Women church members could publicly withhold endorsement from ministers who exploited them

Evidence

Burroughs labeled them “grafters” and urged that “public sentiment be molded against men who go into the ministry to dodge hard work.” Reminding ministers that women provided the greatest financial as well as numerical support to churches, Burroughs asserted the right of her sisters to endorse only well-trained clergymen.®? In a report to. the convention in 1914, she opined: “No church should be allowed to stay in a community that does not positively improve community life.” In her annual report for 1920 Burroughs insisted that the church should not substitute shouting for service. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 810

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Women’s Bible-literate organizing threatened uneducated rural male pastors’ authority — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 360; Evangelical women publicly condemned Christian leaders who defended Trump — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 599; Evangelical leaders dismissed sexual harassment claims as feminist hypocrisy — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 337

Broader Connections

• Evangelical leaders dismissed sexual harassment claims as feminist hypocrisy #complicates (0.82) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 337
• Evangelical women publicly condemned Christian leaders who defended Trump #exemplifies (0.80) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 599