Feb 21, 2011 | +Pam Durso, Being the Church
Baptist churches have relied on and enjoyed the good gifts of women for four hundred years now, since the first days of the existence of those churches. And Baptist churches throughout our history have nurtured the gifts of women– some churches have nurtured those...
Feb 10, 2011 | Finding God in the Everyday, Motherhood and Ministry
February 17 my first child will turn one year old. Needless to say, parenthood has brought many surprises. I did not anticipate the number of diapers she would go through in a week, the medical costs of recurring ear infections or just how difficult it would be to cut...
Feb 9, 2011 | Being the Church, Encouraging Words, Preaching
I was called to ministry during my junior year in college at a Baptist Student Union conference, and I said, “Yes!” The only problem was that I had no idea what a woman minister looked like. I had never seen a woman pastor, or even a woman deacon, and I certainly...
Feb 2, 2011 | Being a Minister
Standing at the deli counter in my local grocery store, Audrey, my four year old daughter and shopping companion, was hopping up and down. The deli worker had just handed me a sample of turkey. Audrey began a loud, demanding monologue. “I want that. I like turkey. Is...
Jan 31, 2011 | Being the Church
The halls of the local women’s hospital often ring with banter. Banter is our human response to the intensity and immediacy of birth. It is how we sometimes respond to the mix of blood, sweat, tears, and laughter that hangs in the air anywhere life and death struggles...
