Sentences with phrase «of evangelical women»

She speaks to sold - out crowds of evangelical women through IF: Gathering, Women of Faith, and the Belong tour.

The women's ministry leader was responding to the wave of Christian reactions to news that LifeWay Christian Stores had stopped selling books by Hatmaker — one of the biggest writers and speakers among today's generation of evangelical women — after she spoke out in support of same - sex marriage.

Elizabeth Nordquist, who has headed the southwest chapter of the Evangelical Women's Caucus, offered valuable suggestions, as did Mary Ellen Godfrey, who holds to a more traditional posture concerning women's roles.

She recalled the experience of an evangelical woman telling her about the daily «prayer journal» she kept.

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According to reports, the man, an Evangelical Christian, converted a Saudi woman in her 20s to Christianity and spirited her out of the country to Lebanon.

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?)

His early religious outlook was colored by the evangelical Baptist faith of his parents and a Calvinist theology of predestination - the belief that the fate of all men and women had been predetermined by God, PBS.org said of Lincoln in its «God in America» series.

A candidate isn't going to get anywhere with most conservative evangelicals if they support a woman's right to chose, or if the candidate supports strict separation of church and state, and maybe even opposition to teaching Creationism is going to lose their vote.

«Once again, expressions of Christian faith that honor the rights of women to choose their own health care options and what happens to their bodies are not seen or heard,» wrote the Rev. Barbara Kershner Daniel, who pastors the Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ of Frederick, Maryland, in a message that she circulated via email.

Mother's Day struck a resonant chord in the culture - with all those unnerved by women's suffrage and urban migration, with Protestants long familiar with the maternal ideals of evangelical womanhood, with business leaders (especially florists) who were quick to see the commercial potential, with politicians who still regularly voiced the Enlightenment precept that virtuous mothers were the essential undergirding of the republic in nurturing sons to be responsible citizens.

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.

The purpose of my project was to unpack and explore the phrase «biblical womanhood» — mostly because, as a woman, the Bible's instructions and stories regarding womanhood have always intrigued me, but also because the phrase «biblical womanhood» is often invoked in the conservative evangelical culture to explain why women should be discouraged from working outside the home and forbidden from assuming leadership positions in the church.

David Johnston, author of Earth, Empire and Sacred Text, Christine Schirrmacher, a scholar with the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and Joseph Cumming, director of the reconciliation program at Yale Divinity School, discuss whether Christians should support laws that ban Muslim women from wearing the face veil in public.

I also hear from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant churches precisely because they welcome LGBT people, accept scientific findings regarding climate change and evolution, practice traditional worship, preach from the lectionary, affirm women in ministry, etc., but these new attendees never hear the leadership of the church explain why this is the case.

Driscoll's comments rightfully drew some fire and I believe he eventually apologized, but I fear that the sentiment behind these remarks — that the Bible holds women to a certain standard of beauty that must be maintained throughout all seasons of life — remains pervasive within certain sectors of the conservative evangelical community.

Today evangelicals tend to support legislation restricting the freedom of pregnant women to have abortions.

I have had the experience of the pious Catholic lady from central casting, with the Irish or Italian or Polish name, the daily Mass - going, novena - saying, rosary - collecting woman of stereotype who will suddenly say, «Evangelicals know their Bible!»

Slightly more than half (54 %) of white evangelicals, according to the Pew Research Center study, favor completely overturning the 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman's right to have an abortion.

His argument in past articles that it is a good thing that the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ordains women flies in the face of church unity, orthodoxy, and good theological thinking.

18 % of all abortions are performed on women who identify themselves as «Born - again / Evangelical».

«Grace Community Church, an evangelical church of 6,000 worshipers just north of Indianapolis, reversed their position and came out in favor of women's leadership at all levels this weekend in their public worship services.»

The stubborn commitment to abstinence - only education among many evangelicals struck me as counterproductive to the cause, and those awful statements about how a raped woman has a «way of shutting that whole thing down» to prevent pregnancy were shameful and ignorant.

One of my goals in writing A Year of Biblical Womanhood was to help evangelicals «take back» Proverbs 31 as a blessing, not a to - do list, by identifying and celebrating women of valor.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

I certainly appreciate your confidence in me, but here's the thing: There's a double - standard out there in which a woman's critique of patriarchy tends to get discounted as nothing more than the rants of an «angry feminist,» and, truth be told, I've grown a bit weary of hearing that charge each time I speak out about this disturbing trend in the evangelical church.

Balmer's chapter on feminism and femininity shows why evangelicals have been nervous about feminism and have advocated female submission, and at the same time have been preoccupied with «a particular kind of idealization of women,» especially those who stay at home and tend the hearth.

As I have celebrated the leadership of early evangelical women, while speaking at evangelical colleges, not everyone has been terribly pleased.

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.

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.

Early evangelical women contributed to one of the greatest expansions of Christian faith in all of history.

I also hear from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant churches precisely because they welcome LGBT people, accept science, avoid aligning with a single political party, practice traditional worship, preach from the lectionary, affirm women in ministry, etc. but these new attendees never hear the leadership of the church explain why this is the case.

i knew in my heart it was the right thing but i was terrified to not have the fallback of him being in charge of me somehow, the only model i knew as an evangelical woman.

I often hear from women who feel lost in our evangelical construct of what the godly woman looks like.

If Piper really wants to protect women, he might start by confronting some of America's most vocal abuse apologists these days: evangelical Christians.

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).

43 % of women obtaining abortion identify themselves as Protestant, and 27 % as Catholic; and 13 % of abortion patients describe themselves as born - again or Evangelical Christians.

Many evangelicals are beginning to grasp the fact, that certain ways of reading the Scriptures and certain doctrines about the Scriptures may actually become the means of oppression of modern women by the imposition of first century social patterns.

Though the vast majority of Americans and evangelicals are comfortable with women serving in leadership roles in businesses and in political capacities, opinions about ministry are very different.

She is author of God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission, forthcoming from the University of California Press.

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.

That Was the Church That Was (I think I can reveal without causing any grave difficulties to anyone) is dominated by factional differences between evangelical conservatives and liberal Catholics, by office politics, by money troubles, and by struggles over homosexuality and over the ordination of women.

On the issue of women, evangelical theologians must give more attention to hermeneutical concerns.

The issue of women's place in the church and family provides us another illustration of the general problem facing the evangelical church in America today.

While debate over the understanding of Biblical interpretation lies at the heart of current evangelical discussions concerning women, differences in theological tradition lie at the center of discussions over social ethics, and disagreement over one's approach toward the wider secular culture is surfacing as the focus of controversy regarding homosexuality.