Sentences with phrase «church as a horse»

Think of the institution of the church as a horse.

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A quota system, rationalized and marketed as a tool both for mission and overcoming past injustice, had from the first another, and deeper, goal: to serve as a Trojan horse for importing the largest possible number of activists into the church bureaucracy.

Outler can write in abstract terms about Chalcedon or in concrete images about historic moments like the rearing up of Emperor Theodosius's horse, as he did in his presidential address at the American Society of Church History.

Insofar as they mean to be Christian, why should the assorted political advocates of today's churches ride so high a theological horse when they enter the public political arena?

In a society that has moved from horse and buggy to space flight in a single life - span, more and more people regard as archaic any church which seems to locate the golden age or complete revelation somewhere in the past.

Except that the Catholic Church doesn't have a «white horse» prophecy, nor did they ever have an oath of vengeance against the United States as part of their catechism.

Hotels like this one offer a huge amount for those who enjoy outdoor pursuits, as you can go walking, mountain biking and horse riding in the peace and quiet of the Catalonian countryside, which also has many fascinating Romanesque churches and medieval towns to visit too.

An adventure tour to Romania is an opportunity to see rural life continuing as it has for centuries, with beautiful scenery dotted with traditional villages, wooden churches, haystacks, herds of sheep and horse - drawn carts.

(A recent reworking of Judson that also involved equine players comes to mind as well — Mike Kelley's 2009 The Judson Church Horse Dance.)