Sentences with phrase «war side of the church»

I sit on the Total War side of the church for this marriage made in heaven.

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What will it mean for both sides in this debate — at least as it takes place among believers, in and for the church — to move beyond political ideologies and culture wars and stand together under God's word of law and gospel?

In the midst of the us - versus - them, with God on our side, the church membership grows... until everyone tires of the war, and the next generation abandons the church system in droves... saying «what does this have to do with Jesus?»

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

While most of his books since his move to that liberal aerie have dealt with American history, he has also joined the culture wars now raging inside the Catholic Church, and very much on the liberal side.

We would all like to believe that, had we lived in the days of the early church or the Protestant Reformation or the Civil War, we would have chosen the right side of things, but I think that's a bit presumptuous.

Proof that someone else watching The Pelican Brief decided that its great unplumbed racial subplots would be worth a Grisham picture of their own, enter the patently offensive A Time To Kill, underscoring its liberal screed by opening with caricatures of rednecks at war with caricatures of black people: basketball hoops on the one side, Confederate flags on the other; front - yard barbecues, late - night cross-burnings; marble halls of justice, raucous Baptist churches; Kevin Spacey's DA summation on the one side all superego, Matthew McConaughey's tear - jerking monologue on the other all soul.

Next to the church, the school of Sant Felip Neri still stands, and etched into the side of the building remain bomb wounds that fell from the sky in January, 1938 during the Spanish Civil War.