Elizabeth Muir earned her Ph.D. in religious studies from McGill University with a  specialty in church history. She served as an adjunct faculty member at Emmanuel College, Queen’s Theological College, jointly with St. Steve’s Theological College, McGill’s Faculty of Religious Studies, Elderhostel and with the Department of Canadian Studies at Waterloo University. She designed and taught courses on “Christian Stewardship” and “The History of Women in the Christian Tradition.” As well, she coordinated lay education with the national office of the United Church and acted as Stewardship Education Officer and liaised with United Church Women. She has written numerous articles and her books include Petticoats in the Pulpit, Changing Roles of Women in the Christian Church in Canada, Voices of United Church Women, 1962 – 2002, and Share the Gift.

Quotes from Elizabeth Muir from WomenTalk:

“The reason I like the Guglielmites is because they exposed a whole new world order in the Christian Church. Everybody who held an office was a woman. Now why should that seem so surprising? Because in the past everyone who held an office was a man. The Pope was to be Guglielma. The archbishops were women. All the priests were women. It was a whole different church.”

“What we need is a new history of the Christian Church. Why not? Why should we put up with histories of the Christian Church that mention only 50% of the population? How many histories of the Christian Church have you read that there’s barely a woman mentioned in them?”