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 ...

It’s simply that women have been obscured, and women’s actual roles in the Bible have been obscured,” said Beth Allison Barr, the James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University and ...

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.