by Naomi King Walker | Nov 1, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Feb. 28, 2011. At the time of publication, Walker was music/worship pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in Frankfort, Kentucky. Hierarchical paradigms shape our thinking about the world in which we live. We tend to view...
by Naomi King Walker | Mar 8, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Aug. 11, 2010. Naomi King-Walker was music/worship pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in Frankfort, Kentucky, at the time of publication. She is now retired. Her column is republished today on International Women’s Day to...
by Naomi King Walker | Feb 3, 2014 | Opinion
When a South Georgia congregation hired me in 1973 as their first full-time minister of music, Baptist women ministers were extremely rare. I had almost no female peers, anywhere. Needing community, I joined an all-male group of Baptist music ministers who gathered...
by Naomi King Walker | Aug 15, 2013 | Opinion
During seminary, around 1990, I served a Louisville, Ky., church as associate minister of music. In addition, I had some children’s ministry responsibilities that included assisting our on-the-ball children’s Sunday school department director with her...
by Naomi King Walker | Apr 16, 2013 | Opinion
What is the purpose of a choir during a worship service? Are church musicians even necessary for worship? Do they function primarily as leaders or as performers – or both? Music has always been an integral part of worship. There are more than 200 references to singing...