Preacher Woman

"When people are committed to gender equality, what gets in their way of achieving it? Why do well-intentioned people reinforce sexist outcomes? Why does dissonance persist between organizational actors' good intentions of equality and sexist outcomes? This book provides answers to these questions by applying the critical lens of gendered organizations to moderate-liberal congregations that separated from their mainline denomination in support of women's equal leadership yet remain predominately male in positions of authority. This critical methodological study investigates congregations affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) with some dually aligned with The Alliance of Baptists. Although the CBF identifies the equal leadership of women as a core component of its collective identity and women are enrolling in Baptist seminaries at almost equal rates as men, only five percent of CBF congregations employ women as solo senior pastors. This book provides an organizational analysis investigating gendered congregational processes on the individual, interactional, and organizational levels including themes such as gendered hiring criteria, a perceived incongruence of women's bodies and leadership, unconscious biases of organizational actors, and how women pastors' experiences of discrimination influence their more risky approaches to leadership"--

"Preacher Woman Sings the Blues begins with the study of black evangelists Belinda, Jarena Lee, and Zilpha Elaw, continuing with Rebecca Cox Jackson, Sojourner Truth, Julia Foote, Amanda Smith, Elizabeth, and Virginia Broughton. The author's discussion of Zora Neale Hurston focuses on how Hurston operates as a connection between early black women evangelist writers and black women writing in America today. He ends with the works of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Toni Cade Bambara." "By examining the early traditions prefiguring contemporary African American women's text and the impact that race and gender have on them, Douglas-Chin shows how the nineteenth-century black women's works are still of utmost importance to many African American writers today. Preacher Woman Sings the Blues makes a valuable contribution to literary criticism and theoretical analysis and will be welcomed by scholars and students alike." --Book Jacket.

"The Preacher Woman" is a must-read for all of the precious women who God has called into ministry. However, this book is not just for women, but it is also for the entire body of Christ. It was written to bring understanding, clarity, unity and oneness within the church of our Lord Jesus Christ. This book biblically depicts that God loves women. He uses them to His glory and to His honor. In this dispensation of time that we are living in, the church needs every person; male and female, using all of their God-given callings, gifts, talents and abilities to be a blessing to the body. Women of God, be encouraged for the word of God says in Galatians 3:27-28 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Betty J. Darnell is the Founder and President of Endtime Harvest Christian Outreach Ministry, Inc. She is a member and Minister at World Changers Church International of College Park, Georgia under the anointed leadership of Dr. Creflo A. Dollar Jr. As a part of the ministerial staff, she ministers for the Wednesday and Friday morning bible studies. She is an instructor for the World Changers Church International New Members Class and she conducts the Women's Department Monthly Corporate Prayer meeting. She has a weekly radio broadcast and she is widely known as a conference speaker, teacher, preacher and poet. She is married to Roscoe Darnell Jr. She is the mother of one daughter and two sons and the grandmother of three grandchildren. She resides in College Park, Georgia.

Although most evangelical traditions bar women from ordained ministry, many women have carved out unofficial positions of power in their husbands' spiritual empires or their own ministries. The biggest stars write bestselling books, grab high ratings on Christian television, and even preach. Bowler offers a sympathetic and revealing portrait of megachurch women celebrities, showing how they must balance the demands of celebrity culture and conservative, male-dominated faiths. And black celebrity preachers' wives carry a special burden of respectability. A compelling account of women's search for spiritual authority in the age of celebrity. -- adapted from jacket

Acclaimed author Lori Copeland spins a tale of hope, understanding, and faith when God seems silent. It's 1855, and Elly Sullivan works on her family cranberry farm in Wisconsin. She's pledged her unending love to Bo Garrett. At seventeen, Bo rides off for a month—just a month—to see a little of the world before he settles down with Elly. He falls in with the wrong people and the wrong life. His promises to Elly and the Lord are forgotten in a misspent youth. Eight years too late, he returns, having come to the end of himself and having rededicated his life to God. Can Bo convince Elly they were meant to be together despite all the bumps in their path?

Dear Female Preacher is a must read for women in ministry ready to go to the next level. You will discover 21 key principles every female preacher should know, and for the first time Barbara Calloway will share her personal experiences, the good, bad and even the challenging on how she has grown and continues to grow as a Powerful yet Graceful Female Preacher! It offers a treasure trove of wisdom, inspiration and encouragement for women who are experiencing similar callings from God on their lives. Although the primary focus of the book is for women in ministry, the principles will speak to all women. Every chapter ends with a prayer and a space for you to interact and journal your own reflective moments.

For nearly two millennia, despite repeated prohibitions, Christian women have preached. Some have preached in official settings; others have found alternative routes for expression. Prophecy, teaching, writing, and song have all filled a broad definition of preaching. This anthology, with essays by an international group of scholars from several disciplines, investigates the diverse voices of Christian women who claimed the authority to preach and prophesy. The contributors examine the centuries of arguments, grounded in Pauline injunctions, against women's public speech and the different ways women from the early years of the church through the twentieth century have nonetheless exercised religious leadership in their communities. Some of them based their authority solely on divine inspiration; others were authorized by independent-minded communities; a few were even recognized by the church hierarchy. With its lively accounts of women preachers and prophets in the Christian tradition, this exceptionally well-documented collection will interest scholars and general readers alike.