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 ...

For 50 years, Bishop Sharon Martin has been serving in the ministry, overcoming prejudice toward women in the church and being the hands and feet of Jesus. Her life has been spent in service to others ...

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 ...

(RNS) — As she prepared to preach at the evening service Tuesday (Sept. 9) at the annual session of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A. Inc., the Rev. Tracey L. Brown admitted to feeling the nerves ...

Nikki Hardeman, of Atlanta, Ga.,, an advocacy director for Baptist Women in Ministry, left, Meredith Stone, executive director of Baptist Women in Ministry, center, and Christa Brown, an advocate for ...

(RNS) — The Southern Baptist Convention’s credentials committee had a problem. It had been asked to determine whether or not to expel one of the denomination’s largest churches for violating the SBC’s ...

When the Rev. Dr. Kelly U. Farrow founded an institute to support Black preachers in 2019, she wasn’t just creating another training program. She was building a movement to sustain and evolve the ...

From the Southern Baptist to other mainline denominations and many churches in between, the topic of women pastors is very prevalent. Let me begin by saying that I know and appreciate many women who ...

What do we mean when we talk about “good preaching”? Two kinds of preaching predominate the American evangelical landscape today: the first we’ll call “moral preaching,” and the second we’ll call ...

Domestic violence does not stop at the doors of the church. Studies show that rates of intimate partner violence among Christians are roughly similar to those in the general population. Nearly half of ...