Resources - Books and articles

Chuck Poole's sermon, "We Ordain Women Because We Baptize Girls," is a wonderful exploration of the topic of women in ministry.  To read it, click here.

Courage and Hope: The stories of Ten Baptist Women Ministers, ed.Pamela R. Durso and Keith E. Durso. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press and Brentwood, TN: The Baptist Heritage and History Society, 2005.  This book tells the story of ten Baptist women ministers, as well as including an article on a theology of women in ministry and a selected bibliography of Baptist women in the U.S.

God Speaks to Us, Too: Southern Baptist Women on Church, Home & Society, Susan Shaw,  Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008.  This book tells the story of how God speaks even to women who live within the framework of patriarchal systems.  A wonderful book that will find a wide audience.

Your Sons & Daughters Will Prophesy.  This is a four-week curriculum from the Network for Ministerial Excellence.  The goal of this curriculum is to help churches become more open to calling a woman as a senior pastor.  To order this curriculum from Smyth & Helwys,
click here