Women Breaking Through to Top Roles in US Black Churches
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 17, 2022
When an opening for bishop arose in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in 2010, Teresa Jefferson-Snorton looked around to see if any women were offering to be candidates.
None were.
She knew that since its founding 140 years earlier by Black Methodists emerging from slavery, the denomination had never elected a woman bishop.
"I was like, oh my goodness, this can't be," she recalled. "If no one steps forward, it gives the church a pass."
Jefferson-Snorton, who had spent decades as a pastor, chaplain and theological educator, undertook . . .
