Sentences with phrase «women in our community who»

I've heard Jewish friends talk about how there used to be many more women in the community who just knew how to keep a kosher home and didn't have to go to a book to figure it out.
The babysitting classes started more than five years ago and are now a must for young men and women in the community who want to earn some cash.
There is a group of women in our community who make «postage stamp» quilts.
The Community - Based Doula Program connects underserved pregnant women to other women in their communities who are specially trained as doulas to provide support during the critical times of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum / early parenting.

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The working women who clean their homes and mind their kids live in a shanty town outside the gated community.
It's now essential to me that my clients feel included in our community, and when I lead events, all the women who enter the room feel that sense of belonging right away.
Nooyi went on to explain that she also found herself answering questions from her daughters, employees — in particular employees of color, women and members of the LGBT communitywho were asking «Are we safe?»
«I think there'll always be barriers... (but) we're not just going to sit back and shake our head and say, «OK, well, I guess that's it,»» said Mary Clauss, a small business owner from suburban Chicago who recently marched in Washington and now is organizing other women in her community.
«This decision reflects an important cultural shift we're all celebrating that empowers women who lead active, purposeful lives and encourage those in their communities to do the same,» Miss Universe president Paula Shugart told USA Today.
This only adds to the stress of black professional women who are often focused on maintaining equilibrium at home and in their communities.
The singer, who had been criticized for her overt Black Lives Matter message during her Super Bowl performance, released a statement on her website: «We are sick and tired of the killings of young men and women in our communities.
«I want people in military communities who see this art to feel gratitude for fellow servicemen and women,» said Seattle artist Jennifer Ament.
The big picture vision for Women Who Cowork is to have a global alliance of women - owned coworking spaces, and women coworking managers who are connecting with each other, providing support, gaining access to resources, services, funding and community in a way that promotes their business, helps them run a better business and provides visibility to them in both the press and the people in coworWomen Who Cowork is to have a global alliance of women - owned coworking spaces, and women coworking managers who are connecting with each other, providing support, gaining access to resources, services, funding and community in a way that promotes their business, helps them run a better business and provides visibility to them in both the press and the people in coworkiWho Cowork is to have a global alliance of women - owned coworking spaces, and women coworking managers who are connecting with each other, providing support, gaining access to resources, services, funding and community in a way that promotes their business, helps them run a better business and provides visibility to them in both the press and the people in coworwomen - owned coworking spaces, and women coworking managers who are connecting with each other, providing support, gaining access to resources, services, funding and community in a way that promotes their business, helps them run a better business and provides visibility to them in both the press and the people in coworwomen coworking managers who are connecting with each other, providing support, gaining access to resources, services, funding and community in a way that promotes their business, helps them run a better business and provides visibility to them in both the press and the people in coworkiwho are connecting with each other, providing support, gaining access to resources, services, funding and community in a way that promotes their business, helps them run a better business and provides visibility to them in both the press and the people in coworking.
The Vital Voices Global Leadership Network includes more than 14,000 leaders representing 144 countries who have trained and mentored 500,000 additional women and girls in their communities.
Jenny Poon of Co + hoots was cited as an example of the power of women entrepreneurs who have «paid it forward» by investing in community, youthful entrepreneurs, adding new jobs, and scaling companies.
This award recognizes a woman who has demonstrated a positive and tangible impact or effected change in the Greater Vancouver community through her dedication and leadership.
The day is part of a growing series of events that was originally spearheaded by investor Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and moved forward by Jess Lee of Sequoia Capital, who along with their women friends in venture wanted to work more closely with the far larger — and growing — community of women founders that has begun to form in recent years.
He is deeply respected, even beloved, in the community of central bankers, an intellectual leader among the group of men and women who guide the world economy.
I am not gonna run a comparison to determine who is best and who is worst, but those glorious thing you said about women in the Jewish community closely matches or I dare say sometime fares better for Muslim women.
The Feb. 20 attacks against the two religious properties forced the apostolic vicar of Benghazi, the rest of his Franciscan community, and the religious men and women who lived and worked in the diocese to be evacuated to the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
This reader is grateful for our Lord's generous blessings, not least of which is the inspiration of women who persistently, though perhaps not quietly, handle the daily demands and rewards of living in a community that only recently accorded women the respect inherent in the ability and permission to make choices.
The medical community needs to be more responsible for women like Nussbaum who are obviously in abusive situations.
This from a woman who turns away anyone in need in the community, and blames the sick for their own sickness..
The film spans several decades, following Corinne from a young girl who half - heartedly proclaims herself to be saved by Jesus to a teenager who marries when she becomes pregnant to a woman ensconced in a deeply religious community after she and her husband come to believe that God has saved their baby.
The fundamentalists were driving out Christians, who account for about half of the two million citizens in the islands, one of the strongest Christian areas in Indonesia.The violence has raised concerns in the international community and particularly in ecumenical circles in recent months.The woman told ENI that the Jihad warriors, shouting Islamic slogans, «attack and burn down Christian houses, shops and even entire villages, killing whoever comes in their way».
That same crisis had also pushed our rental property in Mt. Auburn under water, but in the meantime we had arranged a master lease with a bright, ambitious young woman who converted it into a vibrant community house.
We who proclaim Christ ought to have enough faith that our Lord is what we claim him to be, to permit such men and women to have, if not full then some limited, participation in Christian life in the community of faith; for we are confident, or we should be confident if we really believe what we say about Jesus, that such fellowship with him in the company of his people will lead them more and more deeply into the true significance of his person.
We have an online community full of women who are impressively strong in spite of the overwhelming attempts to weaken them.
For our purposes, the most satisfactory definition would be: Christianity is the total life of the community of men and women who respond to what they know about God — along with their neighbors, who are caught up into the social movement or process we call «the church» (however this may be understood)-- in terms of the socially remembered event of Jesus Christ.
If the early church could hold together communities made up of Jews and Greeks, slaves and free, men and women, circumcised and uncircumcised, tax collectors and zealots, prostitutes and Pharisees, kosher believers and non-kosher believers, those who ate food sacrificed to idols and those who refused, I guess this evolution - accepting, hell - questioning, liberal - leaning feminist can worship Jesus alongside a Tea Party complementarian who thinks the earth is 6,000 years old and that Ghandi and Anne Frank are in hell.
«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»
And the vitality of Christian faith has passed from the European and North American world to peoples in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, to the women's movement most everywhere, and to the communities in our own midst who are most in touch with these.
So a magical all - powerful being living in some fantasy world in the clouds created the earth, placed a modern day man and woman on the earth from whom all humans are modeled in a fantastical garden 4.5 billion years ago, allows «good» people to live in a cloud kingdom where everyone who has ever died lives (like a Florida retirement community in the sky), and sends «bad» people to a fiery pit of despair for all eternity.
(A similar initiative had been taken even earlier by a group of Reformed women who had started a community in Grandchamp near Neuchatel in Switzerland.)
All we need do is demonstrate honestly the true role of Mary Magdalene in the story of redemption, the apparent fact that she was Jesus» partner, wife or lover, his favorite disciple, a full member of a revolutionary community created by One who considered men and women equal.
All we need do is demonstrate honestly the true role this woman had in the story of redemption, the apparent fact that she was Jesus» partner, wife or lover, his favorite disciple, a full member of a revolutionary community created by One who considered men and women equal.
The very water projects noted above were initiated by women who lived in (not merely visited) the remote communities.
The primary reason for this is that it is often women who find themselves in the midst of almost daily ethical and moral choices that they are called to make in their own lives but also in the life of their families or communities.
The novel is about men imprisoned, men who live together yet apart, who must learn the lessons women seem to know already because they are lessons about living in community, about nurturing and about accepting pain and humiliation as part of life.
I met a woman who, as a little girl, watched a cross burn in her front yard and endured teachers at her new school shouting racial slurs at her because the community around her was angry about integration.
So the point I want to make today is not that all who subscribe to patriarchy are abusive, but that patriarchy in a religious environment, just as in any environment, has a negative effect on the whole community and creates a cultural climate more susceptible to abuse than one characterized by mutuality and shared leadership between men and women.
And those who do live the life of the community, seeking to appropriate for themselves its central affirmations, yet unconcerned about the peripheral, secondary, and now and again misleading assertions and practices that have often been associated with those essentials; those who learn gradually to join in its prayers and receive the sacraments, and to read the Bible with open, earnest, yet critical minds; those who endeavor with heart and soul to express in daily life the Christian principle of life «in Christ» — such men and women will find increasingly that they genuinely belong.
Primarily working in Uganda, Just One purchases directly from local artisans who are mostly women and then also donates a portion of the profits back into the communities where they work and live.
That the community of men and women who share this faith and attempt to live this life Constitutes the unique medium in each age for the continued disclosure of God's creative and redemptive purposes.
We can not know the meaning of Jesus in the early church except as we know what he actually was within the experience of the men and women who formed the community.
Someone once donated a diamond ring to the Catholic Worker community, and instead of using it to buy soup for a month or more, Dorothy gave it to an old woman who lived in a tenement down the street.
Following an annual church dinner that took place the first Sunday of December, we provided numerous opportunities for our congregation to provide needed items for the homeless, battered women and children, poor Native Americans who lived on the reservation, and poor in our community.
Ms Mullally, who is the first woman to hold the third most important role in the Church of England, suggested that the institution should be at the heart of communities if it is to stay current.
Actually, the Women's Bible Commentary is most definitively not for the «larger community» of Bible - readers, for they are women and men who happen to believe in what the Bible Women's Bible Commentary is most definitively not for the «larger community» of Bible - readers, for they are women and men who happen to believe in what the Bible women and men who happen to believe in what the Bible says.
Today is one of the most indelible days of my life because of Mark Wahlberg, WME and a community of women and men who share in this accomplishment.
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