On Sunday night, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints encouraged women around the world to gather to celebrate the Relief Society, a women’s organization in the church that was observing ...

(RNS) — Women are second-class citizens in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, guest columnist Emily W. Jensen concludes in analyzing the church's recent efforts to connect better with ...

Detroit's Bethel A.M.E. Church has a long history of influential female members, including Rosa Parks and Dr. Betty Shabazz. Women of the church founded impactful community organizations like the ...

Christian leadership in the US has typically been seen as a male occupation. The right for women to be ordained and serve as faith leaders has been hard-won over decades, and in several major factions ...

TOGETHER AS MALE AND FEMALE. IT WOULD BE A MUCH BETTER CHURCH, A MUCH BETTER WORLD IN NEW ORLEANS. NUN SAYS THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE LEADERSHIP ROLES FOR WOMEN WITHIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. THIS ...

For many Christian women, a woman’s role in the church’s ecosystem has long been fixed. But Beth Allison Barr, a historian and the wife of a pastor, felt compelled to challenge the prevailing ...

I find myself having a hard time keeping up with the Roman Catholic Church these days. As a Catholic theological ethicist with a feminist bent, no one is more surprised by this development than me.