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Single women pastors choose motherhood

When St. Paul Baptist Church in Philadelphia hired Leslie Callahan as its first female pastor in 2009, she was nearing her 40th birthday and her biological clock was getting hard to ignore.

She delighted in her ministry but also wanted a husband and children in her life. Finding a husband she couldn’t do much about—he just hadn’t stepped into her life.

“But it was clear to me that I was going to do everything in my power to realize my dream of becoming a parent,” she said.