Reflections from the General Minister and President, Rev. Dr. Sharon E. Watkins.

Quadrennial has put me in a reflective mood - not for the first time

By Sharon Watkins on 6/29/2010 4:16 PM

I’ll never forget another Quadrennial Assembly – 1986, I think – where the speaker asked us to simply stand up if we had ever known a woman who had been physically abused. The eerie whisper of rustling skirts and shifting chairs still haunts me – the sound of nearly every one of those thousands of women quietly rising to her feet.

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