Rhetoric Race and Religion
This past Sunday in Miami, Bishop Paul S. Morton opened the Full Gospel’s ‘Generals of Faith’ event, Rebranding in the Body of Christ: The Ultimate Leader Shift, by announcing, “This room represents the movers and shakers of the kingdom.”
Yet there was not a single woman in the room.
According to the press release “by invitation only prominent new generation pastors and leaders filled a room…to interact and to integrate their ideas in bold, powerful and world changing topics.”
The special invite from Bishop J.W. Walker included only prominent black male pastors of larger congregations in the country—and I just have to ask: how can an all-male group possibly create strategies that will impact the “kingdom” and ultimately the world without including the voices of women clergy who labor (twice) as hard and are just as committed?
This event should have been called ‘General Men’s Conference: How to Set the Black Church Back Forty Years’.
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