The Authors

Katie Lauve-Moon, PhD

Katie Lauve-Moon is a sociologist, social worker, and ordained minister who researches in the areas of gender, congregations, and inequality. She situates her work in the hope for change through critique and investigation and approaches Biblical Scripture through a lens of social justice. She is the author of Preacher Woman: A Critical Look at Sexism Without Sexists (2021) and currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Social Work Department as well as affiliate faculty with the Women & Gender Studies Department at Texas Christian University. Originally a Louisianian, Katie has made her home in Fort Worth, Texas with her partner, fellow sociologist and ordained pastor, Tim Lauve-Moon, and son, Moses.

Rev. Kyndall Rae Rothaus

Rev. Kyndall Rae Rothaus is a preacher, poet, feminist theologian, and spiritual director. She is the author of Thy Queendom Come: Breaking Free from the Patriarchy to Save Your Soul (2021) and Preacher Breath (2015). She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Nevertheless She Preached and the founder of The Soul of Preaching Project.

Kyndall is a sought-after public speaker, award-winning preacher, and spoken word artist. She spent eight years as a Senior Pastor in Baptist churches in Texas, where, among other things, she left a legacy fighting for LGBTQ+ inclusion in the church. Kyndall is a queer woman and the single mom of two adopted children who are the biggest joys of her life.

  • Preacher Woman

    A CRITICAL LOOK AT SEXISM WITHOUT SEXISTS

    When organizations are committed to gender equality, what gets in the way of their achieving it? How and why do well-intentioned people end up reinforcing sexism? Katie Lauve-Moon examines these questions by focusing on religious congregations that separated from their mainline denomination in order to support women’s equal leadership.

    In Preacher Woman, Lauve-Moon concentrates on congregations affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF). Women are enrolling in Baptist seminaries at almost equal rates as men and CBF identifies the equal leadership of women as a core component of its collective identity, yet only 5% of CBF congregations employ women as solo senior pastors. Preacher Woman explores how congregations can be committed to ideals of gender parity while still falling short in practice. Lauve-Moon investigates how institutional sexism is upheld through both unconscious and conscious biases. In doing so, she demonstrates that addressing issues of sexism and gender inequality within organizations must extend beyond good intentions and inclusive policies.

  • Thy Queendom Come

    BREAKING FREE FROM THE PATRIARCHY TO SAVE YOUR SOUL

    This book is about Queendom, a feminist reimagining of the Kingdom of God in which everyone has a seat at the table. Hierarchy is replaced with a reign of love, celebration of the Divine Feminine is reawakened, women’s voices and stories are valued, truth-telling is revered, soul work is essential to activism, Mary’s life-bearing act is a salvific symbol, and ancestral goddess worship reemerges from the ashes of its martyrdom.

    Both richly spiritual and deeply theological, Thy Queendom Come: Breaking Free from the Patriarchy to Save Your Soul blends stories about Kyndall’s life as a woman, as female clergy, as recovering daughter of Southern evangelicalism with sharp feminist-critical reading of Scripture making for a soul deepening, heart expanding, mind stretching read.