Adair Lummis

"... may one day be a dominant presence ln some. "America ls looking toward a clergy that will be half women," sold a research associate at Hartford Seminary ln Connecticut, Adair Lummis. She ls the author of a 1983 study, "Women of the Cloth." More than SO percent of those who graduate from the ordination programs of the seminaries of the United ..."

"... tend to share power more than do malc leaders, while only 18 percent of male parish clergy agreed with that perception. In hcr summary report at lhc ssg meeting. Adair Lummis said that female pastors among Southem Baptist, American Baptist and United Church of Christ clergy tended to bc stronger advocates df thc “equality of orders" within the church than malc ..."

"... present in churches; they've done most of the work in eliu reites. They just haven't been in lhe organizational leadership positions until lhe last part of the zoth century." Adair Lummis, a faculty member at thc Hartford Institute for Religion Research in Hartford. Conn., said. But some Christian denominations still limit women from serving even as pastors, Dawkins, who preached lhe ..."

"... study dispels the widely held belief that, because of Intense Job pressures and life in the fish bowl, clergy are twice as likely to be divorced as laity," sald Adair Lummis, a researcher on the project. The study, by the seminary's Center for Social and Religious Research, ls based on the responses clergywomen and clergymen ln 15 denominations across the country. ..."