Congratulations On a job well done! The Habitat House is complete
Put them in the boxes on the cabinet
Beginning next week
Beginning next week for Shoes for the Shoeless
August 25 10:30 Annual Picnic Fort St. Clair Small cabin It’s a Pitch In
Please stand if able For the hymn #185 Amazing Grace
On July 5, 1908, a West Virginia church sponsored the nation’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of the 362 men who had died in the previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, but it was a one-time commemoration and not an annual holiday. The next year, a Spokane, Washington, woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for male parents. She went to local churches, the YMCA, shopkeepers and government officials to drum up support for her idea, and she was successful: Washington State celebrated the nation’s first statewide Father’s Day on June 19, 1910 eleven years later. At first people disliked the idea of Father’s Day afraid that giving gifts to men would make them less manly, and less honorable or able to fight in a war. But people who had sweet and kind, yet brave fathers spoke up and helped the people to see that giving gifts to men might have its benefits. During the Great Depression Father’s Day was encouraged for retail sales, and it called a Father’s Day present his “second Christmas present.” Ties, socks, tools, and such were encouraged to be given as gifts. And 62 years later, men were honored with the holiday in 1972, at height of the women’s revolution.
Equality itself can be a gift to men Equality with women has had its benefits. In societies where women have more power • Less fear of men • More access of emotions and opinions held by men • Higher expectation of intimacy and kindness from and with men • Reports of a closer connection to family and friends • Better companionship and relationship enjoyment. • More shared responsibilities
Equality Has Improved the Life of Fathers • Gender equality reduces alcoholism, depression and suicide rates in men. • Gender equality increases the amount and quality of time fathers get to spend doing things (other than work) and encourages time with their children that is shown to lower crime rates. • Gender equality reduces war and violence in a society .
Wikipedia Article on Quakers and Women’s Equality Quaker views on women have always been considered progressive in their own time (beginning in the 17th century), and in the late 19th century this tendency bore fruit in the prominence of Quaker women in the American women's rights movement. The early history of attitudes towards gender in the Religious Society of Friends (aka Quakers) is particularly notable for providing for one of the largest and most equitable roles for women in the Christian tradition at the time, despite not endorsing universal equality until much later. For many outside observers during the first hundred years of Quakerism, the most surprising aspect of Quakerism was that "ministry" – the prerogative to speak during a Quaker meeting – was open to women from the very beginnings of the movement in the 1650s. One of the earliest to formulate direct biblical justification for this was Sarah Blackborow.[1] In James Boswell's Life of Johnson, Samuel Johnson's opinion of a female Quaker preacher was recorded thus: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." Especially in the early years, a large number – even possibly the majority – of traveling Quaker preachers were women.[2] Aside from ministry, Quaker women were allowed to travel alone and to publish, which was also unusual for the time.[3] For many Quakers, both historical and contemporary, the inclusion of women is part of what is now called the "Testimony of Equality". However, despite that testimony, women's roles were not completely equal for many years.
In the beginning, Meetings for Business were dominated by male Friends, but within twenty- five years, George Fox ordered establishment of separate women's meetings when he faced challenges to his leadership. Particularly controversial was his decision that women's meetings for discipline should be the first to pass on a couple's intention to be married. Separate meetings declined by the 19th century and were eliminated later. Having authority over any business at all – let alone authority over men (in the form of approving or denying marriages) – was a radical move in the 17th century, and gave women then-rare experience in running organizations.[4] Concerning the introduction and much later dissolution of separate meetings, one historian writes, [Rufus Jones] "On balance, and in the long run, I believe that the separate women's meeting was good for women; indeed, it may be said to have been a cradle not only of modern feminism but of the movements of abolitionism, women's suffrage, and peace activism, all of which were, and are, enlivened by the presence (even predominance) of Quaker female leaders."[ 5] Quakers were heavily involved in the 19th-century movement for women's rights in America; the landmark 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration was in large part the work of Quaker women, and has numerous Quaker signatories, well out of proportion to the number of Quakers in American society at large.[6][1]. The tradition of Quaker involvement in women's rights continued into the 20th and 21st centuries, with Quakers playing large roles in organizations continuing to work on women's rights.
“...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.” ― Abig igail Adams
That Halfway Mark You know you are halfway there on a trip when someone lays down the law.
What happened here?
Mark 7 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, [a] thus observing the tradition of the elders; 4 and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; [b] and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles. [c] ) 5 So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live [d] according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” 6 He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; 7 in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.’
8 You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.” 9 Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition! 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’ 11 But you say that if anyone tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is Corban’ (that is, an offering to God [e] ) — 12 then you no longer permit doing anything for a father or mother, 13 thus making void the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this.” 14 Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 15 there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.” Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.
Scripture and the commandments are to be applied with thoughtfulness, and thoroughness of heart, not legalism or blind loyalty, certainly not with savvy to get out of following them. They must be applied in our lives but first in our hearts and in our attitudes. Living right becomes a form of worship.
so·ci·e·ty / səˈsīədē / noun the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. "drugs, crime, and other dangers to society" synonyms: the community, the public, the general public, the people, the population;
Commandments Should Remind us not of rules But to Respect our Connectedness
How can we better show honor to all of God’s Presence past, present, and future connections we have?
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