This short introduction to the Old Testament is designed for colleagues in teaching as well as formal and informal students including
working clergy persons and lay persons.
Not exact matches
No staff
person works more than l5to2ohoursperweek The question now is: How far is it possible to grow a church without full - time
clergy?
In
working to protect the future of the Catholic community, we always need to remember that innocent
people and innocent families were hurt in the past by some members of the
clergy who did terrible things.
This is why the Irish
clergy are often so timid about proclaiming Christian doctrine: they know well that
people like them personally and that they are grateful for the social
work done by the Church, but that Church teaching is deeply resented, and that any attempt to state it is met with bitter hostility.
The
work of the
clergy is to communicate the love of God to
people in times of developmental and emergency crises.
Their
clergy are not a bunch of
people that take money from the
people they claim to represent, they are hard
working men that support their own families and watch after the welfare of their ward families.
Within a few decades, hundreds of thousands of
people who could read had access to written
works that heretofore had been accessible only to
clergy, teachers and the very rich.
The information I have been gathering from the
people with whom I
work suggests that we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg with the recent exposé of priests and
clergy molesting children.
We have
worked very hard over the last fifteen or twenty years to establish a good
working relationship between
clergy and psychiatrists in healing troubled
people at the bottom of the cliff.
Approximately one - fourth of the comprehensive community mental health centers that were operational in 1968 had clergymen on the staff; another 25 percent had a staff
person designated to
work with the churches and
clergy within the catchment area being served; and the remaining half of the existing centers generally acknowledged that one of their goals was to relate in some helpful way to the churches and
clergy, but had not yet formulated any plans for accomplishing this.
People were required to
work long hours and in many cities it was some time before the churches had the
clergy and buildings to minister effectively to the new inhabitants.
Whatever the means, the subject must be brought into the open, where
people can deal with it, rather than fear it:
Clergy can also
work to make the church facilities architecturally accessible by installing wheelchair ramps as well as making bathrooms accessible to wheelchairs.
It doesn't take much intelligence to see that the god isn't
working too well when 92 million
people die in two world wars, or to see the complicity and cooperation of the Pope, Lutheran
clergy and Christians with Hitler during WWII.
Many
people who are considering, involved in, or completed private counseling often attend my couples weekend workshops to complement the
work they do with a therapist or
clergy.
Women deserve better,» said PPFA Vice President for Medical Affairs Vanessa Cullins, M.D. «We all need to
work together — the public health community, educators,
clergy and our schools — to educate
people of all ages and prevent the spread of this disease through consistent and correct condom use, and HIV testing and treatment.»
Sexuality Educators often do professional development training as well as direct education and
work with many different populations, such as adolescents, parents, families,
persons with mental and physical disabilities,
clergy, teachers, counselors and therapists, businesses, and college students.
Sexuality educators often do professional development training as well as direct education and
work with many different populations, such as adolescents, parents, families,
persons with mental and physical disabilities,
clergy, teachers, counselors and therapists, businesses, and college students.
In addition to his
work as a therapist, Gordon is ordained as
clergy person (vocational deacon) in the Episcopal Church.