![]() ![]() After her applications to evangelical churches across Texas went unanswered, she took the hint. As graduation neared in 1985, Aldredge-Clanton was informed by the seminary’s placement office that it only sought to place males as pastors. Her growing interest in feminist theology made her feel like an outsider among her conservative classmates, who felt such ideas were heretical. ![]() One male student in another class dismissively asked if she came to seminary to get an “M-R-S” degree. ![]() In her preaching class, male students who objected to women teaching men criticized her sermons. It soon became clear that neither her Southern Baptist denomination nor the wider evangelical world held much space for her. (RNS) - When Jann Aldredge-Clanton enrolled at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1982, she considered herself a bona fide evangelical Christian with a reverence for the Bible and a love for the church. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |