This article needs some clergy support, boys and girls. So go post a mother-pastor-positive comment, will ya? The fundies jacked the thread and I hate that.
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Because you're in the public eye, and God knows you need to look good.
Respectfully, I don’t see the point in having a predictable cyber argument. There will be no real conversation. And whoever gets the most posts on their side won’t win anything. It’s an important article to share and more important to support moms and other women in ministry, I think.
[I don’t mean to argue. I just mean to go post a comment like, “What a great article. I’m a minister mom and it’s nice to see some attention being given to our particularly interesting professional and personal challenges. Thanks for covering this!” or something like that. – PB]
This is a wire story, which means there are probably *dozens* of such comment threads.
Though I should note I was once in a lectionary group with Amy Butler, mentioned first in the story, and she rocks.
I appreciate the desire to do so — I get the same kind of crazy comments every time I have something in my local paper. I seldom read comments on articles at all, as a result.
Done. What thoughtless comments (and why would I expect anything else from online comments on a USA Today article . . . ). Right, keep women out of the pulpit and the problem will be solved, because male clergy don’t need to spend any time with their children, or have aged parents who need their attention, or have any need to tend their marriages . . . Gah.
Yuck. Cannot engage on several levels. Obviously I can’t engage the whole “women can’t be pastors thing”, but I also can’t argue from experience about balancing day care and pulpit ministry because I chose not to do that because I couldn’t deal with day care, knew it wasn’t the right thing for my family, and took a huge professional hit for it. I wish this young mother all the best. . . .
I object to the article too, not because it’s bad for moms to be clergy (I am one, full-time) but does anyone else sense a tone of condescension? Maybe I’m just defensive, but I find “pulpit and potty-training” to be a stereotypical and off-putting title. The whole article lacks nuance, but I suppose *that* is a wider criticism of USA Today. Oh how I would love for The New Yorker or Atlantic to cover the REAL story of parents (both genders)/pastors…
My spirit is not strong enough to read internet comments about religion off of news sites.
I have been doing this for a LONG time (ordained in 1983) and my babies are now 19 and 21 and I have always worked full time, and honestly – articles like this aren’t worth the band-width they take up! I think it’s another insidious way to launch a”Mommy Wars” skirmish and it never, ever does justice to the complexity of the two roles. I agree we need to support each other, but who cares about the comment thread on such a weak, superficial and brainless article?