Sentences with phrase «faith leaders for»

Baltimore, M.D. — Today, Pastor Michael Phillips, coalition member for Faith Leaders for Excellent Schools released the following statement in response to Gov. Hogan's veto of the Protect Our Schools Act of 2017.

Appearing on NY1's Inside City Hall, Ms. Mark - Viverito dismissed demands from tenants and faith leaders for Ms. Olatoye to step down over increasingly long waits for basic maintenance work.

Not exact matches

Despite criticisms against religion, every major faith tradition in the world has core principles and values that can serve as an anchoring ethos for entrepreneurs and leaders.

European leaders said at an emergency summit Monday in Brussels that Tsipras is finally getting serious after being criticized for lacking good faith in earlier talks.

What you seem to be arguing for is a direct inputting of information into Luke's mind, which you are expecting me to take on faith when various cult leaders all claim to have the same link to God telling them to sleep with young girls, and so on.

Leaders of the Christian community saw this as an extremely grave threat to the faith; and, for this reason they fled the comforts of society and chose to live in solitude and want in remote parts of the world (such as Syria and northern Africa).

The emerging understanding of how widespread sexual violence is, especially in conflict situations, also points to transmission routes; the potential for moral and pragmatic leadership by faith leaders is enormous.

Donald Trump replied at the time on Facebook: «For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful.

For their part, the protest leaders included no church representatives and did not appeal to the Orthodox faith to justify their stand.

Leaders from the Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths have joined forces to call for more action to tackle climate change.

There are many of us who are weaker than we realize, and in an effort to be heard and enjoy some personal accolades as a leader of the faith, are; but only to look foolish for narrow - mindedness, cultural irrelevance, or logically flawed expressions of theology.

The colors of the various robes each have a symbolic meaning, e.g red for the cardinals, signifies that as a leader of the Church they are willing to die for the faith.

Advocates of a mass amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens, under the banner of «comprehensive immigration reform,» seldom fail to mention «church leaders» and «faith groups» as part of their «coalition.»

For true Christianity we understand based on Jesus» prophecy in the book of Matthew the 24 chapter verses 11 and 12 that many would leave their faith because of the hypocrisy of their leaders and truly not being able to help mankind out as a whole.

makes you wonder if anyone has actualy been to a cub scout or boyscout meeting or walked with them in a paraide, or put flags on soilders graves, atended a funeral for a leader of there pack, I have and I always saw young boys become men and outstndind americans I have and not one time did they mention who or what faith they were!!

In a statement issued by the Patriarchates of Antioch and all the East for the Greek Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, and Greek - Melkite Catholic Damascus, the faith leaders questioned the legality behind the move.

For many youth in America, faith - based organizations and spiritual leaders are a major source of support and mentoring.

But I would encourage church leaders eager to win millennials back to sit down and really talk with them about what they're looking for and what they would like to contribute to a faith community.

Boehner, Catholic by faith and Republican by party, was able to garner enough votes in the House for the passage of HR 1, the House budget proposal that has drawn the ire of many religious leaders.

«This important research affirms that church leaders broadly agree our faith compels us to care sacrificially for refugees, but also finds that relatively few congregations are actively engaged in doing so,» said Stephan Bauman, president of World Relief.

Although Hoffman was nominated for Oscars twice for playing religious figures - a Catholic priest in «Doubt» in 2009, a cult leader in «The Master» in 2012 - his own faith wasn't widely known.

All can be seen as genuine reflections of Obama's faith and his appreciation for the role of religious leaders in public life.

The statement from Graham came in response to a letter from faith leaders associated with the NAACP that said Graham's statements «have enormous negative effects for America and are especially harmful to the Christian witness.»

Americans need to come together, and people of faith should lead the way, by praying diligently for our leaders whether or not they agree with them or their policies.»

If you're a church leader wondering why some sermons are not delivering what you hope they will; an evangelist who wants to present faith in a way that connects; an employee wanting to persuade your boss; or a young person preparing for an interview, then mastering the five prompts of the Centre Brain is essential.

But all three — Abraham, the unnamed woman and the synagogue leader — possessed a living faith and sensed that God would perform a sign of new life for them.

While personal relationships could form across confessional lines» families hired servants from other communities, for example» and while some religious leaders encouraged respect and compassion for members of other faiths, the relationship among Christians, Muslims, and Jews was hardly a model of cooperation.

Once you cast your vote for a cult leader you have given him your approval to take your soul and baptize you in the Morman faith.

Before the election, many evangelical leaders predicted that opposition to Obama over his support for abortion rights, his personal endorsement of same - sex marriage and his vision of government as a force for good would trump reservations evangelicals had about Romney's past social liberalism and his Mormon faith.

Hall said political leaders have been «in terror of the gun lobby,» but now they need to know that faith communities such as his are willing to stand behind efforts to push for gun control.

On the other hand, the danger of losing the specifics of their faith has led others to follow leaders who call for closure.

Most so called» religious wars» were nothing more than atheistic leaders trying in vain to use God for there immmoral purposes and had nothing to do with True faith at all.

And when Evangelical leaders regard an emphasis on the ordinary means of grace as jeopardizing the Christian faith while going easy on, for example, serious deviations from Nicene teaching on the Trinity, they have traveled a long way from the concerns of the Reformers.

Hell the so called «Christian» Leaders don't even look out for women of their own faith much less any outside group.

So, in honor of the new addition to Team Evans, I'm joining Melinda Gates, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kay Warren, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and host of other Christian advocates in their support of an organization called Hope Through Healing Hands, and in particular the Faith Based Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the wFaith Based Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the wfaith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the world.

He is the co-founder and director of Ohio Prophetic Voices, a movement of faith leaders and clergy engaged in a biblically rooted struggle for economic and racial justice.

The Need To Develop It remains strange that so many of the Church's leaders seem incurious to the opportunity of science for the Faith, as the potential impact of science on society (for good and ill) becomes ever more important with each passing year.

While only about a third of American evangelical leaders said they currently experience persecution for their faith, more than twice as many believe they will experience persecution in the form of social, financial, and political pressure in the years ahead, according to an NAE survey conducted in October.

«It was encouraging to see a religiously and racially diverse audience of faith leaders standing with the president, calling for comprehensive immigration reform,» said Sojourners president Jim Wallis.

The transition comes in the midst of a time of reinvention for InterVarsity, as campuses across the country begin to challenge the faith groups» belief requirements for leaders.

«Faith - based groups reacted to the terrorist leader's death with renewed sympathy for victims» families, scriptural citations justifying the demise of evil, and hopeful prayers for peace among the nations,» stated the RNA release.

These are people of conviction, people whose faith is important to them and who long for the approval of their religious leaders and the favor of God.

For leaders who betray their Catholic faith and stray far from the Truth,....

In a BBC Radio 4 interview, Justin Welby called for faith leaders to take responsibility for countering tragedies committed in the name of religion.

All theological education, the paideia of the community of faith, be it for church leader or believer, is centrally an education in theologia as an appraising, assessing activity [p. 186].

For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful.

While similar trends affect almost every American religion, Jewish leaders say the new survey spotlights several unique obstacles for the future of their faith.

But as they emerge as leaders of our society, they can find in the now somewhat despised and ignored liberal theology important resources for relating the legitimate concerns of Christian faith to the pressing problems of our time.

Can faith, for example in the virgin birth, lead to faith in other untested facts like, 2 + 2 = 5, or to following our leaders into a pointless war that permits torture of other humans?

At a time when their colleagues who spoke for the church were conspicuously incapable of giving the faith a good account in the eyes of the learned, the Vanderbilt academics preferred to dissociate themselves from their religious leaders rather than take up their cause as allies and persuade them that sound scholarship was God's good servant too.