But it is precisely at this point that conservative Protestantism and
the American free churches have never fully accepted the reform of Luther and Calvin.
Not exact matches
«Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole
American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between
Church & State.»
When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to
free speech, and the ability to separate
church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing
American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.
The Catholic
Church has helped frame this year's election by strenuously opposing a rule in President Obama's health care law that requires insurance companies to provide
free contraception coverage to nearly all
American employees, including those at Catholic colleges and hospitals.
To complicate the picture, we have to acknowledge that the Catholic
Church today represents the largest single religious community in the United States, while American Catholics have absorbed the free - church traditions on the relation between the Church and politics, believing that a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a
Church today represents the largest single religious community in the United States, while
American Catholics have absorbed the
free -
church traditions on the relation between the Church and politics, believing that a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a
church traditions on the relation between the
Church and politics, believing that a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a
Church and politics, believing that a
Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a
Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a whole.
Unable to preach, write or travel without the permission of the Turkish government, Demetrios could not have come to Jerusalem without the influence of the
American Orthodox primate, Archbishop Jakovos, leader of the
free, rich and powerful Greek Orthodox
Church in North and South America.
Thomas Jefferson wrote, «I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole
American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between
Church & State.
The Christian dualism of saved soul and unsaved body in one and the same
church became embodied in the
American dualism of
free and unfree in one and the same country.
While Euro -
American established and «mainstream» denominations appear puzzled and foundering, the «
free churches» on multiple continents are flourishing.
While the
American Republic had no established
church, the
American state took a positive and benign attitude toward the full,
free, and quite visibly public exercise of religion, not least at major state functions and national celebrations.
Until a far greater percentage of churchgoing
Americans and Canadians have become more articulate about the faith, it is absurd to imagine that North
American church folk could stand back from their sociological moorings far enough to detach what Christians profess from the mish - mash of modernism, secularism, pietism, and
free - enterprise democracy with which Christianity in our context is so fantastically interwoven.
Why is the Catholic
Church trying to guilt trip U.S. of
American Catholic citizen and our Government into allowing illegal immigrants a
free ride into the United States of America?
In other ways also the
churches in the New World seem to be «
American» or «democratic» and to participate primarily in the common life of the «
free society.»
After 22 years in the pastoral ministry in the Presbyterian
Church in the United States (PCUS), it seems obvious to me that the
American Protestant pulpit is anything but
free.
And then one afternoon one of the men at the
American Lutheran
Church office said to me, «Hey, do you suppose you could shake your schedule
free to go to Garden Grove to attend the First
American Convocation on
Church Growth, led by Robert Schuller?»
«Believing... that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole
American people which declared that their Legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between
Church and State.»
Yet it may still be true that making
free exercise a reality for
Americans of all religious affiliations requires a minimization of contact between
church and state, and that separation might be helpful as a metaphor in those contexts.
But whether one affirms or questions the appropriateness of separation as a metaphor; whether one looks to the original intent of our constitutional authors and their allies or views the law as an evolving entity; whether one points to establishment or
free exercise as the key to
American religious liberty, Hamburger's Separation of
Church and State is a book destined to ensure that the argument continues.
While in voluntary service in 1969, I was helping serve daily breakfast to African -
American children when ci ty police detective spread false rumors about us to the suppliers who were donating food to our
church - run program, and the
free food stopped temporarily.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole
American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between
church and State.
Classical liberalism, the philosophy formed in the Enlightenment by thinkers like John Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau, and providing the driving force for both the
American Revolution and the French Revolution, which states that the autonomy of the individual should be maximized, and the individual should be
freed from whatever institutions are preventing them from reaching their potential, be it the
Church or the State.
District 1 votes at the
American Legion Hall on Mountain Road, District Two polls at the Olive
Free Library in West Shokan, District 3 votes at the Samsonville United Methodist
Church, District 4 votes at the Olivebridge Fire hall, and District 5 polls at the Boiceville Fire House on Route 28.
He moved to end an internal Democratic divide that had kept Republicans in control of the State Senate, made a flurry of speeches in African -
American churches and pressed for expanded «
free» college tuition and the end of cash bail for certain crimes.
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