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A Woman Called and Qualified to Preach
By: Brenda-Lee Sasaki | January 22, 2018
I grew up in a traditional, warm, and well-meaning suburban Baptist church in Western Canada. No one who looked like me ever brought a word, prayer, sermon, or exhortation from the chestnut pulpit that elevated speakers to near-heavenly status. Certainly not on Sunday mornings or at Sunday evening services. Not on Wednesday nights either, unless [...]
It Is Well With Churches That Ordain Women
By: Tina Osterhouse | October 31, 2017
I once worked as a young adult director in a church. This church was and continues to be a great church, filled with people who love God, one another, and the world with genuine affection and generosity. During the time I worked as a director, they gave me freedom to lead and preach and dream [...]
#RubyWoo and the God-Ordained Power of Women
By: Shonnie Scott | October 30, 2017
When I was in college I joined a college ministry that told me: “Women can ‘share,’ but they cannot ‘preach. They can teach children and other women out of the Scripture, but they cannot teach men.’” I internalized this. I thought it was heresy for a woman to preach. And ordination was out of the [...]
My Daughters Need To See Women Preachers, And So Do I
By: Sarah Lindsay | October 10, 2017
A few years ago, when my middle daughter was three, we were discussing her favorite preschool job: leading the lunchtime prayer. I said that maybe she could be a pastor, like our own pastor Todd, when she grew up.
Lessons From A Lone Woman Pastor
By: Sarah Ago | July 24, 2017
A great leader practices holistic, radical, other-oriented love and service. In asking the church to empower women as pastors and spiritual leaders, we are asking it to activate women to fully and freely love, lead, and serve.
The Blessed Alliance at Work: Women and Men Partnering Together to Advance the Mission of God
By: Rob Dixon | July 23, 2017
God designed an equal and mutual partnership between men and women—together, they were to steward God’s world. What does this “blessed alliance” look like today?
Brokering Peace: Egalitarian Theology Meets the “Mommy Wars”
By: Sarah Lindsay | June 5, 2017
Most of us have heard about the Mommy Wars: the tension between mothers who stay at home and those who work.
Pastors, Please Stop Preaching A Narrow "Biblical Womanhood"
By: Amy R. Buckley | May 24, 2017
“At the heart of every woman,” a pastor once commented on Mother’s Day, “is a God-ordained desire for beauty, marriage, homemaking, and motherhood. If you doubt it, check out the covers of women’s magazines at the grocery store.”
Women, Institutional Authority, and Level Ground in the Christian Blogosphere
By: Tina Osterhouse | May 3, 2017
Throughout history, charismatic men and women of God have risen up, almost out of nowhere, to lead spiritual movements and shape theological discourse. These leaders often build churches and large followings before the institutional church pulls them in for a chat. The air is tense, awkward. At some point in the conversation someone asks a [...]
Too Pretty To Pastor? #ThingsOnlyChristianWomenHear
By: Angela Hurst | April 26, 2017
I read Sarah Bessey’s recent thread #ThingsOnlyChristianWomenHear with fascination. As I perused the comments, I was both amused by the absurdity of it all and grieved by the negative impact these sexist statements have on the community of God. This Twitter dialogue garnered so much attention that it was picked up by secular media, [...]