Sentences with phrase «male pastors»

The research leads to the clear conclusion that the more highly a church values management skills, the greater the likelihood of its strong preference for male pastors.

This is what she needs: We need male pastors to take a few minutes to stand up for abuse victims in the church by helping with a promotional video.

Male pastors never wonder if they were passed over for a job because of their gender.

Established male pastors worry about how they will measure up when compared with exceptionally able women.

Where each local church is free to call its own pastor, pressures to change common preferences for male pastors must be indirect.

I don't think that she finds the fact that people in their 20's and 30's are going to churches led by male pastors disturbing: It's that they're attending churches where a female pastor would not even be an * option *.

On the first Sunday of the new urban campus, the white male pastor who had zero urban ministry experience, brashly declared to the mostly black audience, «This ain't your grandmomma's church.»

Women's need for male pastors who can be «safe» male friends is an indictment of a society in which the skills for friendship with persons of both sexes are rarely taught, and in which few people expect to have close friends of both sexes, especially after they marry.

*** ESPECIALLY MALE PASTORS!

«I'm having trouble finding male pastors (and survivors) to be willing to do this.

Here are male pastors talking about abuse.

What if Clare Fergusson were a single male pastor (say, a Southern Baptist) having regular lunch dates with a married woman in his church and whispering double - entendres into the telephone?

In my 40 years in lay ministries, all the disgrace brought to Christianity by pastors in my area [and probably in western culture] have done by male pastors.

Even more troubling, I've found that many white male pastors and seminary students have an even harder time admitting that these privilege and power issues exist in the church and are even perpetuated by the church.»

Yes, there are some kooky female pastors but the same is said for male pastors.

When I objected, this then lead to difficulty with the male pastor, events escallated fomr there which resulted fomr me leaving.

I have no problem attending a church with a male pastor.

In the church I currently attend (male pastor but very open to female pastors) the numbers are about equal.

Women become more and more reluctant to report beatings, especially to a male pastor, when they believe the violence stems from their failure to be a perfect girlfriend, wife or mother.

We Lutherans have our own sex scandals though they rarely make the press because they usually involve a male pastor and a female parishioner.

All she needs is some male pastors to take a couple of seconds to help contribute to her video.

Especially if you are a male pastor.

In my experience, single adult females fell under the «leadership» of the male pastor, who heavily influenced our view of sexuality and ourselves, with what their view was (which, as the pastor, was of course biblically sound).

Male pastors need to admit that they get to «just do their job» while female pastors only get to do their job after they've proven that they should be given an opportunity to do so.»

Male pastors are significantly more likely to be selected to pastor large churches.

Colleague of mine, a pastor who is expecting a child, had a male pastor come up to her at a conference and ask to lay hands on her belly and bless her unborn child.

As Wilkin pointed out, while most evangelical women know their Tim Kellers from their Rick Warrens, male pastors aren't expected to parse female teachers.

As more and more women have entered the workforce, male pastors are increasingly constrained by the needs of their wives» professional lives.

In one survey, over 50 percent of the male pastors spent ten or fewer hours per week with their families.

There was a story here a year or so ago about how black women churchgoers tended to have crushes on their male pastors, I believe, and a lot of women can have the same thing said about their love of Jesus.

This is most evident in the interaction between a male pastor and older women, particularly those who have been widowed or who for other reasons live alone and socialize primarily with, other women.

They have the same pay scale as male pastors and can function in almost every way the male pastor can.

A white male pastor, on the other hand, can easily ignore such dynamics, although they are no less present when he preaches.

The mothers in the book depend on the church for much of their social and spiritual activities and in turn drive the wheels of the institution, while the congregation as a whole is lead by a male pastor.

But what usually happens, almost 100 % of the time, the pastor's spouse looks at him (in this case it's usually a male pastor) and says something like:

Playing to type, in the North Dakota political battle over the «new and improved» Measure 6, the only active vote for a presumption for shared parenting in this U.S. election cycle, the group running the opposition campaign is all lawyers plus a male pastor and a female domestic violence advocate — and they seem to be using State Bar resources to oppose the legislation.