Preaching bans: Like Beth Moore, many women have had to break free to follow God’s call
BOB SMIETANA, writing for Religion News Service, reports from the US…
Africa’s first elected female president to train ‘wave’ of women leaders
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Liberia’s trail-blazing former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will launch a plan on Sunday to help other African women reach the top in a continent dominated by male heads of state. Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, became Africa’s first elected female head of state in 2006 and stepped down in […]
THE INTERVIEW: AUTHOR KATE BOWLER ON HOW EVANGELICAL WOMEN CARVED OUT A NICHE IN CELEBRITY CULTURE
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, speaks with author and historian Kate Bowler about her new book, ‘The Preacher’s Wife’…
Woman chosen to lead Religions for Peace as others urge greater female visibility
Lindau, GermanyRNS On the same day that a prominent woman urged greater inclusion of female leaders in Religions for Peace, delegates to the 10th World Assembly of the interreligious global organisation elected their first woman secretary-general. On Wednesday, they chose Azza Karam, an expert who works with the United Nations on issues of religion and […]
ESSAY: WOMEN RISE IN STRENGTH
AMANDA JACKSON, executive director of the World Evangelical Alliance’s Women’s Commission, reflects on some key ideas which emerged from a recent gathering of 60 Christian women in Amsterdam…