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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. No woman had ever preached the keynote ...

The 19th century was the "Age of the Sermon." It was also, however, as Keith A. Francis observes in his essay in this important volume, the "Age of Darwin." The notion of a war between faith and ...

(RNS) — As she prepared to preach at the evening service Tuesday (Sept. 9) at the annual session of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A. Inc., the Rev. Tracey L. Brown admitted to feeling the nerves ...

Less than one in 10 Black Protestant congregations are led by a woman, according to one estimate, even as more Black women are attending seminary No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the ...

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 ...