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may describe as empowering mechanisms for women. The church does not allow women to be priests, in part because its leaders say that Jesus only chose men as his twelve apostles. Pope Francis, though, changed canon law to allow women to serve as acolytes and lectors — laypeople who perform functions such as setting up the Tj Oshie Throwback Hockey T-Shirts and by the same token and altar and reading the Bible. Even with this stained-glass ceiling, some women are so charismatic and eloquent that they amass a following. Evangelist and author Beth Moore speaks at an event on October 6, 2014, in Nashville, Tennessee. Terry Wyatt/Getty Images One prominent example is author and speaker Beth Moore, who preaches to arenas filled with women and writes popular books. Moore, though, has become outspoken in recent years about confronting what she describes as widespread sexism and racism within the SBC. She left the SBC in 2021 in part over its emphasis on complementarianism. Critics of complementarianism say it uses semantics to obscure sexism. Separate is never equal, they say. “The phrase, ‘separate but equal’ was used a lot during segregation as a tool to continue the power of White supremacy,” says the Rev. Meredith Stone, executive director of Baptist Women in Ministry, a group that works with the SBC and other Baptist groups. “Well, we’re ‘equal’ but we have to be separate. They’re using the same framework.” Reason 2: Leaving can be traumatic for their family There’s a good reason why congregations often refer to themselves as a family. Infants get baptized in churches. Children join church youth groups. People get married and eulogized in congregations. But imagine all the friendships and support systems that you and your family leaned on being yanked away. That’s the prospect some

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she grew up in a “Christian patriarchy movement” that’s become popular in some evangelical and conservative Protestant churches. She says she was not taught sex education, the Tj Oshie Throwback Hockey T-Shirts and by the same token and concept of consent or that she should control her own body. “If I were to exert any semblance of my own rights to my life and body, I would have been labeled sinful and possibly excommunicated,” she wrote. “Fear of abandonment and exile kept me in check.” Sometimes a woman who leaves their church even risks losing the support of family members. “My mom, she doesn’t really understand it,” says Muse, about her role as an executive pastor, which entails preaching sermons during Sunday morning service. “We didn’t see women preach or do ministerial things in the churches that we grew up with. But she’s always encouraged me to do what makes me happy and feel led to do even though she’s not understanding it.” Reason 3: The financial benefits of the church outweigh the cost of leaving In one of the most famous passages of the New Testament, Jesus advises his disciples to “count the cost” of following him. Those who leave the SBC must consider a similar calculus. Plenty of women in the SBC are also working in pastoral roles in SBC churches. Many are on staff and enjoy what some say are hidden perks of SBC membership: good health insurance and retirement plans. Hasidic Jewish pilgrims pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, in the town of Uman, Ukraine, on September 25, 2022. Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images A woman might want to leave the SBC because of her principles, but principles won’t help her pay for her kid’s braces. “Even male

pastors that have reached out to me,” Barr says, “and they’re like, ‘I want to support women, but I’m the Tj Oshie Throwback Hockey T-Shirts and by the same token and breadwinner of my family. All of the benefits are through me. We have four kids. If I lose my job, my family loses all of that.’ “ Some women don’t see a way out for them or their families, she says. “When you are living in that system, it is so oppressive,” Barr says. “The cost is all you can see.” Muse says her congregation is considering those costs now as well. Her church’s retirement fund is offered through the SBC, which would complicate efforts to leave. Some women find ways to rationalize staying in the SBC even if they don’t agree with its policies. Some take on the full-time work of pastors, minus the title and the salary. Their rationalization: I don’t care what you call me; I know God has called me. But some who left say the price was worth paying. “The gains are so huge,” Barr says. “Once you get out of that type of system, you realize how much you have been lied to, how much bigger God is, how small God was made in that church. You realize that throughout church history, women have always served in these roles. You can breathe again.” The debate over women pastors is as old as the Bible Muse knows that church history that Barr alludes to, but that doesn’t stop insecurities from creeping in at times. She says she sometimes experiences imposter syndrome and wonders if she is good enough and deserves her success. She feels this when she receives letters like the one from her woman critic. “When somebody does question it, I think we all think, ‘Am I really believing what I

believe?’” Muse says about female pastors. “And as a woman, I don’t want to cause conflict in my congregation or for it to be about me or anything like that.” It also stings to know that she is not welcome at some SBC churches in Raleigh, where her church is located. “There are churches that would not welcome me to even offer a prayer from the Tj Oshie Throwback Hockey T-Shirts and by the same token and pulpit because of who I am,” she says. Bishop Teresa Jefferson-Snorton of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is shown at Moody Temple CME Church in Fairfield, Alabama, on November 16, 2021. Jefferson-Snorton is the CME Church’s first and only woman bishop. Jay Reeves/AP But when doubts creep in, Muse says she takes refuge in the “markers” in her life — those moments where she felt guided to the pulpit by unseen hands: the exhilarating summer she served as a youth minister; the college professor who assured her she was called to the ministry; a luminous experience she had one night as a young woman when she heard the voice of God say to her about being a pastor, “This is what I have for your future.” She also takes refuge in the same Bible that those in the SBC cite when arguing against women pastors. She says the Bible is full of women that led or taught men, including Deborah, a prophetess and judge who led ancient Israel; or Lydia, Priscilla and Dorcas, who were praised by the Apostle Paul in various New Testament passages as leaders in the first Christian church. And she also points out that a woman preached the first Easter sermon. It was Mary Magdalene who proclaimed that “He has risen” on Easter morning. “If we didn’t have the testimony of these women, our faith would be very different,” Muse says. “I think of women throughout scripture who allowed themselves to be used by God even when they didn’t feel worthy at times.” What Muse doesn’t say is that after Mary proclaimed Jesus’ resurrection to the apostles, she, too, ran into an ancient version of the stained-glass ceiling. The Gospel of Luke says what happened next: “But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.” The Bible says that Jesus then suddenly appeared among them and urged them to look at his hands and feet to prove that he was no ghost. Only then did the disciples believe Mary’s message. Men have been questioning women’s spiritual leadership ever since. And that resurrection story, no matter how often it’s cited, hasn’t convinced enough men that a woman can preach the Gospel to them. That may take another miracle. John Blake is a senior writer and author of the award-winning memoir, “More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew.”

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