women’s ministry

Women as pastors? Not all Baptists say no

By Paul Baxley — June 12, 2019
(RNS) — The ways the Holy Spirit used women to invite both men and women to relationship with Jesus, establish congregations and offer a witness to his love shows that the calling of women is no new activity in the life of God.

Christian author Lysa TerKeurst faces her greatest fears

By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 8, 2018
(RNS) — When, in the past two years, bestselling Christian author Lysa TerKeurst revealed her husband's affair and her diagnosis with breast cancer, she did what she's always done. She wrote about it in a new book, 'It's Not Supposed to Be this Way."

RNS Best of 2017: Women bloggers spawn an evangelical ‘crisis of authority’

By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 28, 2017
(RNS) Christian women online have found new platforms to teach, preach and connect. "God isn't trademarked," says Sarah Bessey.

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.

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.
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