Dr. Daisy Machado, Academic Dean and Professor of Church History at Union Theological Seminarym, New York, NY offers a plenary address on a Christian theological perspective as it relates to the issues facing women and girls in the world today. This talk was given as the opening plenary at the Ecumenical Advocacy Days 2011 conference.
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Ecumenical Advocacy Days is a movement of the ecumenical Christian community, and its recognized partners and allies, grounded in biblical witness and our shared traditions of justice, peace and the integrity of creation. Our goal, through worship, theological reflection and opportunities for learning and witness, is to strengthen our Christian voice and to mobilize for advocacy on a wide variety of U.S. domestic and international policy issues.