Sentences with phrase «about school prayer»

For thirty years the debate about school prayer was cast in stone.

The reason we worry about school prayer and holiday displays is that they can have and convey a «social meaning» of «disparagement.»

Now, to be fair, they'll pretty much leave you alone as long as you don't «stir things up» like complaining about school prayer, especially at the HS football game.

Not exact matches

When Santorum or Rick Perry was the nominee it was all about social issues and bringing us back to being a «Christian nation» in good standing with God for the Republicans, we heard a never ending drumbeat about abortion, prayer in schools, teaching creationism, and trying to end funding for planned parenthood, even stopping the funding of birth control.

It amazes me that many on the left cry out about separation of church and state when arguing against prayer in school or the words in god we trust on money.

Right wing conservative types have a Jesus who is against gay marraige, is anti-abortion, thinks there should be prayer in school, and teaches the prosperity stuff and so on... Left wing liberal Christians quote the verses about giving up possessions, feeding and clothing the poor... inner city Christians often have a Jesus who is about social justice... we were made in His image?

@SeanNJ, I would think the meetings would primarily be about educating the public on the separation of church and state and opposing religious encroachment on the public / government arena, e.g. creationism / ID in the science classroom, ten commandments displays in government buildings, school sanctioned prayer or religious activities.

«During early adulthood, about half of Boomers (51 %) and Gen Xers (54 %) said they approved of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that banned the required reading of the Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools; 56 % of Millennials took this view in 2008.»

Bondi, who teaches at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, recently wrote Memories of God (Abingdon) and is now working on a book about prayer titled In Ordinary Time.

I didn't see this applying to any legislative act, nor did I see that this was a conversation about funding, The case you are siting was a school system FORCING kids to say a particular prayer.

The scholar metaphor is useful for worship and Bible study, but books like Andrew Murray's With Christ in the School of Prayer don't have much to say about faithfulness in the workplace.

And of course there would be those on the right, advocating for Muslim prayer in schools, not worrying about how the few Christian children might be impacted, and doing whatever they can to write bits of Sharia into the law of the land.

And only about one in three know that a public school teacher is allowed to teach a comparative religion class - although nine out of 10 know that teacher isn't allowed by the Supreme Court to lead a class in prayer.

I want to introduce my kids to a God who is both personal and public, a God who hears their prayers about being afraid to go down the slide at school and who also cares about the systems of injustice and oppression in this world.

They took prayer out of schools and just about everything else.

Because if God can respond to a prayer about high school football team and at the same time go silent to prayers for the healing of a little girl, what kind of God is He?

Btw, what about those Christian fundies that are always trying to get prayer in schools, the Ten Commandments on the walls in schools and public buildings, etc?

Then the crazy atheists started screaming about prayer in the schools... on and on.

Louis Fisher surveys the full sweep of U.S. history» from colonial debates about religious liberty to modern judicial, legislative, and executive positions on the status of conscientious objection, compulsory flag salutes, school prayer, Indian religious practices, and the religious use of peyote.

This school prayer room is also the local mosque for about 100 families in the area, and adults join the children for prayers at noon on Fridays.

Tried to talk with them about it, but they're too busy asking me for things, and they never get around to listening... wouldn't like what I'd say if they did shut up for moment... think I'll send a mass email... (no, did that the other day to another group of my followers, the ones who continue to blame Satan and the Atheists for getting prayer and «God» out of the public schools... they just deleted the email as SPAM: 0 -LRB-...

A woman in a class on prayer, when asked to remember her first spiritual experience, told the instructor that she could not remember anything about a time of prayer, but what was flooding her mind and heart was a school girl's memory.

The right - wing faction has promoted the school prayer amendment to the Consitituion and similar initiatives to declare America a «Christian nation;» it is workingintently to bring about a constitutional convention at which its representatives could propose curtailments of various freedoms; is drafting laws to confer official favor on specific religious establishments.

not to mention that he said he has no issue with ignoring a supreme court ruling about banning prayer in schools

This right - wing faction has promoted the school prayer amendment to the Constitution and similar initiatives to declare America a «Christian nation»; it is working intently to bring about a constitutional convention at which its representatives could propose curtailments of various freedoms, is drafting laws to confer official favor on specific religious establishments.

I believe she is refering to the very Vocal Churches and Christians who have for 30 years been hollaring and screamin about the issues of prayer in public schools abortions and the anti- gay verbage we been hearing for so long... nearly every day somthing is beign said on these issues you must be mr. van winkle..

Much that they have been taught about prayer, in school or at home or from sermons, does not speak to their condition; they wonder if it really matters at all.

I would think the Evangelicals would not worry about whether firearms are banned, but, would prayer in schools have kept this tragedy from happening?

To the Republican it is about control and restoring America to its Christian foundation, ending abortion on demand, restoring the sancti ty of marriage, reinstating school prayer, seeing that the various citizenry know their place and taking out the garbage.

See what she thinks about prayer in schools, abstinence education, intel design in schools.

To come was an apology for comments he made earlier in the week about students in Catholic schools who «have fun saying» their «Catholic prayers.»

Poway, CA About Blog Moms in Prayer International gathers mothers together to pray for children and schools.

A quick montage of prayers and pledges of allegiance and scripture readings, for example, captures the Catholic high school experience in about a minute of screen time.

And when they do talk about education, both Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Duke focus on support of parental choice, school prayer, and the teaching of values — all positions Mr. Bush takes, too, albeit without the...

Media reports of courthouse controversies involving school prayer, the posting of the Ten Commandments, and ACLU challenges to Nativity scenes on public squares — coupled with challenges about the types of music the school choir is permitted to present during the holiday season — often skew rational thought about the importance of teaching about religion.

However we feel personally about prayer in school, whatever legislators say about the legality of a particular patriotic message, if even one of our students feels excluded from the patriotic experiences enjoyed by his or her classmates, then we are not fulfilling our responsibility as educators.

The Republican Party's election gains will make public schools even more of a battlefield over social issues such as student prayer, participants in a forum here last week about church - state separation predicted.

In 2006 about 57 percent of nonteachers were against the Supreme Court's ban on school prayer, while only 36 percent of teachers opposed it.

Concerns about schools highlighted in the report included Friday prayers broadcast through schools but stopped during Ofsted visits, banning Christmas celebrations and complaints that female staff were not treated equally.

Seton employees must be excited about being part of a rich Catholic community in which prayer, church teachings, and Mass are interwoven into classroom instruction and school culture.

Poway, CA About Blog Moms in Prayer International gathers mothers together to pray for children and schools.

At one point in time, many grade - schoolers fantasized about a fighting game where their favorite video game characters like Mario and Pikachu would duke it out, and then Nintendo answered their prayers with Super Smash Bros..

While serving as a dorm parent at the Black Forest Academy, a school in Germany for the children of international Christian workers and international business families who want a North American curriculum that incorporates a Christian worldview, Paterson began to think about prayer and what a prayer might look like if it had a physical shape.

Poway, CA About Blog Moms in Prayer International gathers mothers together to pray for children and schools.

Singapore About Blog I am Kenny Chee, the senior pastor of World Revival Prayer Fellowship, a Pentecostal church that was born out of the outpouring of the Spirit upon the secondary school students of Dunearn Secondary Technical, RGS and many other schools in Singapore in the early 1970s.

Poway, CA About Blog Moms in Prayer International gathers mothers together to pray for children and schools.

Singapore About Blog I am Kenny Chee, the senior pastor of World Revival Prayer Fellowship, a Pentecostal church that was born out of the outpouring of the Spirit upon the secondary school students of Dunearn Secondary Technical, RGS and many other schools in Singapore in the early 1970s.

She was an answer to my prayers and gave my daughter who I am most concerned about the extra love and compassion that she needed and also helped her get the extra help that she needed in school since I was unable to help.