Jesus has called all who witness to the resurrection in their lives to proclaim the amazing news of new life to others. And the Holy Spirit has been poured out to empower all flesh, including women's flesh. The house that God has built has its doors thrown wide open to all who would enter in. Women have always come to the house of God willingly to serve. But women are free to preach and teach.
Women can also minister and lead.
God's house is a house where women and men are called to work together and learn to honor each other as God's good creation. Rebecca Laird is a freelance editor and writer who specializes in spirituality and social justice. She is a columnist for the Herald of Holiness and a staff writer of the San Francisco Peninsula Parent Newsmagazine . A graduate of Pacific School of Religion and Northwest Nazarene College, Ms. Laird is a licensed minister in the Church of the Nazarene. Along with her husband, Michael Christensen, and daughter, Rachel, she makes her home in San Francisco.