"Women Clergy: How Their Presence Is Changing the Church"
Magazine article
By: Nancy Hardesty, Beverly Anderson, Suzanne Hiatt, Letty Russell and Barbara Brown Zikmund
Date: 1979
Source: Symposium, "Women Clergy: How Their Presence Is Changing the Church." Christian Century, February 7–14, 1979, 122. Available online at http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showa... (accessed March 1, 2003).
Introduction
Prior to the 1950s, most church ministries consisted primarily of men. A few denominations allowed women ministers (for example, in 1853 the Congregationalists ordained the first woman to the ministry), but those denominations were more the exception than the rule. Between the early 1950s and the later 1970s, however, five major denominations—Baptists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists, and...
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