The Case for Women Who Preach, Teach and Lead

The Southern Baptist Convention voted this week to advance a constitutional amendment that would bar women from preaching to assembled congregations in any SBC-affiliated church — a move that advocates say could limit women’s voices across the nation’s largest Protestant denomination and that critics argue runs counter to both Scripture and church history.Delegates to the SBC’s annual meeting in Orlando voted 6,028 to 2,026 June 10 — a nearly 3-to-1 margin — to advance the meas