By Yonat Shimron
National Reporter and Senior Editor
Religion News Service
Growing up in Southern Baptist churches, Courtney Moore assumed she would marry, have children and live a life circumscribed by the theology of biblical womanhood, i.e., faith, marriage, motherhood.
Her life unfolded roughly in that order. She met her husband at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, where they were both students; they married, and she took on the role of a pastor’s wife and, eventually, the mother of three children.
“I really bought the story that a woman should be a homemaker, and your value is in the home,” said Moore, 41. “I had zero career ambitions whatsoever except to be a homemaker and raise my children.”
About four years ago she realized homemaking was not her strength. She was not a great cook, and keeping her home tidy and clean wasn’t her thing.
So Moore decided to go to work — first on the communications team at her husband’s former Mississippi church, and now as founder of a nonprofit, Women and Work, an organization that inspires women to lean in to their callings, whether in the Christian or secular spheres.
Moore, who calls herself a “soft complementarian,” is part of a new generation of evangelical women following in the footsteps of Beth Moore, the popular women’s Bible teacher who shook up the evangelical world by announcing last week she was quitting the Southern Baptist Convention.
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