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Historic Riverside Church in Manhattan has been known for the prominent voices that have occupied its pulpit, including Harry Emerson Fosdick, Martin Luther King Jr., William Sloane Coffin, and James Forbes. Now the influential mainline Protestant congregation has called a woman, the Reverend Amy Butler, to lead the congregation as its first female senior pastor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“There are several prominent pulpits in which women are now coming into those jobs, and it’s an indication society is shifting in many different ways,” says the Reverend Amy Butler, first female senior pastor of the Riverside Church in Manhattan. “Women are increasingly moving into leadership roles in other parts of our society, and it’s time for that to happen in the church.” More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":24196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[11070,5683,17831,4858,10687],"class_list":["post-24188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-female-ordination","tag-mainline-protestant","tag-manhattan","tag-riverside-church","tag-women-priests","topics-culture-and-society","faith-christian","faith-protestant"],"yoast_head":"\nRev. 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