After church when we lived in Utah we would go to brunch on one side of the family then dinner at the other and Easter egg hunts at both.
Not exact matches
Quebec NDP MP Romeo Saganash said he wanted to throw up
after listening to two Catholic bishops at their news conference on the Hill on April 18
when they said the Catholic
Church, as a...
I have followed «She Won't Go Anymore» but have been too exasperated to comment
after a couple weeks of commenting on «Lonnie Frisbee, the
Church, and Being Gay» (maybe you should read those 182 comments
when you get a chance).
after a while they asked what
church we attended and
when we said we did not, they asked us why.
His prayers were answered last September, less than three years
after the fire,
when the Macedonia First
Church of God in Christ opened the doors to its new worship facility, built on the same site as the previous building.
i got such a shock
when i saw this image and comment, the image took me by suck surprise,
after 8 months of not being in
church, and not caring what you thought, to start crying in the students union, is kinda a big deal..
The decision comes at a time
when racial tensions in the US are high
after the Charleston massacre, arson attacks against several black - majority
churches and several incidents of alleged white police brutality against unarmed black suspects in the past year.
A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred, by George F. Will (Crown Archetype): America's premier political columnist begins his latest reflection on the National Pastime with some charming, autobiographically - derived advice for Catholicism:
after recalling that he became a Chicago Cub fan at age seven, «
when I was still not as discerning as one should be
when making life - shaping decisions,» the elegant Dr. Will notes that «The Catholic
Church thinks seven - year olds have reached an age of reasoning» and remarks, «The
Church might want to rethink that.»
'» If by days, we understand years and by sanctuary, the
church, than cleansed, Miller thought, «we may reasonably suppose means that complete redemption from sin, both soul and body,
after the resurrection
when Christ comes the second time «without sin unto salvation.
After the Rapture, the
church will celebrate the marriage supper (Revelation 19:7 - 10), be rewarded (1 Corinthians 3:10 - 15, 4:5, 2 Corinthians 5:9 - 10), and later return to earth with Christ
when He comes again to set up His kingdom (Revelation 19:11 - 20:6).
Obama had been a member of Chicago's Trinity United
Church of Christ in Chicago until spring 2008,
when he left
after videos surfaced showing his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, delivering controversial sermons about the United States.
When one considers the controversies that roil many
church conventions, maybe the Lutherans, or at least the LCMS Lutherans, are not so unremarkable
after all.
And especially
after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a
church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money
when the basket is passed.
Then,
after church one Sunday,
when the whole
church went to the fellowship hall for lunch, she started yelling at my mom!
After serving at the Monroe Street
Church for several years, Morrison fulfilled a dream he had begun to develop
when his intellectual sights had broadened during his last years at college: to embark on graduate study at the University of Chicago.
But I question whether
after some period of time, we can assign some level of ill - will or malicious intent
when church leaders continue to deny and attack in the face of persistent claims of mistreatment and / or abuse.
After all,
when your faith changes, everything changes along with it — your relationships, your opinions, your politics, your theology, your experience with
church, your identity.
When I was 15, I «gave my life to Christ» — not in a
church, but alone, in my room,
after months of reading and thinking and looking for purpose and meaning and direction and something bigger than the depressing and lonely life I seemed to be stuck with — and I expected to find those things.
The assault came to light
after Woodson privately contacted Savage with an email, asking if he «remembered» the event, which came about
when he offered to give her a ride home
after a
church event, drove her to a secluded location and then, according to Woodson, told her to perform sexual acts before swearing her secrecy.
Artificial contraception is promoted (
after each birth,
when we can feel vulnerable) and sterilisation may be suggested at some point, making it all the more important that the
Church's teachings are clearly proclaimed.
Yet, in the fourth Gospel, we are told that
when Jesus joined the disciples in the upper room
after the resurrection «he breathed on them and said to them, «Receive the Holy Spirit»» (John 20:22), establishing a direct (and almost too obvious) connection between him and the amazing Power of the early
church.
After 3 months of searching the internet and you tube to decide if I wanted to come back to religion, I finally found someone who preaches from the heart, the way my Mama and Papa used to hear
when they went to
church, DR John Collins with the Church of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back h
church, DR John Collins with the
Church of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back h
Church of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back him up.
He said
when he asked Obama about how he became a Christian, the president said he joined a
church in Chicago
after becoming a community organizer, leaving Graham to speculate whether he became a Christian for the right motives.
And
after all, what can I expect
when, as a
church leader, I quit and tell the pastor I can't stay and listen to him preach because it makes me want to throw up — and refuse to preserve the image of the
church by lying to protect a sexual predator in the pulpit.
It was,
after all this, inevitable that
when, recently, conversations took place over the possible Catholic response to the legalisation of women - bishops in the
Church of England, they would be in Rome and not in Westminster.
Rachel Murr was passionate about her faith and active in her
church when «
after nine years of trying not to be gay,» she finally came out to her community.
After Vatican II,
when the
Church seemed to be torn apart she wrote: «The
Church is in agony.
The reasons are kind of obvious
when you think about it:
After a week of wandering streets awash with trash water and wobble - walking drunks, the
church lets concert goes sit down and actually listen to music for music's sake.
I was reminded of just how different our experiences can be
after I came home from a day with the family to find in my Google Reader a lovely, celebratory post from Sarah Bessey, «In which God has restored me to
church,» as well as an honest reminder from Kathy Escobar, «
When Easter is Hard.»
From 1607 until 1789 Protestant
churches were more often than not legally established, and
after disestablishment they were reestablished in custom, mores, ethos and clout — and remained so
when Silcox and Fisher wrote and continued so symbolically until the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960.
And, let us be frank: is it really so certain that formerly,
when religion and the
Church played a greater part in public life, men really had more true faith, hope and charity, which,
after all, are more important than anything else?
When the world seems to be crumbling, when churches seem to be failing, when natural disaster after natural disaster ravages our world and every day we hear of a new disease or terror that is about to strip us of our health, we sometimes are tempted to ask, «Where are you,
When the world seems to be crumbling,
when churches seem to be failing, when natural disaster after natural disaster ravages our world and every day we hear of a new disease or terror that is about to strip us of our health, we sometimes are tempted to ask, «Where are you,
when churches seem to be failing,
when natural disaster after natural disaster ravages our world and every day we hear of a new disease or terror that is about to strip us of our health, we sometimes are tempted to ask, «Where are you,
when natural disaster
after natural disaster ravages our world and every day we hear of a new disease or terror that is about to strip us of our health, we sometimes are tempted to ask, «Where are you, God?
In that respect, too, Africa today resembles the pre-Carolingian stage of Europe,
after the collapse of the Roman Empire,
when the only institution that worked was the
church.
In 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the
church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.&
church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the
Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.&
Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes
after World War I,
when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.»
What does this minister do, for instance,
when he is driving back to the
church after making a hospital call, or driving home
after a frustrating committee meeting at the
church, or flying home
after a freedom march or an assault on poverty?
How,
after all, can we speak realistically about the
churches» accepting responsibility for their members» morals
when the
churches can not agree on what those morals should be?
There is some initial guilt
when we stop attending
church, but
after a while, I find it transforms into relief and freedom.
When I first heard about the concept of your new safe space website, I was thrilled, not so much for myself to be honest as I love the uncensored environment of nakedpastor and have developed a rather tough skin over the years
after numerous attempts at attending
churches that billed themselves as safe spaces and eventually turned out to be anything but once you pulled the wrong thread and it all started to unravel.
When a council finally met in 1545 at Trent, the
Church's intervention was too late: Luther had written all his major treatises, and his followers continued his work
after his death one year later.
After forty years of persecutions, the
Church was in a markedly weak state
when it faced the mountain of new tasks in the new society, and it was not able to establish its priorities and take advantage of its new possibilities.
If refusal to face squarely the fact of death is found so widely in these days, so also is loss of belief in a continuation of human existence, beyond death, in what used to be called the «
after - life» It is indeed true that among conventionally - minded
church - people and many others there is a vague feeling that
when the body dies the «soul» goes on.
Such contacts would have emerged at the latest
when the survivors of this Jewish - Christian community, which reached Antioch
after the war, found there the gentile
church.
ok i've decided —
after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate
church and state like —
church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion —
when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?
I still remember the student who said that she left
church for good
when she was 12, right
after she read the Bible for herself and discovered what a colossal snow job her Sunday school teachers had done on her.
Within six years
after landing, the Puritans established a college, the first in America, in order «to advance learning and to perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the
churches,
when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.»
Church members, who Sunday
after Sunday seemed unmoved
when the pastor pronounced the forgiveness of their sins, sat straighter in their pews.
Five centuries earlier,
when the Jewish community revived
after having been almost extinguished as a separate entity, it had organized itself as something more like a
church than a state.
When the
Church of South India was formed shortly
after World War II out of the various mainline denominational
churches established by Western missionaries in the previous century, the entire ecclesiastical world celebrated.
When Copeland announces a change in
church policy, it's often
after he has claimed to receive a new divine revelation, said former members of the
church.
When the history of the Church in our times is written, the question will be asked why, after the summer of 1968 when Humanae Vitae was published, restating the truths on the need for sex to be open to life and within marriage, men like Fr John Edwards were not asked to travel the length and breadth of our land, to publish in our Catholic papers, to speak to our diocesan catechists and teach
When the history of the
Church in our times is written, the question will be asked why,
after the summer of 1968
when Humanae Vitae was published, restating the truths on the need for sex to be open to life and within marriage, men like Fr John Edwards were not asked to travel the length and breadth of our land, to publish in our Catholic papers, to speak to our diocesan catechists and teach
when Humanae Vitae was published, restating the truths on the need for sex to be open to life and within marriage, men like Fr John Edwards were not asked to travel the length and breadth of our land, to publish in our Catholic papers, to speak to our diocesan catechists and teachers.