The Church's opening to women initiated by Francis will be one of the challenges the next Pope will face. Hours before the cardinals locked themselves in the conclave that will choose the successor of ...

Since the beginnings of Christianity, women have always been at the heart of the faith, in the shadows as well as in the light. They stood by Christ, they spoke, and supported the first Christian ...

Alcoholism among women is rising. Can the church help? Fifteen years ago, Sherry Hoppen was a mom of three, a ministry leader in her church, and a volunteer at her local pregnancy center when her ...

There is a huge area of neglect and compromise taking place in supposedly Bible-believing "Evangelical" churches, both locally and across the nation. Enculturated (i.e. worldly) pastors and elders, ...

A crisis confronts the women who have gathered in a hayloft. They are members of an agrarian religious community that shuns the modern world. To their horror, they have discovered that men in their ...

The Church Ladies don’t just play church ladies on TV—they’re church ladies in real life too. For instance, Renice Beavers—she goes by Nicey—is the cochair of the hospitality ministry at her place of ...

At the third Women of the Church conference for Catholic women leaders, a morning prayer service began with a reading of the Gospel account of Mary of Magdala witnessing the resurrected Jesus outside ...

A professor of New Testament Studies (literature, theology, exegesis, and African biblical hermeneutics), Olubayo Obijole, has stated that women have a lot to offer in church leadership. He made the ...

No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the Joint National Baptist Convention, a gathering of four historically Black Baptist denominations representing millions of people. That changed in ...

Deesha Philyaw is a writer whose debut short story collection, “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award. Her works touch on themes of race, sex, gender and ...

The majority of Catholic South Korean women support reforms in the Church, including the end of clericalism, and favor more freedom regarding sexuality, gender equality and pregnancy, says a new ...

The former pastor of ex-SBC Saddleback shares why his views on women changed. Last week, Russell Moore interviewed the recently retired pastor Rick Warren—author of The Purpose Driven Life—on his show ...