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Diana Butler Bass Extended Interview

Season 18

Additional excerpts from our conversation with author and scholar Diana Butler Bass.

"The three pulpits that are historically important in mainline Protestantism have women senior pastors now is a very big deal. It is hard to imagine as recently as even 20 years ago that women would have achieved that level of leadership... It signals a change in American Protestantism."

AIR DATE 9/25/14

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