wa00017. Women and Religion
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
Church Women United in Iowa records
Iowa City Area Christian Women's Club records
The Iowa City Area Christian Women's Club holds Friendship Bible Coffees and monthly luncheons. The ICCW formed in 1967 as an offshoot of Stonecroft Ministries.
Sisters of St. Francis (Bancroft, Iowa) records
Religious order that helped to establish a school in St. John's Parish, Bancroft, Iowa in 1900.
Women of the Wartburg Theological Seminary collection
Lutheran Seminary in Dubuque which began admitting women in 1970.
Lucille Burdette papers
Nurse who served as a missionary and cared for patients with leprosy in Nigeria from 1948-1971.
Agudas Achim Sisterhood records
Records of the women’s organization activities associated with an Iowa City synagogue.
Willing Workers Society of Salem Reformed Church (Lyon County) records
Shaare Zion Synagogue / Mt. Sinai Temple records
Records of Sioux City’s Shaare Zion Synagogue, Mt. Sinai Temple, Congregation Beth Shalom, and the Jewish Federation of Sioux City.
Church Women United (Johnson County, Iowa) records
Johnson County, Iowa chapter of Church Women United.
Marion Carson papers
Graduate of Ministry at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, where she was the first Unitarian Universalist student.
Anna Moore Cheney diaries
Christine Dutson papers
Multi-volume memoir of a Mormon woman who was an educator, poet and advocate for the mentally ill.
Edna Englert papers
Iowa City native who was the organist at St. Wenceslaus Church for sixty-five years, retiring at the age of 81.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Marian Farquhar papers
Missionary to the Sudan who spent her childhood in Page County, Iowa, and worked in Africa from the 1940s to 1980s.
Joy Smith Lewallen memoir
This is My Story, This is My Song, unpublished memoir.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Jean Huffey papers
Elementary schoolteacher and substitute teacher; active in PFLAG and groups promoting LGBTQ inclusion within the Lutheran Church.
Sister Gwen Hennessey papers
Franciscan nun sentanced to six months in federal prison for trespassing at Fort Benning, Georgia.
Ortha Lane papers
1917 graduate of Cornell College, Iowa, who served as a missionary in the Changchao District of Northern China.
Martha Nash papers
Civil rights activist, community and religious leader, she was executive director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Education and Vocational Training in Waterloo.
Edythe Stirlen papers
One of the first ordained female ministers in the Midwest whose sermons were broadcast on radio stations KFNF and KMA for over sixty years in Shenandoah, Iowa.