Two Southern Baptist churches ousted for having women pastors will be appealing that decision at the Southern Baptist Convention's upcoming annual meeting.
The robed choir performed a rousing missionary chorus, the worshippers sang from the Baptist Hymnal, and the pastor preached on the need to listen to God before inviting people to come forward and profess faith in Jesus.
The Rev. Linda Barnes Popham has been pastor of the modest-sized Fern Creek in Louisville for the past 30 years, and involved in church work since her teen years in her native Alabama. "I want to worship under that same umbrella and do missions together like Southern Baptists have done all of these years," Popham said.
"I think that they're very much fueling this conservative political ideology in religion that is going to be harmful in the long run, especially when you do lose out on great churches like Saddleback or Fern Creek Baptist," Blansette said. "Something like, 'Do you believe the Bible?' is pretty hard to show one way or the other," said Nancy Ammerman, author of "Baptist Battles," a history of the denomination's late 20th century controversies. "They needed a concrete issue, something they could point to." Both sides backed their positions with the Bible.
"Yes, it was a controversial issue, for some because of the whole female pastor concept, but just as many who thought I was too conservative," Popham recalled.
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