[b]Magazine Featuring Female Pastors Pulled From Shelves[/b]ATLANTA The five women on the cover are dressed in black and smiling not an uncommon strategy for selling magazines.But these cover girls are women of the cloth, featured in Gospel Today magazine's latest issue, which the Southern Baptist Convention has pulled from the shelves at its bookstores, though the magazine is available for sale upon request.The group says women pastors go against its beliefs, according to its interpretation of the New Testament. The magazine was taken off stands in more than 100 Lifeway Christian Bookstores across the country, including six in metro Atlanta.Published for nearly 20 years, Gospel Today is the largest and most widely distributed urban Christian publication in the country, with a circulation of 240,000. The magazine's publisher, Teresa Hairston, said she was just reporting on a trend, not trying to promote women pastors. ...read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425565,00.html
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the Southern Baptist Convention has pulled from the shelves at its bookstores, though the magazine is available for sale upon request.
"They basically treated it like pornography and put it behind the counter,"
