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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music: April 2011
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music. Wednesday, 6 April 2011. Pitfalls of Hierarchy: Racial and Gender Superiority. 3rd in a series of articles exploring how hierarchical paradigms negatively impact culture). Those of us who advocate egalitarianism, working for justice worldwide, may consider ourselves to be enlightened, inclusive and progressive. But hierarchical thinking can linger subtly in our own lives, manifesting itself as racial or patriarchal attitudes of superiority. A day or s...
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music: Women in Ministry: Here to Stay
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music. Monday, 27 January 2014. Women in Ministry: Here to Stay. Congregation hired me in 1973 as their first full-time Minister of Music, Baptist women ministers were extremely rare. I had almost no female peers, anywhere. By the mid-1980s, the Women in Ministry movement was gathering steam, receiving lots of press in Baptist publications. There were still very few female music ministers among Georgia Baptists, but overall, the ranks of women ministers-...
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music: January 2013
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music. Monday, 21 January 2013. Inclusive Language and the Church: A Male God? 3rd in a series of articles exploring gender-inclusive language issues in church and culture.). Much has been written in recent years about the negative effects of using masculine imagery and pronouns when referring to God. The Scriptures tell us that God is neither male nor female, that God's nature encompasses both male and female characteristics. God is Spirit, indescribable.
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music: Pitfalls of Hierarchy: Racial & Gender Superiority
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music. Wednesday, 6 April 2011. Pitfalls of Hierarchy: Racial and Gender Superiority. 3rd in a series of articles exploring how hierarchical paradigms negatively impact culture). Those of us who advocate egalitarianism, working for justice worldwide, may consider ourselves to be enlightened, inclusive and progressive. But hierarchical thinking can linger subtly in our own lives, manifesting itself as racial or patriarchal attitudes of superiority. A day or s...
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music: January 2014
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music. Monday, 27 January 2014. Women in Ministry: Here to Stay. Congregation hired me in 1973 as their first full-time Minister of Music, Baptist women ministers were extremely rare. I had almost no female peers, anywhere. By the mid-1980s, the Women in Ministry movement was gathering steam, receiving lots of press in Baptist publications. There were still very few female music ministers among Georgia Baptists, but overall, the ranks of women ministers-...
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music: August 2011
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music. Monday, 8 August 2011. Pitfalls of Hierarchy: Scarcity Thinking and Domination. 4th in a series of articles exploring how hierarchical paradigms negatively impact culture). For humans to live together peacefully on this planet, we must constantly make adjustments in order to get along with each other and achieve satisfying lives. One negative factor is our tendency toward "scarcity" thinking (your gain is my loss) rather than "abundance" thinking (ple...
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music: Inclusive Language & the Church: Fishers of Men?
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music. Tuesday, 17 September 2013. Inclusive Language and the Church: Fishers of Men? 4th in a series of articles exploring gender-inclusive language issues in church and culture.). I will make you fishers of men, fishers of men, fishers of men. I will make you fishers of men if you follow me. If you follow me, if you follow me (glory hallelujah),. I will make you fishers of men if you follow me.". Whenever I think of this song nowadays, I remember one amusi...
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music: Inclusive Language & the Church: Does "Man" Include Women?
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music. Sunday, 23 September 2012. Inclusive Language and the Church: Does "Man" Include Women? 2nd in a series of articles exploring gender-inclusive language issues in church and culture.). American schools have long taught the English grammar rule that allows the words “man” and “he” to refer to both males and females. This practice has evolved along a convoluted path. Then a problem arose with using “they” as a singular, rather than plural pro...The new l...
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music: Pitfalls of Hierarchy: Alternative Paradigms & the Middle Class
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NOTATIONS: Journeying with a Woman Minister of Music. Tuesday, 22 February 2011. Pitfalls of Hierarchy: Alternative Paradigms and the Middle Class. 2nd in a series of articles exploring how hierarchical paradigms negatively impact culture). Competitiveness seems hard-wired inside our brains. We instinctively try to outdo others, sometimes dominating or intimidating perceived rivals in order to achieve or maintain a preferred status. Author Bruce Epperly, in Holy Adventure. Tells of a sixth-century hermit...