Sentences with phrase «lay leadership»

Like so many other schools across the country, our transition to lay leadership started some time ago, and we are prepared.

They are encouraging women to prepare for and seek ordination, and they are trying to be open to considering women as well as men for positions of lay leadership.

The Christian Family Movement, which they led, was a powerful force of renewal for Catholic family life and lay leadership in the Church.

At diocesan urging, a Roman Catholic congregation sought to start a parish council that would institute the principles of local lay leadership advocated in the documents of Vatican II.

To the great shame of the Catholic lay leadership of Boston.

Close behind were conflicts with staffers, differences over a new building or renovation, changes in music and congregational programs, and lay leadership styles.

The Pennsylvania School Boards Association is a nonprofit statewide association of public school boards, pledged to the highest ideals of local lay leadership for the public schools of the commonwealth.

Can the churches enlarge the ranks of the clergy while maintaining the present high level of lay leadership?

I tire of church leaders (both pastors and lay leadership) who feel the need to control every ministry anyone feels led to take up.

In part this lay leadership reflects the absence of any fixed tradition to be transmitted and defended by «inside» specialists.

Here the church may lend its official public support; supply monies; provide clerical and lay leadership, volunteers, and facilities to programs aimed at redressing social problems in the community which are contributory factors in producing mental illness.

When it was about to die in the late 50s, they decided to start doing things differently — lay leadership, challenging theology, real adult education centered on life issues — rather than eliciting statements of faith, etc..

In terms of lay leadership, the picture is even grimmer.

I hold a lay leadership position at my church so I'm fully aware of the struggle churches face about what to do with those outside the «family» demographic.

i've come to realize that i'm more angry with myself than the institution, including the lay leadership.

Having seen the «dark side» I've thought of writing a series of articles that consist of interviews of those who have voluntarily left the megas (either pastoral staff, administrative staff or lay leadership) or who have been discharged because they were no longer useful.

Gerard Coyne's latest outburst is not an attack on myself as much as on our lay leadership and rank - and - file.

Leadership of the Collective comprises the scientific and lay leadership of these collaborating organizations.

This is especially true today of Catholic school searches, since many of these institutions are undergoing enormously threatening (and promising) transitions — from religious to lay leadership, from mission - inspired to vision - driven strategies, from operational to entrepreneurial leadership, from a culture of entitlement and security to a culture of competitiveness and risk.