Sentences with phrase «in positions of»

How do deal with judgemental, holy than thou personalities in positions of power?

But the question for me is, how to deal with the judgemental, holy than thou personalities, that are in these positions of power.

Many of the reformers had a deep distrust of women in any positions of power.

I am inspired by those men and women in positions of leadership that make the choices for people before profits — for instance, the businesses that provide adequate health care, maternity leave, sick leave and a living wage to their employees.

Moreover, persons in positions of trust can not legally have sex with a person under the age of 18 years.

There have always been lots of people who knew that the institutional Christianity was not the only way of following Jesus, but those who were in positions of power never gave these people a platform or a pulpit from which to speak.

In the meantime, talking about men being in positions of power and privelidge in response to expression my and my brothers mistreatment negating the suffereing we have been though and undemine our personal expereince.

For some reason, we tend to think that the people in positions of power, the people with titles, and the people who get their voice heard are the ones that God has blessed in this world.

But the increasing presence of women with feminist sympathies in positions of leadership in the church may open the way to more radical changes in due course.

It's the people in positions of power that use, corrupt and abuse religious doctrine to control the people.

This invited those engaged in government, business, education, arts and media, science and medicine, intergovernmental organizations and the organizations of civil society, as well as those in positions of religious and spiritual leadership, to «build new, reliable, and more imaginative partnerships towards the shaping of a better world.»

All atheists in positions of power have been mass murderers.

Feminist theology has contributed to gains by women in positions of leadership in the oldline Protestant denominations.

Language is indeed powerful, and not just for those in positions of authority.

At the same time as the focus of much interfaith activity has become more practical, those in positions of leadership in the political and economic spheres are both recognizing the importance of religion in shaping the modern world and acknowledging that there is a spiritual and ethical dimension to the major problems facing humankind.

Religious extremism in the hands of those in positions of power to motivate and control the uneducated and naive to do murderous acts is NOT the crime of an entire people.

We pray for the diplomats, and those in positions of influence trying to bring about an end to conflict, and for the «little people» children in schools, people who've been displaced, those who seemingly aren't involved in either side of this bloody war, but whose lives will never be the same again.

But once they have examined the models» poses, the contexts in which the models appear and the overall format of the magazine, they recognize that pornography does in fact degrade women, that it invariably shows women and not men in positions of submission and weakness.

As for Christians who drop from the path of Jesus» righteous teachings, proves they refuse to endure to the end (as all non-believers do) and opt for the easy way out in life due to peer pressure from you non-believers and instructors who are in positions of teaching them to do so.

Blacks in society, we are told, have a right to have role models in positions of leadership, and it therefore follows that homosexuals in the church have a right to role models in the form of openly gay popes, bishops, and priests.

I no longer have enough confidence in the positions of verbal - plenary inspiration and inerrancy to deny that it is possible some aspects of the Hebrew cultus were at first pagan — human methods of honoring gods turned to honor THE God.

In all the churches one hears seminary professors, bishops, and others in positions of oversight complain about candidates for ministry....

It looks like the behaviour of those in positions of authority (those in the gang) who say just enough to sound like they are replying, and yet don't reveal all they could.

In sector after sector of life — education, religion, politics, health care and policing — we assume that we should distrust those in positions of power and assume that self - interest is their primary motivator.

What can the average citizen do to insist on public responsibility of those in positions of power in television?

I love free speech but, those in positions of authority who advocate hate, bigotry and acts of violence against others should be held criminally accountable for what they say.

Boundaries like the Billy Graham Rule need not accuse women or vilify men, but rather to invite accountability for those in positions of authority, even as they perform the important and necessary duties of their position (which will include interacting with the opposite sex.)

If using the word elder vs. leader helps to remind those in these positions of the service and sacrifice that it requires then I think it is useful.

One of the tragedies of Christian history has been the way in which some in positions of leadership have sought to turn the great dynamic movement of Christian faith and living into an ignorant obscurantism.

People all over the world, both in positions of power and not, seem to believe that there is room for debate on the issues of climate change, humanity's involvement and the need to transition to a low - carbon future.

And there is, in fact, very little evidence that champions of ecclesial pluralism have bent over backwards to insure that their opponents are given a fair hearing on occasions of public debate, nor are they conspicuously tolerant or open - minded when they happen themselves to be in positions of extra-ecclesial authority — as journal editors, perhaps, or as deans of theology faculties.

Furthermore, how much of the recent scandal would the Church have avoided had bishops and priests in positions of authority in the 70's and 80's been better educated about psychology?

Women were to submit to men and never to be in positions of authority over men.

It has placed some very theologically inept people in positions of significant public influence based solely on their ability to pull a crowd.

Paul mentions females in positions of authority in his (authentic) letters, and early Christianity was unique in pagan antiquity in that it allowed everyone to sit at the table, regardless of ethnicity, sex, or status as slave or master.

Matthew 18 described how the community could live as a free congregation of brothers without having any members placed in positions of superiority and control, held together only by brotherly service, imposed upon all» (Schweizer, p. 398).

I am in favour of women being given equality of opportunity and as I have mentioned being treated equally when in positions of authority, including being critiqued equally to men holding similar positions.

He had some choice words for people who didn't, especially if they were in positions of authority.

It's also naiive to think that it is only those in positions of power that abuse.

Can I suggest something about power in it being about how power is used and as has been discussed before that it would be naiive to think that it is only people in positions of power tha abuse?

It's clear that Julie has been subjected to abominable treatment by men in positions of power, and that her attempts to expose the truth have been thwarted by those very same people.

* A «forgive only» approach when those in leadership sin usually leaves in positions of power those who may not be at all repentant and will continue to harm others.

For some in positions of power in the NFL and elsewhere, these questions are seldom even asked.

«As yet those thousands who carried out his orders remain at large often living in the same communities and in positions of responsibility.»

Of course, that's all nonsense, but some of those in positions of power will do their best to try to convince us otherwise.

I can see by your CV that you are used to being in positions of institutional authority.

Over the years, (I am now in my mid - 60's) I have had to leave 4 different churches because of issues of «bullying»... usually from those who were in positions of of great «power» Lay - leaders, Bishops, administrators, choir - «Masters», and even pastors and now my own Priest.

The point is not trying to force people to believe the same as the atheist; the point is to respect all people, allow them to live as they believe best, and do not allow people in positions of power or government to force their religious beliefs upon others.

two hundred - and - fifity in one archdiocese!?!?! I am not catholic, and therefore make no claims to specific knowledge of the religion nor those in positions of authority.

the manipulators did this, and the people in positions of power were controlled to do this, to keep people in fear and control, and to keep them from «waking up» and empowering themselves.