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Kentucky is admitted as a new state, giving the vote to free men regardless of color or property ownership, although the vote would shortly be taken away from free Black people. [5] Delaware removes property ownership as requirement to vote, but continues to require that voters pay taxes. [3] 1798. Georgia removes tax requirement for voting. [3]
The Southern Baptist Convention failed to amend its constitution to ban women as pastors.
This week in Indianapolis, 61% of Southern Baptist Churches voted to exclude women from serving in pastoral leadership. The vote required 66% to pass. The 39% that voted down the measure are by no ...
Being married is commonly welcomed, in which case the pastor's marriage is expected to serve as a model of a functioning Christian marriage, and the pastor's spouse often serves an unofficial leadership role in the congregation. For this reason, some Protestant churches will not accept a divorced person for this position. In denominations that ...
Churches that still want to leave the United Methodist Church as part of a splintering in the denomination no longer have a procedural way to do so, or at least with their property in tow.
In 1893, the South Carolina General Assembly "mandated that women should be allowed to attend [ South Carolina College] as special students". (Two years later, the college's board of trustees made the decision to allow female students into the school.) [50] [51] 1894. Louisiana: Married women are granted trade licenses. [4] 1895
The council therefore approved of the granting of credentials to female evangelists and missionaries while restricting the office of pastor to men, and it was not until 1920 that female evangelists could vote at denominational meetings. By the fall of 1914, out of 512 credential holders, 142 were female missionaries and evangelists.
Pastors Bobby and Joyce Williams are getting divorced -- and now their Alliance church is going up for auction as part of the proceedings. Husband and wife pastors divorce. Now their Alliance ...