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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 most of the old mainline Protestant communions, has ordained women for decades. But none had yet achieved any of the denomination's flagship pulpits, the senior pastorships in what are sometimes called "tall-steeple churches." Fourth Presbyterian, with its hefty 5,300-member-and-still-growing congregation, certainly fit that...
...take long for Sarah Jackson Shelton to find out how certain parties felt about her 2002 appointment as senior pastor of the Baptist Church of the Covenant in Birmingham--and thus one of the few female Southern Baptist pastors in Alabama. She had been on the job about a week when the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (S.B.C.) rejected two of her congregants' applications to do missionary work in Swaziland. The convention's grounds: their refusal to sign a belief statement that says women should not serve as pastors, a view rooted in such biblical verses...
...that both parties are responsible. Even the irreverent Howard Dean rushed off to go to church with Jimmy Carter the day before the Iowa caucuses. "Americans want political leaders to have a moral center, but I do not think that Americans expect the President to also be their national pastor," says Lynn...
...friend of his parents’ was a pastor from Boston who had traveled to Morocco to be a pastor for an expatriate church there that catered to an international community...
Pierce’s parents told him that the pastor also worked for an orphanage in which one could work for room and board...