Sentences with phrase «asking questions about his faith»

When I first started asking questions about my faith, I was terrified.

We asked questions about his faith, about how it «felt» to be Sikh in Canada (he laughed), about their history, about family dynamics, the differences between Sikhism and Christianity, what they believed and practiced and what was with the little knives.

Tim Farron's powerful resignation speech left a lot of people asking questions about his faith, and about how religion mixes with politics more generally.

Not exact matches

In the letter, the two also make a good faith effort to answer what they say are the 10 toughest questions they get asked about their philanthropy.

To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.

Thomas thinks that it is the discipline of metaphysics that asks questions about the ultimate cause of existence of things, and, as he says, «not only does faith hold that there is creation, reason also demonstrates it» (In II Sent., dist.

@ Derrick Yu, This actually may come as a shocker, but there are believers out there who still continue to ask questions about God, about the Universe, and so forth, and unlike certain atheists out there who if they can't get definite answers to just come to conclusions that can not be verified like conclude that there is no God, at least there are believers out there who at least are willing to at least be open to the possibility that there is a God, and from there they develop their faith, which even though is not a perfect knowledge, at least can help keep those minds open, unlike certain atheists who take the easy way out and convincing themselves that it is a fact that there is no God, when in reality it is not a fact at all.

From Agnostic to Islam and I have seen examples in the past... so my humble request to you is not to stop... keep learning or studying the new stuffs... an advice to you when you decide to study or learn about Islam — do not point to the people who does wrong things as wrong doing people are there in everywhere regardless of faith, but look into the scripture and go to someone who has knowledge if you have any question that bothers you but make sure that person is well educated to his community... i ask The Almighty God to open your heart...

I talk about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list of rules, and how millennials long for faith communities in which they are safe asking tough questions and wrestling with doubt.

Purpose sees him asking the same questions about life and faith as many of us, as well as facing up to his headline - grabbing mistakes.

Peter Kerridge asks three Christian business people hard questions about the future of the faith

If we recognize that in order to draw conclusions about matters of this sort, we must ask questions not answered by faith in any direct way, the tone of our debates can be improved.

As a new mom asking big questions about how we want to raise our son in the faith, I found this book incredibly helpful, because it starts so small.

As someone who consistently struggles with doubts about my faith, I've asked a lot of «off - limits» questions over the years, sometimes publically, sometimes privately.

The book includes a series of reflections on the importance of thinking critically about faith and the value of asking difficult questions regarding everything from God to religion to language to government.

With all of this in mind, I'd love for you to try to tackle this question, which was asked of me in an interview for the Inspy Awards: Tell us about a book that epitomizes quality [Christian] faith - driven lit.

Many of you, like me, found Brian at a critical juncture in your faith journey when you wondered if you were all alone in the questions you were asking about Christianity.

As is often the case when I write about confronting doubt or questioning certain theological traditions, I got a message or two urging me to stop asking so many pesky questions and just enjoy the bliss of absolute certainty that should accompany true faith.

Now I can think of all kinds of questions I ask myself and my friends about God and faith and life, questions I'm not as sure I have the answers to as I used to be.

He surely can not seriously imagine that men of similar intellectual caliber to his own have not asked the same searching fundamental questions about life and its meaning which he himself asks, and yet have come to the conclusion that the Christian Faith is an indispensable part of total truth.

For years I struggled with doubts about my faith, and through the emerging church movement, I found people who were asking the very same questions - about religious pluralism, the Problem of Evil, inerrancy, the notion of absolute truth, etc..

Keller should have stopped a couple of weeks early, before he wrote the disaster titled, «Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith.»

When the trip ended, he asked the Moravian leader about his serenity, and the Moravian responded with a question: Did he, Wesley, have faith in Christ?

Yours was one of the first blogs I found back in 2007 when I started searching the blogosphere for others who might be asking the same questions about faith that I was asking.

I wonder what books on Theology and Christian core belief he has read to shape his Christian faith, a question any interviewer could have asked but have avoided, unlike what Katie Couric had done with Palin about her reading materials.

Equally inconceivable, the secular journals asked her informed and respectful questions about the relation of her faith to her art.

Which includes asking the tough questions about faith / God that I used to stuff.

Although decisions about this relationship had significant effects on the whole project, the debate itself could become very abstruse and remote from the questions asked even by those most personally and intellectually concerned about their faith.

Questions have been asked about the consistency of The Rev. Vosper in regard to her public statements as opposed to her public professions of faith and belief at the time of her ordination and every single time she was covenanted into a new pastoral relationship, including in 1997 with her current congregation.

I think critically, challenge authority, and ask tough questions about my faith.

I ask a lot of questions — about my faith, about the world, about politics, about Christianity, about theology, about everything.

Her most recent trip to the Middle East has sparked an even greater passion for sharing stories and asking hard questions about faith.

The classes give students an opportunity to ask tricky questions about faith

After some playful banter with senior pastor Joe Champion - who asked the former Florida Gator to don a football helmet from his alma mater, Louisiana State University - Tebow began answering questions about his faith and how his openness about it has become a frequently dissected topic in sports and society at large.

As I have conversed with my Mormon co-workers about their faith, every time I bring up a question they don't seem to be able to answer, they revert to talking about their experience (vision, dream, inner feeling, etc.) which proved to them the truth of what they believe, and then they tell me that if I really want to know the truth, I should pray for wisdom and ask God to give me a similar experience to reveal the truth to me.

I have asked many questions over many years about my faith, and even now, as someone who has been a Christian for 30 years (since college) I still have questions.

Keller's column, «Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith,» argues that the crop of candidates competing for the White House next year should be grilled on their religious beliefs and on how those beliefs inform their political views.

Not only is Fr Tolhurst encouraging the faithful to use the Catechism as a living document, something that is integral to maturation of faith, but he is also attempting to equip us to answer questions about our faith that others may ask of us:

Tripp is also committed to Christian nonviolence, and in June releases a book, co-edited with Justin Bronson Barringer, calledA Faith Not Worth Fighting For: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Nonviolence from Cascade Books.

It's for this very reason that Justin Barringer and myself put together the book, A Faith Not Worth Fighting For: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions About Nonviolence.

She'd felt some questions bubbling up in her faith — the sort of questions good Christians aren't supposed to ask about their beliefs.

AND If they ask hard questions about God or faith.

The series may be a ratings giant, but if HBO's goal was to force the audience to ask tough questions about the Catholic faith, it's one big miss.

The document, whose main title reads «A Treasure in Earthen Vessels», asks about the tradition of faith through the times and within the koinonia, the fellowship of the churches — a question to be asked again and again facing ever - changing challenges.6 To speak about «earthen vessels» means, in a rather free but not unusual interpretation of II Cor 4:7.

From civic faith to the practice of transformation: With their churches no longer part of the religious establishment, and with the country increasingly diverse culturally and pluralistic religiously, mainline leaders have had to ask bottom - line questions — questions about purpose, not profit.

The full list of candidate interviews and some commonly asked questions about this series are at The Faith of the 2016 Presidential Candidates.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

Falsely linking morality to a belief in the supernatural is a time - tested «three card trick» religion uses to stop its adherents from asking the hard questions about the transparently silly aspects of the faith (s).

(Others asked related questions about how faith is integrated into educational programs through World Vision.)

[If you've read Evolving in Monkey Town, you know these are the very questions I struggled with when I first began asking tough questions about my faith.]