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 ...

Less than one in 10 Black Protestant congregations are led by a woman, according to one estimate, even as more Black women are attending seminary No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the ...

Women preachers among early Baptists As a researcher who studies Baptist women and was also ordained by Shalom Baptist Church in Louisville in 1993, I’m deeply familiar with this history. Only a few ...

(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 ...

Why moral inspiration and doctrinal instruction fall short—and how preaching that transforms the heart achieves what both approaches seek. What do we mean when we talk about “good preaching”? Two ...

The Rev. Meredith Stone welcomes participants to the 2022 Baptist Women in Ministry Annual Gathering, June 28, 2022, at Wilshire Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas. The organization plans prayer gatherings ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. No woman had ever preached the keynote ...