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Amid tension, Southern Baptist women lead where they can

Amid tension, Southern Baptist women lead where they can By BOB SMIETANA of Religion News Service and HOLLY MEYER of The Associated Press Jacki King, the women’s minister at Second Baptist Church in Conway, Arkansas, first felt a call to ministry as a college student. She decided to follow it, giving up her pre-med major and her spot on a college softball team for ministry training at a small Bible school with a mostly male student body. She picked Criswell College because it was where her pastor was a dean. She wanted to teach the Bible the way he did. King thought at the time she only...

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