41.   The senior pastor, the Rev. Joseph L. Roberts Jr., gave the sermon.

42.   The senior pastor has equated rock music with devil worship, said organizer Michael Mallott, who did not attend.

43.   The senior pastor of her church, the Rev. Bob Collins, agrees.

44.   The Rev. Mac Brunson, senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Dallas, was chosen Monday as president of the Pastors Conference.

45.   The Southern Baptist Convention prohibits women from being senior pastors but lets them perform almost any other job.

46.   They say that churches have the right to name anyone, male or female, as senior pastor.

47.   Tipps also was a senior pastor in Houston, at River Oaks Baptist Church, before coming to San Marcos almost a decade ago.

48.   Vines, senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla., criticized the rising tide of pluralism.

49.   West Palm Beach, Fla. minister Harold Calvin Ray, senior pastor at Redemptive Life Fellowship Church, said that faith is key to transforming poor urban neighborhoods.

50.   Women also have a more difficult time securing positions as senior pastor and are more likely to serve as assistant or associate pastors.