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Those Who Protect a Woman’s Call

May 8, 2019 by Sarah Sparks-Franklin

Thank God for those who protect a woman’s call! “I’m not sure I can continue as a leader in this church.” So exhausted from lack of sleep, and reeling from the many personal life changes swirling around me, I could not believe those words had escaped from my mouth. Seated directly across from my former […]

Filed Under: Personal Stories, Women and the Church Tagged With: leadership in the church, Sarah Sparks Franklin, women pastors

12 Ways to Advocate for Women in Ministry

December 3, 2018 by Elizabeth Graham

I am a part of a Christian tradition that has ordained women as elders since its inception during the American Holiness movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The first church in which I ever served as a pastor was founded by a female circuit rider who planted churches across west Texas and southeastern […]

Filed Under: Women and the Church Tagged With: Elizabeth Graham, leadership in the church, male privilege, women pastors

The New Testament Case for Women Pastors

June 15, 2018 by Kelly Ladd Bishop

“There were zero women pastors in the Bible and no women apostles. There were no women pastors in nearly 2000 years of church history. Therefore, women cannot be pastors.”

This argument has been thrown at me on a number of occasions. There are a few things to unpack here. What does the New Testament say about pastors? Were there women pastors in the Bible? Were there women apostles in the Bible? Can we determine whether or not the early church had women leaders?

Filed Under: church leadership, Women and the Church Tagged With: Chloe in the Bible, female elders, female pastors, Kelly Ladd Bishop, Lydia in the Bible, Nympha in the bible, Phoebe in the Bible, women elders, women pastors

The Birth of a Pastor

January 30, 2018 by Kate Wallace Nunneley

  My call to pastoral ministry began during my first semester of seminary. I was taking 3 required courses – Greek Exegesis, Mentored Ministry, and Exegesis of Genesis. God used Greek class to show me I was really good at this stuff and ministry class to show me that I had a lot to learn […]

Filed Under: Personal Stories Tagged With: Kate Wallace Nunneley, women pastors

A Love Letter for Pastor-Moms

November 4, 2017 by Kelly Ladd Bishop

As both a woman in ministry, and a mom, I often feel like I live in tension.

I’m sure all working moms feel this tension. There’s a constant pull between pastor-me, and mom-me. I have moments where I feel like I’m not using my gifts to the fullest, like I’m not living up to my calling, like I’m not doing all that I could be doing. I look at others, and I feel that twinge of jealousy. How are they doing it? What choices have they made? What is different in their lives?

Filed Under: marriage and family, Women and the Church Tagged With: Kelly Ladd Bishop, women pastors

A Day in the Life of a Female Pastor

October 20, 2016 by Abigail Gaines

A Day in the Life of a Female Pastor Most mornings I wake up to a certain heaviness in my body. I feel it from the inside out. It is as if every bit of unresolved brokenness from the day before wells up overnight and now balances on my chest like a heavy bucket of […]

Filed Under: Personal Stories, Women and the Church Tagged With: Abigail Gaines, leadership in the church, women pastors

This Chair: One Woman’s Journey to Seminary

October 6, 2016 by Megan Westra

Northern Seminary student Megan Westra recently posted a reflection on Facebook about starting classes for her Master of Divinity degree. We asked her to share more of that journey with you today, along with the original post.

This chair
To you it may just look like another chair in another classroom
But to me it represents the five-year-old girl who wanted to be a missionary

It represents the ten-year-old girl who planned out summer camps
and programs she could run in her backyard

It represents the teenage girl crying in her journal at night
because she felt like she would never fit,
because she just couldn’t keep quiet…

Filed Under: Personal Stories, Women and the Church Tagged With: Megan Westra, women pastors

Why We Need More Women Pastors

April 14, 2015 by Karen Strand Winslow

The power of exposure and custom—and the lack thereof—etches deep marks in our inner beings. We associate pastoring with men because the pastors we have seen are men. Some older Christians recall the women ministers they knew as a child and how they led them to faith and service. But these folks are thinning out. Even in churches that affirm the ordination of women, women pastors are not common. Because of the power of exposure and custom, relatively few evangelical women go to seminary, start the ordination process, or remain with their first denomination after going to seminary.

I grew up never dreaming that women could be pastors, even though during my many hours in church as a kid, I often thought pastors were very lucky. They had the joy of helping people, studying the Bible and culture, and making disciples; but pastor was a word for boys.

Filed Under: church leadership, Personal Stories, Women and the Church, women in church leadership Tagged With: women pastors

Becoming a Pastor Made a Woman Out of Me

January 24, 2014 by Abigail Gaines

The more I embrace being a pastor, the more I give the church the opportunity to experience both the masculine and feminine heart of God for them. Something I cannot, nor will not withhold.

Filed Under: church leadership, gender roles, General, Personal Stories, Women and the Church, women in church leadership Tagged With: women pastors

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