Eleanor Moody-Shepherd is a researcher and teacher in areas of domestic violence, women leadership and women in the bible. She was the dean of students at New York Theological Seminary and a professor of Women Studies at the seminary.
She is an organizer for international travel study seminars to the Holy Land, Africa, and other parts of the world. She co-organizes trips to the southern part of the United States of America for the study of history, the Civil Rights Movement, and southern religious teaches. Moody-Shepherd is an educational consultant, preacher, and motivational speaker. She is an author, and a co-author of "Bringing the City to Light: Pastoral Formation in a Multicultural Urban Context," with Martha Jacobs and Rebeca Radillo. It is published in the book Equipping the Saints: Best Practices in Contextual Education.[1]
She is an ordained Minister with the Presbyterian Church, USA.
Early life
editShe grew up in Alabama where she learned survival and resourceful skills living in struggle. She participated in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Education
editCareer
editEleanor Moody-Shepherd was the dean of students for the New York Theological Seminary. The New York Theological Seminary Women's Center was renamed Eleanor Moody-Shepherd Women's Resource Center to honor Shepherd. and the launching of the Birthing Center Think Tank for Women. A free one Day forum was held entitled 'Thinking Outside of the Womb that included the voices of students, family friends, faculty, churches and partnering institutions as they birthed the women's Birthing Think Center Think Tank for Women, so-as to empower women in strengthening relationships between women, men, and children in their communities. The Resource Center for Women was founded in 1986.[2]
The Eleanor Moody-Shepherd Resource Center for Women in Ministry was founded in 1986. It provides fellowship events, learning experiences and programs. It is an organizing forum for women of diverse ethnic backgrounds.[3]
Moody-Shepherd has written a chapter in the book; New Feminist Christianity: Many Voices, Many Views By Mary E. Hunt, Diann L. Neu, called Our Voices Loud and Clear.[4]
She is a co-author of Evangelical Coalitions for Justice Evangelicals and Empire: Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo with Bruce Ellis Benson, Peter Goodwin Heltzel.
The Red Tent Project was launched by the Eleanor Moody-Shepherd Resource Center for Women in Ministry.
References
edit- ^ "Rev. Dr. Eleanor Moody-Shepherd". September 10, 2011.
- ^ "Renaming of the NYTS Womens Center in honor of Dean Eleanor Moody-Shepherd and the launching of the Birthing Center Think Tank for Women". allevents.in.
- ^ "Eleanor Moody-Shepherd Resource Center for Women in Ministry". March 16, 2015. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
- ^ "An hour-long teleconference with Rev. Dr. Eleanor Moody-Shepherd" (PDF). waterwomensalliance.org. Retrieved July 29, 2023.