Clergywomen

Women face long road to change in church

Women have made major inroads in The United Methodist Church, but many of the issues the first Commission on the Status and Role of Women tackled in the 1970s remain on the radar today.

“It is very easy to take for granted that women are pastors and that women of all colors are bishops, district superintendents and top agency executives,” said Garlinda Burton, an African-American laywoman who heads the United Methodist Commission on the Status and Role of Women. “But it was less than 40 years ago that we had no women bishops.” Read the full article at UMC.org.