On June 8 at 3:00 PM in Walden Hall Movie Theology will show its final film of the 2024-2025 year. THE PHILADELPHIA ELEVEN is a documentary that chronicles a landmark event in the Episcopal Church’s slow and hesitant movement toward the ordination of women. Here’s how the promotional material from PBS described it: 

”In an act of civil disobedience, a group of women and their supporters organize their ordination to become Episcopal priests in 1974… 

In the PHILADELPHIA ELEVEN, we meet and come to understand the women who succeeded in building a movement that transformed an age-old institution, and challenges the very essence of patriarchy within Christendom.”

Hope to see you there. Bring your favorite beverage. There will be popcorn!