Sentences with phrase «about forcing churches»

Sorry to interrupt the crazy, but no one is talking about forcing churches to marry gays.

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My understanding, as well as from what I've read about my church, is that God is the guiding force behind such phenomenons we learn about when we practice and study science to understand the natural world.

Even as they sound the trumpet for battle, many conservatives acknowledge that theirs is a holding action, and that the 1997 General Convention may force a decision about continuing membership in the Episcopal Church.

Any Christian poet caught blathering about «the innocence of childhood» should be forced to read St. Augustine's Confessions and made to work twenty hours in the church nursery.

On Wednesday, October 20, 1993, an AP story about the task force's draft of a social teaching statement, «The Church and Human Sexuality: A Lutheran Perspective,» hit the press around the country - even before the pastors had received their copies.

Married people and parents, almost all of them by now survivors of the sexual revolution, weren't asking for the task force's kind of help, and homosexuals will not be assisted by the church's lying about Scripture.

CNN: Files may reveal what the Catholic Church in Los Angeles knew about sex abuse A California judge has forced the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to release some 12,000 pages of church documents revealing how it handled allegations of priest sexual Church in Los Angeles knew about sex abuse A California judge has forced the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to release some 12,000 pages of church documents revealing how it handled allegations of priest sexual church documents revealing how it handled allegations of priest sexual abuse.

This is not about trying to force churches to accept us or to marry us, this is about religion waging a campaign against the gay community to demonize us in order to get their voting congregation to pass laws that deny us equal rights.

The statement continued, «Indeed, this is not about the church wanting to force anybody to do anything; it is instead about the federal government forcing the church — consisting of its faithful and all but a few of its institutions — to act against church teachings.»

It is still possible to remain divided in opinion, for example, about the right age for Confirmation or first Confession, even if the Church has laid down some definite practice with greater or less binding force.

If you read about Paul's comments on celibacy it is a rare «calling» and not something one is forced into because the church decides this is how you should conduct yourself.

In these three vignettes of the church confronting the world, we are forced to think anew about what we Christians have to offer and how it can be offered in a pluralistic, increasingly alienated and empty world.

People of goodwill do not take umbrage at the claim that such elements are «gifts belonging to the Church of Christ [and] are forces impelling toward catholic unity,» although they have their own ideas about what form that unity should take.

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

I love that my family cares alot about me learning religion but forcing it on me soo young and not letting me develop and interest has drawn me away from going to church every week.

As an atheist, I am not interested in forcing anything on anyone, other than being «fundamentalist» about separation of church and state.

I feel a warm glow and a sense of affirmation when I learn of churches which are eliminating sexist language from their worship services and liturgy, of ministers who are studying and preaching about feminist theology and the Mother - Father God, of consciousness - raising groups and task forces on sexism in the church.

Not only did these converts encounter resistance within the Church, they were forced to rethink many of their own assumptions about the inscrutable ways of God.

Creating a website forces you to think through what is more important about your church, and then organize it in a logical and orderly way.

The purpose of our Armed Forces is not about building churches and stomping around according to their manipulative and subversive machinations behind the scenes using simple mind - control techniques against our own military's usage of mind - control in training.

When the dam of past episcopal miscreance broke in Boston last January, district attorneys began to be more assertive about the possible complicity of bishops in criminal acts, and bishops felt forced to compromise traditional and legal prerogatives related to the Church's right to govern itself.

Given what historians and exegetes now generally take for granted about the composition of the New Testament, the distinction between «Scripture» and «tradition» breaks down; and one is forced to decide either for a traditional New Testament canon that one can no longer justify by the early church's own criterion of apostolicity or else for this same criterion of canonicity that now allows one to justify only a nontraditional canon.

I listened when learning about our founding fathers and that their push for independence was correlated to the British government forcing the King's church and it's beliefs on folks, and I realized the need for separation of church and state.

A child disclosing abuse may be removed from the home, forced to live with strangers, may have to endure an uncomfortable medical examination, may have to speak with adults about uncomfortable sexual matters, and will often be ostracized by their families, and in their homes, schools and churches.

Then the senior pastor told me «everyone in the church has issues with you, no one can be bothered to speak to you about it — I could force you to leave but I haven't»!

Nor about the fact that no one is forcing Churches to perform gay marriages.

- Christian liberal arts college which forced at least two professors to resign for legalistic reasons - Non-denominational church in which several of us who were leaving after a Sunday School class to attend worship services at another church were confronted by the main pastor in the parking lot who literally blocked our exit until we satisfied his curiousity about why we were leaving.

Among the ridiculous claims Brown forwards is that «the Church» — by which he means the «sinister» forces of Opus Dei and the Vatican — is bent on destroying the «Sangreal documents» by any means, including violence, because they allegedly reveal the secret truths about Jesus» marriage to Mary Magdalene and disclose the grail's true identity.

I have said little about how changes in our society, the church and my own life have forced me to think about things differently or to think about matters I had not imagined when I began.

It has finally to do with agreements about what the church ought to do in the society, when and how, and the allocation of resources and the co-ordination of forces to put proposals into action.

Police Scotland is the first UK force to issue a direct appeal to churches and other places of worship about their security measures.

Can we say «history aided, prompted, or forced the Church to recognize what exactly constitutes the truth of a doctrine,» and what about the prompting and directing role of the Holy Spirit?

And when Paul writes about «the word» (Colossians 1:5, 1 Thessalonians 2:13), he means «the story of Jesus (particularly his death and resurrection), told as the climax of the story of God and Israel and thus offering itself as both the true story of the world and the foundation and energizing force for the church's mission.»

In light of this history, I am ambivalent about Van Engen's suggestion that the Task Force attempt to describe what a missional church might look like.

And, although he suggests several ways in which Gloria and her World Outreach Task Force might go about thinking about mission and developing a definition for their church, he does not elaborate a procedure or framework for actually doing it.

Second, as we are all weak against the forces of ignorance and evil, we must join forces with all others who share our moral concern about the development of our society, whatever church they belong to or even if they do not belong to any church.

Karl Barth understood this well when he wrote: «Strange as it may seem, it is still true, that those who fail to understand other churches than their own are not the people who care intensely about theology, but the theological dilettantes, eclectics, and historians of all sorts; while those very men who have found themselves forced to confront a clear, thoroughgoing, logical sic et non find themselves allied to each other in spite of all contradictions, by an underlying fellowship and understanding, even in the cause which they handle so differently and approach from such painfully different angles.

I make no judgement about something which, as a non-member, is no concern of mine; but if I were a member, then I should be forced to say that, in my opinion, if men were to be stationed at the doors of churches with whips to drive worshippers away, or inside the religious orders specifically to discourage vocations, or among the clergy to spread alarm and despondency, they could not hope to be as effective in achieving these ends as are trends and policies seemingly now dominant within the Church.

A little later my dad came in and sat down on the edge of the bed and said quietly that we should have a conversation about Sunday Mass, and probably I was now old enough to make my own decisions about attending Mass, that he and my mother did not think it right or fair to force that decision on us children, that we needed to find our own ways spiritually, and that while he and our mother very much hoped that we would walk in the many rewarding paths of the Church, the final decision there would be ours alone, each obeying his own conscience; that was only right and fair, and to decree attendance now would perhaps actually force us away from the very thing that he and my mother found to be the most nutritious spiritual food; so perhaps you and I and your mother can sit and discuss this later this afternoon, he said, and come to some amicable agreement.

Thus the Vestries in America soon gained effective control of the spirituals as well as the temporals of the churches, largely through assuming power to hire and set the salary of the clergyman, plus a studied neglect of presenting him to the Governor for permanent induction into the «living» until forced to do so.14 «In 1697 the Arch - bishop of Canterbury expressed surprise that the clergymen might «be removed like domestic servants by a vote of the Vestry,»»15 but obviously neither he nor anyone could do anything about it.

I was talking to a person if he went to church and he stated all they want is your money.You got to give your money to read books about GOD, I mean like thirty dollars and more and the same for a dvd or like if you could give 1,000 or more to keep on the air.He and I both think we are better off stay at home and read the Bible and study it.I think if you are born with the new sperit of GOD you will understand the Bible without the loss of great somes of money.After they sell so many dvds it becomes 100 % profit and they never lower the price so can obtain one.For this is wrong, it states in the Bible that this would happen preachers for money to learn about everyones GOD.They forgot one thing JESUS never forced money from you to hear the wordof salvation Im a follower of JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD He is the way.Im not a so called Christian just.

Also at 5 p.m., NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito holds a «Melissa Meet Up» to celebrate Black History Month, meeting at the Elmendorf Reformed Church with members of the African Burial Ground Task Force to learn about the African burial ground discovered in the neighborhood, 171 East 121st St., Manhattan.

Religion, specifically the Catholic Church here, should be a force for good in the world — as concerned about the corporal well - being of its followers as it is with the welfare of their souls.

Records about Indigenous people have been created by a range of organisations and individuals, such as welfare and protection boards, adoption agencies, education and health departments, police forces, churches, missionaries, anthropologists and other academic researchers.