Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
978-1-949199-73-4. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies is a debut short story collection by Deesha Philyaw. The book consists of nine stories about Black women, church, and sexuality and was released on September 1, 2020 by West Virginia University Press. It was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction and received The Story Prize ...
The Ordnung is a set of rules for Amish, Old Order Mennonite and Conservative Mennonite living. Ordnung ( pronounced [ˈɔʁdnʊŋ] ⓘ) is the German word for order, discipline, rule, arrangement, organization, or system. Because the Amish have no central church government, each assembly is autonomous and is its own governing authority.
The Book of Discipline constitutes the law and doctrine of the United Methodist Church. It follows similar works for its predecessor denominations. It was originally published in 1784, in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been published every four years thereafter following the meeting of the General Conference, which passes legislation that is included in the Book of Discipline.
Code of the United States Fighting Force. The Code of the U.S. Fighting Force is a code of conduct that is an ethics guide and a United States Department of Defense directive consisting of six articles to members of the United States Armed Forces, addressing how they should act in combat when they must evade capture, resist while a prisoner or ...
The committee in charge of monitoring the progress of the country (Committee on the elimination of Discrimination against Women) expressed its concern in its observation in 2013 that “ the Chbab Srey, the traditional code of conduct for Women is deeply rooted in Cambodian culture and society and continues to define everyday life on the basis ...
The chariot is generally understood to represent the holy church, with the women on right and left representing the theological and cardinal virtues respectively. [16] The exact meaning of the allegorical women's role, behaviour, interrelation, and color-coding remains a matter of literary interpretation.
v. t. e. Catholic canon law is the set of rules and principles (laws) by which the Catholic Church is governed, through enforcement by governmental authorities. [clarification needed][citation needed] Law is also the field which concerns the creation and administration of laws.
According to certain studies, the public life of women in the time of Jesus was far more restricted than in Old Testament times.: p.52 At the time the apostles were writing their letters concerning the Household Codes (Haustafeln), Roman law vested enormous power (Patria Potestas, lit. "the rule of the fathers") in the husband over his "family" (pater familias) which included his wife ...