Sentences with phrase «for woman at the well»

She asked for prayers for Woman at the Well, a small nonprofit she was starting for women to do what others had done for her — take them off the streets, out of prostitution and drug use and teach them about Jesus» great love for them.

Not exact matches

Gillian Thomas, senior staff attorney at American Civil Liberties Union Women's Rights Project, says that in order to create safer spaces for women, individuals in leadership positions must do a better job of setting a good exaWomen's Rights Project, says that in order to create safer spaces for women, individuals in leadership positions must do a better job of setting a good exawomen, individuals in leadership positions must do a better job of setting a good example.

A look at which major U.S. cities are the best for women business owners, and seven tips to help them get started.

SmartAsset looked at the median earnings for full - time working women, as well as the number of women with high - level degrees and those who own businesses.

Nike is also set up well for future quarters, thanks to a strong sponsorship presence at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup as well as the recent merchandising deal signed with the NBA.

Police are trying to nail down Nasim Aghdam's motives for shooting people at YouTube's headquarters yesterday, but it may well relate to the woman's antipathy toward the company's content moderation policies.

Again, it would be really easy to say, «Well, of course elite athletes have athletic bodies,» but seeing them here is enough to set aside the snark for a second and just marvel at the prowess and accomplishments of the women on America's gymnastics team.

Income tax is likely the last thing on your mind as the holiday season kicks in, but now is perhaps the best time to start strategizing for your 2015 return, said Manisha Thakor, CFA, director of Wealth Strategies for Women at Buckingham and The BAM Alliance.

The field of AI has been criticized for its lack of women in prominent research roles at universities as well as at major technology companies.

And although the idea of women making great gains in the workforce was good for rallying female morale back in 2009, a look at data from previous downturns shows that every recession is essentially a he - cession.

And a bonus tip that works well for men and women: Take at least one suit jacket that can be worn with jeans.

At Refinery29 — which describes itself as «a modern woman's destination for how to live a stylish, well - rounded life» — the goal is not just about putting out the highest volume, but also finding the right channels and mechanisms for distributing its message.

That suggests more turnover at the upper echelons of business — which, it's fair to say, is a very good thing for a whole lot of powerful women.

Aparna Sridhar, a clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California Los Angeles, says that period - tracking apps are great ways for women to understand their cycles better, but the information aggregated by them may not be 100 % accurate.

This is especially important for women, since research shows they are less likely than men to negotiate an improvement to an opening offer and so may well start at a disadvantage.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella this month became the latest tech executive to demonstrate, at best, a lack of understanding of the systemic discrimination facing women, suggesting that women not ask for raises in order to have «good karma.»

But everyday American women face even greater costs for giving birth at average U.S. hospitals — and don't even receive better prenatal care or maternal services for their financial troubles.

Director Jonathan Levine («The Wackness,» «The Night Before») and screenwriter Katie Dippold (2016's «Ghostbusters») were obviously going for an edgy «mom - com,» in which the men are idiots and a story of self - discovery is at the core (Emily helps Ecuadorian women form a human chain to take water from a well, which brings her to an aha moment).

The other thing is working at having better flexibility — for men and women.

Canada will play host to the 2015 Women's World Cup as well as the U-20 Women's World Cup later this year, and successes with those events could pave the way for a shot at FIFA's biggest prize.

On the other hand, the virtuous cycle that starts with basic health and empowerment ends not only with a better life for women and their families, but with significant economic growth at the country level.

At best, this business model — the marketing and selling of products directly to consumers, away from a retail location — conjures up door - to - door salespeople dependent on middle - aged women nagging friends for the names of their friends.

Using feedback from thousands of women at companies certified by Great Place to Work, Fortune recently published its third - annual list of the «100 Best Workplaces for Women.&rwomen at companies certified by Great Place to Work, Fortune recently published its third - annual list of the «100 Best Workplaces for Women.&rWomen.»

After strong product reviews ran in SHAPE, Teen Magazine, Woman's World, PREVENTION Magazine, Parade.com, Boston Business Journal, Forbes.com, Better Nutrition, Celebrity Café.com, Grocery Headquarters, P - O - P Times, Supermarket Guru.com, Taste for Life, Prepared Foods and Gourmet Retailer, Zoe Foods gained momentum, distribution and a seat at the table for natural foods.

Canadian businesses and governments at all levels should embrace the China e-commerce opportunity; doing so is good business for MSMEs, for women entrepreneurs, and for Canada.

If we look at the position of women specifically within this landscape, we see a thriving network for collaboration and a good support structure for female founders.

We are delighted to work with proactive business and government leaders in B.C. on their commitment to leading the way in diversity and sharing best practices,» said Laurel Douglas, CEO of the Women's Enterprise Centre and co-founder of the WEB Alliance of Women's Business Networks in B.C. «Through exposure and resources shared at We for She, we aim to empower participants throughout the province.»

Even at remote companies, women are fewer than 20 percent of CEOs, but that's almost four times more than in traditional companies, and that is a good sign that remote businesses and flexible work policies can be one key component to creating a more balanced, equitable workplace for all.

At least half of the women I know take contraceptives to regulate their menstrual cycles, and believe me — a regulated menstrual cycle makes for a happy woman, and a happy woman is the BEST kind of woman to have around!

This one tells about Mitt's good character (like willingness to drop his regular business affairs to help search for the daughter of the coworker, sounds like he ate the costs of paying several employees to have them aid in the search), and the other side of the spectrum of how at least one Mormon woman felt that Mitt had offended her.

Aware that the Church «can not and should not intervene on every scientific innovation,» the pope charged the congregation with «reiterating the great values at stake, and providing the faithful, and all men and women of good will, with ethical and moral principles and guidelines for these new and important questions.»

Furthermore, Steve, by your logic, marrying can't be good at all: since marrying a woman isn't good for women, and what is good is good for everyone, than marrying a woman can't be good for men or for society as a whole; and likewise marrying a man can't be good either.

I declined as I didn't want to profit from this gift I was given, but as I know from the story of the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4 that the Lord uses testimonies to draw others to Himself, so at my own expense I had my testimony printed at a local print shop for a few hundred dollars, and am distributing it with New Testaments to people as the Lord leads.

Well if it's slightly more evidence of the existence of a man outside of Italy in the 1st century who was born of a virgin, died for 3 days before resurrecting himself, then explained he only died because of «original sin» which is the idea that a woman ate magical apple given from a talking snake in a garden at the beginning of time which caused all humans to go to hell when they died.

One week during our usual Thursday chapel hour at United Theological Seminary, the women's caucus organized and led a well - constructed and skillfully enacted worship service for the seminary community.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

I'll start: I feel most at home in a church that 1) takes its mission to care for the poor and marginalized seriously, 2) does not make assumptions about its congregation's political positions nor emphasizes political action to begin with, 3) speaks of Scripture in terms of its ability to «equip us for every good work,» 4) embraces diversity (theologically, ethnically, etc.) and allows women to assume leadership positions.

I did my first meeting at 14... I'm now 32, got 2 kids a good job and I'm married to a beautiful caring women that has been sober for the last 5 years.

At its best, «witch» can be used to represent an empowered woman, which for some in the Christian Community is also frightening.

It's always best if women don't involve at all in religious leadership positions except for certain emergencies.

Most Likely To Evoke a Cheer: Caryn Rivadeneira at Her.meneutics with «When Gender - Based Parenting Goes Too Far» «If only men are oriented to transform this world, women are in trouble, because a woman who is being «good» and eating healthy, hoping that the world changes for the better as it twirls around her, isn't living the gospel.»

They live in a world organized in a radically different way, and the suggestion, for instance, that women are biologically incapable of being priests strikes them as quaint at best, ludicrous at worst.

It was clear that the women gathered often entered the struggle from different vantage points, they did not always agree with all that was spoken, but what could not be ignored was that there were some common issues that did draw them together — it was not accidental or designed that over one - third of the 4,000 workshops by different women's groups, from all regions of the world, focuses on the issue of violence against women — some of the best being organized by Indian women, What was at the heart of Huairou was the commitment of the women present to draw energy and support from each other — it was a consciousness that they were doing it all «for the common good.»

In the Indian psyche, the sanctity of the family is to be maintained at all costs for the common good, even if it requires a woman to live in daily violence, even in jeopardy for her life.

Reading the prophets is training in how «not to be nice,» the amiable Asian woman says, for her community is «better at harmony than truth.»

Well, we recently had our elections here in Rutherford County, and it's humbling and sad all at the same time ¯ humbling to see the number of folks who give themselves selfishly to causes they believe in, humbling to see men and women subject themselves to the mauling they get when they run for office, humbling to see folks waiting to vote in the heat of this miserable Tennessee summer we're having, but also sad to see how insular and crimped a lot of us have become.

Men have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... One could fill many pages with the reasons why men have done this, and not tell a hundredth part of them.

The Faculty and Trustee Committee at Fuller Seminary, for example, which investigated Paul Jewett's book Man as Male and Female recognized Jewett's commitment to the full authority of Scripture, as well as his important contribution to a theology of women, even while it challenged his handling of the evidence.

Catholic schools have a wonderful opportunity to invite trained NFP instructors to teach this part of the programme which will enable girls to gain a fuller understanding of their bodies and their fertility, while at the same time assisting young men better to understand and appreciate the miracle of fertility, the special role played by the woman, and the implications for her physically, psychologically and spiritually as the natural cycle plays out in her daily life.