A variety of reactions are shared on a Saddleback Church social media post and photo about ordaining three women over the weekend. Screengrab via Facebook
(RNS) Saddleback Church, one of the largest churches in the Southern Baptist Convention and home to influential pastor Rick Warren, ordained three women as staff pastors this past weekend, a move that critics say violates the denomination’s statement of faith.
“Yesterday was a historic night for Saddleback Church in many ways!” the Southern California megachurch’s Facebook page announced on Saturday (May 8). “We ordained our first three women pastors, Liz Puffer, Cynthia Petty, and Katie Edwards!”
Heather Riggleman Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer 2021 14 Apr
The first dust-up I ever experienced over gender roles within the church as a woman left me feeling insignificant and second class. Apparently, it was ‘okay’ for me to teach Sunday School but not lead a Bible study class filled with women and men. Situations like this have happened on more than one occasion and in light of Beth Moore’s recent tweets, she’s making the world question, “Have Christians had gender roles wrong all this time?”
Last week, Beth asked Christians for forgiveness via Twitter because she had been too ‘complicit’ in making “complementarianism a litmus test for faith.” On the heels of Beth’s split with the Southern Baptist Convention, she apologized for supporting theology that restricts women. As one of the most well-known preachers in the world, she has rankled the feathers of many who beli
FOX News contributor and former governor Mike Huckabee (Steven Ferdman/Getty)
In a sad attempt at conservative humour, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has managed to be racist, transphobic and anti-democratic with a single tweet.
Huckabee, 65, father of former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, came under fire for saying he would start identifying as Chinese to get freebies from American corporations.
“I’ve decided to ‘identify’ as Chinese,” he tweeted on Saturday (3 April). “Coke will like me, Delta will agree with my ‘values’ and I’ll probably get shoes from Nike and tickets to Major League Baseball games. Ain’t America great?”
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