It’s been a stubborn reality for women in the Black church: Men who are called to preach are readily accepted, but women struggle to have their call even acknowledged, much less get encouragement to ...

As Black women remain the heartbeat of the Black church, they are also clergywomen and change-makers revolutionizing faith. Black women have been the backbone of the Black church and the vanguards of ...

Women preachers among early Baptists As a researcher who studies Baptist women and was also ordained by Shalom Baptist Church in Louisville in 1993, I’m deeply familiar with this history. Only a few ...

No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the Joint National Baptist Convention, a gathering of four historically Black Baptist denominations representing millions of people. That changed in ...

Gina Stewart has been known for breaking barriers in Black Baptist circles. In 1995, she became pastor of Christ Missionary Baptist Church and the first African American woman to be elected to a Black ...

USA, — No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the Joint National Baptist Convention, a gathering of four historically Black Baptist denominations representing millions of people. That ...