Objectives for Participants in the Hedgerow Initiative
1. Read and reflect on feminist, ecofeminist, womanist, mujerista, and two-thirds world theologians in
order to have a liberation-critical understanding of scripture, church, church history, liturgy and sacraments, the work of
justice and mercy, and systematic theology.
2. Do theology -- that is, pray, act for justice, read, reflect, write -- at the contemporary intersection of Christian
tradition and liberation theologies that recognize race, class, gender, and culture as hermeneutical factors. Join in
contemporary conversations through learning to write letters to the editor, op ed pieces, magazine articles.
3. Learn to pray in communal and personal forms that suit and sustain, create and lead prayer and worship,
preside and preach, and use symbols of the holy in the ordinary.
4. Learn to see, judge, act, organize, convene, and lobby for just public policies, such as Catholic social teaching
impels. Also, to do the same work within the Church toward just wages and due process, toward participative and
inclusive rather than hierarchical governance, ministry, and parish life.
5. Learn to teach and to hand on as preachers and catechists all that women scholars have reclaimed about women's
participation in their faith communities always and from everywhere.
6. Know one's way in canon law, particularly the rights of the people of the church.
7. Learning through practice how to form and nurture faith-sharing groups and small Christian communities and interact
with groups nationally and internationally.
