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Spanning from the late first century to the sixth century, this period saw women actively involved in theological debates, social leadership within house churches, and spiritual practices such as preaching, prophesying, and martyrdom. [1] [2] Each entry provides the woman's name, titles, roles, and region of activity.
Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...
B. Edward Dickinson Baker; LaMar Baker; James D. Bales; Brown Bannister; Orsamus S. Barnes; Bill Bates; Batsell Barrett Baxter; Roxanne Beck; Leeman Bennett; George S ...
Craig Groeschel, founder and pastor of Life.Church; Nicky Gumbel, pioneer of the Alpha course and vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton in London; John Hagee, founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas; Ted Haggard, former pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado; former leader of the National Association of ...
Bart Campolo – former pastor and son of pastor Tony Campolo; as he is described as "secular humanist" he may fit the nontheist list, but has not precisely stated his view of theism [2] Tom Cruise – American actor and well-known Scientologist [3] [4] Jenna Elfman – American actress who converted to Scientology [5]
A young woman in the advanced stages of rheumatoid arthritis was brought to the altar by friends just as McPherson preached "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever". McPherson laid her hands upon the woman's head, and the woman was able to leave the church that night without crutches. [ 79 ]
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 ...
While the Church of Sweden ordained its first female pastors in 1960, there was a considerable debate in this church of the ordination of women, which led to marginalization of a vocal high-church minority, which successively subdivided into loyalist high-church adherents on one hand and the splinter group Missionsprovinsen which was formed in ...