Magazine Featuring Female Pastors Pulled From Shelves

[b]Magazine Featuring Female Pastors Pulled From Shelves[/b]

ATLANTA — The five women on the cover are dressed in black and smiling — not an uncommon strategy for selling magazines.
But these cover girls are women of the cloth, featured in Gospel Today magazine's latest issue, which the Southern Baptist Convention has pulled from the shelves at its bookstores, though the magazine is available for sale upon request.

The group says women pastors go against its beliefs, according to its interpretation of the New Testament. The magazine was taken off stands in more than 100 Lifeway Christian Bookstores across the country, including six in metro Atlanta.

Published for nearly 20 years, Gospel Today is the largest and most widely distributed urban Christian publication in the country, with a circulation of 240,000. The magazine's publisher, Teresa Hairston, said she was just reporting on a trend, not trying to promote women pastors. ...

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the Southern Baptist Convention has pulled from the shelves at its bookstores, though the magazine is available for sale upon request.

If they disagree with women pastors enough to pull it from the shelves... isnt it a bit hypocritical for them to sell them "upon request"?

Basically they're saying "We disagree with this, but we have no problem making a profit from it".

Krispy

"They basically treated it like pornography and put it behind the counter,"

Praise God, that's great! It's a step in the right direction anyway.