Women’s Ordination

Beth Allison Barr challenges the narrative that women have never exercised church authority.

In the 19th-century, Harriet Livermore boldly defended a women’s right to speak in the church and pulpit.

Motherhood is honorable, but being a disciple of Jesus is every woman’s primary biblical vocation.

The Texas bishop fought a bitter legal battle with the Episcopal Church and won.

Studying Scripture, she argued patriarchy was a result of Adam and Eve’s sin, not God’s good plan.

Are churches moving to an egalitarian model truly embracing female leadership?

Secondary church issues have the potential to divide us, but we can choose to stay united as the body of Christ.

The Western church regards her highly, but some Chinese Christians struggle with her affinity for socialist ideology and betrayal of coworkers in Mao’s era.

The author of All We’re Meant to Be faced serious backlash over egalitarian reading of Scripture and her support for LGBTQ affirmation.

Leaders say “due to history and language” churches use the term for non-ordained ministers and women.