Conference Schedule

* Transportation between the Westin Hotel and Marygrove will be provided before and after the start and conclusion of each day. Various shuttle departure times should accommodate you! But if you’re worried, or are local, parking is free and plentiful at each location!

Friday, May 22, 2026

  • 1 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Registration Opens at the Westin Hotel 

  • 4:15 p.m. Registration Opens at Marygrove

  • 5 p.m. Welcome! Opening Liturgy of Remembrance

  • 5:45 p.m. Keynote address from Natalia Imperatori-Lee:
    Deep Roots, Emerging Blossoms: Lessons from 50 years of Feminist Advocacy in WOC

  • 6:45 - 9 p.m. Gathering & networking at Marygrove (Shuttles back to Marygrove start at 8 p.m.)

Saturday, May 23, 2026

  • 7:15 a.m. Breakfast service begins at Marygrove

  • 8:30 a.m. Morning Prayer

  • 9 a.m. Keynote address from Teresa Delgado

  • 10 a.m. Break and refreshments

  • 10:30 a.m. Who Are These Women? Vocations Today:

    Faced with institutional barriers, women with a call to ordained ministry must, and do, creatively pursue alternative paths to fulfill their vocation. In this panel, women who have chosen diverse ways to live out their ministry will share their calling, the choices they’ve made to live it out within and outside of the institutional church, the challenges and graces they have faced along the way, and the support they have received (as well as the support they still need).

  • 11:30 a.m. Questions and discussion

  • 12:00 p.m. Keynote address followed by lunch

  • 1:15 p.m. Not If, But How: Strategies and Successes for Reforming Institutions

    Political and sociological experts will discuss strategies for, and examples of successes of, reforming institutions. There is a strong sense that the women’s ordination movement is on the cusp of making real, tangible change, and this discussion will explore proactive steps supporters can take to make that happen.

  • 2:15 p.m. Break and transition to workshops!

  • 4 p.m.  Ordination Intersections—Emerging Voices

    Voices of a new generation of theologians will focus on the ways the overturning of the ban on women’s ordination intersects and ripples outward to affect related issues of justice, including (but not limited to) racial equity, LGBTQ+ equality, and climate justice.

  • 5 p.m. Closing prayer and transition back to Westin Hotel for rest, networking and preparing for the evening programming.

  • 6:30 p.m. Evening Reception and award ceremony + dancing and mingling :)

Sunday, May 24, 2026

  • 7:15 a.m. Breakfast service begins at Marygrove

  • 8:30 a.m. Opening Prayer

  • 9 a.m. Wisdom Circle: What have we heard? What is our charge?

  • 10:00 Final remarks from WOC followed by coffee and movement break

  • 11:00 Pentecost Liturgy with Nontado Hadebe as our homilist

  • 12 p.m. Conference concludes!