Sentences with phrase «women from»

I heard a journalist from the Vatican on the news yesterday saying that the next pope is going to have to draw a line in the sand to prevent women from getting ordained and voting, etc., while at the same time make women feel that they are still a part of the church.

Most of the time, people are referring to the bits and pieces of the Epistles, written largely by Paul — also by Peter and some other folks — and saying there's cases and scenarios in which the apostle Paul discourages women from leadership.

Since women from this particular area seldom come to the Center for help, it was decided to take the Center to them.

And for all its claim to fashionable multiculturalism («Women from the dominant culture, class, and ethnic group — especially in the United States — need to be careful not to generalize our experience as that of all women,» writes Ringe), the book is laughably parochial, designed strictly for Americans.

But if there was a situation in which forbidding women from leading would be an impediment, he would be like, let the women lead.

Ironically, there are complementarian churches that forbid women from reading Scripture aloud in church, even Scripture like Miriam's song, Deborah's song, the reflections of the Shulamite girl in Song of Songs, the Prayer of Hannah in 1 Samuel 2:1 - 10, and, of course, the Magnificat — all of which reflect the thoughts and ideas of women.

Again, how ironic that some complementarian churches forbid women from reading Scripture aloud in church when a woman may very well have been the first person to read the book of Romans aloud!

The modern argument goes: women from their function as childbearers have to lose the personal freedom and career mobility of males, of men.

Imagine the men from the fields and the women from the houses leaving their tasks to edge toward the circle forming around Jesus and, naturally, bringing their staffs and brooms with them.

(For more on why Jesus» choosing of the twelve male disciples should not exclude women from leadership see Daniel Kirk's post, «On Jesus Choosing Twelve Males»)

I went of to name several strong women from mostly Old Testament stories who had great impact on the lives of others, although there are also some great women in the NT.

It's hard to argue that Paul's statements there are meant to be universally applied when so many women from scripture are honored by God and praised by their community for teaching and exercising leadership.

A model of arbitration was set up in which the women from warring sides of a conflict would arbitrate the dispute, with the women from the aggrieved nation defining the situation, while the women from the aggressor nation would accept and announce this criticism of their own government.

In the nineteenth - century first - person accounts in Pioneer Women, by Joanna Stratton, are some harrowing tales of what it was like for well - brought - up women from New York and Pennsylvania and Ohio to give up everything and move to the Kansas frontier.

It adds: «Our babes are the dreamers, believers and doers who represent our customers, brand advocates and iconic women from all shades of life and creative expression.»

For example, at a breakfast conversation sponsored by the Emerging Women Leaders Initiative, women from main - line churches shared powerful words of hope and encouragement with evangelical women who struggle to have a voice in their traditions.

Both men and women must be converted to this single ideal, they believed — men from their socialization in patterns of violence and women from their socialization in timidity and acquiescence to unjust social patterns.

Women would greatly benefit from studying these strong women from the bible.

The same Christian principle that forbids women from becoming ministers or priests?

Her 1982 book, In a Different Voice, is an academic version of men are from Mars, women from Venus.

... The exclusion of women from official ministry positions leaves women generally under the impression that there is something wrong with them.

I used to think it was the old European women from three or four generations back that had religion and superst.ition fed to them in equal amounts — even some as recent as my mother's generation with the nuns» stories about lying before communion and having their tongue fall out of their mouths, or having the stone lions in front of the protestant church come to life and eat them or having the earth open up and swallow them because they didn't go to confession.

We can reasonably infer there were also around 600,000 women from the eleven tribes and another approximately 20,000 females over the age of one month from the tribe of Levi.

Our age has become sensitive to the injustice of excluding women from decision - making roles in worship life.

In these areas Chrisitianity is doing battle to rescue men and women from Satan's grip at a great personal sacrifice.

The Day I Met Jesus: The Revealing Diaries of Five Women from the Gospels by Frank Viola and Mary Demuth

O Mankind wake up... educate urself to the truth and get out of the darkness... and fear ur Lord who created you from one soul and He created his wife from him and then men and women from them... fear your Lord that you will be meeting Him after this short life... you are here for a test of «Free Will» whether you fear the Lord who created you or fear your delusion / imaginations... and you are heading towards your Creator...

Most important, this approach works in dissuading pregnant women from killing their children.

They train women from low - income backgrounds to produce gifts and fashion accessories made from a traditional Malaysian fabric called batik.

Feminism is about liberating women from injustice and oppression that is caused by patriarchy.

Or, put another way: Do you think Paul would have prevented women from speaking if he knew it would hurt the gospel?

One almost wonders if it could have something to do with the fact that advertisers are forever marketing feminized versions of things to them that discourage women from merely enjoying themselves and instead enforce an artificial cultural norm.

From her therapeutic work with women, Miriam Polster describes the ways in which our sexist society alienates many women from their strengths, teaching them to retroflect their real feelings and manipulate men to try to get their needs met: «Growing up a woman in our society leaves a psychological residue that cripples and deforms all but the most exceptional woman....

Needless to say, this whole thing has raised some really interesting questions about my project and about those passages that seem to prohibit women from teaching in church:

This was to protect the women from being killed or forced into prostitution.

The bill provides for tougher action on forced conversions of minor girls and women from the scheduled tribes.

Pornography addiction inhibits numerous men and women from meaningful personal and sexual connections.

Still others says that it's okay to share Jesus with them, but the goal should be to shut down the club, not just rescue women from it.

The fact is that every one of the passages whose supposed «plain reading» limits women from certain roles has been demonstrated to have significant cultural, contextual, and even syntactical complexity which makes such a «plain reading» highly suspect.

rousing «a race of dead men and women from their sleep of death,» and getting them «on the battlefield against the Devil!»

But there are many successful ministries, who are rescuing the most women from their professions.

Jesus says of him that of those born of women from creation up till that time, none were greater than John the Baptist.

There is overwhelming biblical scholarship for the full equality of women and that the interpretation of scripture to exclude women from roles by gender (rather than gifting) has been found to be rooted in patriarchy, an ancient worldview that became intertwined in the growth and doctrine of the church.

There's been a high cost in terms of women's health, including an epidemic of infertility caused by sexually transmitted infections, and a startling rise in cervical and oral cancers among young women from the same cause.

So what is keeping academic women from having children?

And while some evangelicals retain a belief that scripture prohibits women from either teaching or leading church congregations, most no longer object.

To borrow Nikolai Leskov's vivid expression, they are like «the patchwork quilts of city women from Orel,» sewn up from scraps of fabrics a seamstress once worked with.

Women from Ruth to Rahab, Deborah to Mary Magdalena, Corrie Ten Boom to Evangeline Booth.

Now they've done it again with The Real Housewives of the Bible, a DVD series that follows six women in their journey to be good wives, drawing parallels to famous women from Scripture.

A Saudi Arabian woman named Manal al - Sharif is under scrutiny for leading the charge overturn the rule forbidding women from driving in Saudi Arabia.