Woman Pastors

The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee said this week that members will vote on a measure that would forbid women from serving as a “pastor of any kind” in SBC churches.

The Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination is now ordaining women and allowing them to use the title of “pastor.”

Saddleback Church founding pastor Rick Warren recently weighed in on the theological debate about women's roles in the church by dispelling both complementarianism and egalitarianism.

During a question-and-answer session with students from The Master’s Seminary, Pastor John MacArthur stressed that female preachers are a ‘total violation of scripture.’

If you have been watching the church world at all in recent months, I don’t need to walk you through the brouhaha surrounding Beth Moore leaving the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) over her calling to teach, or the attempt by the SBC to remove Saddleback Church, where “America’s Pastor” Rick Warren served so faithfully for so many years, for ordaining two women to serve as pastors.

Saddleback Church lead pastor Andy Wood has released a promised video explaining why the church believes women can hold pastoral roles.

Author and Saddleback Church founder Rick Warren says in a new interview that Scripture, and not the culture, led him to change his mind on the issue of female pastors.

Stacie Wood, a teaching pastor at Saddleback Church and the wife of lead pastor Andy Wood, says she will continue to serve in her role despite the Southern Baptist Convention’s recent decision to remove Saddleback Church from the SBC.

The Southern Baptist Convention, the world's largest Baptist denomination, has disfellowshipped an unaffiliated Georgia-based church for having a female pastor.

Protestant pastors in America have major differences on the issue of women in pastoral roles, a new Lifeway Research survey that indicates the divide is largely along denominational lines says.