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Joanna Adams almost pulled it off. In 2001, John Buchanan, the pastor of Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church, announced that the congregation had chosen the Rev. Adams as co-pastor, with the understanding that she would eventually succeed him. The news raised hopes, and eyebrows. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), like...
And then last December, the wheels fell off, with a vengeance. Adams suddenly left the job and moved back home to Atlanta. "Co-leadership is difficult," Adams, 59, told TIME. "There are genuine issues of power and authority." And whereas the congregation regarded Buchanan as a great man, "a Moses...
But Bishop McKenzie has a time-tested philosophy on combatting patriarchy. "For women, especially for African-American women," she says, "you always have to be better than men to get ahead." Assigned a 300-member church in a depressed part of Baltimore in 1990, she not only built the congregation...
As an undergraduate, Moulton played the organ at Memorial Church and was an active member of the campus congregation.
Although Terrell may have an especially dramatic Christian narrative, her willingness to mix, match or mutate theories of atonement is extremely common. Mark Noll, a professor of Christian thought at Wheaton College in Illinois, notes that "the average Christian, when he says, 'Christ died for my sins,' may mean more...