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The Rev. Dr. Leah Grundset Davis has written a wonderful book inviting readers to take a more profound look at the Magnificat in association with the stories of several Alliance of Baptists' women clergy in their ministry journeys. As Mary offered praise for her calling, so do these Alliance clergy women for their callings. As this book is read and the inspired lessons offer an opportunity for introspection for many women, let us also encourage male colleagues, family members, and friends to join the discussion, praises, and support of women in ministry.--The Rev. Sheila Sholes-Ross, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Pittsfield, Massachusetts When I was a young Baptist trying to embody both a call to ministry in all its messiness, Believe the Women is the book I needed. With careful attention to theological scholarship and personal narrative, Leah Grundset Davis provides not only hope of women's place in the Baptist story, particularly the Alliance of Baptists' story, but courage for any who hear the stirrings of the Divine.--Rev. Elizabeth Hagan, Author of Birthed: Finding Grace through Infertility and Pastor of Palisades Community Church, Washington, D.C. Believe the Women celebrates the power and brilliance of sisterhood by interweaving the stories of ordained Alliance/Baptist clergy women with Mary's song. Leah Grundset Davis centers the Magnificat and testifies to the ways in which women have used their voices to challenge and change the narrative in every aspect of society, especially in the Church. This is the book that I desperately needed as a young Baptist woman seminarian in search of my voice and examples of women leaders in Scripture and ministry.--Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames, Associate Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Rev. Dr. Grundset Davis has crafted a powerful, reflective work that is a gift both to pastor and congregant alike. She leads us step by step on the Advent journey by engaging Mary's ancient Magnificat liberation song. But just as importantly, she also has lifted up the stories of the brave women clergy who are our trailblazers in the Alliance of Baptists and allowed us to hear their songs as well. May we all sing along, to the glory of God's beloved community.--Rev. Michelle Nickens, Pastor, Washington Plaza Baptist Church, Reston, Virginia Thanks be to God for the voices of women who have sung and continue to sing newness, justice, and love into reality even when unbelieved. Thanks be to God for the space for women's voices the Alliance of Baptists has provided since its inception. And thanks to Leah Grundset Davis for challenging the church to listen and believe the passionate proclamation and witness of the women in the church in the world today!--Rev. Paula Clayton Dempsey, Director for Partnership Relations, Alliance of Baptists From the founding spark--the freedom to call those gifted for pastoral leadership, male or female--Leah Grundset Davis has chronicled in these pages the subsequent rise to brilliant flame of Alliance women's prophetic and pastoral voices; in the Apostle Paul's words, a power at work within us able to accomplish abundantly far more than we could imagine. We rejoice and give thanks.--Rev. Dr. Mahan Siler, a founder of The Alliance of Baptists, former pastor at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh, North Carolina and Ravensworth Baptist Church, Annandale, Virginia

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