Ordination

children. The genogram also helps clients and counselors to identify the origins of many trends that families may have. The genogram has helped me to identify the origin of some trends that my family has held, and these will be evaluated throughout this narrative. (Chope, 2005) Research has shown that there are great deals of clergy members who are also children of clergy. In a national sample of clergy, it showed that “10 percent of Protestant clergy were sons or daughters of clergy” (Carroll, 2015). In my denomination, I am a licensed preacher waiting to be on track for ministerial ordination. I am one of the many in my denomination who is taking the journey from the parsonage to the pulpit. Many denominations have more women seeking ordination than men; however, within clergy families this number is different. Amongst protestant denominations, 94 percent of the children of clergy who seek ordination are male and only 6 percent are female. This is one difference between my situation and the realities of most clergy members who are preacher’s children. As stated in my beginning thought process, often individuals choose career choices based on exposure to that career. Preacher’s kids are more involved in the church than non-preachers kids and feel called to ordained ministry earlier than non-preachers kids feel the call to ordained ministry. It is also true that preachers kids are less likely to doubt their choice to go into the ordained ministry There were no reasons…

Ideals, beliefs, and stances have been changing. And as the populations of Catholics throughout the world increases, the number of priests continues to drop. We should allow the ordination of women because some have already been ordained, it’s discriminatory, the Bible never states that a woman can not be a priest, there is currently a lack of priests within the church, and because other churches have women as their head of church. If the church were to allow the ordination of women the number…

female leadership and ordination during the early church movement; a debate that continues now. Certain Christian denominations today permit female ordination, while other denominations stand firm against female pastors; both use the New Testament to support their stance. When compared to the denominations that do ordain females, denominations that prohibit female ordination lack a fully developed theological foundation for their positions and ignore Scripture supporting female leadership and…

The role of men versus women in the church has always been a highly controversial and deliberated subject. This controversy spans back to the early church and proceeds to be an ongoing issue that modern Christianity deals with today. Many Christians look to scripture for answers; However, there are several scripture passages that conflict with one another, thus making it difficult to decipher the true role of men versus women in the church. Although the church emphasizes the equality of men and…

Introduction Over the past thousand years, many have been fed with false doctrine that women should not be ordained as priests, this essay will simply discuss the reasons behind ordination of women the truth of the story is that it is still unveiled even today, but does it ends there? .However relatively recently, people were exposed to the utmost truth about what did Jesus say about priesthood. As many know that little has been highlighted on this issue. What about religious believers? They…

For the Shan people the paui sang long ordination is an important Theravada Buddhist ritual that symbolizes the Gautama Buddha’s path to enlightenment. The Shan ordination takes place every two or three years when they have an appropriate number of boys at a certain age. It cannot be held every year due to the cost and only the wealthy people in the village can afford to sponsor the entire event which is done by a couple like husband and wife. A three day ritual that involves villagers partying,…

The church response to women's ordination has been a five-year process, filled with discussions, debates and prayer (McChesney). Current SDA President, Ted Wilson was encouraging people to vote according to our 'mission statement' and that will bring us united together in God (McChesney). They finally made the decision to meet in order to finalize their decision on this subject (McChesney). The vote breakdown was: no, had 1381 votes and yes, had 977 votes (McChesney). Since this vote, the world…

Sister Sara Butler’s article explains that the Magisterium does not discriminate against women on the subject on ordination; rather, the Magisterium has no authority to develop a priestly ordination for women. Butler first starts by outlining the Christian feminist argument towards priestly ordination, which stems from evidence gathered on protestant churches, which during the 1950’s started to ordain women. Using feminist argumentation Butler contends that if women are equal to men in society,…

(1) The purpose of Sister Sara Butler’s article on the ordination of women is to highlight whether the ordination of women is still an issue within the Catholic Church (pp. 1). (2) Citing how the developments of the 1950’s effected how protestant sects of Christianity allowed for the ordination of women, Butler speaks towards reformation of sex bias within Christian religion as the primary reasons towards the debate on the candidacy of women for the priestly office (pp. 3-5). (3) To explain its…

achieve enlightenment. The ordination would roughly happen every three years or when their is enough boys who are the age of ten and older. “Typically a three-day” ritual, during the months between march and may “just before the rainy season” (Eberhardt, 127). During the ordination period of the next three days the boys hair are completely shaved off and they are dressed and treated like royalty. The celebration is very loud, colourful and full of life, but later on the boys had to changed their…