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Stained Glass Ceiling
09 December 2004Who leads the choir, teaches Sunday School, helps in the kitchen, and stands beside the pastor or rabbi at the end of a church or synagogue service, when the pastor or rabbi is a woman? The husband? Sometimes. Robin Galiano Russell, in The Dallas Morning News, reports on the changing notions of clerical spouses' obligations with the rise of congregational "first husbands." Russell speaks with Dr. Sheron Patterson (the first ordained black woman in her Methodist conference), Rabbi Heidi Coretz, and First Christian Church Pastor Dawn Darwin Weaks -- and the husbands of all three women -- about dealing with stereotypes and congregations that often still assume the husband is the head of the church or temple.
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