Nov 30, 2022 | +Meredith Stone
By Meredith Stone, December 1, 2022 Baptist Women in Ministry (BWIM) researches and publishes the State of Women in Baptist Life Report to provide statistics and analysis for women in ministry among Baptists that might serve as a metric and motivator for progress. The...
Apr 16, 2022 | +Meredith Stone, Lectionary Series, lectionary series, Weekly Words
John 20:1-18 The Easter narrative in John’s gospel begins, happens, and continues through Mary Magdalene. She finds the empty tomb. She tells the disciples. (Then after they focus on a foot race, who did and saw what, how the clothes were lying in the tomb, they...
Feb 10, 2022 | +Meredith Stone, lectionary series, Weekly Words
Luke 4:24-27 (NRSV) And Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s hometown. But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine...
Dec 23, 2021 | +Meredith Stone, Lectionary Series, Weekly Words
Psalm 68:4-11 (NIV) 4 Sing to God, sing in praise of his name, extol him who rides on the clouds; rejoice before him—his name is the Lord. 5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy...
Nov 28, 2021 | +Meredith Stone, Lectionary Series, Weekly Words
What can we do to move our congregation further toward affirmation and elevation of women in ministry?” This is a question that BWIM is often asked and which we think about constantly. For some, the question is about how to make the case for women in ministry in a...
Oct 1, 2021 | +Meredith Stone, Weekly Words
I recently got on an airplane for a trip to preach at a BWIM partner church despite some hesitations I had about flying. My hesitations were because of health concerns related to the current Delta variant spike, but also because of the regular reports of more...
