Beth Moore
Like Beth Moore, many women preachers have had to break free to follow God’s call
By Bob Smietana — March 29, 2021
(RNS) — For women preachers, following their call has often conflicted with the rules put forth by their churches — even though people in the pews are open to a woman in the pulpit.
With Beth Moore’s exit, more evangelical women are challenging strict gender norms
By Yonat Shimron — March 19, 2021
(RNS) — While no one expects a groundswell of women to follow Moore, some evangelical women are beginning to speak out about the limits of complementarian theology.
Bible teacher Beth Moore, splitting with Lifeway, says, ‘I am no longer a Southern Baptist’
By Bob Smietana — March 9, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — The famed Bible study teacher said she no longer feels at home in the denomination that once saved her life.
Sedition and silence
By Jim Wallis — January 6, 2021
(RNS) — The future of democracy in America is at stake. But the growing power of a distinctive American heresy is also at play.
White evangelicals, don’t just condemn Christian nationalism. Own it.
By Anthea Butler — December 14, 2020
(RNS) — Piously opposing Trumpism as evil is empty, because it does not deal with white evangelicalism's own racism.
Evangelical leader Beth Moore trends on Twitter after calling Trumpism ‘seductive and dangerous’
By Roxanne Stone — December 13, 2020
(RNS) — 'I have never seen anything in these United States of America I found more astonishingly seductive & dangerous to the saints of God than Trumpism,' the founder of Living Proof Ministries said in her tweet.
For now, Southern Baptists stick by Hosanna Wong, spoken word artist and pastor
By Bob Smietana — February 14, 2020
(RNS) — Critics say Hosanna Wong, a spoken word artist and pastor, should be dropped from the program at a major Southern Baptist pastor’s conference because the denomination bans women pastors.
Why white women should be just as angry about John MacArthur’s take on race
By Rozella Haydee White — October 29, 2019
(RNS) — Women who registered outrage only on behalf of Beth Moore did what white women have been doing for centuries: took the part that impacted them most and left their Black sisters in the struggle to fend for themselves.
Accusing SBC of ‘caving,’ John MacArthur says of Beth Moore: ‘Go home’
By Bob Smietana — October 19, 2019
(RNS) — Evangelical pastor John MacArthur criticized Southern Baptist Bible teacher Beth Moore and called female preachers a sign that Southern Baptists were losing their belief in the authority of the Bible.
In Dallas, Southern Baptist leaders gather to address church abuse
By Jack Jenkins — October 4, 2019
DALLAS (RNS) — The 'Caring Well' conference will hear from church leaders, prominent advocates for abuse survivors and survivors themselves in the wake of scandals that have rocked the denomination over the past two years.
Who’s an evangelical and who gets to decide?
By Thomas S. Kidd — September 23, 2019
(RNS) — News stories about ‘evangelicals and politics’ typically only look at ‘self-identifying evangelical white Republicans.’
Controversial Founders Ministries video leads to board resignations, #MeToo concerns
By Adelle M. Banks — August 2, 2019
(RNS) — According to statements from two board members, the inclusion of Rachael Denhollander in the trailer released July 23 appears to have been a particular sore point.
Video links Beth Moore, Russell Moore, James Merritt to ‘Trojan horse of social justice’
By Bob Smietana — July 23, 2019
(RNS) — Some targets of the video have called its accusations 'divisive' and 'cowardly, grossly dishonest, and bearing false witness.'
Women sex abuse survivors tell Southern Baptists: ‘Our family is sick’
By Adelle M. Banks — June 11, 2019
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) — One woman, who said she was abused by her youth pastor and then her senior pastor, said the intervention of a trusted adult is crucial for survivors.
Most Southern Baptist women would welcome a woman pastor. It’s unlikely to happen.
By Ryan Burge — June 11, 2019
(RNS) — Official Roman Catholic and Southern Baptist teaching bars women from being pastors or priests. But some polling shows that many Catholics and Baptists would be fine with a woman pastor.
