An attempt at tightening constitutional limits on women’s authority in churches affiliated with an influential Presbyterian denomination narrowly failed over concerns about the effect on governance ...
It’s been a stubborn reality for women in the Black church: Men who are called to preach are readily accepted, but women struggle to have their call even acknowledged, much less get encouragement to ...
Women preachers among early Baptists As a researcher who studies Baptist women and was also ordained by Shalom Baptist Church in Louisville in 1993, I’m deeply familiar with this history. Only a few ...
A week after she went on National Public Radio to urge the Southern Baptist Convention to officially accept women as pastors, the Rev. Kristen Muse received an unusual letter at her church office. The ...
From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the ...
It's Women's History Month and our "Black Church in Detroit" series examines the role of women in the Black church. We'll talk about their vital contributions to the church as well as the challenges ...
No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the Joint National Baptist Convention, a gathering of four historically Black Baptist denominations representing millions of people. That changed in ...
Cathleen Falsani, former religion reporter at the Chicago Tribune, used to say her job was cultural translator — converting the language of religious people for secular publication, and then ...
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