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She Leads with Confidence: Profile of a Pastor at Midlife
By: Sarah Lindsay | December 7, 2020
As a woman who has come more fully into her leadership gifts as she’s aged, her story offers both inspiration to other leaders and a challenge to the church to fully incorporate the gifts of women at all ages.
Book Review: Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | October 20, 2020
Drawing from many wise counselors, traditions, and genres (including poetry), Haley Barton opens new and powerful options in attending to and hearing from God.
Confronting Wonder Woman Syndrome: Female Pastors and the Pandemic
By: Michelle D. Williams | October 15, 2020
Female pastors are facing unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Wonder Woman Syndrome” leaves women feeling like they have to do everything perfectly. Here are some tips to help you cope.
A Woman Belongs Wherever God Calls Her
By: Haley Horton | July 29, 2020
There is no single calling for all women. This is a realization that cannot be taught or persuaded. A person must want to grow, and a Christian should want to learn new ideas because pursuing truth requires accepting that we can be wrong.
Mutuality Matters: Why Didn't God Make Me a Boy so I Could be a Preacher? With Kristen Padilla
By: Kristen Padilla, Erin Moniz, Blake Dean | July 23, 2020
Erin and Blake have a conversation with Kristen Padilla about theology of vocation and finding their calling while understanding the complex nature of women's leadership in the church.
Need Role Model, Will Travel
By: Carli King | June 17, 2020
Female theology students in a rural context are often online students who don’t regularly see flesh-and-blood role models: women who are leading in church, teaching a mixed congregation and fulfilling other roles.
7 Deadly Sins of Women in Leadership
By: Kate Coleman | December 17, 2019
For the first time in modern history, God is placing women in strategic positions of influence and leadership within the church, public, corporate, charity, and voluntary sectors, in unprecedented numbers. Women are called to flourish in these arenas. However, there are significant external and internal issues that hinder women in leadership in unique ways.
The Subtle Hazing of Women in Ministry
By: Jill Richardson | November 6, 2019
We were guinea pigs, the women that year and I. We knew—after we had applied and been accepted—that our school had just begun admitting women to the MDiv program, the denomination new to the concept of women in the pulpit.
It’s Not Easy Being a Woman Professor: Subverting Sexism in Higher Education
By: Camden Morgante | September 5, 2019
“So, are you a student here too?” asked the young IT worker I called to fix my office computer. I smiled, wondering how the student missed my name on the office door, or the row of diplomas framed on the wall. “No, I’m a professor here.” Sexism against women in college undoubtedly happens, but [...]
Women at Work: 3 Things I Wish I Knew When I Graduated College
By: Eeva Sallinen Simard | September 5, 2019
I so wish I could have told those bright young women about the challenges they will face as they enter their careers and endeavor to find satisfaction in their work and lives. I did not want to be that person, warning optimistic young women about future obstacles—and that the odds of success [...]