Mar 9, 2016 | Weekly Words
I’m a planner. I like to know exactly what my week looks like before it begins. At the start of every semester I get a thrill from carefully going through my syllabi, class-by-class, and writing the semester’s assignments in my planner. When I started seminary three...
Mar 7, 2016 | A Monday Devotional
Lent leads us into both reflection and expectation. Even as we honor our histories and our ancestries, with all their gifts and their griefs, we anticipate the ways that resurrection can recreate them–and us. The God who inspired “something old” is...
Mar 4, 2016 | +This is What a Minister Looks Like
Every Friday, Baptist Women in Ministry introduces an amazing minister, and today we are pleased to introduce Irene Bennett. Irene, tell us about your ministry journey. My service during youth weeks in Woodland Park Baptist Church, Hammond Louisiana, and a caring...
Mar 2, 2016 | Weekly Words
On March 15, 2016, I will celebrate thirty years of friendship with eight women—eight African American women. I place emphasis on our race because, historically, black women have been stereotyped as angry with trust issues and as “drama queens!” Because of these...
Feb 29, 2016 | A Monday Devotional
Lent leads us into both reflection and expectation. Even as we honor our histories and our ancestries, with all their gifts and their griefs, we anticipate the ways that resurrection can recreate them–and us. The God who inspired “something old” is...
