Sentences with phrase «as women in church»

Blue parakeets may be «as simple as the Sabbath or foot washing or as complex and emotional as women in church ministries or homosexuality.»

On issues such as women in church leadership, and other religions, we are free to come to a «developed, or even different, view» from what we find in the canon, just like William Wilberforce did with slavery; but that is ok, because the word of God is «ultimately a person, not a manuscript».

I went from feeling validated as an equal among my male counterparts to suddenly feeling powerless... and keenly aware of the tricky balancing act of maintaining my «proper role» as a woman in the church.

The implication is that a childless woman isn't a whole woman, that I can't possibly offer any insights into my role as a woman in the Church until I've procreated.

The U-Haul truck opens its sliding door for the first time since Adeline, Kentucky, unleashing the stale air from the small southern town that used to be Grace Salter's home, back when her mother was still a dutiful Baptist church leader (though not technically a «pastor,» because as a woman in a church belonging to the Southern Baptist Convention, she could not technically claim the official title, nor its significantly higher pay grade, even with her PhD in Ministry and more than a decade of service).

Not exact matches

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

The movement's website features personal stories of women who are usually the only head coverers in their churches, as well as arguments from scripture to support the practice.

For me, as a college student, young single woman, and then young married adult, I found that there were no Sunday gatherings for myself - no fellowship classes that matched my stage in life at most churches I visited.

In fact, most American Catholics disagree with some of the Vatican doctrines (birth control, for example); there are Baptist Churches that don't treat women as less than men in God's eye, etcIn fact, most American Catholics disagree with some of the Vatican doctrines (birth control, for example); there are Baptist Churches that don't treat women as less than men in God's eye, etcin God's eye, etc..

Significant numbers of women clergy now see opposition to their intellectual positions as ineradicably linked to right - wing Christianity or as inextricably tied to a backlash on the part of white male members in the church.

(Ephesians 5:22 - 24) «Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

Again, sadly, the church is trailing far beyond society in equality for women, though we have come a long way from the women as property upheld in the Old Testament and still prevalent in many other parts of the world today.

The question of women's ordination is regarded as church - dividing, at least from the Orthodox angle... Consequently I think we on the Lutheran side have to think about whether progress in dialogue is to be expected at all.»

I don't think that its feasible to expect everyone to follow NFP, though I'm personally a huge proponent and believe women need more education on their bodies and menstrual cycles, and condoms while not «moral» persay or in line with the church's teaching are a much better option than hormonal birth control or Plan B as they are simply a barrier method not an abortificant.

Churches have women clergy because they are left - leaning (right - leaning ones tend not to admit them because the right tends not to believe in equality for women)-- they are not left - leaning because they have women clergy (not all women lean left — as this blog often demonstrates).

If I were to live up to my experiences as a child, I wouldn't have a woman doing anything in a church or a classroom because what I saw then was out of control aggression and bullying.

A woman receives a hug as she leaves a morning service at Trinity Episcopal Church not far from the Sandy Hook School December 16, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut

I don't think that anyone (here, at least) would say that there's no room for women in * any * ministry in the church, but perhaps that there are certain ministries that women are more equipped for (both «more equipped for as women» and «more equipped for than men»).

In any event, I was suprised when the church I was attending here in Ontario held a discussion on women in ministry as I sort grew up without the sort of restraints that I later learned were in place in some denominations within Canada and in far more within the UIn any event, I was suprised when the church I was attending here in Ontario held a discussion on women in ministry as I sort grew up without the sort of restraints that I later learned were in place in some denominations within Canada and in far more within the Uin Ontario held a discussion on women in ministry as I sort grew up without the sort of restraints that I later learned were in place in some denominations within Canada and in far more within the Uin ministry as I sort grew up without the sort of restraints that I later learned were in place in some denominations within Canada and in far more within the Uin place in some denominations within Canada and in far more within the Uin some denominations within Canada and in far more within the Uin far more within the US.

It's high time the Catholic Church embraced the 21st century with regard to women's reproductive rights and women's rightful place in the church, such as serving as priests and biChurch embraced the 21st century with regard to women's reproductive rights and women's rightful place in the church, such as serving as priests and bichurch, such as serving as priests and bishops.

As a 22 year old woman you should use your God given intelligence to see if this typee of mentality is first morally sound and secondly in accordance to the teachings of the Catholic church.

I wish I were not one but nothing can change it as I was raised in a Baptist Church by a brutal bigot of a woman.

Indeed, I have a treasured memory that gives me hope in this regard: I was once a member of an inner - city Reformed congregation that was also home to a woman from the neighborhood who considered this congregation her parish church, as it were.

I have strong advice for people in abusive or domineering churches as I do for women in abusive or domineering marriages: leave!

We offer them not only for their intrinsic worth but because women's concerns, as they are called, will undoubtedly come before the bishops again, and because the problems posed by «One in Christ Jesus» illustrate difficulties that all the churches have when it comes to making statements on questions of societal moment.

As for what this priest wrote, he forgets that most Catholic parishes, at least in the USA, depend very heavily on retired men and women to help out with many parish duties, from helping to serve communion at daily Mass to assisting with the front office or helping out with various ministries, so to say seniors have been forgotten by the Church is not true...

For as I noted in a toast at the anniversary dinner the Maleckis» sons had arranged, the network of now - not - so - young friends that had gathered around Karol Wojtyla — men and women who resolutely refuse to think of themselves as something special — had in fact helped bend the history of the Church, and the world, in a more humane direction.

That he'd married a divorced woman made him unworthy of acting as a leader in the church.

The numbers may reflect not only the changing roles of women in the church over that time period, but in society as well.

Might a church that believes in and practices diversity in religious opinion, as well as «Biblical equality» of men and women work better for you?

Some observers think that the feminization of the church, evident in the declining percentage of men taking part in church life, will be aggravated if inclusive language is employed or, worse, if a woman is called as pastor.

Seems pretty clear that the church still in 2010 sees women as distinctly inferior to men.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

As Reay Tannahill points out, this «was the exercise of power without responsibility — the same type of power women exercised in churches.

After being in a Calvinist church for over a decade, and witnessing person after person and family after family leaving the church in a more broken condition than which they came, including several divorces, one woman abandoning her family to become a sex slave, and many rejecting the faith altogether, I discovered, to my great chagrin, that it had taken a toll on my family as well.

As a single childless woman in her 40's I really dislike attending church.

However, many of the women in the women's group have expressed their support and care for me, and many church members have expressed gratitude for the job I'm doing as historian.

Women will be able to be consecrated as bishops of the Anglican Church in Wales by September 2014, a...

If it's not careful, the Church is going to find itself in the same predicament as they exclude so many people, both men and women, that there may come a day that they look around for capable leaders.

The purpose of my project was to unpack and explore the phrase «biblical womanhood» — mostly because, as a woman, the Bible's instructions and stories regarding womanhood have always intrigued me, but also because the phrase «biblical womanhood» is often invoked in the conservative evangelical culture to explain why women should be discouraged from working outside the home and forbidden from assuming leadership positions in the church.

Filled with beauty, hard truth, and brave vulnerability, Jesus Feminist urges the church to stop asking «man or woman» as a qualification for ministry and to start helping everyone find freedom in the fullness, hope, glory, and work of Christ.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

This is definitely a cultural issue in the US evangelical church (it's been a horrible place for women), and the emergent boys brought it with them as they left their evangelical posts.

Third, many women theologians are using insights and practices from feminist theology in order to address broader social and ethical questions confronting the church, such as globalization, care of the earth, and the shifting patterns of work and family.

Well, there should be no shock there except for the subject matter that included not a recommendation, but perhaps Carter's wish for a greater role for women in the Catholic church (really as a side note to the purpose for his communication with the Pope, and not argued to the Pope by Carter).

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

There is no way I would again attend a church that does not, in practice, treat women as peer - humans, and the Emergence movement as ended my long search for it.

None of this must be taken as detracting from the fine example of the many very wonderful and faithful women in the Church today.

Like the part about women - blaming and shaming combined with the pastor digging up offenses from the past, referencing an emotional distance he feels from us as we leave, citing his own pastoral involvement and authority in the decisions of our lives up to this point, threatening to talk to the pastor of the church we're visiting to share his «concerns,» and suggesting that I'm just a weak mess of emotions and that's why I can't handle the life - sucking horror that has become sundays at this church.

A woman in our church brings flags on Sundays for the kids to use, may it be counted unto her as righteousness.