Women’s History Month
The Ruby Woo pilgrimage: Hear the pulpits roar
By Lisa Sharon Harper — November 16, 2017
(RNS) — Christian, evangelical, feminist activist Lisa Sharon Harper explains how she came to lead the 'Ruby Woo' pilgrimage.
Christian author Jen Hatmaker on the ‘moxie’ it takes to get your books banned
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 7, 2017
(RNS) This summer, she's launching a new podcast that already is set to hit a million downloads in its first month. And she's releasing a book — her 12th — in which she shares more about her life's ups and downs than in any other she's written.
Is the Bible more pro-woman than you assume?
By Jonathan Merritt — June 30, 2017
Conservative Christian writer Wendy Alsup says God was the first feminist and that the Bible, rightly understood, is pro-women.
Baylor’s first woman president brings fresh start to Baptist university
By Bobby Ross Jr. — June 27, 2017
WACO, Texas (RNS) Many are investing hopes that scandal-plagued Baylor University can turn around its fortunes under Linda Livingstone.
Unitarian Universalists elect first woman president
By Adelle M. Banks — June 27, 2017
(RNS) One of her first acts as president was to decry the Supreme Court decision permitting partial enforcement of President Trump's travel ban.
Hijab-wearing model Halima Aden makes history as July cover star of Allure
By Sara M. Moniuszko — June 20, 2017
(USA Today) The Minnesota native is the first woman to wear a hijab on the magazine’s cover.
This woman preacher is schooling the Christian boys club on the crucifixion
By Jonathan Merritt — May 17, 2017
Fleming Rutledge's book "The Crucifixion" is creating conversation among a wide array of Christians.
Women bloggers spawn an evangelical ‘crisis of authority’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 15, 2017
(RNS) For many, the internet has created new platforms to teach, preach and connect.
Jesus and the ordination of women
By Roger Vermalen Karban — April 27, 2017
(RNS) One of the Catholic Church’s traditional arguments against the priestly ordination of women revolves around Jesus of Nazareth being a man. But the authors of the Christian Scriptures would never have understood that logic.
Joan Chittister’s ‘radical’ take on humility, fake news and social media
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 19, 2017
(RNS) For the popular activist and author, freedom comes from living out the 12 degrees of humility found in the Rule of St. Benedict, which guides her life as a Benedictine nun. And they're just as applicable today.
Author Anne Lamott: ‘Mercy is our only hope’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 7, 2017
(RNS) The best-selling Christian author and patron saint of writers everywhere started thinking about mercy and 'accidentally' wrote the book 'Hallelujah Anyway,' published this week.
At the women’s march, the religious left resists Trump
By Lauren Markoe — January 21, 2017
(RNS) Americans of faith, many at the march wanted it to be known, are not just conservative Christians.
In her own words: Coretta Scott King on faith, materialism and grief
By Adelle M. Banks — January 13, 2017
(RNS) She helped type and edit her husband's sermons and rejected the asceticism he had wanted to model after traveling to India and studying Gandhi's words. Excerpts from her book, as told to the Rev. Barbara Reynolds.
After counting gifts, author Ann Voskamp urges Christians to be the gift
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 4, 2016
(RNS) 'You're called to where you are for such a time as now. Where's the brokenness in your own community (where) you can go ahead and give your one broken heart away?' Voskamp said.
How Christian women are making ‘holy mischief’ in the church
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 1, 2016
ST. PAUL, Minn. (RNS) Women who have been in ministry for years are claiming space in male-dominated conservative evangelicalism, engaging Scripture, politics and topics well beyond home and family life.
