It’s not the only women’s ministry switching gears as new ministries for and by women launch online and social media sites create spaces where women’s voices can be heard. Even women who have been in ministry for years are making “holy mischief” and claiming space in male-dominated conservative evangelicalism, engaging Scripture and politics and other topics outside of traditionally “safe” subjects like home and family.
“I think there’s a moment of great creativity for women leaders in the religious sphere,” said the Rev. Katharine Rhodes Henderson, president of Auburn Theological Seminary and author of “God’s Troublemakers: How Women of Faith Are Changing the World.”
“I think that we are seeing in lots of areas of American life that some of the traditional structures that served well for a long period of time are no longer doing so. … A time of change means there’s a possibility of new types of leadership and new people doing it.”
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