{"id":1018,"date":"2013-12-12T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/12\/black-church-leadership-gathering-excludes-women.html"},"modified":"2013-12-12T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T10:20:00","slug":"black-church-leadership-gathering-excludes-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/12\/black-church-leadership-gathering-excludes-women.html","title":{"rendered":"Black Church Leadership Gathering Excludes Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
This past Sunday in Miami, Bishop Paul S. Morton opened the\u00a0Full Gospel<\/a>\u2019s \u2018Generals of Faith\u2019 event,\u00a0Rebranding in the Body of Christ: The Ultimate Leader Shift<\/a>,\u00a0by announcing, \u201cThis room represents the movers and shakers of the kingdom.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Yet there was not a single woman in the room.<\/span><\/div>\n
According to the press release \u201cby invitation only prominent new generation pastors and leaders filled a room\u2026to interact and to integrate their ideas in bold, powerful and world changing topics.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
The special invite from Bishop J.W. Walker included only prominent black male pastors of larger congregations in the country\u2014and I just have to ask: how can an all-male group possibly create strategies that will impact the \u201ckingdom\u201d and ultimately the world without including the voices of women clergy who labor (twice) as hard and are just as committed?<\/span><\/div>\n
This event should have been called \u2018General Men\u2019s Conference: How to Set the Black Church Back Forty Years\u2019.<\/span><\/div>\n
Read the rest here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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