Sentences with phrase «ago in»

That's not to say that evangelicalism is doing well — it peaked a couple of decades ago in the United States — but one of the big shifts inside Christianity is toward Evangelicalism, oddly enough.

In another context I might include a chapter on «What is Right with Modern Life» as I did some years ago in The Modern Rival of Christian Faith, and most of the things there mentioned are still here and still right.l But along with the good things and some advances over the past years, there is too much that is wrong.

Buckley quotes from an essay by Irving Kristol published three years ago in the National Review, because, he admits, Kristol is Jewish, and because «I can not surpass him in lucid social analysis.»

I knew this dude was up to Nooooooooooooooooo GOOD the first time I saw him on TV years ago in some red T - shirt with a long sleeveless suit jacket on top of that.

Some years ago in Montreal I heard James Cone speak about his «white» education in a similar vein.

And not only that, but as with all Jewish people about 2000 years ago in Israel, they were heavily taxed by the oppressive Roman government.

We know that camels were used at least 5000 years ago in Persia also.

The first Birds appear about 160 million years ago in the mid-jurassic.

The rise, fall and diffusion of the charismatic movement that erupted over 35 years ago in mainline Protestantism may have been driven in part by changes in American culture.

We exist first of all as inhabitants of a vast and expanding universe that originated fifteen to twenty billion years ago in a mysterious event which scientists today call the «Big Bang.»

James Davison Hunter pointed this out a decade ago in The Death of Character: Any truly formative education needs to be oriented by a substantive specification of the Good.

And, yes, Bishop Rimbo will conduct his first same - sex union in June, although his «conversion» on the issue occurred long ago in the 1980s.

«It's like we're being hidden,» said a fifteen - year - old girl named Isabel I met some years ago in Harlem.

Q. 1 The best theory we currently have is that Universe was created about 13.7 billion years ago in what is (somewhat misleadingly) called the Big Bang.

Keep this in mind, too: if you'd been born thousands of years ago in pagan Europe, you'd believe in Odin and Thor and Loki or some other set of pagan gods just as much as you believe in the Judeo - Christian God.

Dear Father Tomlinson, As I read your comment I was gneeddlad to know that you have experienced as a result of your move to the Ordinariate what my wife and I experienced almost one year ago in becoming Catholic as individuals in the U.S. (Seattle area).

I had this problem just 2 weeks ago in fact.

Running around in fear of a «god» mentioned, second hand, by half - deranged desert nomads 2,000 years ago in a world afraid of everything.

It also requires devotion to a person who died two thousand years ago in Jerusalem which is quite unlike any attitude we have towards great men and women of the past whom we admire.

This is not a new insight — Corbin Carnell treated it more than 30 years ago in Bright Shadow of Reality, whose subtitle was the nicely phrased «C. S. Lewis and the Feeling Intellect,» and David Downing also emphasizes it in his new book — but Jacobs uses this narrative thread to good advantage in uncovering continuity in Lewis's life.

Which brings us home to the Trinity, the doctrine hammered out by the church centuries ago in order to understand God in a way faithful to scripture.

Centuries ago in London there lived a gnarl - fisted, Calvinist moneylender to whom a Jewish merchant owed a considerable sum.

some one stop me I'm falling back to the ice age and cave drawing oh no heresy i can see Mitochondrial Eve now and what she worshiping a carving of Nature under an elder tree 200,000 years ago in Eden

Two years ago in Washington, Moore's predecessor, the conservative Richard Land, was seated next to the left leaning Jim Wallis of Sojourners to tag - team immigration reform.

I claim angels and fairies don't exist to the same degree that I claim I am not a space alien who was born a millisecond ago in another universe.

Early voting started a couple of days ago in Texas, and it sure makes it easy to vote for a primary election dated for May 29.

A dancer who lost her leg two years ago in the Boston Marathon bombing is going to running the race this year.

Certainly they seem to have been «veridical visions,» as Dr. E.G. Selwyn phrased it years ago in a well - known essay in Essays, Catholic and Critical, not hallucinations or mere imagining in a fanciful sense.

Women had more rights 1500 years ago in Islam than in USA less than 100 years.

Spinoza, the philosopher, lived long ago in Holland, and ground and polished lenses for a living while he thought great thoughts of God.

One gay activist writing a few years ago in The New York Times says certainly not:

You're surprised that a guy growing up over half a century ago in Irelandwas able to spend time with his family and read?

Then that seed that was rooted so long ago in me has sprouted in my life now.

Several years ago in the midst of one of its well - publicized battles about sex, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) proclaimed, «Theology matters.»

Writing more than five decades ago in Sports Illustrated, Catholic moral theologian Richard McCormick stated: «Regardless of what answer we come up with, it is both a sign and guarantee of abiding spiritual health to face issues at their moral root.

As we approach the 2016 Rio Olympics with the magnificent statue of Christ the Redeemer overlooking proceedings, let's not forget that nearly 2,000 years ago in AD 394, Christian emperor Theodosius I, strongly supported by the theological heavyweights of the age (Tertullian, Philo of Alexandria and Chrysostom), banned the ancient Olympics, not least due to the barbaric violence evident in the sports of boxing and pankration (a sport very similar to MMA).

The gravitational pull toward living like a warehouse, hoarding and stockpiling my manna is just as strong today as it was all those years ago in the desert.

In what is called our high culture, this understanding of religion as private and intensely subjective was influentially depicted a hundred years ago in William James» classic work, The Varieties of Religious Experience.

The Australian government passed a law prohibiting the promotion and counseling of suicide on the internet a few years ago in response to the work of Dr. Philip Nitschke, the Australian Dr. Death, who was providing suicide and counseling people to commit suicide via the internet.

This fact was brought home to me a year ago in one of the far - western states.

Ten years ago in the Atlantic, Bernard Lewis published an article, «The Roots of Muslim Rage,» that now seems eerily prescient.

If you had been born and raised in central America 1000 years ago you would be saying Quezacoatl exits or 5000 year ago in Egypt you'd been worshiping Ra.

How would a person living in a desert know these things without actually someone telling him this?!!! And who is that someone?!!! No one at that time knew anything about big bang theory?!! The actual translation of the arabic word رتقا is it was like a fabric that got torn apart?!!! Isn't that big bang?!! And the other part that was proven too is that everything alive needs water to live?!!! How did they know that then?!!! Islam and science support each other and science only getting to prove things now which was mentioned 1500 years ago in the Quran!!!

There is no way to prove or support the 6000 - year - old universe of the fundamentalist Bible worldview, just like there is no way to prove or support the hypothesis that the universe was created 2.1635 attoseconds ago in its current state.

As Anthony Trollope observed over a century ago in Phineas Finn, the fault of a prominent politician was «not arrogance, so much as ignorance that there is, or should be, a difference between public and private life.»

Science has disproven that the world was created 6000 years ago in your Christian world, has disproven the church's theory that the sun rotated around the earth, that the earth is flat, that creationism is responsible for the diversity of species.

I find burnt toast to be great for a hangover, which is obviously proof that the judeo - christian god does indeed exist and created everything in the universe thousands of years ago in perfect order, even though there are trees older than the universe...

Created the universe less than 15,000 years ago in a way where it exhibits all the hallmarks of billions of years of age.

All Christianity should be «left behind» where it belongs in the past 2000 years ago in the Middle East.

How come everytime something happens to a jewish person / team / organization it's all over the news??? My old Seventh Day Adventist basketball team was in the same position about 15 years ago in Portland, (Playoff game fell on Friday, the Sabbath, and we didn't play) and the press was called - NO COVERAGE!!