Critics of institutional religion who find all church members false and empty but all thieves generous, all drunks lovable and all hookers deeply spiritual heap
upon the woman of Samaria both praise and sympathy.
In your Author's Note, you write about accidentally stumbling
upon Women of Royaumont: A Scottish Women's Hospital on the Western Front in a library.
Not exact matches
She was looking for a
women's resale shop concept when Winmark, the Minneapolis - based franchisor
of Once
Upon A Child, announced its launch
of Style Encore.
When thousands
upon thousands
of politically minded
women needed a makeshift symbol for their movement at January's anti-Trump
women's marches held worldwide, they reached into
When thousands
upon thousands
of politically minded
women needed a makeshift symbol for their movement at January's anti-Trump
women's marches held worldwide, they reached into their craft closets and took up an old skill: knitted pink «pussy hats» became the must - have accessories.
Unilever, the parent company
of dozens
of household brands such as Dove, stopped producing ads featuring gender stereotypes in 2016
upon determining that a mere 2 percent
of all ads feature intelligent
women, 3 percent show
women in positions
of power and 1 percent portray
women with a sense
of humor, Fortune reports.
It's always well to impress
upon older
women the importance
of friendliness and courtesy.
Sturgeon, an ardent advocate for
women's rights, has prioritized having a gender - balanced cabinet and argues that the future
of the
women's movement relies
upon improving the affordability
of childcare.
As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects
of poverty and illiteracy, especially
upon women and children.
Secondly, the World Bank's Trade and Competitiveness group also just published a policy note entitled, Supporting Growth - Oriented
Women Entrepreneurs: A Review
of Evidence and Key Challenges, which draws
upon and synthesizes existing research from within and outside the Bank.
Symbolic changes —
women in the Cabinet, female Imperial succession: Lastly, we address the element
of policy perhaps least quantifiable in advance, which is the potential impact
of role models
upon female participation.
Sura (4) 34 «Men are the vigilant custodians
of women, because
of what Allah has endowed
upon the one over the other, in that they spend from their means.
Now please take some
of those others with you... say 2 million... go back to your backwards countries where you can beat
women and children, abuse young girls and blow each other up... you are scourge
upon the earth
When I learned the law
of head - covering at a Jerusalem seminary for
women, I was horrified that I would have to bind up my head
upon marriage; all clothing was a concession, and I conceded as little as permissible.
Leviticus 20, verse 13 13: If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a
woman, both
of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be
upon them.
Knowing that she, a Western
woman, has not been sub-jected to that cr - uel am - p - u-tation which Islam forces
upon millions
of Muslim
women, some males may even imagine that she must feel s - e-xual de-sire for them.
Moreover, a sense
of hope was renewed in me
upon reading the message from Georgetown President DeGioia, who boldly stood up not just for a fellow student, but for all
women.
Yes, because the Pope is far less trustworthy than pharmaceutical companies that have convinced otherwise healthy
women that they need to be dependent
upon their products for the whole
of their reproductive life.
Think
of a
woman, together with her children, totally dependent economically
upon a man who is not her husband.
in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name
of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing
upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with
women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values
of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the
women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance
of women, and
women in the home, he wanted all married men to have thier own wife, in those days
of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work
of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards
Causing the death
of an unborn child is in the Bible, for in the Bible at Exodus 21, it says that «in case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant
woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have damages imposed
upon him without fail according to what the owner
of the
woman may lay
upon him; and he must give it through the justices.
The plan calls
upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements
of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered
women and the men who abuse them.
Yet God covers our actions in His own blood, so that every time God looks like a lying, murderous, baby - killing,
woman - raping bastard, it is because God has taken the burden
of human sin
upon His shoulders, and borne it away
upon His body into death.
When we realize that Marilla had loved John Blythe once
upon a time, the series portrays our Marilla as a
woman — not the caricature
of a cold spinster.
Jones reminds
women that theirs is always an «implicated resistance» to all gender constructions, and warns about the «arrogant triumphalism»
of declaring oneself innocent
of projecting false identity - constructions
upon others.
To look
upon those prayer wheels not (as some
of us were taught) as instruments
of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs
of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place
of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful
woman as her own act
of participation in the prayers
of the church.
Hamed Shafia, his father, Mohammed, and his mother, Tooba Mohammed Yahya, were sentenced to life in prison for murder, with Judge Robert Maranger excoriating their «twisted notion
of honor, a notion
of honor that is founded
upon the domination and control
of women, a sick notion
of honor that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.»
The Syrians would be punished for a ruthless massacre; the Philistines for playing jackal to Edom; the Phœnicians for a breach
of treaty; the Edomites for attacking a kindred and friendly people; the Ammonites for slaughtering
women and children in a wanton war
of aggression; the Moabites for a brutal outrage
upon the corpse
of the conquered King
of Edom.
And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall
upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one
of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a
woman, and brought her unto the man.
No more and no less than men, we as
women are dependent
upon the mercy
of God in Christ.
I squirmed on the couch when, during the 2012 Democratic National Convention, cheers erupted
upon every mention
of a
woman's «right to choose.»
... Except the pill is made from the same hormones found naturally in a
woman's body, same with the patch, same with Deprovera, and the RCC certainly DOES frown
upon any and ALL forms
of birth control.
Brave aviators dropped bombs
upon women and children, and learned chemists explained the virtues
of poison gas.
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»!)
Terrible Queen Jezebel
of the Old Testament was a warning to
women in my circles, the death knell for any
woman in leadership, carrying the accusations and implications
of female bitterness, manipulation, emasculation, power, idol - worshipping, hyper sexuality, layers
upon layers
of pet sins encapuslated in one
woman's ancient story
of Israel.
30 When the king heard the words
of the
woman he rent his clothes — now he was passing by
upon the wall — and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth beneath
upon his body — 31 and he said, «May God do so to me, and more also, if the head
of Elisha the son
of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today.»
And it was there in the warm South Seas — the other side
of the world from the city where men like Fly were «pent up in lath and plaster, tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks» — that at age twenty - three he found Nature's own paradise on an island in the Marquesas and in the arms
of a
woman he fictionalized as «Fayaway» in Typee (1846), the scandalous first novel he wrote
upon his return.
In the presentation, I mentioned that
upon reading the story
of Joshua and the Battle
of Jericho for myself, I realized it was a story about genocide, with God commanding Joshua to kill every man,
woman, and child in the city for the sole purpose
of acquiring land.
I've received countless emails from
women who,
upon reading about the original intent
of Proverbs 31 in A Year
of Biblical Womanhood, report that for the first time in their lives, they no longer feel that they are falling short
of some sort
of impossible standard
of womanhood.
In Christ's teaching enormous stress is laid
upon the way in which men and
women treat one another, and the whole concept
of a human being is raised in value because he is declared to be a loved and valued son
of God.
I think the reason why I asked the question
of you is partly because
of the fundamentalist background I came from which places value on
women based
upon their child rearing, homekeeping, and service roles, basically serving men.
If only born - again Christians go to heaven, then the piles
of suitcases and bags
of human hair displayed at the Holocaust Museum represent thousands
upon thousands
of men,
women, and children suffering eternal agony and the hands
of angry God.
We give thanks that Jesus bestowed
upon him 55 years
of marriage to the
woman he loved — a
woman who could match him at every step, and even hold him accountable.
Lev 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a
woman, both
of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be]
upon them.
One young
woman asked me this question with tears streaming down her face, for she had been made to feel small and worthless by churches like these, and she lived in fear that thousands
upon thousands
of women were experiencing the same thing and there was nothing she could do to stop it.
Those
of us who believe that human flourishing depends
upon the recognition and honoring
of marriage as exclusively the union
of a man and a
woman see this transformation
of marriage into something radically different as a grave threat to human society and human happiness.
Leviticus 20:13 — If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a
woman, both
of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be]
upon them.
A
woman's right to choose opens
upon the necessity
of choosing one
of competing interpretations
of the meaning or sanctity
of life — thence, actually, to become dependent
upon it.
umm... In Rev 12 the scripture speaks about a sign in the heavens... Rev 12 1And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a
woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and
upon her head a crown
of twelve stars: 2And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
What about men who enjoy and appreciate partnerships with
women and whose sense
of calling and security is not dependent
upon my subjugation?