by Eileen R. Campbell-Reed | Mar 8, 2019 | Opinion
Theological education is one pathway for women’s empowerment in the last 108 years of observing International Women’s Day. I began an assessment of these trends yesterday, which draw primarily from the State of Clergywomen in the U.S., a report I compiled in 2018. The...
by Eileen R. Campbell-Reed | Mar 7, 2019 | Opinion
A refrigerator magnet I had years ago said, “If you aren’t going to ordain women, why baptize girls?” Funny – not funny! Perhaps there is a corollary for theological education. “If churches won’t call women, why should seminaries educate them?” Indeed, many churches...
by Eileen R. Campbell-Reed | Jun 29, 2018 | Opinion
In my remarks at a recent immigration action in Nashville, Tennessee, I spoke as a faith leader. I reminded those gathered that Christians worship a Creator who fashioned all humanity as one family, one people, one expression of the image of God in each and every one...
by Eileen R. Campbell-Reed | Feb 22, 2018 | Opinion
Women starting out in ministry need space to learn. So do men. All people with a pastoral calling need room to grow into the practice of ministry. Too often, however, a culture of disbelief surrounds well-intentioned churches that call women, undermining and...
by Eileen R. Campbell-Reed | Nov 29, 2017 | Opinion
The “confidence gap” is one factor that contributes to the shortfall of women serving in leadership in theological schools and churches, but it’s a factor women can change, the president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary said. “Women tend...
