Manuela Casti Yeagley: “What’s Next? Lessons from Five Decades of Women’s Ordination in USA Mainline Protestantism” at Faith & Reason Sabbath School
(10:00 a.m. eastern / 9:00 a.m. central / 7:00 a.m. Pacific)
This Sabbath, Manuela Casti Yeagley presents “What’s Next? Lessons from Five Decades of Women’s Ordination in USA Mainline Protestantism.”
The gender equality debate within the Seventh-day Adventist Church has largely focused on women’s ordination. However, the record among other denominations shows that ordaining women is the beginning, not the end, of a long march toward gender justice. There must also be a focus on grassroots education, inclusive role-modeling for girls from a young age, redesigned seminary education for both men and women, purposefully-designed hiring and placement practices, close monitoring of career advancement and salary practices, and organizational accompaniment at a congregational level. Otherwise, women pastors will continue to suffer from systemic discrimination and disadvantages. Manuela draws from her research, which explores the experiences of more than one hundred recently ordained women in three mainline denominations.
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