I read your second article and found it interesting. I didn't know some of the issues you guys faced at your previous church and that they were so closed off to women serving. Our denomination is probably a little more accepting. More churches have women deacons, elders, and pastors along with other positions. I tend to gravitate towards women being able to serve in all positions, but I am still a minority. I did grow up knowing that I could be a youth pastor as a female and even preach if I felt God calling me in that direction. I do agree that people in the church can get opinionated and lost in the issues. I think this caused myself and my siblings to question the church and our faith at certain times.

The church we were at last was generally open to women serving (in theory if not practice). My experience I wrote about was from the first church I attended when I came to Wheaton. It is a fairly decent sized church, but I've met more people who left that church than attend. Like women who were driven out because they worked outside the home or because they didn't breastfeed their children.