Prevailing Winds "For the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom . . ." 2 Cor. 3:17, TNIV

August 22, 2011

A Comment Worth Highlighting:

Filed under: Uncategorized — keelyem @ 3:43 pm

I got the note below overnight regarding my recent post (late July, I think) on

“Must Ministers Always Be Men?” I include it here so the writer has easier access to my response, which, come to think of it, might be instructive for many of you:

“Thank you for your article. I found it searching for information on the Evangelical Free Church and its stand on woman ordination. Can you tell me where to find information on early woman pastors or elders and where I can find a current Evangelical Free church with a woman minister?”

I appreciate your comments, and while I did attend an egalitarian Evangelical Free Church in Pullman, Washington — Cornerstone — I don’t anything about the congregation now. You can email me, though, at kjajmix1@msn.com (that’s a “one” after “mix”) and I can give you a contact. The E-Free is one of the formerly egalitarian, women-ordaining denominations discussed in “No Time For Silence,” which chronicles the long, broad history of women’s ordination in the 18th- and 19th-century evangelical movement. If you contact me, I can get you a copy. There are several other excellent resources; contact me and I’ll give you some recommendations — and will also prepare a list of resources sometime this week for my other readers.

Bless you on your search!

1 Comment »

  1. Two other books on this subject that I found helpful are Nancy Hardesty’s “Women Called to Witness: Evangelical Feminism in the Nineteenth Century” as well as her “Great Women of Faith: The Strength and Influence of Christian Women.”

    Comment by Caroline Schleier Cutler — August 23, 2011 @ 11:25 pm

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