Feb 11, 2013 | Encouraging Words
What drives your beliefs and values regarding women in ministry? In Part 1 of this blog series, I shared about my spiritual journey from holding rigid views of women’s roles in the church to fully embracing God’s call to all. I recounted how my beliefs and convictions...
Feb 6, 2013 | Encouraging Words
I grew up in a conservative Southern Baptist home in rural Alabama. At church I was emphatically taught God cannot and would not call a woman to vocational ministry. The reason offered for this belief was “It’s a violation of scripture. Women can’t teach men or be in...
Oct 23, 2012 | Being the Church, Encouraging Words
To celebrate Sarah Jackson Shelton’s ten years as pastor of Baptist Church of the Covenant, Birmingham, Alabama, Bridget Rose collected prayers offered by church members and friends during the church’s worship services from September 8, 2002 to September...
Oct 17, 2012 | Encouraging Words, Finding God in the Everyday
It was one of those afternoons because it had been one of those mornings. The faster I worked the more items were added to the task list. The girls were home from school and homework was not going well. Like me, the girls had too many tasks and not quite enough...
Oct 2, 2012 | Being the Church, Encouraging Words
“Reflecting Her Story” is a bi-weekly series of reflections on the stories of biblical women and the ways they model lives of character, boldness, faith and ministry for women today. Paul went to see [Aquila and Priscilla], and, because he was of the same...
Sep 27, 2012 | Being the Church, Encouraging Words
Five Percent The number of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship churches currently pastored by women? Five Percent. Eighteen hundred churches. Ninety women. You do the math. This is good news. But somehow laying out the starkness of that figure . . . well, it doesn’t...
