current thinking...
At CBE conference in Denver workshop leader Sally Morgenthaler told of asking a group of women D.Min. students "Are you a woman who happens to be a leader, or a leader who happens to be a woman?" She was surprised to learn that, to a person, each self-identified as a woman who happens to be a leader.
There are clearly questions of identity here which seem to interest women more than men. I've never heard of asking male clergy "Are you a man who happens to be a leader or a leader who happens to be a man?"
There are clearly questions of identity here which seem to interest women more than men. I've never heard of asking male clergy "Are you a man who happens to be a leader or a leader who happens to be a man?"
posted by Alison at 9:06 AM
1 Comments:
Hi, Alison,
This evening (11/14/07)I happened to look at your "current thinking" comments from last year.
My own response is not to describe you with either the label of a
"leader who happens to a woman" or with the label of " a woman who happens to be a leader".
When someone asks me how I feel
about having a woman pastor (and
occasionally I am asked) I simply
describe you as a "woman of God".
When you preach, you say what you
believe, and what you believe in is
God. That is enough for me!
Woody Pratt
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