Kansas based Catholic newspaper comes out in supprt of women priests

[Imran Siddiqui]

SDA is a bit similar.

A church creates a committee which nominates the nominating committee (usually from former leadership, pastor/elders/deacons/etc).

The nominating committee nominates individuals for church leadership positions. There are few considerations in the case of deacons/etc, but more in the case of elders. The elders and the pastor really run the church. The members vote on the people who are nominated. Generally only one person is nominated and they are voted in (although I assume that some times there has been conflict).

The pastor is selected by the conference, generally following the requests of the Elders (although not always).

Once every certain number of years, there is a general conference meeting. People from every church get selected to go to the conference and select representatives to go to the general conference. The general conference determines overall church leadership and the general conference and conference determines conference leadership.

I think SDAs have more organization than many protestants.

JM

Maybe more Evangelical Protestants, but probably not more than most mainline Protestants . My local church is run by the council, though they definitely respect the Pastor's POV (though he doesn't have a vote - Council is above the Pastor). Pastor would be selected by a Call Committee, which is put in place by the Council (my church is currently going through that now). And each ELCA church is organized into a Synod (mine is in the Southeastern Synod) and then the Synods of the ELCA are in one national church. Every year there is a national meeting.

As for Deacons... well, my particular church doesn't use them - we have lay volunteers to be the Lectors, Communion Assistants, Ushers, etc. (I have Lectors and been Communion Assistant [distributed the wine one time, which was quite powerful]).

Regardless of Merriam-Webster, I still hold that most religous-types would disagree with the usage 'supernatural' there. Not only is God the creator of 'Nature', thus by definition natural, 'supernatural' is often used as a way to insult the religious beliefs. Metaphysical is a much more appropriate word (and more commonly used in that sense).

I full accept that God is supernatural. He is in nature and apart from it. As the Creator of nature, He must exist outside of it. Though he can break through any time.

[kentonio]

A while back when I was bored I went through wikipedia articles of trannies and corrected the personal pronouns.

Wow, so rather than just feeling the need to express your bigotry to people you actually know, you thought you'd see if you could actually hurt peoples feelings out in the real world too? Well done, your parents must be very proud of the compassionate child they raised.

[The Mad Monk]

Kent, you must go and correct them all back!

[Hauldren Collider]

He vandalized wikipedia. He must be a terrible person.

[giblets]

Vandalizing articles because they don't conform to your bigotry is just pathetic.

[DinoDoc]

You get points for trying to be an offensive dick.

How am I being offensive by asking what him/her name is?

[giblets]

If you were actually interested you could click the link and read the first sentence in the article. The only purpose you had for asking that question was to be an *******.

[DinoDoc]

If you were actually interested you could click the link and read the first sentence in the article. The only purpose you had for asking that question was to be an *******.

Does it actually tell you what his name is?

[regexcellent]

Vandalizing articles because they don't conform to your bigotry is just pathetic.

It's not bigotry; I don't hate them. They're just not women! Anyway something I do to a half dozen wikipedia articles when I'm bored on a Sunday afternoon isn't some kind of deep insight into my psyche.

[notyoueither]

Actually, it sort of is.

[snoopy369]

It's not bigotry; I don't hate negroes. They're just not people!

Fixed...

[DinoDoc]

Fixed...

[giblets]

Fixed...

Probably were some New Yorkers saying it too.

[snoopy369]

Well, yes. Just read that part of Tender At The Bone (NYT food critic Ruth Reichl's first memoir) where her mom is ... uncomfortable with her roommate being black (which, spoiler alert, she isn't, but then she is... )

[DinoDoc]

Well, yes. Just read that part of Tender At The Bone (NYT food critic Ruth Reichl's first memoir) where her mom is ... uncomfortable with her roommate being black (which, spoiler alert, she isn't, but then she is... )

Michael Jackson aside. How are He/Shes comparable to the fight for civil rights for Black Americans?