Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Publication Version
Version of Record
Abstract
A convergence of factors enabled Ida Sherman Womeldorf to forge a successful, if unlikely, career as a Baptist evangelist and preacher in Deadwood, South Dakota and other sites in the American West. Actualizing her ministerial path in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were her own personal qualities, the rise of the Progressive reform movement, the local autonomy practiced by her denomination, and openness in the West to her unconventional role. Her story as it intersects with the mores and movements of her time and place builds upon and broadens the historical narrative of evangelical women in ministry.
Publication Title
Baptist History & Heritag
Volume
58
Issue
3
First Page
19
Last Page
32
Publisher
Baptist History & Heritage Society
Rights
Copyright © 2023 Baptist History & Heritage Society. Posted with permission.
Recommended Citation
Lindell, Lisa R., ""All Barriers Are Broken Down": The Pastoral Path of Evangelist Ida Sherman Womeldorf" (2023). Hilton M. Briggs Library Faculty Publications. 59.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/library_pubs/59
