Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD

@enc.bsky.social

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Displaced Southerner. Historian of American religion, gender, women’s ordination, & Methodism. Ordained UMC Deacon. BU Theology PhD. Perkins/SMU Faculty. UAB Blazer alum. ❤️: Cuppas, BBQ, porchsits, southern things, cats.

After her ordination as an Episcopal priest on Dec. 5, 1981, the Rev. Elizabeth J. Canham is applauded by fellow clergy at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Newark, N.J. Canham sought ordination in the United States because the Church of England in her native United Kingdom did not accept women as priests. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)

Emily dons a green sweatshirt on a chilly morning that represents her alma mater, UAB.