Shane speaks about why we as a community ordain women into pastoral leadership and ministry.

Book Resources

• The Blue Parakeet -Scott McKnight
• Emboldened: A Vision for Empowering Women in Ministry -Tara Beth Leach
• Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women -Carolyn Custis James
• Two Views on Women in Ministry (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology)
• Slaves, Women, and Homosexuals -William Webb
• Women in the Earliest Christian Churches -Ben Witherington
• Ordained Women in the Early Church -Kevin Madigan
• Hidden History of Women’s Ordination -Gary Macy
  

Websites//Blogs//Podcasts

• NT Wright’s Essay: Women’s Service in the Church: The Biblical Basis
• William Witt: Women’s Ordination
• Gordon Hugenberger: Women in Church Office
• Seminary Dropout 157- Tish Harrison Warren & Jonathan Warren: A Biblical, Historical, and Pastoral Defense of Women in Ministry
• Missio Alliance