Sentences with phrase «base communities of faith»

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The lead plaintiff in that case, Jacqueline Halbig, was a director of the White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives under George W. Bush.

Eli Lilly, the Indiana - based drug maker, has been an active member of a coalition of businesses, faith leaders, and civil - rights and community organizations united that opposed the bill.

In addition to making policy recommendations on administration policies affecting faith - based and community programs, the newly - formed office will also inform the administration of «any failures of the executive branch to comply with religious liberty protections under law.»

Though a leader in a faith - based anti-sex trafficking organization, I work with a wide array of community stakeholders and professionals to accomplish our shared mission of eradicating sex trafficking in our city.

In the Ft. Worth case, it seems that faith based adverts were ok, but when a differenct opinion was expressed, some community «movers & shakers» caused a «stink» that also stiffled their «freedom of speech».

Rev. Cortes Jr. is the President of Esperanza USA, the largest Hispanic faith - based community - development corporation in the country.

Kuo and DiIulio are the former deputy director and director (respectively) of the White House Office of Faith - Based and Community Initiatives.

Upbring is a leading Texas - based, faith - inspired nonprofit organization working to break the cycle of child abuse by empowering children, families and communities.

Go to Syria, Morocco, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia, Malaysia, and count the number of houses of worship of other faith - based communities.

Along with pastoring The Way Christian Center in the Bay Area, I serve as the director of the LIVE FREE Campaign, a faith - based movement committed to organizing the moral voice and actions of the faith community to end gun violence and mass incarceration.

Our theological beliefs about the community of faith, the images of God we find meaningful, ethical perspectives based on our understanding of justice and care, and our interpretation of suffering and healing, sin and forgiveness, ground us and guide us in responding to the crises of members of our congregations.

The letter from the Council (which consists of forty representatives of the region's Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, mainline Protestant, and Jewish communities) warned that the SBC's efforts, «however well - intentioned,» might well «disrupt the pattern of peaceful interfaith relations in our community and unwittingly abet the designs of those who seek to provoke hate crimes by fomenting faith - based prejudice.»

We wish to express our deep concern that the commission has issued a report, «Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling Non-Discrimination Principles with Civil Liberties,» that stigmatizes tens of millions of religious Americans, their communities and their faith - based institutions, and threatens the religious freedom of all our citizens.

When I mention base - type communities of faith I am referring to congregations in which reading and interpreting the Bible and developing all the gifts of the Spirit given to the community are central.

I belong to a wonderful church in N. CA, with a large campus that provides a myriad of faith - based services throughout the community.

At a time when political developments in Washington are generally discouraging to advocates for economic justice, faith - based organizing shows the enormous potentials found in grass - roots America and particularly in the rich web of religious communities.

Faith - based organizing shows the enormous potentials found in grass - roots America and particularly in the rich web of religious communities.

Across the country faith - based community organizing is enabling people to confront issues of economic justice.

In addition to regular meetings to discuss Scripture and talk about issues of faith, many students find time to attend church on a regular basis throughout the Portland community.

We can move from the side of meeting the needs for faith - based community as well.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

My argument here is that the traditions of the oldline churches at their best do offer a powerful spirituality and a faith - based community that, in principle, constitute an adequate response to the continuing hungers of our culture.

I can't name a specific church, but I know the White House Office of Faith - Based and Community Initiatives has given public funds to many churches.

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?

«For me I fundamentally believe that faith is the basis of good work and faith communities can be used to be part of the solution rather than to be painted as part of the problem which we tragically see too often.»

As a strong Catholic who is of service to the community on a regular basis, loves the faith, respects other's rights to have their faiths as well, and — yes — has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, I would love to see CNN's belief blog write a story about the positive of the Catholic faith, instead of always reading about the people that have left and the problems people have with the Church.

Have their been some heinous acts committed on the part of Christians and other faith based communities?

Meanwhile, my faith of Christianity is badmouthed freely and openly on a daily basis in my place of work, community, society, media, etc..

They were wed in St. Edwards church, the formerly abandoned cathedral into which homeless families relocated in 1995, launching the beginning of the Simple Way community and a new phase of faith - based justice making.

American secularists have thrown up their hands in frustration over his supersizing of George W. Bush's Office of Faith - based and Community Initiatives.

That conviction is part of what led him to found Haven, a New York - based organization for actors in the entertainment industry who also want a faith community.

And it was that memory of Jesus himself upon which the Christian community, with all its life and faith, was in the first instance based.

It carries on its task in continuity with a great tradition and on the basis of convictions implanted historically into historical men; it works in a community that has a structure and a definable faith.

The report «Doing Good Better» outlines the growth in community work and suggests faith based organisations make up more around a quarter of the entire third sector.

It seems inevitable that any community, be it faith - based or not, comes with its fair share of squabbles and gossip, jealousy and resentment, personality clashes and misunderstandings.

Neither John DiIulio, who now heads the White House Office of Faith - Based and Community Initiatives, nor Stephen Goldsmith, the former Indianapolis mayor who will lead the Corporation for National Service, has ever argued for total privatization of community development and social services, though both strongly advocate a new mix of public and private in which congregations figure more proCommunity Initiatives, nor Stephen Goldsmith, the former Indianapolis mayor who will lead the Corporation for National Service, has ever argued for total privatization of community development and social services, though both strongly advocate a new mix of public and private in which congregations figure more procommunity development and social services, though both strongly advocate a new mix of public and private in which congregations figure more prominently.

Angela Glover Blackwell, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Policy Link, a nonprofit organization that strives to advance economic and social equity, improving access and opportunity for all low - income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education and infrastructure.

Andrea Bazán, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Andrea Bazán is President of Triangle Community Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to building a prosperous and culturally rich region across North Carolina.

Officers have asked faith - based communities to review security at community centres, places of worship and places of education.

Earlier this week, Obama announced that he would increase funds for the office of Faith - Based and Community Initiatives.

The question of providing spiritual fellowship to those committed to Christ in different religious communities is a peculiarly Indian ecclesiological problem which has been with us for many decades and needs to be faced squarely, for the number involved is large and the stand of many of them based on the distinction between the spiritual fellowship of faith and the Christian communality, have theological justification.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Daniel Singleton is the national executive director of Faith Action - a national network of faith - based and community organisatFaith Action - a national network of faith - based and community organisatfaith - based and community organisations.

Faith came to mean the acceptance of the authority of the apostles based upon acceptance of the authority of the community.

After a recent spate of children dying in an Idaho religious community opposed to medical interventions (the Followers of Christ), state legislators proposed opening parents up to prosecution for relying on faith - based healing as the only treatment when a child's condition could kill or permanently injure them.

We selected St. Benedict Prep because of the school's high academic rigor, committed faculty, small class size and its strong faith - based, community - focused mission.

MDHS sent a letter, signed by more than 100 nonprofit, faith - based, and community - based organizations across the state, to the Maryland Congressional Delegation urging support of the vital federal nutrition programs in the upcoming Farm Bill.

Monthly meetings held with male dominated CBOs and Faith - based Organizations (FBOs) for health topic discussions and dissemination of behavior change communication (BCC) materials with community health workers (CHWs) a; home visits conducted by CHW for maternal and newborn health education entire familyb

• The School Nutrition department partners with the Cherokee County Farm Bureau to foster an engaged farm - to - school community with support from a broad range of community members including parents, teachers, administrators, farmers, Cooperative Extension, Master Gardeners, the Upper Etowah River Alliance, local churches and faith - based organizations, the Boy Scouts of America, and more.

Some members of the faith - based community in western Massachusetts are starting to talk about ways to help people whom they believe will be harmed when a casino opens.