Sentences with phrase «business than church»

More a problem of separation of church and business than church and state.

Not exact matches

As to whether the television guide is a good guide to the Times, the ten pounds of newsprint that Sunday had no other reference to religion other than a business story about selling palms to churches and an article in the Sunday magazine about a Catholic who has decided to become a Jew.

Oh also I'm totally not into the bukkake business, but at least it's a more interesting, less judgemental Sunday morning than church.

Stop the Traffik is a global coalition which already numbers more than 350 organisations including churches, community groups, other faith groups, businesses and NGOs (including Oasis Trust, Salvation Army, Tearfund, World Vision, JFCI, Christian Aid, Bible Society and Spring Harvest).

If churches want to to run hospitals, schools and other businesses that, but for their religious affiliation, are no different than any other business, it should comply with the laws that govern them all.

What's more, Churchians can not think in any other way than of churches as a businesses.

Perhaps the Lord should have said to Peter, «Upon this Tablet I will build my Church» — except that The Tablet seems more into the business of demolition than of construction.

In contrast, my own Chicago parish church and elementary school are located on two city blocks that together take up ten acres, but those blocks include — in addition to the church and school — over 100 dwelling units in a variety of buildings two - to - three stories tall, more than 15 businesses, and nearly 200 on - and off - street parking spaces for the public.

Then the social - ethical task of the church would not be simply to develop strategies within the current political options — though it may certainly include that — but rather to stand as an alternative society that manifests in its own social and political life the way in which a people form themselves when truth and charity rather than survival are their first order of business.

Dewey, who died in 1952 after reigning for more than fifty years as America's most influential public philosopher and educator, appreciated that the churches had not gone out of business, and that they could even be useful in promoting peace, fighting economic injustice, and, more generally, in «stimulating action» for what he called «a divine kingdom on earth.»

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

When the focus became numbers, rather than the people themselves, the church ceased to be a people of God following Jesus into the world, and became a business that maneuvers for greater market share.

Truth be told... others would call me critical, and negative and cynical, but my heart bursts for the church, I just wish leaders would realize how mistaken we have been to treat the church so much like an organization and a business rather than allowing it to grow and be nurtured as we would a child!

So maybe my ideal church IS more like a family than a business.

He's living proof that churches are no different than other businesses, with greedy CEO's and elitist behavior.

After all, most churches are capitalistic businesses where the almighty dollar has more pull than the Almighty.

Show me another organization or business that has fed, clothed, housed, and educated more poor people all over the world than The Church before criticizing the money The Church spends.

It thrived amid the 19th - century urban scene through the clever idea of having a mixed - use building: the church built more space than it needed for worship and rented some of the space to businesses.

The church must not have undue concern for its own survival, which is vastly different than business.

It was no easy business then, any more than it is today, and the parallels between the attempts by various regimes, both reactionary and liberal, to get control of the Catholic Church suggest that today's battles for religious freedom in full are not without their 19th - century precedents.

I do know that much of the church in America is in the» entertainment business,» much more than the «love,» business.

Taking the temperature of the church through congregations is a messy business, which helps explain why seminaries and churches alike have tended to listen more to theologians than to the congregations themselves.

I believe that God whispers to me that the Day Nursery I run from my house with my daughter is a church in His vision of Church — a place built on love, supporting staff children and families, yes a business, but one run for love, providing wages to live, to support charities too and to enable me to have a break every now and then — but God is not yet overtly mentioned other than in 1:1 conversations where I share my faith (more than I ever did in Chchurch in His vision of Church — a place built on love, supporting staff children and families, yes a business, but one run for love, providing wages to live, to support charities too and to enable me to have a break every now and then — but God is not yet overtly mentioned other than in 1:1 conversations where I share my faith (more than I ever did in ChChurch — a place built on love, supporting staff children and families, yes a business, but one run for love, providing wages to live, to support charities too and to enable me to have a break every now and then — but God is not yet overtly mentioned other than in 1:1 conversations where I share my faith (more than I ever did in ChurchChurch).

This has NOTHING to do with the Catholic Church other than they want to run their businesses, not their Church by «special rules» that allow them to dictate what coverage is or isn't in their employee insurance policies.

Far more serious than any of the startling events of the decade was the massive erosion of the legitimacy of American institutions — business, government, education, the churches, the family — that set in, particularly among young people, and that continues, if public opinion polls are to be believed, in the 1970s even when overt protest has become less frequent.

More important for the church to do business with the mob than to provide healthcare.

To be sure, in the first centuries the bishop was the administrator of the Church's goods but in the Middle Ages he was more, and the Church's business was so enlarged, so intricate, and so geared into all of the property and commercial activities that the difference at this point between the cleric and the lay was no more than that the former was more successful.

«Gillibrand's Obamacare agenda has a singular thrust: Government knows what's best for us than do individuals, churches, synagogues, mosques, or small businesses.»

As noted last week, the State Liquor Authority rejected Eastwood's application for a full bar, ruling that the business is too close (less than 200 feet) from a church and a synagogue.

Residents from the Seward Park Co-op were out in force as well as more than 30 members of the Primitive Christian Church, which is located a short distance from the proposed business.

I like to prioritize my family, my business, and my church ministry, spending time on those things rather than obsessively try (and fail) to lose weight.

«Online dating sites help me to find someone from my location, the one who is doing his own business, having yearly income of not less than $ 150,000, who is a practicing Catholic Christian visiting church at least on every Sunday, someone who is a non-smoker and occasional drinker, and of course, who is serious in long term relationship», Jessica told.

His assignment at this church — which seems to do more business in tourist trinkets than souls — is equal parts penance and abnegation.

I think it's fair to say that's what a fiction writer is most often drawn to — tumult of one kind or another; and in that sense the family in the last quarter century seems to me to be among the most fascinating of human social or economic inventions — more than business or real estate, no matter what Tom Wolfe says, more than the church or the law or the hospital.

With 39 people still missing, more than 130 killed and thousands of homes, businesses, schools, hospitals and churches destroyed, charitable organizations say relief efforts will need to continue for months and will require ongoing donations.

We have more than 35 years of experience creating cookbooks for churches, groups, schools, families and businesses.

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We have more than 35 years of experience creating cookbooks for churches, groups, schools, families and businesses.

More than 20,000 hours of clinical experience M.Div., M.A., Fuller Seminary, A.B., Brown University Additional Bio Information > Gary Steeves Certified Mediator, Washington Mediation Association Corporate, small business and church consultant, facilitator, mediator, educator Licensed Mental Health Counselor specializing in systems theory American Association of Pastoral Counselors member At the parties» request, is able to integrate spirituality in areas of concern, including conflict and negotiations Certified Mediator, Pierce County Center for Dispute Resolution M.Ed., University of Puget Sound, STB, Angelicum University.

We have more than 35 years of experience creating cookbooks for churches, groups, schools, families and businesses.

Yes, we have had to work harder than we ever have in our life (starting a church and running my business).