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The Rev. Sarah Jackson Shelton is pastor of the Baptist Church of the Covenant in Birmingham, Alabama.
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The Rev. Sarah Jackson Shelton is senior pastor of the Baptist Church of the Covenant in Birmingham, AL, part of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Sarah is a graduate of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, earning the M.R.E. and M.Div. degrees. She served several churches in Alabama before becoming the interim at Covenant in 2000, and then senior pastor in 2002.
In 2004 Sarah was featured in a Time magazine arrticle as one of the rare examples of women preachers in pulpits of "tall steeple churches," alone with Joanna Adams and Susan Andrews.
Latest Content by The Rev. Sarah Jackson Shelton
A Daughter's Faith
Mark 5:21-43
Proper 8 - Year B
June 28, 2009
The Rev. Sarah Jackson Shelton (CBF)As I came into the office one morning recently, I realized that I had a large manila envelope on my desk. Thinking that it was probably some promotional materials for the pastor and his wife, I was just beginning to drop it into the recycle bin when I recognized the name on the return address. It read: Dr. William A. Hull. Dr. Hull is an esteemed Baptist pastor and professor having taught at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and, more recently, at Samford University. So my curiosity was immediately piqued.
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The Sleeping Jesus
Mark 4:35-41
Proper 7 - Year B
June 21, 2009
The Rev. Sarah Jackson Shelton (CBF)Sebastian Junger, in his book The Perfect Storm, relates the fates of a number of ships during the 1991 "storm of the century." One ship in particular, the fishing vessel Andrea Gail, illustrates the peril of the sea. The crew of the Andrea Gail entered the storm of the century the way we walk into a room: one minute all is calm with light variable winds and the next minute, the sea boils, churning up winds that begin at forty knots and then grows to exceed ninety knots. In just one hour, the barometric pressure dropped 996 millibars and the waves were over seventy feet high! 1
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