Religion News Service story on the 40th anniversary of women getting priesthood and being ordained in Community of Christ, formerly RLDS.
40 years ago this week, Community of Christ announced it would start ordaining women. That decision forever changed the church, which is now gearing up for its first female president.| April 6, 2024, 12:00 p.m.
Mainline Protestant denominations latched onto these conversations in the 1970s. Many of them started ordaining women. More conservative churches held to tradition, which reserved priesthood for men. In the process, women’s ordination became a defining issue for churches, signaling whether they would be allied with progressive change or the emergent religious right.
At that time, the RLDS Church ordained some men to priesthood offices, where priesthood was required for many kinds of pastoral and ritual activities. Speaking from the pulpit was largely limited to those with priesthood. Leadership roles in congregations also required priesthood. The men who held priesthood had social status in the church.
Such advocates for women’s empowerment embraced a variety of ideas about how to achieve their goals. Some wanted the church to ordain women or expand their roles. Others wanted the church to acknowledge the work that women already did in congregations. The most radical position was held by those who wanted to abolish priesthood altogether. Wallace B. Smith, prophet-president of the Independence, Mo.-based Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from 1978 to 1996.
Stassi D. Cramm has been called to serve as the first president-prophet of Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.in June 2024. Her past leadership as an apostle and presiding bishop has helped the church through difficult financial crises in the past two decades. She is one of thousands of women currently serving in local or denominational leadership positions.
“Your journey is also divinely led,” she tells them. “It’s that connection of divinity with humanity that leads us into a space where we can be the very best we can be. And not only be the best we can be. But more importantly, to help others be the best that they can be.” That, for her, sums up priesthood ministry.is the chair of the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Department at Utah Tech University in St. George.
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