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We would also like to direct you to the resources on the website of
 Wesleyan/Holiness Women Clergy.

 

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• Crow, Ken, and Chuck Crow. "Dynamics of the Placement Process." Kansas City, MO: Association of Nazarene Sociologists and Researchers Annual Meeting, March 13-15, 2003.

• Eckley, Richard K. "Women in Ministry: Why Not?" Wesleyan Life (Winter 06-07). www.wesleyan.org, January 24, 2007.

• Houseal, Richard. "Needed: Missional-Minded Women to Start Churches." Chapter 7 in Churches Starting Churches, ed. Neil B. Wiseman.  Kansas City, MO: Nazarene Publishing House, 2001.  Call 800-306-8294 for your free copy (shipping and handling not included).

• ________. Needed: Missional-Minded Women to Start Churches. NewStart Missional Workbook. Kansas City, MO: USA/Canada Mission/Evangelism Department, Church of the Nazarene, n.d.

• ________. Women Clergy in the Church of the Nazarene: An Analysis of Change from 1908 to 1995. Master's Thesis, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1996.

• ________. "Nazarene Clergy Women: A Statistical Analysis from 1908 to 2003." Kansas City, MO: Association of Nazarene Sociologists and Researchers Annual Meeting, March 13-15, 2003.

• Ingersol, Stan. Nazarene Women and Religion: Sources on Clergy and Lay Women in the Church. Kansas City, MO: Clergy Development/Nazarene Archives, Church of the Nazarene, 2003.

• ________. "Timeline: Selected Dates in Wesleyan/Holiness History of Ordaining Women."

• Laird, Rebecca. Ordained Women in the Church of the Nazarene: The First Generation. Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1993.

• Metcalf, Janine T.  Ablaze with Love: The Living Legacy of Our Nazarene Foremothers. Kansas City, MO: Nazarene Publishing House, 2001. 

• ________. "From Rhetoric to Reality: Putting into Practice Our Century-Old Polity of Gender Partnership in Ministry." Kansas City, MO: Association of Nazarene Sociologists and Researchers Annual Meeting, March 13-15, 2003.

• Perkins, Phyllis. Together in Ministry: With Hearts Set on Pilgrimage. Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1992.
   

• ________. "Women in Ministry." Kansas City, MO: Association of Nazarene Sociologists and Researchers Annual Meeting, 1994.

• Roberts, B. T. Ordaining Women. Indianapolis, IN: Light and Life Communications, 2003.
   

• Robinson, Ed. "Women in Ministry: Conviction or Culture." Holiness Today 2 (March 2000), 2-4.  This entire issue is dedicated to Women Clergy issues (see the issue's table of contents). Contact the Holiness Today office to obtain other articles from this issue (816-333-7000 x2304).

• Rowell, Jeren. "The Law of Love." Sermon delivered at the Inaugural Chapel of the Wynkoop Center for Women in Ministry, Nazarene Theological Seminary, March 12, 2003. To listen to the audio file, click here. This requires RealPlayer (version G2 or higher) which is available without charge.

• Stanley, Susie C. Honoring God's Call: A Celebration of Holiness Women Preachers. Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1996.

• Tink, Fletcher. "Some of Our Best 'Men' Are Women." Multicultural Ministries, USA/Canada Mission/Evangelism Department, Church of the Nazarene.

Women Clergy Stories/History

• Brandyberry, Lida. The Sanctification of Lida Brandyberry. Monrovia, CA: Monrovia Printing Co., 1942.

• Ingersol, Stan. "The Ministry of Mary Lee Cagle: A Study in Women's History and Religion." Wesleyan Theological Journal, 28, 1993.

• ________. "Woman in a New World: Olive Winchester’s Life in Theology and Higher Education." New Horizons (Feb-Mar 2002), 4-5.

• ________. "A Woman of Consequence: The Legacies of Elliot J. Sheeks." The Dusty Shelf 18 (2000).

• Jernigan, Johnny Hill. Redeemed through the Blood. Holiness Data Ministry, 1997.

• Ludwig, Minnie E. His Guiding Hand: An Autobiography. Holiness Data Ministry, 1998.

• Miller, Nettie. My Satisfied Quest. Kansas City, MO: Nazarene Publishing House, 1942. Holiness Data Ministry, 1999.

• Rachel's House. Online video. Kansas City, MO: Mission Strategy Department, Church of the Nazarene, 2003.

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