The phrase
"woman preachers" refers to women who have been authorized or chosen to deliver religious or spiritual sermons or teachings to a congregation.
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There are a number of denominations that have been ordaining and / or
licensing women preachers since the early 20th century and have not used the same methods of biblical interpretation to advance gay marriage, sex outside marriage, or to deny eternal hell, etc..
She is one of many examples of
women preachers from denominations that have not been embroiled in the gay marriage debate, etc..
Paul Wesley Chilcote took up the intriguing subject of the
British women preachers of John Wesley's era (Duke, 1984) and Douglas James Williamson wrote on the career of the 19th - century Methodist reformer William Fisk (Boston University.
The recent meeting in St. Louis of
women preachers who propose to «encourage capable and consecrated young women to take up the work of the ministry» is a significant sign of the times.»
The major benefit of this position is that one can calmly contemplate the horrors, Armageddon, nuclear war and the rest, because the person propagating these views believes he (I have not found a
single woman preacher or writer in this group) will not need to endure any of it — only others will.
For example, Elaine Lawless has studied the contrasting stylistic devices in the performances of women evangelists and preachers in Handmaidens of the Lord:
Pentacostal Woman Preachers and Traditional Religion.
My late husband took great delight in telling me, (and anyone else within earshot) laughingly, of course, that Mark Twain always said that
a woman preacher was like a banjo - playing dog: you hardly ever saw one but even if you did, it wasn't very good.
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Are we going to let differences as petty as what translation, when to baptize, how to baptize, tongues,
women preachers or no, gay believers or no, etc. divide us?
For example, the Orthodox Church has always had
woman preachers and evangelists; no problem with women preaching, and I have preached in the pulpit of Orthodox churches all over the country.
At one of these vigils,
a woman preacher drew extraordinary lessons from an unpromising text, the story of Jesus ordering his disciples to untie a donkey for his entry into Jerusalem.
Where people have a hard time with me being
a woman preacher — doesn't bother me at all.
If I wrote a post about gay marriage,
women preachers, abortion, evolution or any of those sorts of things, we'd be getting lots of comments.