Sister Jamie Phelps delivered the University of Dayton Speaker Series annual Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. address titled "The MLK Legacy and Its Contemporary Implications for the Social Justice Mission ...

An attempt at tightening constitutional limits on women’s authority in churches affiliated with an influential Presbyterian denomination narrowly failed over concerns about the effect on governance ...

We wondered what kind of reading ministers rely on for inspiration or help in preaching—apart from reading commentaries on scripture or other materials directly related to the task. Do they draw on ...

(RNS) — During last month’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, debates about if women can serve as pastors dominated the business sessions and national news coverage. But at multiple Baptist ...

Houston-based Bible teacher Beth Moore, one of the most widely recognized evangelical women in America, has highlighted the issue of sexual abuse from her stage for years. With her thick Southern ...

When one Southern Baptist pastor criticized Christian speaker and author Beth Moore for announcing she planned to preach from a pulpit on Sunday, on Mother’s Day, another pastor defended her. It led ...

Sophomore Tatiyana Rogers of St. Agnes Academic High School in College Point, N.Y., uses gestures to proclaim the responsorial psalm during Mass Nov. 22 at the Dominican Sisters' motherhouse in ...

We called it the spring semester, but it felt like the dead of winter to me. The never-ending Chicago cold months slapped me in the face. I juggled my new schedule along my books, when I walked into ...

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A series of essays in the semi-official Vatican newspaper is urging the Catholic Church to allow women to preach from the pulpit at Mass, a role has been reserved almost exclusively to the all-male ...