Welcome to our Women's Justice Resources Page
Rev Claire Nicholls, LB Regional Minister, co-ordinates the Women’s Justice Group.
The Women’s Justice group is part of London Baptists Justice Hub. We seek to raise awareness of issues that women encounter and to challenge where we see injustice happening. Working in collaboration with others we
- Seek to promote balance in our churches in leadership, noting that currently women make up less than 20% of fully accredited ministers in our churches, and recognising that the journey to this point has been slow and often painful.
- Celebrate the ways women are already leading and contributing in association and local church life.
- Explore ways in which we can encourage more women in London Baptist churches into accredited and other forms of ministry
- Look to make opportunities and create spaces for women ministers to meet, network and offer mutual support
- Encourage all members of London Baptists, including the wider association and local churches, to keep justice issues relating to women on their radar, and to raise up advocates and allies who can speak up when inequality and injustice is evident.
- Raise awareness of issues of injustice in wider society where women are treated unequally and are prevented from becoming all they have been created to be.
Underlying our commitment to women’s justice is the creation narrative in Genesis 1, where when God created humankind, we were created in God’s image, male and female, and it is as we find balance in gender, that we reflect God’s image better. The issue of justice is a Gospel issue, and where we find justice, we see more of Jesus.
The Women’s Justice hub currently has a particular focus on Women in leadership. We held our first Empowering Women Leaders event in 2023 are held another in Spring 2025. We host a gathering for Women Ministers and Pastors termly in the LB Offices in Dock Street.
We are engaging with the work of Project Violet, a collaborative research project which aims is to help us understand more fully the theological, missional and structural obstacles women ministers face in the Baptist Community in Great Britain and identify ways forward.
Calling a Female Minister
Check out our new resource for churches in settlement
Project Violet
The findings of Project Violet were released on 2nd May 2024 on the Project Violet website and we are encouraged as an association to engage with and respond to the recommendations of the report.
Baptist Union Council accepted the Commitment to Action Report at their meeting in October 2024. This will be reviewed in October 2025. London Baptists have made a response, as have some of our churches. You can find the London Baptists Response in the downloadable files below.
It's not too late to look at the requests for change with your church, even if you have missed the September 30th deadline.
The launch webinar from Project Violet is now available for you to watch - it will give you an overview of the Project and how to engage with the research.
