In response to the Southern Baptist Convention’s actions to explicitly bar female pastoral leadership and Dr. Frances Taylor Gench’s article, “On women pastors and biblical authority: A Presbyterian reflection.”
As a child, I sat next to my mother in the pews of my home church, scribbling little notes and doodling dogs and flowers on the offering envelopes. Even in the fidgety, squirmy, early years of my childhood, I loved church....
