Amy Peeler, author of “Women and the Gender of God” and an associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, said the restriction of women pastors played a role in her leaving the SBC ...

African American pastors are most likely to say women can serve in their church as ministers to teenagers (97%) and more likely than their white counterparts to say a woman can be a coed Bible ...

While arguments against Christian women taking leadership roles often cited Bible verses, Baylor historian Beth Allison Barr found nothing in the Bible about a pastor's wife, much less her role.