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By Bob Allen, at Baptist News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A decade-old emphasis encouraging moderate Baptist churches to invite a woman to preach one Sunday in February has contributed to a shift in how people in the pew think about women in ministry, a longtime advocate for pulpit inclusiveness said in a newsletter promoting the Martha Stearns Marshall Month of Preaching for 2017.<\/p>\n

Pam Durso, executive director of Baptist Women in Ministry, said last year 211 churches participated in the annual emphasis launched in 2007. That\u2019s more than double the number of 104 in 2010 and four times as many as the inaugural year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result of the advocacy and support of Baptist pastors and leaders, we are seeing a shift in our Baptist culture,\u201d Durso said. \u201cIn the past 10 years, as we have observed the Baptist landscape, we have seen greater numbers of women find ministry positions, live out their calling, and serve in this world, and we have seen more churches open their pulpits to women and call women to serve their congregations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Durso, a former career Baptist church historian named executive director of the support and advocacy group in 2009, described 2015 as \u201ca banner year\u201d for women in ministry in the most recent State of Women in Baptist Life<\/a> <\/em>report introduced in June at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly in Greensboro, N.C.<\/p>\n

While the proverbial \u201cstained-glass ceiling\u201d remains a reality for many women seeking to enter ministerial roles traditionally held by men, Durso said statistics show a slow but steady \u201cgreater openness to women ministers within the moderate-to-progressive Baptist churches, denominations and institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

While most ordinations of Baptist women in the South have occurred since the 1980s, Durso, who has a Ph.D. in church history from Baylor University, says there is a forgotten heritage of women preaching alongside men in at least one of the streams of tradition that came together in the mid-19th century to form the Southern Baptist Convention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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