Philadelphia, Pa -- Reverend Carol Cavaness made history as the first female pastor of Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church ... the leadership strata, women being senior pastors ...

Since its inception, St. Paul AME Zion had seven pastors: Rev. S. C. Harris (1912-17); Rev. E ... Dr. Simon broke new ground in the inclusion of women in the executive work of the church. In addition ...

For the first twenty five years of its existence, St. James AME was served by a succession of pastors, none of which remained at the ... the discussion of public questions by competent men and women." ...

The women were ready for a two-mile group walk around ... Less than three miles from the Bricklayers Hall, Valtoria Jackson pastors the St. Peter African Methodist Episcopal Church. Her flock is a ...

Two such women, both licensed to preach by a Baptist ... Their tight-knit extended family had produced a bounty of AME pastors over the generations and maintained its own wooden chapel on the ...

Within the Episcopal districts, they have presiding elders and pastors of the churches ... aspects of her journey is that she is one of only five women ever elected Bishop in the AME Church. As the ...

Black clergy in Chicago say they enthusiastically support Mayor Brandon Johnson during a press conference at the historic ...

Leaders of the nation’s most powerful evangelical church try to cast women out of the ministry, igniting struggles over power, faith, and the church’s future in Daniel Lombroso’s short documentary ...

A report of a study group on women deacons is expected as soon as June, putting the spotlight on the issue of women’s roles ...

But there’s something different about a denomination suddenly taking action and purging scores of existing women pastors in the year 2023, because—as one former Southern Baptist leader who ...

Stacie Wood and her husband, Andy Wood, stand for a portrait on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022, at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. Stacie Wood, the woman pastor at the center of t ...

The lack of female pastors is even more disgraceful when one considers that the majority of the church population on Sundays is women. But to be fair, it’s not like the Church is blind to these issues ...