{"id":116973,"date":"2013-12-18T00:04:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T18:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=116973"},"modified":"2013-12-19T04:37:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T23:07:35","slug":"black-church-leadership-gathering-excludes-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/black-church-leadership-gathering-excludes-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Church Leadership Gathering Excludes Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Sunday in Miami, Bishop Paul S. Morton opened the\u00a0Full Gospel\u2019s \u2018Generals of Faith\u2019 event,\u00a0Rebranding in the Body of Christ:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_116974\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/large_pray.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116974\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-116974\" alt=\"When will male clergy take their voices seriously? | File photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/large_pray-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/large_pray-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/large_pray-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-116974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When will male clergy take their voices seriously? | File photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Ultimate Leader Shift,\u00a0by announcing, \u201cThis room represents the movers and shakers of the kingdom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet there was not a single woman in the room.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the weakness of The Black Church: gender oppression, inequality, and discrimination. The church cannot make moves to build the kingdom and impact the world if sexism is the standard and equality is preached but not practiced.\u00a0When will women\u2019s contributions to ministry be accepted as equal? When will male clergy take their voices seriously? Now is the time.&#8221; writes\u00a0Hazel Cherry.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/dispatches\/guest_bloggers\/7440\/black_church_leadership_gathering_excludes_women\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Religion Dispatches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":116974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Black Church Leadership Gathering Excludes Women - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/black-church-leadership-gathering-excludes-women\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black Church Leadership Gathering Excludes Women - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/black-church-leadership-gathering-excludes-women\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-17T18:34:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-12-18T23:07:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/large_pray.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"453\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"320\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/black-church-leadership-gathering-excludes-women\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/black-church-leadership-gathering-excludes-women\/\",\"name\":\"Black Church Leadership Gathering Excludes Women - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/black-church-leadership-gathering-excludes-women\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/black-church-leadership-gathering-excludes-women\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/large_pray.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-17T18:34:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-12-18T23:07:35+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/black-church-leadership-gathering-excludes-women\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/black-church-leadership-gathering-excludes-women\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/black-church-leadership-gathering-excludes-women\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/large_pray.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/large_pray.jpg\",\"width\":453,\"height\":320,\"caption\":\"When will male clergy take their voices seriously? 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