Slow Advances for Baptist Women in Ministry

Ethics Daily and Associated Baptist Press have both published articles covering the recent report about the status of Baptist Women in Ministry.

Here's a quote:

"While the pastorate continues, for the most part, to be only marginally open to women, and growth there is incremental, a larger number of women now serve as associate pastors and in specialized ministry roles on church staffs . . .," the report states. "Many women have found places of ministry as chaplains in hospitals, prisons, the military and other organizations and agencies, although women make up only 29 percent of all chaplains endorsed by the ABC-USA, Alliance, CBF and SBC."

Someday future generations will look at reports like this and shake their heads at how backward Baptists were at the turn of the 21st Century.