Who is missing here? Sermons by women preachers.

Rosie Perera

This month's Sermon Sale (for Pastor Appreciation Month) offers only archives of sermons by men.

And collections of sermons by men...

It's not that Logos doesn't want to try to reach out to women preachers. In fact on the front of their Pastor Appreciation Month sale page, they have two pictures of women in preaching/pastoral roles.

That's all very well, "representation" and all. But there's a dearth of content of actual sermons by actual women preachers. As long as men and women continue to see only floods of sermons by men available, they will continue to believe that women don't make good preachers. And that of course shapes one's interpretation of certain Bible passages... I never believed women should do it until I'd heard amazing female preachers, and my excuses for refusing to do it myself when invited to by leaders in my church (who knew me well) started to break down.

There are a few books of sermons by women in the Logos catalogue, but none of these are on sale this month:

• Aggressive Christianity: Practical Sermons by Catherine Booth
• And God Spoke to Abraham: Preaching from the Old Testament by Fleming Rutledge
• The Bible and The New York Times by Fleming Rutledge
• Divine Healing Sermons by Aimee Semple McPherson
• Godliness by Catherine Booth
• Help My Unbelief, 20th Anniversary Edition by Fleming Rutledge
• Homilies on the Gospels by Hildegard of Bingen
• Mixed Blessings by Barbara Brown Taylor
• Not Ashamed of the Gospel: Sermons from Paul’s Letter to the Romans by Fleming Rutledge
• Popular Christianity by Catherine Booth
• Three Hours: Sermons for Good Friday by Fleming Rutledge
• The Undoing of Death: Sermons for Holy Week and Easter by Fleming Rutledge
• Wider than Heaven: Eighth-Century Homilies on the Mother of God (Popular Patristics Series) by Mary Cunningham

Am I missing others that Logos already carries that you know of?

Here are a bunch of requests that existed already that haven't been fulfilled yet:

• The Seeds of Heaven: Sermons on the Gospel of Matthew by Barbara Brown Taylor

• God in Pain: Teaching Sermons on Suffering by Barbara Brown Taylor

• Bread of Angels by Barbara Brown Taylor

I've added a bunch of requests on Feedbear for other sermon collections by women preachers I know of. Please vote if you agree with me that we need more of these resources in Logos. And again, if you know of other good ones, please add suggestions for them.

• The Book of Women's Sermons: Hearing God in Each Other's Voices

• Those Preachin' Women, Vol. 1 : Sermons by Black Women Preachers

• Those Preaching Women, Vol. 2: More Sermons by Black Women Preachers

• Those Preaching Women, Vol. 3: African American Preachers Tackle Tough Questions

• Those Preaching Women, Vol. 4

• Those Preaching Women: A Multicultural Collection (Those Preaching Women, 5)

And some books about women preaching or for women on preparing sermons:

• Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity
• Claiming the Call to Preach: Four Female Pioneers of Preaching in Nineteenth-Century America
• Birthing the Sermon: Women Preachers on the Creative Process
• Shall Woman Preach?: Or the Question Answered
• Women Shall Preach: Celebrating 125 Years of Women in Ordained Ministry in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church

I'd like to see Logos create Sermon Archives of some well-known prolific women preachers, some of whose sermons have already been published in book form, but others of which are only available in audio online.

• Fleming Rutledge
• Barbara Brown Taylor
• Nadia Bolz-Weber

Again, please add to this list if you know of others to suggest.

Yes, I realize there are fewer women preachers than men. That is just a fact of history. But I'd like to see the ones that exist be made more available for study. It might just help encourage more women who are currently preachers, and over time more of them might develop enough to have archives of their sermons published, and so eventually even out the disparity somewhat.

I also recognize that there are people who strongly disagree about this. Please don't debate the theology of it here. I'm only requesting some resources. Just as you'd ignore someone else's request for resources you're not interested in and even theologically are opposed to, just ignore this post if that's your stance. Thanks.