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In most twenty-first-century congregations, women outnumber men. Unfortunately, masculine anecdotes still dominate many sermons and many church leaders don’t understand the differences in the ways women and men listen, learn, and perceive ideas of leadership and power. The result is that many women feel detached from the messages conveyed from the pulpit. How can a pastor effectively minister to...

disrupted, many women see this not just as “a loss of the relationship, but as something closer to a loss of her own self.”24 In 1929, Virginia Woolf wrote, “It is obvious that the values of women differ very often from the values which have been made by the other sex.… It is the masculine values that prevail.”25 Therein lies a problem that can be particularly acute for Christian women. In much preaching, the “masculine value” of rules and principles prevails over relationships. Yet if Miller is
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