Sentences with phrase «to ordain women»

Until his retirement, you've been under the Bishop of London, who doesn't ordain women as priests.

While the pope appeared to open one door Monday, he dismissed the possibility of ordaining women as priests.

The EPC has created space for ordaining women as teaching and ruling elders by declaring the issue as a «matter of indifference» and thus a second - order doctrine.

With the overabundance of clergy, with the church's current acceptance of the novelty without coming to terms with the reality, and with the likelihood of a backlash from the laity, we can expect to have a large group of angry ordained women in the near future.

Our Baptist denomination ordains women for all positions including Senior Pastor.

The Church of England did not begin ordaining women priests until 1994.

PRIMEWONK — if the Catholic Church ordained women, you'd join?

Many African denominations ordain women, oppose sexism and generally support equal opportunities for women in all arenas.

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

When I asked Alan Jacobs, a lay catechist at All Souls and an English professor at Wheaton, about women in ministry, he defended Sausele's ordination with another mention of Spong: «I don't have any problem with ordaining women.

Ten of the twelve presbyteries in the EPC have already ordained women teaching elders.

Mike K, just because you've never been told that God ordained a woman to preach doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Since the 70's, at least, the mainline denominations have ordained women quite regularly, but it was still rough for them to get an appointment as a senior pastor.

Even churches that ordain women believe that men are superior.

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.

But the Reform movement has been ordaining women since 1972, and I grew up knowing that women could be rabbis if we wanted to.

Will its adherents ordain women — and do it on better grounds than TEC did?

I remember well the witness of the late Rev. Dr. Susan Cole - King, one of the Church of England's first ordained women.

The Lambeth Conference, in 1978, had already resolved that it was acceptable for member churches to ordain women if they chose.

Certainly, it has been one of the sorrier aspects of North American Anglicanism that leading ordained women have been so roundly and predictably revisionist.

Two years after the Methodists ordained women, the Anglican Church also changed its rules and allowed female priests.

Most denominations connected to the Wesleyan Holiness movement ordain women, as do many Pentecostal groups.

Because, more and more Churches in several denominations are ordaining more gay and lesbian clergy... heck ordaining women for that matter.

It would also be unkind to say that the ordination of women is demanded to show women their full participation in Church and humanity alike, for churches that do not ordain women still embrace them as sisters in the faith, and Christian women have managed for many centuries without admission to the altar

Seldom are ordained women placed in full charge of a local church, save in some small town and rural congregations that can not afford or find a man.

Similarly, Paul's command that women remain silent in church (I Corinthians 14:33 b - 36) has made ordaining women impossible until recently.

The United Methodist Church recently held a conference for ordained women aimed at breaking the «stained - glass ceiling» in the denomination.

God never ordained a woman to preach; there's no such birthday of Christ as December 25th; Easter is a practice brought in by the Roman Emporer, in concert with the Roman Catholic Pope @ the Council of Nicea in 325 A. D. Parents still teach their children «the Christmas Lie».

We license them as pastors, but not ordain women yet.

Senior pastors who are resigning or retiring can encourage that possibility by advising church leaders to explore the names of ordained women as potential candidates for filling the positions.

This is why I demur slightly from the approach taken by many faithful friends, who insist, for example, that they care not a whit whether the Church ordains women to the priesthood or not; they are open to whatever the prophet should reveal on such a question.

The Church in Wales has announced new measures to ordain women as bishops while «making everyone feel valued in the Church, regardless of their views on the issue».

Common Cause churches speak of women's ordination as an issue on which they can agree to disagree, but AMIA's stance against ordaining women has, if anything, grown stauncher.

After his appointment, he told Dagens Nyheter he would not hesitate to report to the police priests who refuse to work with ordained women.

A similar issue of tension does not exist with the ILC since, like the Roman Catholic Church, the churches of the International Lutheran Council do not ordain women.

On the other hand, ordained women in ACNA and in other evangelical churches may well decide that their own vocations are better pursued back within Church of England - related Anglican churches, and one may see a strengthening of conservative female leadership there.

Although some free - church denominations have been ordaining women for over 100 years, they have done little to help place women in other than small, out - of - the - way and marginal pastorates.

Kolini has ordained women priests in Rwanda for years.

We do not share the understanding of the Church and church order, especially as the Protestants, unlike the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, ordain women.»

As Wasmuth explains, «The simple and crucial difference is that ordaining women is not recognized in Orthodox churches, while in most Lutheran churches it is not only recognized but already practiced.»

They need to ordain women and accept gays in the church in order to survive.

One of the benefits of being an ordained woman is that there is never a line up for the washroom at our clergy gatherings

I'll continue attending a Protestant church that ordains women and disdains totalitarian male dominated «leadership.»

I'm not sure what is meant by «the nature of the papacy,» but it is hard to know how a «faithful» Catholic can reject the Magisterium's consistent and emphatically repeated teaching on the inseparability of the unitive and procreative dimensions of marriage or the Church's inability to ordain women to the priesthood.

Some congregations began to ordain women as elders even though the issue had not been officially addressed.