black female preachers

Julia was faithful to her calling. She was grateful for her redemption, "a brand plucked out of the fire" and her life has been an inspiration for Christian women since then.

Jarena sat down, frightened at what she had done. She was sure she would be expelled from the church. But instead, the Bishop rose up in the assembly and told how Jarena had called on him eight years before asking to be permitted to preach and that he had put...