Sentences with phrase «christian right work»

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Debates over how far to go in restricting abortion will likely extend all the way up to the Republican presidential primary, with likely candidates already working hard for Christian Right support.

Release International is an advocacy movement on behalf of the persecuted church, formerly known as Christian Mission to the Communist World which is part of the International Christian Association, a global alliance of fifty ministries working among the persecuted church These organisations will often urge readers to write to their MP or the appropriate ambassador to register concern at the way human rights are being flouted.

The Christian Right are working toward their Christian Nation.

And Christians are also working to improve rule of law; a disproportionate number of Chinese rights lawyers are Christian.

Step four: Political elections with Christians thinking to just «Shut that whole thing down» and «Evolution is a lie from hell» Step five: Find out that liking the male genitals is a horrid thing, right next to working on sunday Step six: Crack a beer, stop caring.

It is the right of nations and governments to go to war and execute criminals, but Christians should always be pleading and seeking for a middle ground between Pacifism and Just War (For an excellent proposal on how this works, I highly recommend Walter Wink's book, Engaging the Powers.

In the meantime, those who pander to the Christian right have worked to keep the people suffering in this «temporary» world.

In my book, Dying to Religion and Empire, I talk about how some Christians view baptism as a magical incantation in which the right words need to be said in order for the magic spell to actually work.

• «What is the biblical view and Christian experience of the operation of the Holy Spirit, and is it right and helpful to understand the work of God outside the Church in terms of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit?»

Joseph Allen's Love and Conflict: A Covenantal Model of Christian Ethics (Abingdon, 1984) connects God's general covenant with humanity to the specific covenant Christians know in Jesus Christ, and to the particular obligations, duties and rights that have to be worked out in political, economic, personal and ecumenical life.

CNN: Amid Orthodox Christmas, Egypt's Christians fear for their rights under Islamist government Orthodox Christmas was January 7, but the mood in Cairo's working - class Shobra district this year was somber.

I will do my part make sure that President Obama returns to the Whitehouse and continues to work for the Middle Class who have been deluded by the Republican Party and the so called Christian Right these past 30 years.

Christian education is in the world and for the world... man must work out his salvation in the concrete situation in which God has placed him; not by protection but by contributing to the whole human community of which he is an integral and inseparable part... parents, who have the first and the inalienable right and duty to educate their children, should enjoy true freedom in the choice of their schools, etc..»

For many nominal Catholics may not live a Christian life at all and may be quite uninterested in the Church, but might nevertheless claim their right to vote for electoral bodies precisely in order to work against the interests of the Church.

Unfortunately, most churches and Christians in the United States abandoned their right to prophecy and responsible pastoral work in a post-Vietnam assessment.

Right wing Christians have better things to worry about, such as the dilapidation of their churches and their charity work and their families.

Latin American Christians demand the right to think through the faith in the light of their own situation, to set their own theological agenda and work out their own responses to the questions of the region.

Yet, militant right - wing Christians, in a most uncharitable and un-Christian manner are working through the ignorant Tea Party and narrow - mnided GOP party to try and legislate morality and take away others» freedoms who do not believe as they do.

Court has hit the headlines with her vocal opposition to same - sex marriage while she told a Christian radio station on Wednesday that transgenderism was the work of the devil and compared a global plot to promote equal sexual rights to Hitler.

You Do know he was a devout Christian who specifically dedicated ALL his works to his Christian God right?

So during a recent House agricultural committee debate, he decided to show how Christian it is to turn your back on unemployed suffering Americans by quoting one of the favorite Bible passages of revoltingly fake right - wing Christians — 2 Thessalonians 3:10 — «anyone unwilling to work should not eat.»

They work hard at their jobs, pay their taxes, worship in Christian churches and as Americans have the right to love whom they want and legally bond in that relationship.

Later, in Reflections on America, Maritain wrote: «The Founding Fathers were neither metaphysicians nor theologians, but their philosophy of life, and their political philosophy, their notion of natural law and of human rights, were permeated with concepts worked out by Christian reason and backed up by an unshakeable religious feeling.»

While I find this situation as intolerable as any right thinking human being should, I find it interesting that when the victim is Christian so many Christians come out of the wood work.

Psychosis / most psychiatric illnesses often arise in adolescence or in early adult life however 75 per cent of children with mental health disorders / issues do not get the help they need — I fell into that 75 per cent, I was misdiagnosed by a doctor and then the self - induced trance - like altered state of consciousness induced by intense / deep meditation and prayer coupled with the theology about how prayer and God work in a Christian's life (more on this below) just pushed me right over the edge.

You stand up for Muslim holidays... are you aware that many Christians don't even get their holidays off, many hard working Americans are forced to work during their holidays... I'm all for equality, but you are preaching to cater to Muslims, in effect, giving them more rights to holidays than their Christian counterparts.

Mark: Wow, christmas is not christian and why the hell shouldn't I celebrate when you do??? I have to take the day off of work, so you're damn right I'm going to celebrate on the day it is.

He showed us how to work for freedom in circumstances rather tougher than we are currently experiencing in Britain, and he showed us that the public celebration of the Faith - processions, open - air Masses, youth events - plays a central role in achieving or affirming the rights of Christians.

Just what has South Africa's religious guardians of political orthodoxy all worked up is revealed in The Road to Damascus» charge that «right - wing Christians» are guilty of «vicious attacks against liberation theology.»

CSW»S chief executive Mervyn Thomas said Christians in Vietnam constantly have their right to freedom of religion violated and added that the work these activists have done have been paramount to defending the rights of citizens.

CSW has been advocating on behalf of Christian human rights lawyer #NguyenVanDai since 2007, due to the discrimination, harassment and violence that he has faced a the hands of the #Vietnamese government for his work.

The other is to define being a Christian in terms extraneous to moral qualities, as by right beliefs or church membership or faithful observance of the sacraments or some metaphysical change assumed to be wrought by conversion.

They needed the Christian Democrats in order to carry out this project, although they will also work with ARENA [a right - wing party with close ties to the death squads].

Rev. C.T. Vivian, who worked with King at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, says King would have championed gay rights today.

What it means is that the assurance of our health — spiritual health, right relationship with God, adjustment to things as they really are — is given, and only given, as positive assurance within the Christian community because the Christian community, in its deepest meaning, is the continuing of God's saving work, His health - giving action, through Christ himself.

Britain will argue that the two Christian women at the center of the case had the option of quitting their jobs and working elsewhere, so they are not covered by European human rights law, according to legal papers obtained by CNN.

Addressing the topic of good works, A. F. Christian encourages the atheists to emphasize what Christians have done wrong rather than anything the atheists have done right.

For example, she is quick to criticize the British evangelicals who were the first to work for humane treatment of animals in the West by claiming they were informed by «a certainty that Christian culture was the only true and right way to live.»

I often find «Christian Dramas» cheesey but not this one for some reason — I've watched it 4 or 5 times and I cry every time — as far as how you interpret what Jesus should or should not being doing during this presentation that is up to the artist who created the work — there is no right or wrong answer here.

This right - wing faction has promoted the school prayer amendment to the Constitution and similar initiatives to declare America a «Christian nation»; it is working intently to bring about a constitutional convention at which its representatives could propose curtailments of various freedoms, is drafting laws to confer official favor on specific religious establishments.

That statement would not have happened without the relentless, persistent work of human rights campaigner Nina Shea, who has lobbied for redress for persecuted Christians in the Middle East with a tenacity that deserves the highest respect.

Since there is salvation outside the visible church — since, that is to say, Christ is somehow working outside organized Christianity — and if non-Christians have a right to know God's «whole plan of salvation» for Christians, then it follows that Christians have an obligation to know God's plan of salvation for those outside the visible church, for those who are not preordained to become professing Christians.

Zhisheng is a prominent Christian human rights lawyer best known for his work defending persecuted social groups but was sentenced to three years in prison charged with «inciting to subvert the state power» in December 2006.

This is not Gays VS Christians (or any religion - How fox news of CNN to go there) and it is NOT about what a CEO speaks — this is about people protesting a chain because they do not want the money they pay for a sandwich to go to extreme groups who hate GAYS and work very hard to make sure the gay people do not have the same rights as straight people.

This, however, is less likely to be resolute under strain than that which admits freely that love does not always «work,» but holds that it is right and Christian regardless of the outcome.

Ross the bible is quite clear that it is not by works that we are saved but by the finished work of Christ.We are saved the moment we accept Christ.Can you say that you stopped sinning the moment you accepted Christ i certainly did nt it was ingrained in my old nature.When we have the holy spirit he helps us to be transformed into Christ likeness that process is sanctification.You are right there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus.The bible says that Jesus and the father are in heaven and the holy spirit is with believers though they are one they are also separate individuals.As far as sin is concerned we can not in our own strength live a christian life it is impossible only though trusting the holy spirit by accepting Jesus can we live a life as overcomers.If we choose to accept sin in our lives after becoming christians then we can not become overcomers i think people accept Christ for the benefits and then live there lives for themselves i used to.I do nt know about but how is it going are you overcoming sin in your life or i know i am able because the holy spirit helps me.I do nt have to try anymore i just have to believe that through Christ the holy spirit empowers me to do that which i cant.I appreciate your comments.regards brentnz

The Christian religious freedom group argues that, as a person of faith and as an artist, Phillips has the right to use discretion in the projects he works on — particularly when they oppose his religious beliefs.

When Paul said that no man can ever get into a right relationship with God through works he is certainly thin king of the initial step of the Christian life.

Your boy - really smacks of alot of reverence?Franklin Graham has done many great things, such as head up a ministry called Samaritans Purse, which has done incredible work towards disaster relief.What have you done?He simply speaks the truth which is that this President has done more to distance himself against evangelical Christians by supporting liberal causes, using the world's largest stage to promote gay rights, and too many issues to mention that Mr.Obama's faith, or lack of, is obvious to everyone.Not to mention that he is the son of Billy Graham.

Most importantly, a book with this sub-title should have included arguments that confront the bishops» working presuppositions about poverty and wealth, the nature of the Christian duty to the poor, and such terms as «economic rights,» «redistribution,» and «social justice.»