Paying a price on the Women's Issue
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December 29, 2007
Our good friend, Stafford Carson -- formerly Academic Dean at Westminster Theological Seminary and now minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Portadown, Northern Ireland -- has made the headlines over Christmas by refusing to allow a female minister to speak in his congregation at Christmas, thereby ending a longstanding tradition of exchanging pulpits at this time of year with neighboring congregations. See the full story here.