Sentences with phrase «religious congregations»

I work primarily with couples who have grown up in and / or currently attend a Christian or other religious congregation.

Religious congregations do change lives, but they are effective precisely because they are religious.

The women who founded religious congregations were considered radical in their day.

In this search for effective answers, the prevailing way of thinking about welfare and poverty has also cast a spotlight on religious congregations and the potential support they provide.

She also gives presentations in the areas of faculty prayer, planning and assessment, and serves as a facilitator of curriculum development and for religious congregation events and gatherings.

Early on, leaders of the movement worked to establish the legitimacy of environmental concern within religious congregations.

Here is another example: I have spent time over the years working with many organizations, including religious congregations, organizing for community improvements.

Schools, community organizations and religious congregations need to provide age - appropriate, medically accurate sexuality education for children, youth and parents.

After the severe mercy of his convalescence, God moved the recovered Spaniard to found what remains the largest and most influential religious congregation in the Catholic Church.

Using data from the U.S. Congregational Life Survey, a national sample of religious congregations and members, Stroope and his team, composed of two researchers from Hope College and Baylor University, measured the dependent variable of college completion and the independent variables of individual biblical literalism and congregational biblical literalism.

Del Rio is a leader in the fight against the Department of Education policy barring religious congregations from renting Sunday space in public schools.

No issue better crystallizes the unwillingness of progressive politicians in New York to confront religious bigotry squarely than the ongoing legal battle over the Department of Education's policy barring religious congregations from renting space in schools.

Then he explained: «We understood that abolishing the Institute would have damaged religious congregations who would have sustained a financial loss.

e.g. religious congregations founded in the 19th century may have orientation inadequate for the 21st century world.

In the United States, to what extent do religious congregations advocate a political party, candidate, or political spectrum (liberal vs conservative)?

Across NYC, financially strapped religious congregations, facing dwindling attendance and shrinking donations, are looking for other sources of revenue.

Singles relationship satisfies and even single Religious congregations!

Interfaith Power & Light is an organization helping thousands of diverse religious congregations limit their carbon emissions and organize campaigns to urge lawmakers to take action on climate change.

About 2,000 people from 26 religious congregations gathered on Thursday night for the 18th annual Nehemiah Action Assembly to discuss mental health care, drug addiction and gun violence.

Huffington Post: Most And Least Muslim States In America A study measuring religious bodies in the United States called the, «2010 U.S. Religious Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study (RCMS)» was recently released by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB).

Its chief object is to win back former churchgoers and assist those who have not previously belonged to any religious congregation in obtaining church membership.

We discussed his findings concerning social capital and the significance of those findings to religious congregations.

«The article, «Race, Diversity, and Membership Duration in Religious Congregations,» said that nine out of ten congregations in the U.S. are segregated — a single racial groups accounts for more than 80 percent of their membership.»

The article, «Race, Diversity, and Membership Duration in Religious Congregations,» said that nine out of ten congregations in the U.S. are segregated - a single racial groups accounts for more than 80 percent of their membership.

Other churches such as Santa Maria dei Miracoli, having lost their parishioners or religious congregations, have dispensed with the daily or weekly mass altogether and have become galleries of sacred art, with the occasional Vivaldi concert or upper - class wedding.

Gayle recently spoke with Father John Bartunek, a priest in the order of the Legion of Christ, a religious congregation.

Well humans are imperfect and flawed which is the main component of the religious congregation.

Many monasteries and religious congregations were dissolved; monastic vows were declared to be no longer binding.

The editorial described the many vital programs at Tabernacle, then went on to say that «on virtually every corner with a religious congregation in Indianapolis, the same kind of activity goes on seven days a week without any public fanfare or recognition.»

Should we anticipate an article from the political columns reposted here everytime a possible 2016 candidate meets with a religious congregation?

A third went to religious congregations, and 14 percent went to education.

It's the moving story of Bishop Carlton Pearson's personal journey from leading a religious congregation to being labeled a heretic.

On the other hand, there are religious congregations of all stripes that are trying to welcome LGBTQ members and, indeed, many gays and lesbians have been critical of Trembling Before G - d because the film doesn't consider that possibility within more liberal Jewish congregations for the film's subjects.

Schools in Texas and Los Angeles have worked with the Industrial Areas Foundation and member institutions that connect to parents of their students (e.g., religious congregations, labor unions, community groups) to gain neighborhood, city - wide, and state - wide improvements in these areas.

My kids go to a private school that's attached to a religious congregation.

Consider a marriage retreat or class offered by your religious congregation or respected community group.

At first, as Carol sat small and waiflike in a chair in front of me, I felt an internal pull to rescue her from her husband and her religious congregation — a road I knew I couldn't take without perpetuating her sense of insignificance.

In addition to his professional pursuits, Mr. Turner also serves as the voluntary leader of a religious congregation with over 400 members.

Inform members of your religious congregation, your children's sports leagues, your doctor, your insurance agent, your dry cleaner, and other service providers.