by Carol Ann Vaughn | Sep 5, 2000 | Opinion
Increasing numbers of independent and Southern Baptists were highly suspicious of Baptist women’s involvement in the broader women’s movement in America and Europe. Nevertheless, enough SBC men voted to accept women messengers with voting privileges in...
by Carol Ann Vaughn | Sep 5, 2000 | Opinion
In 1904, Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, allowed four women to attend classes without credit or participation in class discussion. Baptists in California hired Amy Lee Stockton as state evangelist. Dubbed “the Girl Preacher,” Stockton...
by Carol Ann Vaughn | Jun 20, 2000 | Opinion
The first great wave of Baptist women mission volunteers coincided with the first American movement for women’s rights, in the 1840s. At that time mainstream American religion prescribed the role of “domestic evangelists” for women. Their ministry...
by Carol Ann Vaughn | Jun 6, 2000 | Opinion
Baptist women participated in both the First and Second Great Awakenings in America. Both revival movements produced many Baptist women preachers, prophets, educators and missionaries. From Freewill Baptists, Mary Savage and Sally Parsons preached to New England...
