Amanda Harrison
Amanda Harrison is an author at Religion News Service.
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Sidebar: For female clergy, respect often has to be earned
By Amanda Harrison — May 25, 2012
REPUBLIC, Mo. (RNS) Although attitudes have improved in recent years, it’s still common for women clergy to field doubts about their legitimacy. The first time a church hires a women as pastor can be uncomfortable for both the woman and the congregation, said The Rev. Melissa St. Clair, senior pastor at Republic First Christian Church […]
Stained glass ceiling remains a hurdle for female clergy
By Amanda Harrison — May 25, 2012
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (RNS) Jennifer Harris Dault and her husband Allyn share more than marriage. Earlier this month they joined hundreds of other students graduating from the nation’s more than 220 seminaries with masters in divinity degrees. But as the only woman graduate at Central Baptist Theological Seminary — out of a class of eight […]
NEWS STORY: Bakker Returns to Childhood Church to Ask Forgiveness
By Amanda Harrison — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service MUSKEGON, Mich. _ He stood in the church of his childhood for the first time in 30 years, Bible in one hand, microphone in the other. Then a contrite Jim Bakker, once at the pinnacle of a televangelism ministry and the fame that accompanies it, did what he’d come to […]
NEWS STORY: Bakker Returns to Childhood Church to Ask Forgiveness
By Amanda Harrison — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service MUSKEGON, Mich. _ He stood in the church of his childhood for the first time in 30 years, Bible in one hand, microphone in the other. Then a contrite Jim Bakker, once at the pinnacle of a televangelism ministry and the fame that accompanies it, did what he’d come to […]
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