Three women — a Catholic, a Methodist and a Baptist — stepped up to the bar. The bar was not “The Idle Hour,” “Joe’s Bar & Grill” or any liquor establishment. It was the bar of law before which legal…
It’s time to remember the first American woman appointed an international missionary — whose name you’ve probably never heard
Recognition is long overdue for Charlotte Atlee White Rowe, the first American woman appointed by any denomination or mission agency as an international missionary. Charlotte White’s controversial 1815 appointment by the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions forced her to contend…