Sentences with phrase «believe by the clergy»

If you just believe what you are told to believe by the clergy, how is that YOUR faith?

Not exact matches

Hall admitted the windows had been installed by his predecessor as cathedral dean, Francis Sayre, «one of the great activist civil rights clergy of the 1950s and 1960s... [Sayer] could live in that tension, but I can not, and I believe this cathedral can not.

«However, some are finding their entry to ordination blocked by liberal clergy who do not believe orthodox Anglican teachings, like Jesus being the only way to be saved.

Catholics, for example, believe that grace is primarily communicated in the sacraments administered by a sacramentally ordained clergy.

After a while, I realized that all the stuff I was so sure I KNEW was given to me wholesale by family, friends, and clergy who all believed it because it was told to them by someone else, and this here book said the same stuff.

If you listed every single good deed done by church members, officials, clergy and the Catholc church as a whole, and measured it against the negatives, I believe the scales would tip toward te positive most aggressively.

Leaning on Winnicott's observation that the human infant is born «an artist and a hedonist,» Dykstra believes that preaching has suffered from the rejection of these identities by most clergy.

Sojourners rejected an advertisement by Believe Out Loud, an interdenominational outfit dedicated to helping churches and clergy become GLBT affirming, and then set about defending his rationale....

There is abundant evidence that Catholics in this country do sincerely believe in democracy and practice this belief, but I do not see how they themselves can deny that their polity poses a problem for democracy that is not posed by churches which make their decisions in regard to public policy by processes of open discussion in which both clergy and laymen share.

i was also told by a clergy that not all catholic clergy believe in God if any at all.