Sentences with phrase «christian culture problem»

We've got yet another Christian culture problem.

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It's not just a «Christian» problem though; it's also a culture problem.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

So the problem isn't just within the Christian tradition, but within our societies that have religions of all kinds woven into the very DNA of our cultures.

Previous chapters in the book have dealt with the relations of Christian ethics to the culture of our times in reference to family life, economic relations, race relations, political structures, and the problems of war and peace in the international scene.

It seems that, in the midst of black Christian outcry in 2013, the majority of white Christians pressed the snooze button on racial justice, sleepwalking into their churches where an individualistic gospel that doesn't call them to say or do anything about racial injustice is preached, where white culture, rather than Christ, reigns supreme, and where the problems and perspectives of black people are ignored.

Most Popular Comment: In response to «When God Chooses Your Logo,» Julie wrote: «Claiming to know God's specific will is one of my biggest problems with Christian culture.

And is this simply a PR problem for Christians, or do these numbers reflect a systemic problem with the way the Gospel is being interpreted by its followers in today's culture?

Miseducation, poor self - esteem and the failure of black Christians to understand and appreciate their own history and culture is a real problem in black churches.

@Madeup Interesting that you have a problem with incest because you were raised in a culture that shares Christian values regarding incest.

And more mystifying still, while the one (the necessity of a Christian Word to a culture in mortal distress) seems to call for a sure, a clear and a well - founded Christian theology of history, the other (the necessity of dialogue with other religions) seems to relativize, though it can not in the end dissolve, any particular religion's answer to culture's problems.

The Jewish and Christian traditions understand the problem of violence differently than does our therapeutic culture.

In their recent book, Heroism and the Christian Life, Brian Hook and Russell Reno have noted how Vergil's poem, certainly one of the formative epics of our culture, compels us to ponder what is the deepest problem in the idea of a vocation — namely, whether obedience to a divine summons diminishes or enhances the one who has been called.

12For an analysis of how Christian politicians and lawmakers could and should tackle these issues in these difficult times, see Fr (now Bishop) Anthony Fisher: «Some problems of conscience in lawmaking» in Culture of Life, Culture of Death, 2002.

What most people don't realize, however, is that the problem of sanitized Christian bookstores extends far beyond the inventory on the shelves to create an entire Christian subculture that is so sanitized and safe it often fails to produce art that is relevant to our culture or our lives.

Even more important, it shows the problem all Christians face in understanding the meaning of the gospel in their own cultures today.

I deal every day with the particulars of how Christians have negotiated their relationships to culture and can see countless illustrations of the problems inherent in describing these in any neat theological categories.

He wants to get at the problem of how Christian faith should be related to the dominant surrounding culture and to point out the various types of ways leading thinkers have addressed that problem.

Niebuhr himself recognized the additional type in which culture controls the church, but used it only to state the problem of defining what the Christian alternatives ought to he.

Third, all but one of Niebuhr's options take for granted that Christians have a common identity with the surrounding culture, that church and culture will mutually support each other, and if there are problems in the culture, Christians are responsible to fix them.

For better or worse, Christian conferences are a reflection of the Christian culture and so ultimately, the problem isn't that there aren't enough women in the typical conference lineup; the problem is that people planning the conferences aren't reading, listening to, and following women to begin with.