For those of you searching for a ministry position, you need to know Craig Janney, the new congregational reference and referral specialist at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Get to know Craig–and learn more about his work! Read this recent Baptist Women in...
I can’t help but get squirmy and defensive when someone calls me out on my privilege. . . because I have an overwhelming, embarrassing amount of pride (the bad kind). because it’s so easy to confuse privilege with a lack of work ethic. because I have...
God is still waiting for Baptist churches to right the wrong of barring women from ordination and to embrace fully women’s pastoral leadership. Tomorrow, Watts Street Baptist Church, Durham, North Carolina, will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first...
In this sanctuary fourteen years ago, when Anne was eighty years old, we affirmed the call that propelled her all of her days. We confirmed her life and ministry with a service of ordination. She never sought ordination. She never thought she needed it. She was right....
After more than forty years as a Baptist pastor, the well-known and beloved John Claypool left the Baptist world to become an Episcopal priest. When quizzed as to why he would do such a thing, he responded, “I am just moving to another room in God’s house.” While in...
Despite progress, the gender gap among Baptist pastors remains persistent. In recent weeks two prominent progressive Baptist churches moved to call well-known Baptist pastors. Notably in both calls the pastors are women. Riverside Church in New York City is...
