Katherine Hancock Ragsdale

The Reverend Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale is an Episcopal Priest based in Massachusetts. She has been the interim director of Political Research Associates since May 2005 [ [http://www.publiceye.org/aboutpra/press_releases/2005-5-18.html PublicEye.org] ] .

She is a noted American Progressive, and is priest at St. David's Episcopal Church in Pepperell [ [http://www.saintdavidschurch.org/ St. David Church] ] , part of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. Ragsdale has served for 17 years on the national board of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. She is also on the board of NARAL Pro-Choice America, The White House Project, the Progressive Religious Partnership, as well as the bi-national advisory board of The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence. She presented to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America andthe Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice in 2004. [ [http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=1214&wit_id=3494 Senate.gov] ]

Ragsdale is the editor of "Boundary Wars: Intimacy and Distance in Healing Relationships" [ [http://www.amazon.ca/dp/toc/0829811184 Amazon.com] ] , and the author of numerous articles, including "The Role of Religious Institutions in Responding to the Domestic Violence Crisis" in Albany Law Review, and "Hannah", a short story.

External links

* [http://www.rcrc.org/pdf/Hannah.pdf Hannah] , a short story.
* [http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=1214&wit_id=3494 Senate testimony] , 2004
* [http://www.syrf.org/docs/sermon_ragsdale.pdf Sermon] to the National Abortion Federation, 1997
* [http://pewforum.org/events/index.php?EventID=131 The Supreme Court Returns to the Abortion Debate] , comments at a Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life forum in 2006
* [http://www.acslaw.org/node/3675 ACS Law]

References

ee also

* Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
* Episcopal
* National Abortion Rights Action League
* Christianity and abortion
* Reverend Carlton W. Veazey