Sentences with phrase «affirmed women»

For every church that affirmed women in leadership, there was a church that did not.

I also hear from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant churches precisely because they welcome LGBT people, accept scientific findings regarding climate change and evolution, practice traditional worship, preach from the lectionary, affirm women in ministry, etc., but these new attendees never hear the leadership of the church explain why this is the case.

Slightly more than half (54 %) of white evangelicals, according to the Pew Research Center study, favor completely overturning the 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman's right to have an abortion.

Why can't the United States be a civilized country like, say, the Netherlands and fully affirm women's reproductive rights?

to promote, encourage and affirm the women who have impacted them in their faith and in their theology.

And perhaps can't we see that some of the voices are positively affirming women to make their own choices, and others are sending out negative shame messages?

I also hear from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant churches precisely because they welcome LGBT people, accept science, avoid aligning with a single political party, practice traditional worship, preach from the lectionary, affirm women in ministry, etc. but these new attendees never hear the leadership of the church explain why this is the case.

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One early position, which still continues to be important in the evangelical community, is to affirm that the Bible, when correctly interpreted, affirms women's full humanity.

They also note that some Pentecostal churches now affirm women's leadership roles, including the pastoral ministry.

In my own town, there's a gigantic church that has, in just the past couple of years, changed from affirming women as pastors and elders to forbidding it entirely.

And these men are able, somehow, to do that while still celebrating and affirming women as people, too.

The man did not have to affirm the woman's self - image in order to have courtship occur.

Even though my book is about a specific topic — it's a gentle but provocative love letter to the Church about welcoming and affirming women — I approach it as art, not a message to be preached, or an argument to be made.

But I'll also seek to encourage and affirm women, to advocate for the rights of mothers to feed their children with education and support, without judgement - even / especially when they make different choices than me, even / especially when they did not have a choice.

Florida About Blog Women of Grace ® seeks to transform the world one woman at a time by affirming women in their dignity and vocation as daughters of God and in their gift of authentic femininity ™ through ongoing spiritual formation.

Florida About Blog Women of Grace ® seeks to transform the world one woman at a time by affirming women in their dignity and vocation as daughters of God and in their gift of authentic femininity ™ through ongoing spiritual formation.

We are thrilled to see our input reflected in the Inquiry Committee's final report, which clearly affirms women's right to a fair and equal justice system and leaves no doubt that sexist remarks and victim - blaming from the bench are unacceptable:

Not exact matches

The imagery was captivating: High finance, Fearless Girl affirmed, was a woman's world too.

Nor are those who affirm the historic Christian view of marriage as between one man and one woman.

I believe that it is the church's responsibility to love, accept, and affirm gay men and women and thereby create a positive environment where their sexuality can be expressed in healthy, monogamous, loving relationships (i.e. marriage or civil partnership).

One that affirms the role of women on earth and in heaven.

Here again, biophilic women are affirming the relationship between gynaffection, female power, and creativity.

It's one thing to say a women has a legal right to an abortion (especially since the Supreme Court affirmed that right) and quite another to say one «advocates the killing of the unborn».

By God's grace we will recruit & trained a million Friends (mentors) 2 walk along side a pregnant woman, showing her Christ's love & compassion while connecting them 2 the wide range of life - affirming resources needed 2 choose LIFE & adoption where appropriate.

In affirming these relationships, an original woman dis - covers, re-members, her Self

The ancient writers of Scripture seem to affirm what all women know -

Our guest today has suggested that the «principles of womanist preaching include affirming the dignity of Black women as legitimate interpreters of the Scriptures whether or not our interpretations converge with those of the dominant culture.»

Every one of the shops listed here empowers, educates, affirms, supports, or employs women all around the world.

In this way, women would first be given an empowering script about divine grace that secures their personal identity, affirms the goodness of their embodiment and sends them forth into the world with renewed agency and purpose.

We need to affirm that women are sexual beings with drives that match or are sometimes higher than men (and that these sex drives vary from person to person and some people may have no sex drive at all).

Many women have responded by listening, and with affirmation and encouragement, jus as Sian has done with saying she longs to be critiqued, does not want to have critique held back from her for her being a woman and was appropriate in affirming the critique of the «feminist» interpretation of scripture I made as described.

Most of the men surveyed affirmed an egalitarian stance toward women in leadership positions, but the study also found that women have barely broken the twenty percent barrier in terms of board and paid leadership positions.

And on the occasion I made this comment, it was listened to and affirmed by the women who heard it.

We affirm the wholeness and freedom that flow from sexual abstinence before marriage and lifelong, monogamous fidelity within the mutual covenant of marriage between one man and one woman.

The report affirms feminist theology insofar as it is an aid to biblical interpretations that can be a part of a harmonized whole and insofar as it constitutes a call for equal treatment of women in church and in society.

This woman has sought time and again to be loved and affirmed by a man.

We also wish warmly to affirm those sisters and brothers, already in membership with orthodox churches, who — while experiencing same - sex desires and feelings — nevertheless battle with the rest of us, in repentance and faith, for a lifestyle that affirms marriage [between a man and woman] and celibacy as the two given norms for sexual expression.

God affirms this when He uses female - specific imagery when relating to His people — like a bear to her cubs (Hosea 13:8), an eagle hovering over her young (Deuteronomy 32:11), a mother comforting and weaning her child (Isaiah 66:13, Psalm 131:2), a nursing woman (Isaiah 49:15) and a woman in labor (Psalm 131:2).

Seeing women in leadership matters to girls and equally to women still longing to have their passions, talents, and personhood affirmed by the Body of Christ.

Yet when droves of well - educated women took on jobs and busy schedules, they too tended to pray more than men, to attend services more, and to affirm (to pollsters) more religious beliefs.

To be a feminist theologian is to affirm the authority of women's experience and the goal of overcoming patriarchy.

For instance, Christians disagree about the equal rights of men and women — which the Universal Declaration affirms — even as some Christians differ on this point with some Muslims (who also differ about this among themselves)

Another woman, who was straight, was not even granted an interview for membership because she could not affirm the church's stance on homosexuality being a sin.

Islam's widespread practice of amputating the cli - to - ris and sometimes part or even all of the vul - va from the ge - n - ita - lia of Muslim women, affirmed in a had - ith by Mohammed himself, most likely also traces back to the founder's deliberate abuse of se - x to lure pagan males into his cu - lt.

Novelist Mary Gordon, a perceptive interpreter of Catholic women's experience, affirms that Mary's submissive obedience has become «a stick to beat smart girls» («Coming to Terms with Mary,» Commonweal, January 15, 1982) Warner painfully recalls her own adolescent realization that the symbol of Mary as a model of chastity actually denigrates women and humanity, an understanding that transformed her perception of the church.

It included 14 statements of belief in which, amongst other things, they affirm marriage being between one man and one woman.

Additionally, Pope Francis has never said we should forget the issue of abortion (despite what the press is trying to tell us), he is just affirming what Catholicism has always taught, that it is never our place to judge or condemn women who have had abortions.

In this call, they hear organized religion affirming a stereotyped view of women that collides with a new feminine consciousness.

Feminists as a whole, she says, deride all forms of service or self - sacrifice and «consider any view of marriage as sacrament or covenant a self - serving deception» that oppresses women — a gross misrepresentation of many feminist theologians who affirm both marriage and altruism.