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We would also like to direct you to the resources on the website of
 Wesleyan/Holiness Women Clergy.

 

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• Crow, Ken, and Chuck Crow. "Dynamics of the Placement Process." Kansas City, MO: Association of Nazarene Sociologists and Researchers Annual Meeting, March 13-15, 2003.

• Houseal, Richard. "Needed: Missional-Minded Women to Start Churches." Chapter 7 in Churches Starting Churches, ed. Neil B. Wiseman.  Kansas City, MO: Nazarene Publishing House, 2001.  Call 800-306-8294 for your free copy (shipping and handling not included).

• ________. Women Clergy in the Church of the Nazarene: An Analysis of Change from 1908 to 1995. Master's Thesis, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1996.
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• ________. "Nazarene Clergy Women: A Statistical Analysis from 1908 to 2003." Kansas City, MO: Association of Nazarene Sociologists and Researchers Annual Meeting, March 13-15, 2003.

• Ingersol, Stan. Nazarene Women and Religion: Sources on Clergy and Lay Women in the Church. Kansas City, MO: Clergy Development/Nazarene Archives, Church of the Nazarene, 2003.

• ________. "Timeline: Selected Dates in Wesleyan/Holiness History of Ordaining Women."

• Laird, Rebecca. Ordained Women in the Church of the Nazarene: The First Generation. Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1993.

• Metcalf, Janine T.  Ablaze with Love: The Living Legacy of Our Nazarene Foremothers. Kansas City, MO: Nazarene Publishing House, 2001. 

• ________. "From Rhetoric to Reality: Putting into Practice Our Century-Old Polity of Gender Partnership in Ministry." Kansas City, MO: Association of Nazarene Sociologists and Researchers Annual Meeting, March 13-15, 2003.

• Perkins, Phyllis. Together in Ministry: With Hearts Set on Pilgrimage. Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1992.
   

• ________. "Women in Ministry." Kansas City, MO: Association of Nazarene Sociologists and Researchers Annual Meeting, 1994.

• Roberts, B. T. Ordaining Women. Indianapolis, IN: Light and Life Communications, 2003.
   

• Robinson, Ed. "Women in Ministry: Conviction or Culture." Holiness Today 2 (March 2000), 2-4.  Contact the Holiness Today office to obtain other articles from this issue (913-577-0500).

• Stanley, Susie C. Honoring God's Call: A Celebration of Holiness Women Preachers. Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1996.

• Tink, Fletcher. "Some of Our Best 'Men' Are Women." Multicultural Ministries, USA/Canada Mission, Church of the Nazarene.

Women Clergy Stories/History

• Brandyberry, Lida. The Sanctification of Lida Brandyberry. Monrovia, CA: Monrovia Printing Co., 1942.

• Ingersol, Stan. "The Ministry of Mary Lee Cagle: A Study in Women's History and Religion." Wesleyan Theological Journal, 28, 1993.

• ________. "Woman in a New World: Olive Winchester’s Life in Theology and Higher Education." New Horizons (Feb-Mar 2002), 4-5.

• ________. "A Woman of Consequence: The Legacies of Elliot J. Sheeks." The Dusty Shelf 18 (2000).

• Jernigan, Johnny Hill. Redeemed through the Blood. Holiness Data Ministry, 1997.

• Ludwig, Minnie E. His Guiding Hand: An Autobiography. Holiness Data Ministry, 1998.

• Miller, Nettie. My Satisfied Quest. Kansas City, MO: Nazarene Publishing House, 1942. Holiness Data Ministry, 1999.

• Rachel's House. USA/Canada Mission, Church of the Nazarene, 2003.

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