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The ALEPH Ordination Program has grown to become the largest rigorous liberal Jewish seminary in North America [citation needed], comprising a Rabbinic Program, a Rabbinic Pastor Program (training Jewish clergy specializing in pastoral care), a Cantorial Program, and the Hashpa'ah Program (training Jewish Spiritual Directors).
The first discourse (Matthew 5–7) is called the Sermon on the Mount and is one of the best known and most quoted parts of the New Testament. [6] It includes the Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer and the Golden Rule. To most believers in Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount contains the central tenets of Christian discipleship. [6]
The main passages in this debate include 1 Cor. 11:2–16, 1 Cor. 14:34–35 and 1 Tim. 2:11–14, 1 Tim. 3:1–7, and Tit. 1:5–9 Increasingly however, supporters of women in ministry argue that the Biblical passages used to argue against women's ordination might be read differently when more understanding of the unique historical context of ...
The Black sermonic tradition, or Black preaching tradition, is an approach to sermon (or homily) construction and delivery practiced primarily among African Americans in the Black Church. The tradition seeks to preach messages that appeal to both the intellect and the emotive dimensions of humanity.
Israel — The first ordination of a woman rabbi in Israel occurred in 1992, twenty years after the first American ordination. The Israeli branch of the Reform movement's Hebrew Union College provided the ordination. [141] However, the Israeli Reform movement faces structural challenges due to its lacking of state recognition and funding.
On the 50th anniversary of his ordination as a Catholic priest, Smith inaugurated the Janus Essay Competition on May 31, 2008. The competition sought essays that reflected on life that has already been lived and life still left to live, in accordance with the nature of the Roman God Janus, who looks both backward and forward. [2]
With this idea came the Methodist Prayer and Renewal Program (MPRP), a group dedicated to making certain that the charismatic methods touched every area of the church. This group not only spread the charismatic movement throughout the mainline Protestant Methodist church in Ghana's cities, but also to smaller churches in villages.
While the ordination of women to the diaconate and priesthood had been raised in Australia in the 1960s and earlier; during the 1980s and 1990s there was significant ongoing debate in the Anglican Church of Australia about the ordination of women, especially to the priesthood, with bills put to the General Synod to enable ordination. [6] [7] [1 ...