Church Planting 6: The Woman At The Pulpit

The Story: In the evangelical world, there are very few female church planters. In 2012 only three percent of all conservative churches had women as lead pastors. In large part because one of their key theological beliefs is that women, according to the Bible, are not meant to lead churches. But there are other reasons too — maybe even bigger reasons. This is the story of one woman’s quest to do what all the boys were allowed to do… and how she tried to square what she wanted, with what lots of others said that God wanted. This is the sixth and final episode in our series on church planting. The Facts: Peter Leonard mixed the episode. Build Buildings wrote and performed our special ad music. Additional music by Haley Shaw. For a list of our sponsors and show related offer codes, go to gimlet.media/OurAdvertisers