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- Title
Journey to Ordination: Addie Davis and Watts Street Baptist Church.
- Authors
Durso, Pamela R.
- Abstract
The article talks about the history of the Watts Street Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina and discusses Addie Davis, the first woman minister to be ordained in a Southern Baptist church on August 9, 1964. Topics discussed include the founding of the Baptist Church in 1924, Pastor Warren Carr of the church proposing women's ordination, and the Baptist background of Addie Davis.
- Subjects
ORDINATION of women -- Christianity; DAVIS, Addie; BAPTIST women; HISTORY of American Baptists; WOMEN in the Southern Baptist Convention; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Baptist History & Heritage, 2016, Vol 51, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
0005-5719
- Publication type
Article