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Thousands of working women are leaving their churches because they feel their church “just doesn’t get me.” And, as working women leave their churches, they’re taking their husbands, children, desire to serve and even their pocketbooks with them.

‘The Philadelphia Eleven’ depicts the buildup toward the so-called irregular ordination at which four bishops ordained 11 women as priests without the denomination’s approval.

‘You wanted to present your best selves,’ recalled Bishop Vashti McKenzie, who was 16 at the time. ‘There was no one in jeans and T-shirts that I recall.’

Called to examine power structures in the Catholic Church, the Synod on Synodality will grapple in large part with the role of women.

At its 50th General Assembly last week, the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) debated and voted on several overtures, or church-legislation measures, related to women in ministry, sexuality, and sexual abuse response.

What are we supposed to make of the Bible passage that says women must be quiet in church? Pastor J.D. Greear of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, tackled this topic in the most recent edition of his “Ask Me Anything” podcast.

Grace Community Church’s senior pastor, John MacArthur, answered questions from students at The Master’s Seminary earlier this week (May 2). During one of his answers, MacArthur said he would never speak at a conference that would include a woman who was speaking as well.

Laura Lentz, wife of former Hillsong East Coast pastor Carl Lentz, took to Instagram this week to dish out some advice to other women, naming in particular pastors’ wives and female church leaders.