Scholastica When I was starting out in ministry, I drove four hours every couple of months to meet up with three other women in ministry for connection and support. We laughed and cried together and told each other about our lives, ministries,…
Read MoreOrdinary Time III – Closing the Mentoring Gap
Closing the Mentoring Gap A major key to closing the gender gap in ministry is mentoring to help women improve skills and knowledge and introduce them to networks that lead to jobs. This week more than 2,000 Baptists, who openly…
Read MoreOrdinary Time II – Celebrating Pam Durso
Celebrating Pam Durso* The world of Baptist Women in Ministry was waiting for you. And you, my dear friend, you have been a gift. You continue to be a gift to Baptists, to historians, to women in ministry, and to…
Read MoreOrdinary Time V
Remembering Will Campbell: Does Anyone Here NOT Know Amazing Grace? Memorial Service for Will Campbell, Mt. Juliet, TennesseeSaturday, June 22, 2013 Sitting under the words “Love your enemies” I feel my heart swell. They are painted on the walls…
Read MoreOrdinary Time XIV
The number of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship churches currently pastored by women?
Five Percent.
Eighteen hundred churches. Ninety women.
You do the math.
This is good news. But somehow laying out the starkness of that figure . . . well, it doesn’t exactly add up to great news.
