Sentences with word «clergywoman»

Furthermore, we can not assume that this situation will change automatically as clergywomen experience more ministerial longevity.

Placement officers face a different challenge, that of developing a pool of female interim pastors as well as one of clergywomen who wish to apply for senior pastorates.

Truth, power, and love: Challenges for clergywomen across the life span.

Small churches, with their typically more cooperative style of governance and greater emphasis on community, provide opportunities more congruent with the priorities of many clergywomen.

In denominational systems which rely on placement appointments, an increase in the number of women in senior pastorates is slowly beginning to occur; but in systems which rely on a call from a congregation, the availability of highly qualified and experienced clergywomen has made little difference in the tendency of large churches to call male ministers.

An Episcopal clergywoman writes: «I listen so intently to so many people throughout the year that I need to be fed... I come needing to be fed, needing quiet, needing to laugh and not take my job so seriously.

More clergywomen with the requisite ministry experience and an increasing number of Roman Catholics are entering programs (especially women religious and lay professionals); the number of blacks enrolled has grown slightly; and clergy from evangelical denominations are enrolling in much larger numbers, partly as a result of the growth in D.Min.

Rachel M. Srubas is a United Church of Christ clergywoman and a Benedictine oblate in Tucson, Arizona.

It is unfortunate that some small, struggling churches have selected clergywomen because they thought they could pay them less; this issue of justice has made it more difficult to define the real differences in attitudes between the members of small and large churches.

Some highly skilled and talented clergywomen have actually made conscious vocational choices never to apply to a large church.

In addition, the resistance to clergywomen performing supervisory / administrative functions is even stronger than that to their performing worship / sacramental functions.

Attitudes have begun to change in churches where the senior pastors have made a regular and conscientious effort to use clergywomen as supply preachers, as workshop leaders and speakers, and as substitutes during pastoral emergencies or vacation times.

I have presented these revised Twelve Steps to a variety of women's groups, including clergywomen, spiritual growth groups and psychotherapists from a variety of backgrounds.

Yet in their daily experience of the material world — from the houses they live in to expectations they have for their children to their anxieties about a retirement income — many married clergywomen live a more secure life than that of their male counterparts.

A lesbian clergywoman wrote, «I have found at Kirkridge — four times now — a special kind of sanctuary.

She's often been seen greeting senior members of the Royal Family at services in Westminster Abbey and made headlines by being the first clergywoman to shake hands with Pope Benedict XVI.

It is time for clergywomen to claim their places as strong candidates for senior pastorates.

A small group of clergywomen is beginning to accept the challenge of analyzing feminist styles of working and seeking to relate them to the large - church setting.

Many clergywomen are ambivalent about applying for such positions.

From Sarah: As a clergywoman in a Christian denomination, I wonder what your journey was like — were you always accepted because you were in Reform congregations, or were there still struggles over gender issues?

And to those clergywomen who continue to serve tirelessly everyday — thank you.

But it is clear that concepts of «clergywoman» and «senior pastor» are mutually exclusive; the topic does not merit serious or lengthy discussion.

Lehman's research indicates that the hiring of a clergywoman as an interim pastor can be helpful in terms of attitude change among the laity.

When Lehman isolated individual factors, he found that members of large, wealthy multiple - staff churches were more resistant to clergywomen than were members of small churches (which were experiencing financial difficulty).

Demonstrating sensitivity to language is another way in which male senior pastors can identify themselves with one of the major concerns of clergywomen.

If we are to move toward a more just placement system for women, there are three groups of persons who can play an important role in bringing about such change: the men who currently serve as senior pastors, the men and women who serve as denominational placement officers, and the clergywomen themselves.

What Lehman quantifies with his research, clergywomen and denominational placement officers confirm from personal experience: small churches are more open to women pastors.

Although his discussion does not address the issue of temptations to infidelity for clergywomen, this may be the only book - length discussion of this «pastoral problem» and clergy marriage.

The role of sexual «behavior» in the clergywoman's career also has some unique dimensions.

It is perhaps worth adding that the terms «priest» or «deacon» or «minister» refer to a clergyman or clergywoman's status, whereas terms such as «rector», «vicar», «curate» or «chaplain» refer to the actual job.

It applies equally to clergywomen!

I want to echo Nancy T's words... I had a profoundly trapped time this week as a clergywoman, but I was able to change internally, and be set free... I'm loving this Sophia.