Friday is International Women's Day, and I will be spending the day traveling to be with two of my favorite women in the world- my sisters. We are celebrating a birthday and attending a concert, spending a weekend together like we rarely get to anymore. This IWD, I am also thinking about a group of women who are dear to me- women who serve in vocational ministry in the Church world. I'm a pastor, or kind of still am, as I've left my role at my church and am waiting (ever so patiently) to see what God has for me next. I'm a preacher, a teacher, a sold-out advocate of youth ministry and students, and I'm a woman in the ministry world. Over the years, as I got my sea legs in ministry, I became immersed in the debate over what roles women can and should play in ministry. I am ... View Post