Sentences with phrase «women are the spiritual leaders»

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Sara Hurwitz, a learned and devout Orthodox Jewish woman was conferred the new title of MaHaRa'T, an acronym for Manhigah Hilkhatit, Ruhanit, Toranit (for a halakhic spiritual and Torah leader) by Rabbi Avi Weiss, senior rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

This Is a challenge to leaders both temporal and spiritual, to intelligent and creative men and women everywhere.

Now mind you, I do think woman have to sometimes take up that mantle (example, when the men of Israel wouldn't go to war, Deborah was made their spiritual leader and got her instructions from God.)

Mothers also are called to be spiritual leaders to their children, to other women, to neighbors and the people they interact with on a daily basis.

But men don't need to be spiritual leaders to prevent the mistakes of women.

Deborah — prophet, judge, national leader (Judges 4 - 5)[McKnight says, «if we ask what did women do, and we ask this question of Deborah, we learn that women could speak for God as a prophet, render decisions n a law court as a judge, exercise leadership over the entire spiritual - social Israel, and be a military commander who brought Israel to victory.»

Besides having been created by the Tibetan lady saint Machig Labdrön herself, women have been spiritual leaders in the Chöd tradition down through history.

There to support him are his noble mother, Ramonda (Angela Bassett); younger sister Shuri (Letitia Wright), a smart - mouthed scientist who's next in line for the throne; chief counsel W'Kabi (Daniel Kaluuya), head of security for a tough border tribe; mentor Zuri (Forest Whitaker), the king's valued spiritual leader; and the Dora Milaje, an independent - minded security force comprising shaved - headed women, notably its best fighter Okoye (Danai Gurira) and the rebellious - minded Nakia (Lupita Nyong «o).

Although in her later years Rosa Bonheur might have made fun of some of the more far - fetched eccentricities of the members of the community, and disapproved of the additional strain which her father's apostolate placed on her overburdened mother, it is obvious that the Saint - Simonian ideal of equality for women — they disapproved of marriage, their trousered feminine costume was a token of emancipation, and their spiritual leader, Le Père Enfantin, made extraordinary efforts to find a Woman Messiah to share his reign — made a strong impression on her as a child, and may well have influenced her future course of behavior.

People (the public, the media, and so forth) naturally wonder, if only 1 percent of all ethicists, spiritual leaders, moral philosophers, other philosophers, «wise women and men», and so forth are speaking out in ethical / moral terms, then those ethical / moral arguments must truly be «not all that important», or «highly controversial and not broadly accepted», or «only held by theoretical folks», or whatever.