A Southern Baptists Female Pastor

 

 From an Associated Press story about women as pastors in Southern Baptist Churches, with the executive committee throwing some churches out because of that:

The Rev. Linda Barnes Popham has been pastor of the modest-sized Fern Creek in Louisville for the past 30 years, and involved in church work since her teen years in her native Alabama.

“When I was 8 years old, I knew that God was calling me in some sense,” she recalled. She’s not doubting her calling now, and neither are Fern Creek churchgoers.