the first time in its more than 50-year
history, the annual Ministers' Week at Perkins School of Theology
will have only women as lecturers.
     Organizer Stanley J. Menking said the selection of women
theologians and pastors to deliver the week's five major lectures
reflects a dramatically-changed profile of U.S. clergy.
     Noting that more women than ever are studying theology,
Menking said 40.5 percent of the Perkins students on the Southern
Methodist University campus here are women while 71 percent of the
students enrolled at the school's Houston/Galveston extension are.
     The percentage of women entering seminaries in 1972 was 10.2,
according to the Association of Theological Schools.  By 1982 that
figure had more than doubled to 23.7, and by 1995 it had reached
32.8 percent.
     Menking is associate dean of external affairs and professor of
practical theology at Perkins, one of 13 seminaries related to the
United Methodist Church.
     Lecturers announced for the Feb. 3-5 event are:  Roberta C.
Bondi, professor of church history at Candler School of Theology,
Emory University, Atlanta; Jouette M. Bassler, professor of New
Testament at Perkins; Danna Nolan Fewell, associate professor of
Old Testament at Perkins; and Rosemary Brown, pastor of Monroe
Street and Jordonia United Methodist Churches in Nashville, Tenn. 
     Planned to coincide with the event will be an exhibition of
manuscripts, publications, engravings and portraits of Selina
Hastings, the Countess of Huntingdon, an 18th Century woman famous
in Methodist history as a friend and correspondent of the Wesley
brothers, John and Charles.  She was an inspiration for Wesley's
Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems (1744).
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     NOTE:  Information for this story was provided by Meredith
Dickenson, SMU News and Information Office.

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