The Rev. Meredith Stone, its executive director, said some women pastors within the SBC have reached out for support. The group plans to release a documentary, “Midwives of a Movement,” about ...

OK? I mean, we've talked about the plague of female pastors before and how scripture makes it very clear, repeatedly, that women cannot serve as pastors or have authority over men in the church.

In a community of a Muslim majority, the first woman pastor in the Middle East leads a parish in one of the poorest city of the Mediterranean, in the heart of Tripoli, North Lebanon.

This documentary raises questions about the notion of individual freedom, belonging to a minority, economic and social norms, as well as the place of women.