Sentences with phrase «as christian schools»

The programs prepare students for employment in public schools as well as Christian schools, and a tuition break is offered to students who are actively employed at a Christian school.

As long as Christian schools in California are offering academically rigorous and substantive courses — which, from the looks of the curricula they submitted and my interviews with faculty, students, and parents, they are — there is no reason they should be subjected to a different standard.

One advantage you get out of separation of church and state is that you are allowed to discriminate against non-Christians and Christians you don't approve of in religious workplaces such as Christian schools when secular businesses aren't allowed to discriminate based on religion.

Christians and human rights groups protested the killings in major cities as Christian schools nationwide closed for three days in symbolic protest.

Considering that this is a league for private and PAROCHIAL schools, and a Jewish Day School is as much a parochial school as a Christian school of any denomination (or any other recognized organized religion, for that matter), it's a shame that TAPPS and other similar organizations not support a decision of faith as, at a minimum, an expression of tolerance.

About Us Statement of Faith Our doctrinal beliefs as a Christian school; Staff and Teacher Directory Short Online French Radio is a collection of all online french radios available over Internet.

As a Christian school in the Catholic tradition, we were looking for a scheme which would allow us to explore how our ethos impacted positively — or had no impact — on our teachers and support staff.

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«The competition was fierce as teams from each school brought forth their best and brightest, showcasing their skills with a healthy dose of competitive spirit,» says Christian Petersen, co-chair of the Developers» Den Alumni Organizing Committee and a Schulich MBA graduate from the Class of 2013.

I have a very old book called «The New England Primer» it was made by Christians as a teaching aid in the first schools.

He acknowledged that there had been difficulties such as the recent so - called «Trojan Horse» affair at schools in Birmingham but stressed that Christians and Muslims needed to work together, not in opposition, in dealing with such issues.

Some would protest against Muslims using schools as a place of worship, but there are those of us who would stand up against those who give our Christian name a bad one.

According to the Belfast Telegraph Hugh Kennedy, 59, was working as Administrator at St Peter's Cathedral in Belfast (above) until this year before working at More House, a Christian school in the Archdiocese of Westminster in London.

To seriously entertain the possibility that the Christian tradition may hold some of the answers for which they are looking would be to go backward, even though for most of these writers it would be going back to where they had never been except as children with a Sunday School impression of Christian doctrine.

9 — Actually many Christians believe in evolution, but evolution is still a theory, but we teach it as fact in school.

Walthamstow Academy defines itself as a school with a Christian ethos rather than an out - and - out faith school.

The mission of Christian universities, high schools, hospitals, and homeless shelters is to provide education, health, and meals, but they do so as part of their larger mission to manifest Christ.

Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending prayer in public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset with the cultural changes sweeping the country.

Another epic short film / music video mash - up, «Great God» finds Carman as both the cool teacher at a Christian school, as well as a heroic knight out to reclaim the good name of the medieval church.

The Christian Post: Paganism and Witchcraft Placed Alongside Christian Studies in UK Schools A U.K. school system has included the study of witchcraft and druidry on its official religious education syllabus for the first time, meaning pagan practices will be taught alongside contemporary religions, such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

Nor is it fair to compel a child from a home that embraces historic Christian sexual norms to attend a school in which the teachers portray homosexual practice or open marriage as just one of many equally acceptable lifestyle options.

For example, if their USA school was one run by the Westboro Baptist Church, it's likely that Christian children would not be representative of Christian children as a whole!

But as long as I know how important maternal health is to Haiti's future, and as long as I know that women are being abused and raped, as long as I know that girls are being denied life itself through selective abortion, abandonment, and abuse, as long as brave little girls in Afghanistan are being attacked with acid for the crime of going to school, and until being a Christian is synonymous with doing something about these things, you can also call me a feminist.

In recent discussions about Britain as a Christian nation, Archbishop Justin Welby defended the role of church schools.

The American Association of Christian Schools, with more than 1,000 member institutions, makes as a condition of affiliation acceptance of the statement, «We believe in creation, not evolution.»

He's the dean of a well - established divinity school, a Baptist theologian and an earnest Christian, a gifted writer and a theologically articulate lecturer, a champion of orthodoxy, «distinguishing heresy from truth,» and one who has rightly discerned, as Neuhaus puts it, the «pattern of Christian truth, a pattern derived from the apostolic witness and maintained across time as the depositum fidei.»

You know, every time a Christian tries to convert me I feel the same as I felt when the drug pushers came up to me in school.

It was Sunday school teachers who said that girls who had sex before marriage were «broken,» that no self - respecting Christian man would ever want them after that, and it was the Christian books and conferences that consistently portrayed good Christian girls as helpless princesses in need of rescue.

If Christians, school boards and God must be eternally committed to preserving the temporal side of biblical cosmology, then to be consistent there should be a return to preserving the spatial side as well.

Nobody thought much of religions other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.

He went on to play for Georgia Tech where he served as president of the school's Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

I asked him if he thought he was a Christian, and the man said, «Yes, I accepted Christ as my personal Savior when I was in high school.

The comparison between Bob Jones in 1983 and Christian schools today will strike some as unwarranted.

As paideia, the Christian thing is inherently a school.

In current discussions of the nature and purpose of theological education Edward Farley has invoked the older of these two models of excellence in schooling when he describes his book Theologia as an essay «which purports to promote a Christian paideia.»

Furthermore, as paideia, theological schooling generates its own writings that are intended not only for use within Christian communities but also as contributions to the cultural life of the communities» host societies.

While it is of course true that those who belong to this school are perhaps most vocal in their assertion that in our Lord alone may God be seen at work, and while it is they who denounce the concept of «general» revelation as a vain fancy of sub-Christian speculation, a considerable number of other Christian thinkers take what in effect is the same position when they make central to their teaching a kind of uniqueness in the coming and the person of Christ which effectively removes him from the context of the total sell - expressive operation of the Eternal Word.

Furthermore, it is compatible with the various construals of the subject matter of theological schooling (Word of God, Christian experience, Christian tradition — paideia as «Christian culture» - or various combinations of these).

Self - schooled in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work of Christian missionaries.

Many theological schools are openly and clearly defined as agencies of particular Christian denominations.

Rather, as claimed by Clement of Alexandria and, with much greater intellectual power, Origen, his pupil and successor as head of the Alexandrian Catechetical school, Christianity is paideia, divinely given in Jesus Christ and inspired Christian scriptures, focused in a profound conversion of soul, and divinely assisted by the Holy Spirit.

This school of faith — as many know — seeks to highlight anew the grace of baptism among adult Christians and for those distant from the Church.

University of North Carolina chancellor supports InterVarsity chapter James Moeser, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has ordered the school to allow InterVarsity Christian Fellowship to continue as an officially recognized organization.

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I passed a few public schools where they all had Christian church services under way as they do every Sunday.

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That will mean that the ethos of its common life as a school will tend to privilege certain answers to the questions about construal of the Christian thing, community, and understanding God.

It was when kids in elementary school called my nonchurched children «dirty atheists» that I decided to support atheism, so as to disempower the Christian bullshit around that term.

Christian congregation; some have seen a theological school as distinct from but interrelated with congregations in ways analogous to the relation in the Reformed tradition between the congregation and its clergy; others have seen a theological school as related, not to congregations, but to a cadre of active clergy for whom it provides «in - service» or «extension» education.

To the contrary, the proposal urges that the best way to affirm any school's theological identity is through study focused on as a wide theological and social - cultural diversity of Christian congregations as possible.