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Church Leaders’ Health Behaviors and Program Implementation in the Faith, Activity, and Nutrition Program in the United States [PDF]

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Objectives Church leaders are important to the success of faith-based health promotion interventions through the role modeling of health behaviors. However, clergy may be at a higher risk of chronic disease than their congregants and their health is ...
Kelsey R. Day, Sara Wilcox, Lindsay Decker, John Bernhart, Meghan Baruth, Andrew T. Kaczynski, Christine A. Pellegrini   +6 more
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“He Just Wanted Me to Do What Was Best for Me”: Latter-Day Saint Clergy’s Counsel to Sexual and Gender Minorities and Its Impact

Religions, 2022
The purpose of this study was to understand counsel given to sexual and gender minority individuals by clergy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (CJCLDS), the impact of that counsel, and individuals’ perceptions of meetings with clergy ...
G. Tyler Lefevor, Adlyn M. Perez-Figueroa, Samuel J. Skidmore, Kirsten A. Gonzalez   +3 more
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Clergy as a frontline mental health service: a UK survey of medical practitioners and clergy

General Psychiatry, 2020
Background Christian clergy have often been identified as ‘frontline mental health workers’ and gatekeepers to mental health services. However, despite this, collaboration between clergy and mental health services remains poor, with some US clergy ...
William Heseltine-Carp, Mathew Hoskins
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A reflection on the clergys’ engagement in politics in light of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023
The overarching rapport between clergy and politics goes back to biblical times. The clergy used their civic politicking as a catalytic agent to influence rules and plans on all tiers of the country.
Peter Masvotore
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ORTHODOX CLERGY AT THE RIGHT WING OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE AT THE END OF 19th - THE BEGINNING OF 20th CENTURIES

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2017
The development of orthodox clergy at the background of social and political life of the Russian Empire at the end of 19th the beginning of 20th centuries is considered.
V. Lisyunin
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Standing of Parish Priest and Minor Orders in Russia in 1917 — the 1930th.

Управленческое консультирование, 2018
This article is devoted to analysis and tries to describe the situation of the parish (white) clergy in Russia in the period from 1917 to 1930-ies of XX century.
G. N. Khrapkov
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Ministry and stress : listening to Anglican clergy in Wales [PDF]

, 2011
This study set out to examine the experiences of stress in ministry among a sample of Anglican clergy serving in Wales. Building on recent quantitative studies of work-related psychological health among Anglican clergy in England, the study employed ...
Berry, Amanda, Francis, Leslie J., Rolph, Jenny, Rolph, Paul   +3 more
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NUNNERIES AND MONASTICISM AS A PART OF THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF RUSSIA OF THE IMPERIAL PERIOD (HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE STUDIES OF THE 18th-21st CENTURIES)

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2017
There is a historiographical introduction to the study of the history of nunneries and women’s monasticism as an urgent and promising topic that requires the consideration of the scientific experience accumulated by domestic and foreign science.
V. A. Sergunin
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Clergy attitudes toward vaccines and vaccine advocacy: a qualitative study

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2020
Background: Recent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases have affected members of religious communities. While major religions support vaccines, the views of individual clergy who practice and propagate major faith traditions are unclear.
Joshua T. B. Williams, Michael P. Fisher, Elizabeth A. Bayliss, Megan A. Morris, Sean T. O’Leary   +4 more
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Have Anglo-Catholics lost their vision for mission agencies? : an empirical enquiry among newly ordained clergy in Britain [PDF]

, 2012
Attitude toward Christian mission agencies was investigated in a sample of 827 Anglican clergy ordained in the UK from 2002 to 2006. The Scale of Attitude Toward Mission Agencies (SATMA) consisted of six items related to the work that agencies do, and ...
Andrew Village, Balleine, Bosch, Brierley, Bruce, Buchanan, Combe, Cox, Donovan, Door, Francis, Gledhill, Heelas, Henderson, Hilliard, Hylson-Smith, Johnson, Kline, Leech, Leslie J. Francis, Likert, Longridge, O'Connor, Schreiter, Scotland, Smith, Village, Village, Walker, Ward, Weller, Wilson, Yates   +32 more
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