Read a March 20, 2014, story from the United Methodist News Service about the rise of women pastors within the United Methodist Church.

The Rev. Telley Lynnette Gadson is pastor of St. Mark United Methodist Church in Taylors, S.C. She is also the president of Black Clergy Women of the United Methodist Church.

Sara Hurwitz is the dean of Yeshivat Maharat, a Modern Orthodox Jewish yeshiva that ordains women. She was the first woman to be ordained as “rabba” by an Orthodox institution in the U.S.  

The organization Black Clergy Women of the United Methodist Church works to support, retain and foster black clergywomen in the United Methodist Church. The Rev. Telley Lynnette Gadson is president. Contact via website form or call Gadson, 864-848-7141.

Roman Catholic Womenpriests is an organization that advocates for and ordains women as Catholic priests. Its ordained women are not recognized as priests by the broader Roman Catholic Church. It maintains a page listing all of its ordained women with contact information as well as a page of women priests by region with contact information. The main […]

Mary Keldermans was ordained as a Catholic priest by Roman Catholic Womenpriests in April 2014, an act for which she was excommunicated by her local bishop. She leads services at Holy Family Inclusive Catholic Community in Jacksonville, Ill., at the Congregational United Church of Christ.

Watch a Jan. 11, 2013, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly report about the push to ordain women as Catholic priests.

Read a June 10, 2013, story in The Tablet about the first three Jewish women ordained by an Orthodox yeshiva. They were not given the title “rabbi,” but “maharat.”

Ordain Women Now is an organization that advocates the ordination of women clergy in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the more conservative Lutheran denomination in the United States. Elizabeth Goodine is the group’s president. Contact via the website.