Month: February 2022

Categories
Women Women in Ministry

Books from 2019-2021 on women and Christianity

Thread of comments on books from 2019-2021 on women and Christianity. They are all worth reading.
Books on: famous women leaders, practical support for women, biblical description, history of masculine militarism, bad sex in Christian marriages, and the history of patriarchy.

The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities
October 1, 2019
by Kate Bowler @KatecBowler
https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1395422302364393475
History of prominent women leaders in American Christianity.

Better Together: How Women and Men Can Heal the Divide and Work Together to Transform the Future
February 11, 2020
by Danielle Strickland @djstrickland
https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1489692609459146765
Practical reflection on empowering women in leadership.

Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
May 5, 2020
by Aimee Byrd @aimeebyrdPYW
https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1491080520448765953
Biblical description of women in the Bible.

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
June 23, 2020
by Kristin Kobes Du Mez @kkdumez
https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1339651133883768832
History of American Christianity as masculine militarism.

The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You’ve Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended
March 2, 2021
by Sheila Wray Gregoire @sheilagregoire, Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach @BeccaLindenbach, Joanna Sawatsky @SawatskyJoanna
https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1414355579015999490
Bad sex in Christian marriages.

The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
April 20, 2021
by Beth Allison Barr @bethallisonbarr
https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1407827370564898819
The history of Christianity and patriarchy.

Originally tweeted by Andy Rowell (@AndyRowell) on February 8, 2022.

Categories
Sociology Women in Ministry

Some statistics on women in church ministry

– 79% of Americans are comfortable with a female pastor, but only 39% of evangelicals.
– 72.8% of evangelicals are fine with a woman preaching on Sunday morning.
– 3% of evangelical congregations and 30% of mainline congregations have a female senior pastor.

See sources below.

According to a 2016 Barna survey,
79% of Americans would be comfortable with a female priest or pastor.
https://www.barna.com/research/americans-think-women-power/
But only 39% of evangelicals would be.

Only 13.5% of U.S. congregations in 2018-2019 had a female as the head or senior clergyperson.
Or slicing the data differently, only 7.4% of U.S. attendees attend a congregation with a female as the head or senior clergyperson.

In 2020, 72.8% of evangelicals approved of a woman preaching on Sunday morning.
https://twitter.com/ryanburge/status/1485409529676369920
including 76.1% of weekly plus attenders.
https://twitter.com/ryanburge/status/1419286401363947524,
See Ryan Burge’s 2020 writeup about this:

In 2018-2019, only 3% of evangelical congregations had a female senior or head clergyperson. But 30% of mainline congregations did.

Here was the percentage of ordained clergy for different denominations in 2018, compiled by @ecampbellreed

Download the State of Clergywomen Report

Here is the percentage of senior and secondary ministerial leaders who are female in each religious tradition, 2018–19.
36% of secondary clergy are female in evangelical churches.
62% in mainline churches.

https://sites.duke.edu/ncsweb/files/2022/01/NCSIV_Report_Web_FINAL.pdf
p. 37

Originally tweeted by Andy Rowell (@AndyRowell) on February 8, 2022.