Why Women Are Being Ousted from Church Leadership

<p>We need you&nbsp;<em>&ldquo;working in our churches&hellip; We just don&rsquo;t need you to be the pastors of our churches.&rdquo;</em></p> <p>This statement is one of the more recent inflammatory comments made by a sexist male church leader.</p> <p>The largest Protestant denomination in America&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/16/us/southern-baptist-women-pastors-church.html?campaign_id=9&amp;emc=edit_nn_20230616&amp;instance_id=95289&amp;nl=the-morning&amp;regi_id=30470545&amp;segment_id=135860&amp;te=1&amp;user_id=7d5d3022e80ea19e276983f4f543ec47" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">recently voted</a>&nbsp;to restrict the role of women in ministry by removing women from church leadership.</p> <p>Rather than getting bogged down with theological questions concerning the merit (or lack thereof) of this decision, I want to spend our brief time together pondering a different question: &ldquo;<em>What do our beliefs say about&nbsp;</em><strong><em>us</em></strong><em>&rdquo;?</em></p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/mystic-minds/why-women-are-being-ousted-from-church-leadership-dcd63d8ffd0a"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>