The Stained-Glass Ceiling: Churches
and Their Women Pastors by Sally B.
Purvis
Full Of Important Insights
As record numbers of women graduate from seminaries, they are
increasingly filling positions once held exclusively by men. Purvis
documents what happened in the lives of two congregations that appointed
women senior pastors and the impact these appointments had on all
concerned. She carefully assesses the changes and discerns the
significance of female leadership as opposed to male leadership in these
two settings.
Personal Review: The Stained-Glass Ceiling: Churches and
Their Women Pastors by Sally B. Purvis
Susan Purvis has not attempted to write a book full of definitive study
results. Rather, she has done an indepth look at two churches, both quite
large in size and substantive in ministry scope, who have called women as

senior pastor/head of staff. These churches are in different
denominations, but both have many of the same needs and are impacted
by the same human concerns as to power struggles, distribution of power,
interaction by all levels of the congregation, etc. Most striking is the insight
that both these pastors did their personal "homework" in building their own
internal spiritual framework before attempting to build the external
framework of the local church parish.
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