Sentence examples for giving ordained from inspiring English sources

You see, when Christians use "Love the sinner, hate the sin" to make themselves morally peaceful while loving a "sinner" like me, they're giving ordained permission to and normalizing the same hatred that burgeoned in the young shooter's heart and fueled my desperation for suicide.

And unnecessary, she said, given that Ordain Women had announced that April's conference would be the second and final time the group planned to seek priesthood tickets.

I was confirmed when I was eight, able to spout at a moment's notice that sacrament means "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us; ordained by Christ himself, and a means whereby we receive the same, and a pledge to assure us thereof".

The Constitution says relatively little about the federal court system -- providing directly for the Supreme Court and giving Congress the power to "ordain and establish" such lower courts as it deems necessary.

They started giving retreats at Saint-Lazare in 1631 for men about to be ordained, and soon five or six retreats were given each year.

Some chaplains are ordained clerics, some not, though almost all undergo training in giving spiritual counsel to that growing segment of the population that describes itself in polls as feeling connected to a higher power but not an organized faith.

In April 1999, when Harry Jackson died of cancer after receiving the diagnosis six months earlier, his son Mark, a newly ordained minister, gave a rousing eulogy at a church in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.

A23 Pope Will Shift Gears After the ordination Mass, Pope John Paul II appeared at the window of his apartment over St. Peter's Square for his traditional Sunday noon blessing and prayed that priests ordained this year "give strong witness of the good shepherd with the holiness of their lives and ministry".

Today, if they are ordained at all, boys typically spend a week in monk's robes, giving rise to the term "factory monks" because they are churned out so quickly.

The Church and its bishops can train, ordain, and give faculties to the women already working in diaconal roles in the US and elsewhere.

Bertha gave up teaching to be ordained and to help her husband, the Rev Joseph Mumba, set up the International Church In The Rock, 12 years ago in one of Lusaka's worst slum districts.