My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.
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It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding.
My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.
Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.
At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.
So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal conviction; I made a personal decision when I was very young. I enjoy going to church without my parents. On Sunday mornings, I want to go. Bible studies on Wednesdays... I have a relationship - not just through my parents.
My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother's womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me.
A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.
I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
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