Not exact matches
Kim
Churches, CEO of American Association of University
Women, says the hiring practices of many organizations have a lot to do with the issues we see
in the workplace.
Churches says men who are
in a position to hire should not be afraid to add more
women to their team.
American Association of University
Women CEO Kim
Churches says when such behavior happens
in the workplace it's an issue everyone should speak out against.
A young
woman strides through floodwaters on her way to
church on a Sunday morning
in Igbogeni
in Bayelsa State, one of the 14 states affected between July and November 2012 when Nigeria experienced its worst flooding
in half a century.
On Sunday, November 5th, inside the hallowed halls of the First Baptist
Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a gunman opened fire, murdering at least 26 men,
women, and children, and injuring 20 other people.
MLK Now,
in its third consecutive year focused on the contributions of
women to the modern movement for parity
in the celebration of the ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was held at Riverside
Church Jan. 15, 2018, the site where Dr. King gave his controversial 1967 «Beyond Vietnam» speech.
I left the RC
church (under the counsel of a charasmatic priest), studied
in the ministry's program, and four years later was ordained
in a pentacostal
church... pastored by a
woman.
If this
woman is treated and
in conrol do you think she shouldn't be attanding a
church service which possibly can heal her broken spirit?
But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards
women in the
Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.
Bottom line is this, keep it out of the public square; learn to respect others beliefs / disbeliefs; stop trying to tell LGBT they are wrong; stop trying to tell
women what they can and can't do with their bodies; stop trying to push bogus creationism crap (backed with zero evidence) on innocent children
in the public school system; just stop pushing it outside your home or
church.
If
in the West you go to
church and see a
woman with her hair uncovered, the Igbo man will have a prejudice against it and ask the Igbo
woman to dress like the white one does.
The whole story of our salvation is sandwiched between the marriage of man and
woman in Genesis and the marriage of Christ and the
Church in Revelation,» he says.
So is that why there still are positions
in the
church that
women aren't allowed to hold
in order to make sure they are treated with «respect and dignity» by keeping them
in their «place.»
The movement's website features personal stories of
women who are usually the only head coverers
in their
churches, as well as arguments from scripture to support the practice.
Santorum would have the United States live under control of the Catholic
Church, a known pedophile organization that decrees that
women must supply them with new victims every year or burn
in hell.
In our
church,
women can do everything that a man can do.
It seems to me that some
churches have encouraged Christian
women to just wait around, letting the men
in their lives «lead the way.»
Ongoing debates about the role of
women in society and the
Church show that Christianity and feminism have always been uneasy bedfellows.
So what were the issues wiht the
women that were teachign and having authority over men
in the
church there?
For me, as a college student, young single
woman, and then young married adult, I found that there were no Sunday gatherings for myself - no fellowship classes that matched my stage
in life at most
churches I visited.
Regarding numbers of men vs.
women in churches — I've heard that more
women than men attend
churches but it is not my current experience.
This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible,
Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent
women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them
in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.
One Sunday morning a
woman sat near the front of the
church with a slit
in her dress showing a lot of leg on both sides.
I will no longer temper my understanding of truth
in order to pretend that I have even a tiny smidgen of respect for the appalling negativity that continues to emanate from religious circles where the
church has for centuries conveniently perfumed its ongoing prejudices against blacks, Jews,
women and homosexual persons with what it assumes is «high - sounding, pious rhetoric.»
In fact, most American Catholics disagree with some of the Vatican doctrines (birth control, for example); there are Baptist Churches that don't treat women as less than men in God's eye, etc
In fact, most American Catholics disagree with some of the Vatican doctrines (birth control, for example); there are Baptist
Churches that don't treat
women as less than men
in God's eye, etc
in God's eye, etc..
I believe that it is the
church's responsibility to love, accept, and affirm gay men and
women and thereby create a positive environment where their sexuality can be expressed
in healthy, monogamous, loving relationships (i.e. marriage or civil partnership).
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.
In 2012, I was part of a group of
women who founded the Christian Feminist Network, a move that was greeted with immense positivity from
women of all ages and from different
church backgrounds.
In this theology gay and lesbian Christians have the same status earlier attributed to slaves and currently attributed to
women, the status of those excluded from the traditional
church.
The Right Reverend Richard Chartres warned that the biggest problem for the
Church was that it was «lacking
in distinction» and not its attitude to gay people and
women.
The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of
church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer
in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting
women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since
in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).
For single
women, pick a fight over contraception with the Catholic
Church and run a national convention
in which the centrality of abortion rights startled even seasoned observers.
since this
woman entered a Catholic
Church to be a part of their service of worship, she shouldn't be surprised that they follow the doctrine they believe
in — namely, that someone openly unrepentant of what the Catholic
Church teaches is sin should not partake of communion.
This is one of the reason
women who are truly spiritual are leaving the
church in droves.
(Ephesians 5:22 - 24) «Let your
women keep silence
in the
churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
HI Susan - I want to share some information regarding the mormon
church and
women in the
church.
Again, sadly, the
church is trailing far beyond society
in equality for
women, though we have come a long way from the
women as property upheld
in the Old Testament and still prevalent
in many other parts of the world today.
And even better: all the
women in the Catholic
Church need to leave or go on strike.
The Anglican
Church in South Africa currently says that «holy matrimony is the lifelong and exclusive union between one man and one
woman.»
I get from David's cartoon that there are 4 distinct classes of
women who have been treated badly by the bigotry so prevalent
in the Christian
Church.
A
Church Army employee has completed an «exhausting» challenge of visiting each London Underground railway station
in one day, after being inspired by a ministry which helps homeless
women.
The question of
women's ordination is regarded as
church - dividing, at least from the Orthodox angle... Consequently I think we on the Lutheran side have to think about whether progress
in dialogue is to be expected at all.»
Chick - fil - a has the right to donate money to whatever organization they want which
in this case was a
church that supports marriage between a man and a
woman.
I don't think that its feasible to expect everyone to follow NFP, though I'm personally a huge proponent and believe
women need more education on their bodies and menstrual cycles, and condoms while not «moral» persay or
in line with the
church's teaching are a much better option than hormonal birth control or Plan B as they are simply a barrier method not an abortificant.
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).
If I were to live up to my experiences as a child, I wouldn't have a
woman doing anything
in a
church or a classroom because what I saw then was out of control aggression and bullying.
We were just going to press with an issue that included an outstanding article by Father Paul Mankowski, S.J., on the second draft of «One
in Christ Jesus: A Pastoral Response to the Concerns of
Women for
Church and Society.»
Women have no standing
in the Catholic
Church except to do most of the work.
These 4
women... well... five actually... are generally marginalized by a large segment of the
church, and I wanted to show how, by the remarkable diversity represented
in one family, that they could model love, acceptance, and unity.
A
woman receives a hug as she leaves a morning service at Trinity Episcopal
Church not far from the Sandy Hook School December 16, 2012
in Newtown, Connecticut