Respectfully: Athenagoras of Athens, a Father of the Church wrote about abortion in refuting a false claim
about the Church in the Year 170.
Finally, statistics
about the Church in the pre-Conciliar years are misleading, because there were many trends afoot» in theology, morality, politics, science, and exegesis» that were already having an unsettling impact on the internal life of Catholics.
It was recognized that the Church needed to develop a dogmatic theology of itself, a real ecclesiology, which would express all the truths
about the Church in their correct proportions, apart from this or that controversy of the moment — a project that bore fruit in Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church.
I'm thankful that instead of simply complaining
about church in the Bible Belt, Dan and I took a risk and got our hands dirty in an effort to «be the change.»
I did not know that
about the churches in the 1700's.
I do nt see anything
about a church in this.
Beating the table
about the Church in capital letters (in capitals it too is male) is another.
What can I possibly say
about the church in the presence of these two groups?
Marco Polo's account of his journey to China and of the Christians he found there is one of the most important pieces of information that has come down to
us about the church in China in the 13th century.
Any negativity
about the Church in there is not mine.
It was just a comment on how «I» feel
about church in this present moment.
Here are some what if questions asked by Perry Noble which might lead you to think
about church in a different way.
And if all of this is true, then we have to think
about church in the context of relationships, not buildings and styles.
He spoke with online editor Sarah Pulliam Bailey at an ice cream shop next to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin
about the church in Germany and why he thinks it's stagnant.
Theological hesitations in the 1960s
about the church in its congregational form were thus reinforced by both sociological conclusions and ecumenical convictions.
I recently read
about a church in Albany, New York that sold their building to a Fraternity.
Note: Please understand that I do not want to sound simplistic in my appreciation as I am thinking
about the church in general.
It's
about the church in general, of which even yours is complicit.
At first I thought this was going to be
about the church in Sydney SBBS: http://www.smallboatbigsea.org/
In mainline theological schools, divinity students are told a familiar tale
about the church in modernity that goes something like this: The present age is «secular» or «post-Christian» and the church is in decline.
Although steeped in pessimism, this Mainline Tale
about the church in modernity is curiously comforting to declining denominations.
I've handed this book so far to 4 people who needed to hear that they are understood, and to watch someone model the very path they are on and yet still talk
about church in a hopeful way.
Not exact matches
According to Jeffrey Augustine, author of the blog The Scientology Money Project, the
church has a book value of $ 1.75 billion,
about $ 1.5 billion of which is tied up
in real estate, mostly at its headquarters
in Clearwater and
in Hollywood, Calif..
The average commercial property tax rate
in America is 1.940 %, which would mean that the
church is getting out of
about another $ 20 million annually
in property taxes, based on the estimate that it owns $ 1.5 billion
in real estate.
While most of us think
about our time
in 24 - hour blocks, Vanderkam thinks that «anything you do once a week happens often enough to be important to you, whether it's
church, a strategic thinking session at work, your Sunday dinner with your parents, or your softball team practice.»
However, given the potential for a so - called «Oscar bump,» the film
about the Boston journalists who uncovered a Catholic
Church sex abuse scandal could see an increase
in ticket sales following Sunday night's win.
Duterte has made family planning a pillar of his anti-poverty agenda, vowing to implement the RPRH Act during his tenure and accusing the
church of relying on scare tactics while keeping citizens «
in total ignorance»
about birth control.
Scientology TV will likely result
in very little for the
Church of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a c
Church of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations
about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a
churchchurch.
Last fall someone
in my
church told me
about the job fair (Opportunity Fair and Forum) and that companies were hiring on the spot.
I don't think
about it
in our congregation, although I do
in any other
church.
I don't spend time
in my study figuring out how to save the world, how to grow the
church, how to get more money out of people's pockets, how to promote this
church's ministry, how to enthrall our people more with sexy worship music, how to make myself more awesome before my people, how to get more people to hear
about and come to our
church.
Hello, you're entirely right to be very critical of harmful things going on
in churches, this is what love is all
about.
Most blasphemy must be 90 % correct to infiltrate the
Church... Its not mentioned on your two intro lines, and is only mentioned in half a line at middle but, its gays at church that this is a
Church... Its not mentioned on your two intro lines, and is only mentioned
in half a line at middle but, its gays at
church that this is a
church that this is
about..
If you are claiming to be
in the «body of Christ» and the «institutional»
church is not, maybe you have something to offer
about who Christ is, what he did and what it means, and you might be able to do it during the week where the west commemorates it.
But fired up as I was
about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women
in the
Church, I felt bombarded by messages
about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.
The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking of
churches and discussion
about a common calendar; but they also include problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts of fasting and,
in particular, regulations of marriage
in a multicultural and interreligious world.
Modesty has undeniably enjoyed front - page headline status
in Christian conversations
about sexuality for decades, almost irrespective of particular
church tradition.
WHY do they believe that their God is so concerned
about whether or not they listen to musical instruments
in church on Sunday, get dunked or sprinkled
in ceremonial water, speak
in a tongue as some kind of sign... to whom ever, read from the correct translation of some long lost ancient books, etc, etc?
My problem
about Obama support of Gay marraige is with the
churches in America, People kill people you never see the Churches come together and dis
churches in America, People kill people you never see the
Churches come together and dis
Churches come together and discuss it.
The increase
in the number of
churches (between 1990 and 2000) was
about one - eighth of what is needed to keep up with population growth.
Then why do I, a man that has been inside a few
churches in his lifetimes solely for the purpose of absorbing the lovely architecture of lovely buildings across the globe
in different societies, know more
about world religion than you do and the rest of your flock?
Certainly we can tell others at the water cooler and
in our
churches what we believe
about issues like this, but it's important that we talk and listen and trust God to help us wrestle through the seeming contradictory pros and cons involved.
For one to say that building a Mosque near ground zero is wrong is no different than someone saying they don't want a Christian
church being built somewhere because someone close to them died
in a Christian cult bombing or suicide like Jim Jones or Timothy McVeigh, or to say they don't want a Catholic
church to be built because they or someone they care
about was molested by a priest.
Why are you listening to black clerics over this issue, Blacks are having more kids out of wed lock than whites, they are also like white, living
in sin, but the
church's say nothing
about having babies without a husband or sitting
in church and living
in sin, talk
about glass houses, and besides the marriages are Cival marriage not religious marriage, what a bunch of hipocrites..
He's on one side of a long - standing debate
in the
church about how to build a decent society.
People ask me
about what's happening at
church or
in our youth group
in the same way they ask another person who's into motorcycles
about his bike.
You are right of course
about things not being apparent until one gets more involved
in the
church.
«When I go (to
church) tomorrow and sing a hymn, I'm singing
about that very fact that I have hated God this past week
in my actions,» she said.
The very day I read
about Robin thicke and Miley cyrus I read a «sweet» little post from a Grandma
about her little 3 yr old grandaughter «shaking her booty»
in the Christmas play at their
church.
«Why would we not -
in the context of
church - speak
about something that he was not bashful
about?»