Reverend Tracey L. Brown recently became the first woman to preach at a worship service at the NBCUSA's annual meeting.

The Rev. Tracey L. Brown of New Jersey became the first woman ever to preach at a worship service during the annual meeting, ...

Two main positions dominate the discussion. Complementarianism teaches that while men and women are equal in worth before God, the roles of pastor and elder are reserved for men. Egalitarianism, on ...

It’s been a stubborn reality for women in the Black church: Men who are called to preach are readily accepted, but women struggle to have their call even acknowledged, much less get encouragement to ...

(AP) – In the Black Church as a whole, male pastors predominate, though there’s no comprehensive gender breakdown. No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the Joint National Baptist ...

From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the ...

FILE - People take part in a worship service during the annual Southern Baptist Convention meeting Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. Southern Baptists gathering at their next annual meeting ...

No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the Joint National Baptist Convention, a gathering of four historically Black Baptist denominations representing millions of people. That changed in ...

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 16, 2021, file photo, people attend the morning session of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn. Southern Baptists gathering at their next ...