Category: 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.

February 8, 2022
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.

Yes, only 13.5% of U.S. congregations in 2018-2019 had a female as the head or senior clergyperson. https://t.co/gXE57LL9EV,
Only 7.4% of U.S. attendees attend a congregation with a female as the head or senior clergyperson.https://t.co/5N7ZjkjFmt
— Andy Rowell (@AndyRowell) February 8, 2022

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:

🚨New from me @CTmagazine🚨

Nearly three quarters of born-again Christians support a woman preaching during Sunday worship.

In fact, that share stays consistent even among biblical literalists and those attending church multiple times a week.https://t.co/qkfDnJsldN
— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) June 30, 2020

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

Only 3% of evangelical congregations have a female senior or head clergyperson.

Chaves, Mark, Joseph Roso, Anna Holleman, and Mary Hawkins. Congregations in 21st Century America.
2021 National Congregation Study Wave IV Report on 2018-2019 Data. p. 36. https://t.co/IcoA0cgbe3 pic.twitter.com/lTIFdBCOky
— Andy Rowell (@AndyRowell) February 8, 2022

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.

February 8, 2022
1 Timothy 2:12 Resources

https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1273759173780467713

1 Timothy 2:12

Jamin Hübner 3 articles:
https://cbeinternational.org/resource/article/priscilla-papers-academic-journal/translating-aythenteo-authenteo-1-timothy-212a and
https://academia.edu/24894058/Revisiting_%CE%B1%E1%BD%90%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AD%CF%89_in_1_Timothy_2_12_What_Do_the_Extant_Data_Really_Show
and https://etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/59/59-1/JETS_59-1_99-117_Hubner.pdf,

Leland Wilshire https://twitter.com/Mimi_CBE/status/684417519336079360?s=19,

Craig Keener https://twitter.com/thejuniaproject/status/1039351699545018368?s=19,

Paul Penley https://twitter.com/thejuniaproject/status/887306934407143424?s=19,

Gail Wallace
https://twitter.com/thejuniaproject/status/621016382134587394

https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1273746041662328833

A few tweets over the years on 1 Tim 2:12.
https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/602866340739743744?s=20,
https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/955541417870397441?s=19,
https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1195030251593592834

June 18, 2020