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This film will be followed by a panel discussion:

In this feature-length documentary film, we meet the women who succeed in building a movement that transforms an age-old institution, and challenges the very essence of patriarchy within Christendom.

In an act of civil disobedience, a group of women and their supporters organize their ordination to become Episcopal priests in 1974. The Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia welcomes them, but change is no small task. The women are harassed, threatened and banned from stepping on church property.

Directed by MARGO GUERNSEY AND NIKKI BRAMLEY

USA | 1 HR 26 Mins | Not Rated | Documentary | 2023

English

The panel consists of the following: Moderator: The Rev. Mary Janda, Retired (although serves as Chaplain to the retired clergy and also assists at St. James, Midvale, Utah (a suburb of Salt Lake City)

Panelists: The Rt. Rev. Phyllis Spiegel, the 12th Bishop of Utah. Bishop Spiegel is the second year of her Episcopacy in a diocese that first ordained women in the late 1970s and early 1980s (several as Title IX priests.) Bishop Spiegel is also the second woman to be elected as Bishop of Utah. The Rt. Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish was consecrated as the 10th Bishop of Utah in 1996.

Kristin Madden, a long-time Episcopalian with years of activity in our Diocesan government and parish work at St. Paul's, Salt Lake City, as a member of the laity. She is also serving again as a General Convention deputy.

The Rev. Canon Terri Heyduk, Retired. Canon Heyduk has been Interim Rector of several of our large churches as well as former Diocesan Canon for Clergy Support and Resources and former Diocesan Transition Officer.

The Rev. Ashley Gurling, Rector, St. Lukes, Park City. The Rev. Gurling is one of our newest priests. She also offers a perspective as having been a former member of the state's predominant faith, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where women are not given the priesthood, or hold positions in the highest level of governance in the Church.