(RNS3-aug28) The Rev. Amy Butler greets congregants at New York City’s Riverside Church during her candidacy weekend. For use with RNS-WOMEN-CLERGY, transmitted on August 28, 2014, Photo by Dave Cross Photography, courtesy of Riverside Church.

Jennifer Harris Dault graduated on May 12 as the only woman in her Master of Divinity program at Central Baptist Theology Seminary in Shawnee, KS. President of the school, Molly Marshall, alumnae and new graduates gathered on Monday, May 7, 2012 for the Graduating Sisters' 2012 Blessing Ceremony, which honors past and present female graduates. Dault listens to advice from alumnae.