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A Letter to Pastors in the Age of #ChurchToo
By: Maggie Konstanski | March 12, 2018
Women live in a world where violence, oppression, and marginalization are the norm. Every day, we wake up to stories of abuse and assault. It’s not contained to Hollywood. We’re seeing abuse in all spheres of societies across the globe. And tragically, we’re seeing it in the church, where we might expect [...]
Book Review: Anatomy of a Schism
By: Heather Ann Martinez | March 8, 2018
Anatomy of a Schism is unlike any other book about a church split. Most narratives of a split revolve around a theological or moral interpretation that becomes so difficult to walk together in that the only logical conclusion is to walk apart. What’s often lost in these narratives is the individual stories of people [...]
10 Awesome Women Pastors from History
By: Ruth Perry | March 7, 2018
Women pastors are not a new phenomenon, but many Christians aren't aware of the long history of women pastors in the church.
Madonna without Halo
By: H. Edgar Hix | March 5, 2018
As yet, the halo has not been painted. / As yet, she is still a Semitic woman / with a dead Semitic son. And yet / the halo will shine no brighter than now, / barely reflecting off bitter tears
Representation Sparks Conversations
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 5, 2018
Women leaders' very presence creates conversation because it challenges the single narrative that dominates many Christian circles—leadership is the domain of men.
Never Bashful: Standing with My Foremothers
By: Kimberly Majeski | March 5, 2018
I was thirteen the first time I heard the words, “women cannot be preachers” spoken into thin air and inside the walls of that place where I had always been loved, had always felt safe. The words felt like a stone thrown into the rudder of a ship, they caught me, caused me to heave [...]
My First Time: When Being Who God Made You Isn’t Okay
By: Heather Henderson | March 5, 2018
“Heather has no business being in the pulpit.” The words leaped out at me from the computer screen, screaming at me from an email not written to me, but about me, to two of my male colleagues.
Saying Yes: I Never Wanted to Preach, but My Daughter Needs Me To
By: Emily Summach | March 5, 2018
What good, I feared, would it do my daughter to know that she was equal, but only in theory? How could she envision herself preaching if there were no women to spark her imagination? How could she be what she could not see?
The Gift of Presumption: Giving Our Daughters a World Where They Can Say Yes to God
By: Stepanie Dyrness Lobdell | March 5, 2018
As I watch my daughter mature and develop a rather alarming perceptiveness, I wonder when she will start to notice the vocational gender disparity around her, particularly in the church. Her wide-eyed five-year-old self knows nothing of a world in which her gender has something to say about how she can embody the gifts and [...]