Category Research

Read Melody’s recent post at the Flourishing Congregations Institute: Six Insights I Learned from Women in Ministry.

We are pleased to announce that Called to Serve has received a generous Grant for Researchers from the Louisville Institute. This award of over $70,000 CAD will allow us to continue sharing women’s stories, produce our academic findings, and publish…

What impact does seeing someone who looks like you have in your vocational role?  Individuals in Christian ministry, much like those in other professions, learn not only from formal training but also from role models within their field. The importance of…

Dr. Melody Maxwell shares a paper she presented in January 2025 at the Project Violet International Symposium. Project Violet is a UK initiative with a similar focus to ours. It has helped understand more fully the theological, missional, and structural…

Dr. Melody Maxwell shares “Faithfully Feminist?”, a paper she presented in 2024 at conferences in Quebec and North Carolina. This is one of several avenues of research she has been working on using Called to Serve interviews. Listen below to…

In 2019 and 2020, Dr. Melody Maxwell and research assistant Samantha Diotte interviewed eight of the first women ordained by Atlantic Baptist churches. This was the first phase of the project that became Called to Serve. It was fascinating to…