While the upcoming Vatican synod on the family will be dominated by male clerics, another church gathering shows it is possible to achieve the opposite. Every keynote speaker at this year’s annual conference for the National Justice and Peace Network of England and Wales is a woman and, to top it all, the three-day event will be chaired by the president of the Methodist Conference, Ruth Gee. Speakers include Sarah Teather MP, Heythrop College’s Sr Gemma Simmonds, broadcaster Mary Co