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The famed Riverside Church in Manhattan has recommended the Rev. Amy Butler as its seventh senior minister, the first woman\u00a0to lead the congregation\u00a0in its 83-year-old history.<\/span><\/div>\n
Butler has been senior minister of Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., for 11 years. The church has about 300 members with an estimated 150 people in attendance on Sunday mornings.<\/span><\/div>\n
When she arrived at Calvary, she inherited a church that had dwindled from 5,000 parishioners to about 70 on a Sunday. As pastor, she has pushed the downtown church to be more multicultural and oversaw a massive redevelopment of the church\u2019s downtown property.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cUnder her leadership the church has become an influential congregation in the nation\u2019s capital and she has become a much sought-after voice for Progressive Christianity,\u201d Riverside\u2019s search committee said in a letter to the congregation.<\/span><\/div>\n
A call to a Riverside spokesperson was not returned, and\u00a0Butler said she was unable to talk to media before the vote on her Riverside candidacy.<\/span><\/div>\n
If approved, Butler would join two other women who have been appointed to senior leadership at significant mainline congregations. The Rev.\u00a0Shannon Johnson Kershner will begin in May at Chicago\u2019s\u00a0Fourth Presbyterian Church and the Rev. Ginger Gaines-Cirelli became senior pastor of\u00a0Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington.<\/span><\/div>\n
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