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...before its hard rightward turn starting in 1979. After long stints in such typical "women's jobs" as education minister and associate pastor, she had a difficult conversation with God in 1999. "I'd been in the ministry for about 20 years, and I still didn't have a pulpit," says the mother of two sons. "I expressed to the Lord that I was going to retire early and let another generation be called." But the following year, Covenant Baptist offered her an interim post that she later lobbied to be made permanent...
...what more does a woman have to do to land a tall-steeple pulpit? In the past, Andrews admits, she interviewed for two but got neither. Since her moderatorship, she has fielded feelers from four more but turned them down because of her current obligations. Moreover, she warns, "I'm very liberal. I'm very outspoken. I'm not eager to move." And the biggest churches, she says, require CEOs. "Am I a CEO kind of pastor? There are so many other things to consider beyond just climbing the ladder." Perhaps, she suggests, tall-steeplehood is a particularly male...
Equality in the Pulpit It's still tough for women to become pastors at the biggest churches. But four preachers are leading...
...head start as a public figure, and that fits very well with the traditional role of Harvard presidents [who] have used the bully pulpit to speak out on issues relating to higher education as well as other important national issues,” Toiv says. “Harvard has had this traditional role because Harvard is Harvard...
...Some members of the [Harvard] Corporation during the search process thought that it would be a desirable feature, not a necessary one, if the president were to speak out, use the bully pulpit more than other presidents have,” says one well-informed administrator...