which is pleasing unto me, to be had in my church. For my soul delighteth in the song of the heart; yea, the song of the righteous is a prayer unto me, and it shall be answered with a blessing upon their heads
She was hon sec of the Free Church League for Women’s Suffrage and here ‘examines the prejudice which excludes women from the ministry of the Nonconformist or Free Churches, and claims this sphere of labour as a legitimate extension of the already enlarged field of woman’s activity’. The...
I could reproach her for having subjected me to that climate of perpetual exaltation, which, above all, made me completely devoted to the myth of the Great Love and thus unintentionally led to the painful situation I find myself in today. I could reproach her, perhaps, if she hadn’t alr...
discussed in Chapter2—was considered an insult to the honor of her menfolk, rather than to her, a principle mirrored in Lombard law on the subject.5This reflects the world of mutilation-by-proxy introduced above, and girls and women could function equally effectively as the proxies. Nowhere ...
Some attorneys were similarly drawn into the resistance movement this way, as well as some clergy and others. This broader base of resistance is one of the themes developed in this book. While traditional social movement theorists might argue that such professionals were not part of a social ...
|RS Meeting Ideas I’ve talked to enough people to know that the Relief Society organization is struggling down in the grassroots of the ward level. With all the changes we’ve been experiencing, people are wondering just how to move forward with the church. What is our Relief Society siste...
friendship, betrayal and secrets in this story of a widow in search of answers to a shocking confession by her dying husband. Joy Blackwood has no idea why her French art dealer husband has left a valuable painting to a woman called Robyn Tessier in Ballycove, a small town ...
Lately — the past couple years — I've been feeling the need to create a lot. I feel connected to something, and I feel a lot of joy and that good buzzy anxiety of having these ideas and wanting to hear them, which reminds me of my earliest memories of writi...
two years. This work would later influence themes of class and education in her novelMrs Dalloway.[47] She made some money from reviews, including some published in church paperThe Guardianand theNational Review, capitalising on her father's literary reputation in order to earn commissions.[48]...
The traditional clothes worn atOktoberfestare actually authentic Bavarian attire, worn for everything from formal occasions like church and weddings to arduous physical labour… so calling them “costumes” is not a good idea. They even have an entire parade dedicated to it during the festival!