Sentences with phrase «woman clergy»

If a woman pastor arrives at retirement age with her pastoral identity intact, she will likely become a revered model for the next generation of women clergy.

Consequently the burn - out and drop - out rate for women clergy runs high.

Now let me turn to some counseling issues I have encountered with women clergy.

He also encouraged those on different sides of the debate on women clergy to be more mindful of each other.

These trends may enable women clergy to make a unique contribution to the pastoral role.

Women clergy often notice that people are overly concerned with how they sound and how they look.

Furthermore, women clergy seeking their second placements are often limited geographically because of their husband's job, or they may be limited because they have or want to have children.

But it remains a special problem for women clergy.

Even other women clergy sometimes begrudge sharing the limelight with another woman.

Rivalry is a powerful reality in the lives of many women clergy.

Significant numbers of women clergy now see opposition to their intellectual positions as ineradicably linked to right - wing Christianity or as inextricably tied to a backlash on the part of white male members in the church.

We are to judge no longer by human standards — for example, claiming that women West Pointers or women clergy who operate just like their male counterparts represent a true victory.

Negative attitudes toward the idea of women as senior pastors are well documented in Edward C. Lehman, Jr.'s, sociological study Women Clergy: Breaking Through Gender Barriers (Transaction, 1985) The author analyzed detailed responses from 1,720 Presbyterian lay - people and 1,143 Presbyterian clergy concerning a wide range of attitudes toward women in ministry.

I have known women clergy all my life.

Although unhappy spouses are as much a part of the world of female clergy as they are of male clergy, married women clergy are not subject to the same level of financial stress as their male colleagues.

But we can expect laypersons who are informed theologically to come forth with some strong theological statements for and against women clergy, making for a lively debate after the fact.

The advent of women clergy requires re-evaluation of policies and theology regarding sexual behavior between the sexes and with the same sex.

For the same reasons, divorced and widowed women clergy sometimes gain credibility from the fact that they once were married (and had / have children).

Women clergy work very consciously on the interrelationship between their private lives and their roles as ministers.

Just as women bishops were inevitable once the general synod voted to allow the ordination of women clergy back in 1992, so, too, it should be a short journey of logic for the Lib Dems to realise that supporting a right - wing Tory government leads to VAT hikes, benefit cuts and scorched earth public services.

On titles for women clergy, Forum Letter, December 2000.

The church's experience with women clergy and with the «minister's husband» has seemingly not yet provided us with enough data to permit us to generalize about the problems unique to those marriages — or to produce stereotypes that need to be unlearned!

We're open and affirming to GLBTQ folk; we have many women clergy; we think that science and religion can and should be part of intelligent dialogue; and we believe that politics should support the common good.

Perhaps the enabling leadership of a movement for disarmament and against war and violence will be discovered among the increasing numbers of women clergy.

Churches have women clergy because they are left - leaning (right - leaning ones tend not to admit them because the right tends not to believe in equality for women)-- they are not left - leaning because they have women clergy (not all women lean left — as this blog often demonstrates).

Beyond these typical challenges, several are emerging as unique to women clergy.

The experience of the first rite of passage for the women clergy I have talked with varies from the male experience in the following ways: The young woman is likely to have a similar inner experience of a mystical «call,» or in some other way feel led to make a conscious decision to train for the ministry.

We find that women clergy, especially young ones, seek approval from a significant male.

So far we have found that women clergy are tending to imitate the male tradition.

Without necessarily seeking to do so, women clergy are presenting some serious questions about the nature of Christian vocation.