Evening Prayer: Women and Church Leadership

Gracious God, the whole creation groans tonight — and so do your daughters who have heard your call and found the door bolted shut. Paul wrote that creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God. Not the sons only, Lord — the children. And yet for centuries, women who felt the fire of your Spirit have been told to sit down, keep quiet, hand the microphone to someone else.…