Churches in South Africa have a history of gender injustice, that is, of not being accountable to women believers. This article presents stories of women testifying to the effects of unjust gender discourses on their ...

Stories of the calling of female ministers in the Dutch Reformed Church played out over a period of approximately 107 years. The folk mother discourse, which silenced women’s voices in public, developed in the Afrikaner ...

This article examines the early years of the career of Malla Moe (1863-1953), a Norwegian who served in the Scandinavian Alliance Mission of North America (SAMNA) and played a key role in the opening of its field in ...

This article tells the story of Musa Dube’s interpretation of the Bible. It is not a biography of Dube’s personal life but rather a story of how she has contributed to the direction of African biblical scholarship; it ...

Shona culture, Church tradition, and the Roman Catholic Church in particular, are very patriarchal. Thus culture and Church have the capacity at once to include and exclude, liberate and oppress, empower and disengage. ...

The recommendation to ordain women as full priests in the Anglican Church was first made at the Lambeth Conference of 1978. Usually, Lambeth Conferences are held every ten years and all bishops of the Anglican Communion ...

More than 30 years have passed since the Nederduitsch Hervormde Church, the second largest of the three traditional Afrikaans-speaking sister churches, opened the door for women to become ministers. Statistics are used ...