Sentences with phrase «of women pastors»

Her favorite topic was women in ministry, and she was always surprised to find how much resistance there could be to the idea of women pastors.

At least there are grounds for seeing in the implications of inclusive language — along with the unique effectiveness of women pastors — the seeds of renewal for mainline churches.

While I have championed the cause of women in ministry through the years, I've run across an inordinate number of women pastors whose demeanor was less than appealing (see Sister Marie's comment above).

Not exact matches

«These pastors were concerned about the possibility of no law passing that would protect the safety of women and children in bathrooms.»

The religious right are in the courts fightnig to cotrol women's reproductive rights, keep their pastors out of jail for se x ual misconduct, and for misappropriation of funds.

Verses fighting to control women's reproductive rights, fighting to keep their pastors out of jails for illicit se x ual conduct, fighting to protect their money... Gays are obviously walking in the Godly path and the religious right is going down the drain with the «ways of men.»

Women can be pastors, and president of the church council.

The religious right are in the courts fighting for control over women's reproductive rights, defending their pastors for illicit se x ual indiscretion and misappropriation of funds.

I hear from my minister (pastor) that the number of ordained ministers than are men and that are women in C of S is about 50/50.

With all this is mind, when a women takes the role of the pastor I would not necessarily call it wrong, just not ideal.

«In my faith community, popular women pastors such as Joyce Meyer were considered unbiblical for preaching from the pulpit in violation of the apostle Paul's restriction in 1 Timothy 2:12 («I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent»),

My brother attends a church in which a woman has been senior pastor since before the turn of the millennium.

It is completely false to claim the church is woman dominated until those ratios switch to 85 - 15 % in favor of female pastors.

«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.

And a pastor of a Baptist church in Colorado actually kicked me out of his car (and I'm a disabled woman veteran in a powerchair) after inviting me to Easter dinner with his family, because I refused to deny that Jesus came to me in that dream.

Second, women pastors may be more effective in dealing with the feminization of the local church which has taken place increasingly, and which troubles many mainline congregations.

A woman pastor can help the church recognize, in ways a man can not, that both men and women have been responsible for the growth and nurturing of sexism.

Some observers think that the feminization of the church, evident in the declining percentage of men taking part in church life, will be aggravated if inclusive language is employed or, worse, if a woman is called as pastor.

Afterward, a woman came up to me and said, «You're a pastor and you don't quickly trust people — that seems kind of backwards.

It's SO hard trying to see my mom remain strong when the PW, the woman who despises my mom, and two of the pastor's daughters are after her.

With these changes the only functions a licensed woman pastor can not perform are the formal organization of churches and the ordination of others.

I first felt the keen edge of the feminist critique many years ago at the hands of two exceedingly able and determined women who often shared a pew and a hymnbook in services at the church where I was pastor.

Besides Ez 34, as a point of evidence, I have also met so many men and women with «the heart of a pastor» encouraging, comforting, and working alongside of the forgotten societies: the homeless, the sick, the forgotten in nursing homes, the prisoners, the hungry and the needy....

However, by 1988 the constituencies of two conferences had become so impatient with the failure to reach agreement that they voted to permit women pastors to conduct both baptisms and marriages.

The pastor's statement to the young woman is, unfortunately, indicative of a widespread ignorance of biblical texts dealing both directly and indirectly with the subject of suicide.

If more women were pastors or preachers, we'd have a lot more sermons and books about the metaphors of birth and pregnancy connecting us to the story of God.

A memorial service will be held to remember two sons of a West Sussex pastor and a young woman who were killed in a helicopter crash in the Grand Canyon.

I do apologize because I do not have first hand proof of the affair that happened with an Emergent Pastor and the woman in his congregation nor the Mars Hill seminary student situation but it was told to me by a very reliable ground zero source and from the same source about both.

When I went to my pastor in search of pastoral care, he told me about my ex pursuing other women in the church.

It was receiving desperate emails from women whose husbands and pastors told them that submitting to abuse was part of their God - ordained role and who had nowhere else to turn because their church would shame them if they stepped forward and reported the abuse.

(Like when the biblical Esther is compared by a popular pastor to a contestant on «The Bachelor» when, in reality, she was one of hundreds of women forced into the king's harem!)

Like the part about women - blaming and shaming combined with the pastor digging up offenses from the past, referencing an emotional distance he feels from us as we leave, citing his own pastoral involvement and authority in the decisions of our lives up to this point, threatening to talk to the pastor of the church we're visiting to share his «concerns,» and suggesting that I'm just a weak mess of emotions and that's why I can't handle the life - sucking horror that has become sundays at this church.

We weren't demythologizing the Bible or playing down the blood or the cross of Jesus or the judgment of God (as Mark's logic would suggest these are interrelated with the ordination of women as pastors).

This woman, who was brought up by a strict holiness pastor, saw my beer and was instantly trying to figure out if I needed to be relieved of my church responsibilities.

One Sabbath service as the congregation in Newbury listened to the sermon of their pastor, the door burst open and in walked a young woman stark naked.

@Christian Terry — I hate to say this, but there are a lot of pastors out there who stand in front of their congregations and CELEBRATE the killings and the harassing of women and the rest as God's will.

«Sneakers, mohawk, several tats...» Sounds like 80 % of the newly - minted youth pastors out there these days, young women included.

A memorial service will be held to remember two sons of a West Sussex pastor and a young woman who were... More

To get a sense of Tiffany's point - of - view, check out one of the first entries in her blog, «Shouting From the Front: Reflections of a Disorderly Woman Pastor.»

«A Georgia woman named Nirvana Jenette claims she was kicked out of church for breastfeeding, the pastor ordering her to nurse the baby in the bathroom and calling her behavior «lewd,» comparing her to a stripper...»

Give me a church for women where there are nude pictures of men and the female Pastor says «Damn it» and the visitors are still in their benches, not praying for her but for themselves.

I am not a womens» pastor nor do I wish to be one nor do my current life priorities lend themselves to a season of busy vocational ministry.

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.

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People make a lot of assumptions about women pastors — that they have to be aggressively ambitious, that they can only survive in a liberal and urban environment, that they can't serve in Reformed churches, that they must devote all their work and writing to defending their call.

The week included a synchroblog that added many of your voices to the conversation, and the comment section that week was packed with its usual gems — from Hebrew scholars, to experts on Greco - Roman culture, to women pastors, to moms and dads who just want to make the Church a more hospitable environment for their daughters.

Both my pastor and my best girl friend in high school told me that in Genesis — when Isaac chose Jacob as his favored son and commanded him not to marry a Canaanite woman — we see evidence of God's desire to protect a certain racial order.

First, I will burn the most memorable sermon of my childhood, in which the pastor informed us that Jesus was standing on the necks of women to enforce proper behavior.

I was just sharing last night how a woman at my last church was talking about unconditional love in the face of her grandkids opening presents, but when she didn't hear the tried and true message from the previous pastor (who by the way was one of architects of the church's mission to «love God and love people unconditionally) that was a problem.

But what about men like my husband, or my pastor, or Scot, who are not threatened by the intelligent, thoughtful contributions of women in leadership?