Sentences with phrase «better religious conversations»

But the participants share one important conviction: they believe that the resolution of religiously rooted political tensions will be attained not by avoiding religion in public, but by initiating more and better religious conversations in public.

Scriptural Reasoning is a movement that holds that the resolution of religiously rooted political tensions will be attained not by avoiding religion in public, but by initiating more and better religious conversations in public.

Not exact matches

I was continuously impressed by the skill with which Drew managed to call out all the b.s. that tends to surface in well - meaning religious conversations around race («stop being divisive; we should focus on unity!»

My enemies are people who would deny me my religious freedom, not Christians as a whole, and the best remedies tend to involve civil conversation, the courts, and the occasional school board meeting... When doing inter-faith work the goal is not to convert anyone or get them to agree with you, but to help them see you (and our community) as a positive.

For Berger, then, the theological enterprise is best understood as a process of «induction,» in which one mediates and interprets personal experience in conversation with one's religious tradition.

For this tradition nourished over the centuries the slow emergence of the ideal of a civilized politics, a politics of civil conversation, of noncoercion, of the consent of the governed, of pluralism, of religious liberty, of respect for the inalienable dignity of every human person, of voluntary cooperation in pursuit of the common good, and of checks and balances against the wayward tendencies of sinful men and women.

In a conversation at the Greater Good Gratitude Summit, the renowned authors and religious teachers explore the science and spirituality of...

Not to make this into a religious conversation but if you are a Christian there are good options available.