{"id":725,"date":"2013-07-02T23:30:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/?p=725"},"modified":"2013-06-05T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T11:15:53","slug":"when-we-need-women-behind-the-pulpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/2013\/07\/02\/when-we-need-women-behind-the-pulpit\/","title":{"rendered":"When We Need Women Behind The Pulpit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the direct approach is the best.\u00a0 In his blog, Preston Yancey (an author, painter, and baker soon to be doing doctoral work at St. Andrews in Scotland) forcefully challenges the church to \u201cput a woman behind the pulpit\u201d, so we can see the whole picture of what God intends and God is doing.\u00a0 You can access Preston\u2019s blog by <a href=\"http:\/\/seeprestonblog.com\/2013\/02\/when-we-need-women-behind-the-pulpits\/\">clicking here<\/a>.<a title=\"clicking here\" href=\"http:\/\/seeprestonblog.com\/2013\/02\/when-we-need-women-behind-the-pulpits\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Submitted by<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Brian Wiele, CBGE member<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=725&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the direct approach is the best.\u00a0 In his blog, Preston Yancey (an author, painter, and baker soon to be doing doctoral work at St. Andrews in Scotland) forcefully challenges the church to \u201cput a woman behind the pulpit\u201d, so we can see the whole picture of what God intends and God is doing.\u00a0 You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testimoies-and-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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