When Your Sexual Harassers Sit in Your Pews | Sojourners

When Your Sexual Harassers Sit in Your Pews

Rev. Dr. Amy Butler and the sexual harassment women pastors face.

When I heard that Rev. Butler was appointed the first woman pastor of Riverside, I thought she broke the stained-glass ceiling. Instead, the church threw her off the stained-glass cliff. The phenomenon of the glass cliff is one documented throughout the working world. Women are invited into senior-level leadership only at times of crisis, when intractable problems, often caused by male predecessors, cannot be solved. There’s nothing to lose because things have hit rock bottom.

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