Sentences with phrase «for evangelical women»

«Painful irony of pro-choice stance of Women's March is that abortion was likely THE issue to tip scales for evangelical women to vote Trump,» said Hannah Anderson, who writes and podcasts about gender and theology for Christ and Pop Culture.

Moody Monthly, Logos, The Reformed Journal, Eternity, Vanguard, and Sojourners have published repeated articles on the issue3 Daughters of Sarah has come into being to provide for evangelical women who believe Christianity and feminism are inseparable4

Not exact matches

Other evangelical groups, including Concerned Women for America, want the act scrapped altogether.

If the GOP would quit trying to take away women's rights (as confirmed by the Supreme Court) and concentrate on FREEDOM for all, the party would gain more votes from women than they would lose from evangelicals who must have other concerns that are just as important as taking away a woman's right to chose.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pe - dophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, Bevilacqua?)

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If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice) Clinton, Cardinal Law), jail for embellizing / money laundering (the topic rabbi) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

The authors usefully highlight the ways in which the evangelical fervor of the nineteenth century gave women considerably expanded space for social leadership, and they view people such as Matthews and Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, as reacting, at least in significant part, to this challenge to patriarchy.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce and alimony payments for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, B16?)

We're evolving from our well - intentioned but often - terminally - short - sighted evangelical white male roots into a truly inclusive space for women, people of color, and LGBTQ voices.

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.

The time has come, argues Sarah Bessey — called an «accidental grassroots voice for postmodern and progressive evangelical women» — to take a new look at Scripture and challenge old assumptions.

There is even disagreement among Christians about this, (and historically, even among evangelicals), so was it really my place to deny a woman who has been raped, for example, access to a morning - after pill?

This person had no idea how much hell I've taken from people in my evangelical community for writing about my doubts, my questions related to heaven and hell, my views on biblical interpretation and theology, and my support for women in ministry and other marginalized people in the Church.

The early evangelicals, like Katharine Bushnell, understood that for too long the church associated women with Eve's sin and men with Christ's victories over sin — a view that wreaks havoc on the Christian view of sanctification.

And I am evangelical with believers who have pernicious ideas against non-believers, women, homosexuals, or science, for instance.

Embroiled in the struggle for abolition and suffrage, the early evangelicals opposed the idea that Eve, and therefore all women, are the source of sin and that God punishes women because of Eve.

When roughly 90 percent of evangelical pastors and 80 percent of evangelical seminarians are men, it can be hard for gifted women to find role models in the church.

The hypocrisy here is staggering, for as everyone knows, white evangelicals overwhelmingly support President Trump, a man who has been accused by more than twenty women of sexual assault, who is on record bragging about those assaults, and who was recently found in a Christianity Today poll to be evangelicals» «most trusted celebrity.»

The stark reality is that most white Christians, including more than 80 percent of white evangelical Christians, supported Donald Trump for president, despite his evident immorality, bigotry, and disregard for the dignity of women, (not to mention complete lack of qualification or competency).

Christian diet books, brochures for Bible - based weight - loss programs, and evangelical women's stories about their bodies do not articulate a uniform message.

For analyses of the biblical interpretation on both sides, see Willard M. Swartley, Slavery, Sabbath, War, and Women: Case Issues in Biblical Interpretation (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1983), pp. 152 - 191; Robert K. Johnston, Evangelicals at an Impasse: Biblical Authority in Practice (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979), PP. 48 - 76.

Can the discussion on women, for example, provide the evangelical church a test case in theological construction?

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

Eichenwald is careful to compare opposition to homosexual practice only to biblical offenses that he thinks evangelicals will have a difficult time opposing consistently: drunkenness, greed, pride, and the injunction in 1 Tim 2:9 — 15 for women to keep silent and not have authority over men.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

The current controversy over women's place in worship and marriage can be healthy for the evangelical church, for only as a position is argued passionately and under pressure are its possibilities fully explored.

Because all of Scripture is culturally directed — i. e., because all of it was written for a particular situation and out of a particular context - the evangelical can not use the issue of culture to distinguish between arguments for women's place in marriage and her place in the church.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pe - dophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

Do you think the enthusiasm for Sarah Palin sends mixed messages to young evangelical women?

For the past few years I've been hearing a lot about gender roles as evangelicals debate the place of women in the home, church, and society.

As a woman whose opportunities for Christian leadership were severely limited by the conservative evangelical culture in which I was raised, blogging has given me a voice and a reach I would not have otherwise had, and I am so grateful for that.

Back in 2008 I wrote a post called «A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Polls» to address how surprised I was at the way Conservative Evangelical Christians were embracing the idea of a woman for Vice President while at the same time standing against women being ordained as pastors.

I've always wanted to find an american christian evangelical who believes and follows the quote — that women should hold no dominion over men — and ask them if they voted for McCain.

The only demographics that broke for Trump more than white evangelicals were Republican men (90 %), Republican women (89 %), and conservatives (81 %).

«This money is mandated for services for pregnant teens and women - violence prevention, vocational training,» said Carrie Gordon Earll, a spokeswoman for CitizenLink, the public policy arm of the evangelical group Focus on the Family.

(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedop - hiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, imams, married men / women), divorce for ad - ultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law) and the death penalty or life in prison for mur - der («Kings David and Henry VIII).

Some well - respected evangelical scholars think this means Paul did not permit a woman of that particular community to teach and dominate a man for selfish gain resulting in licentiousness (see recommended reading).

For example, at a breakfast conversation sponsored by the Emerging Women Leaders Initiative, women from main - line churches shared powerful words of hope and encouragement with evangelical women who struggle to have a voice in their traditWomen Leaders Initiative, women from main - line churches shared powerful words of hope and encouragement with evangelical women who struggle to have a voice in their traditwomen from main - line churches shared powerful words of hope and encouragement with evangelical women who struggle to have a voice in their traditwomen who struggle to have a voice in their traditions.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized / «stoned» as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, archbishop Brady) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

For example, among traditionalist evangelicals, men gave 85 percent of their vote to Dole, compared with 64 percent for women, a twenty - one point difference; comparable figures for traditionalist Catholics were 58 and 47 percent, respectiveFor example, among traditionalist evangelicals, men gave 85 percent of their vote to Dole, compared with 64 percent for women, a twenty - one point difference; comparable figures for traditionalist Catholics were 58 and 47 percent, respectivefor women, a twenty - one point difference; comparable figures for traditionalist Catholics were 58 and 47 percent, respectivefor traditionalist Catholics were 58 and 47 percent, respectively.

For example, I disagree with complementarian positions that limit the role of women in church leadership, but I don't think this puts me in the category of «revisionists» who are «open to questioning key evangelical doctrines on theology and culture,» as Belcher asserts on page 46.

Two years ago, Reed predicted evangelicals» demand for a bold outsider with a magnetic personality in an op - ed coauthored by evangelical communications strategist Joel C. Rosenberg and Concerned Women for America CEO Penny Nance.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedo - philiacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for ad - ultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, Cardinal Bevilacqua?

For instance, an acquaintance of mine on the national staff of a Protestant denomination was deeply disturbed when an evangelical conference on porn used a photo of a woman's naked breast among its examples — hardly a case of the material available in porn shops.

I am an evangelical Christian who lived in the Middle East and would regard myself as a feminist - especially for the sake of the oppressed women over there.

Though evangelical women have long been involved in political activism, including helping to lead the temperance movement and campaigning for and against women's right to vote, seeking the White House is a more recent and dramatic step.

In the past, evangelicals have been uncomfortable with women joining this conversation, but I think it's time for us to speak up.

Evangelicals committed to this cause care for the whole - life needs of the woman in crisis — from emotional support to job training to childcare to adoption services, as well as with a Gospel that can free us from guilt and shame.