For more than a dozen years, Jazmin Jimenez was a Catholic-school teacher. It was a job she loved but one that also highlighted certain contradictions. Among them, teaching her students that the ...
As the SBC debates restrictions around titles and roles, female leaders continue their work in women’s ministry in their local churches. When women’s ministry began dominating her schedule, taking too ...
Proposed measure to enshrine a ban on women pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention failed at the SBC annual meeting in June. Despite an end to debate at national level, it persists locally. Some ...
The Houston area is robustly diverse in almost every field. Electing people from marginalized and minority groups into leadership positions and nominating others as community leaders is our forte. The ...
In some realms of the church, questions about women in leadership are moot. “Why are we still talking about this?” we’ve heard. “Is this topic really still a thing?” In other evangelical subcultures, ...
Catholic leaders are beginning a month-long meeting to discuss the church's relationship to laity. Among the topics: women in ministry and being more welcoming of divorced and LGBTQ+ Catholics. Among ...
INDIANAPOLIS — The Southern Baptist Convention rejected Wednesday a constitutional ban on women pastors, a major victory for those within the nation's largest Protestant denomination seeking to ...
(RNS) — If the blurb on the back of a history book dared admit it had begun life as an academic paper, you wouldn’t be blamed if you replaced it on the shelf and kept perusing. But the Rev. Boise ...
Just days before presiding over the start of the major monthlong summit on the future of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis on Sept. 30 met with a global delegation of women's ministry advocates, ...
For the first time, a woman will serve as the Archbishop of Canterbury, following the 105 men who have held the role since St. Augustine took the position in the year 597. This means Bishop of London ...
An artistic record challenges the idea that Christian leadership was always restricted to men. The Bible tells us of the important place of women in the early church. Women were the first to reach the ...
In His infinite wisdom, God has uniquely created men and women after His likeness and in His image. The church is blessed to have the gifts and talents both offer and contribute to the Kingdom of God.