Sentences with phrase «including ordination»

The stance of conditional acceptance is that all rights should be accorded homosexuals, including ordination, but they draw the line with public displays of gay affection and they would not be happy with a gay spouse in the vicarage.

As an added bonus, a sheet was folded and stuffed into the back of this codex which gave detailed minutes of a church business meeting which included the ordination service of Titus» successor as senior pastor of Crete after God called Titus to a larger church nearby.

Not exact matches

It is having to confront its growing international character and certain leadership issues that won't go away — including women's ordination.

Chapters are uneven: Chapter 13 on liturgy is only two and a half pages long and that includes the footnotes; the following chapter on the Sacrament of Ordination is some 50 pages long and has no less than four separate summaries.

COI is protestant in that it greatly differing theological views from the RCC (including Eucharistic practices, the ordination of married men women and openly gay men / women, lack of confessionals, or holy water, and the liturgy is quite different as well).

Questions have been asked about the consistency of The Rev. Vosper in regard to her public statements as opposed to her public professions of faith and belief at the time of her ordination and every single time she was covenanted into a new pastoral relationship, including in 1997 with her current congregation.

Five of the essays — including the title essay as well as «Women, Ordination, and Angels» and «An Apology for Democratic Capitalism» — are drawn from the pages of this magazine.

This raises the conventional litany of dissent, including items such as the ordination of women and the moral acceptance of homosexual acts.

A celebration of 100 years of female ordination, including profiles of the «Wonder Women» who are changing the UK Church.

It therefore seems highly inappropriate, both ecclesiastically and theologically speaking, to make a similar appeal today solely in order to question the validity of Protestant ordination and sacramental ministry, including the integrity of the Lord's Supper.

Conservative factions in the Anglican Communion, a 77 million - member denomination worldwide that includes the Episcopal Church, have opposed the ordination of gay bishops.

An absence of this virtue of faith would seem to be illustrated by another recent Tablet editorial (14 April, «Listen to the People») which affirms: «Disobedience, in theory, includes a rejection of the arguments... against the ordination of women.

Feminine theology calls for an end to all authoritarian models of truth — including the model of the ordained minister or priest, for «ordination» means accepting the authority of the traditional Christian framework and being licensed to carry on that tradition.

A while back Sister and I were on a television program discussing the state of the Church, including women's ordination.

However, in practice most priestly functions are commonly exercised by the presbyter, only certain special rights, including the crucial privilege of ordination, being reserved to the bishop.

Conservative Judaism, in contrast, opted to remove all religious distinctions between the sexes, including the elimination of the barrier separating men's and women's sections in the synagogue and the stricture on the ordination of women as rabbis.

A lesson on the ordination of women, Including a sorting activity with arguments associated with the Catholic church and the Church of England, use of images to discuss Jesus» relationship with women and important women in the Bible (Eve and Mary) and finally links to news reports on Women Bishops.

He was sometimes a tough critic of humanity and its institutions, including the Catholic Church, despite his ordination as a priest in 1942 (see his discussion of population in this Appalachian Voices interview).

In the case of the clergy resume shown, the job applicant included relevant information regarding his ordination.