by Lilly Hawkins | Oct 8, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
The New York Times published a story last week titled “With Gen Z, Men Are Now More Religious Than Women.” The article featured several churches and included the opinions of local congregants and leaders in Waco, Texas, where I live. The story’s general thesis, which...
by Victoria Jones | Oct 2, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
“And that is why we don’t allow women to teach men.” The man in the white polo shirt says this as if it’s a matter of fact. There’s nothing to see here, folks. I set my sandwich down in its small cardboard box, optimism draining from my limbs. I had thought this...
by Wanda Kidd | Sep 3, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
In the fall of 1983, I arrived in western North Carolina to serve as an intern at the Baptist Student Union (BSU). Baptists all over the county were in a bruhaha over women in ministry. The local newspaper had carried an article about the Tuckaseigee Baptist...
by Lamar Wadsworth | Aug 27, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Because of our conversation in Bible study this morning, the old gray-haired Baptist-Appalachian-American preacher is thinking about Brother Paul’s word in I Timothy 3:6. He writes that a church leader should not be a new convert, lest he develop a ...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Jul 18, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
This June, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) faced a pivotal moment, declining to accept a proposed amendment that would have severed ties with any church led by a woman pastor. While this decision might seem like a step forward for women’s ordination, it simply...
