Not exact matches
One prominent pastor personally committed to the position of the revisionists stated in a pastoral letter to his congregation that were the revisionists successful, those opposed to the
legitimization of homosexuality would be forced to make a painful decision: they could either remain within a church that would stand for an agenda they
found incompatible with obedience to Christ, or they could leave the church.
Unfortunately, as women, we have
found it difficult to persuade the churches and the ecumenical movement that the issue of violence against women is as much an issue of ecclesiology as is complicity in political conflicts, because women have been silent for too long and the churches too have been complicit by their often silence, but also by their sometimes
legitimization of the violence theologically.
There is growing interest in and
legitimization of theories that the chemical and thermal conditions
found in some vent waters may permit the synthesis of organic compounds.