Evening Prayer: Women and Church Leadership

Gracious God, who spoke through the prophet Amos with a voice that shook the comfortable silence of an unjust world, Tonight I bring before You the women in our churches who have carried so much for so long — the ones who taught us scripture before we could read, who organized every potluck and hospital visit, who held dying hands and baptized grieving hearts with prayer, yet were told their calling had a ceiling.…