What happens when women make something of the world?

Join fellow women students and faculty in a discussion with Christianity Today managing editor Katelyn Beaty as we discuss the pursuit and understanding of vocation as women of faith.

When: 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15

Where: Chapel on the Ave.

Every person is called to make something of the world—to take the basic elements of time, resources, energy, and community and create something good. It’s there in the first pages of Scripture: God, the ultimate creator, invites Adam and Eve to join him in spending their days together fashioning a world where humans and the whole creation flourish. But somewhere between the Fall and the Industrial Revolution, men and women, and their respective work, became divided against each other.

• The work-home division that prevails today does not reflect what God intended for his image bearers—or for the coming kingdom.

• Now more than ever, Christian women can participate in cultural institutions that bring forth justice, beauty, equality, and flourishing.

This conversation will fuel a book project tracing how drastically women’s roles in Western society have changed in recent decades; how the work-home divide came to exist in the first place; the biblical and theological arguments for women’s work and cultural influence outside the home; and several stories of Christian women who are leading powerful institutions, making decisions that effect dynamic cultural change, and finding a vocation that extends beyond what was long thought to be theirs.

For more information or to RSVP, email Ruth Moon at moonr@uw.edu.