Sentences with phrase «clergy persons for»

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the strange think is that many clergy and christians don't even believe in God they only do what they do for for the comfortable lifestyle and power over people.

The Diocesan Board plans to allocate # 1.5 million to reserves; nearly # 1 million to its ministry to children and young people; # 150,000 for training clergy; and # 100,000 to improve its portfolio of housing for retired clergy.

Stopping short of calling for cathedral governing bodies - Chapters - to be scrapped, the Church of England said at least two - thirds of members should not be clergy, to ensure people with necessary skills are there.

The problem with organized religion sometimes is the overreaching arrogance of the lay people (and clergy) in their assumption of what is best for an individual.

I am looking for authenticity, relevancy, no ovewhelming bands that take away from the experience of worship, clergy who are willing to answer my hard questions, who understand doubt is a stepping stone to deepening my belief, who accept everyone as Jesus did (and we know Jesus was a rebel who accepted and led all sorts of people), who don't feel the need to try to be hip, who speak about things without inserting politics, who are wiling to trash the temple to bring us back to the truth, who will step out of the box of comfort and be real.

For some reason it never seems to occur to the clergy person (s) to ask whether the accuser (s) have first personally confronted the defendent, as instructed to do by Scripture, before appealing to an authority figure.

The Center for University Ministry (interdenominational) is endeavoring to reach out to gay persons through its counseling staff, through worship and Bible studies, and through the publication of a special bibliography on homosexuality and religion designed particularly to aid clergy and other counselors.

They long for that intimate setting where everybody has everything in common, where people get to share as the Spirit leads, and where there are no professional clergy, choirs, or classes.

Mutuality may, in itself, be a new and strange experience for clergy who have become accustomed to relating to other people only through their clerical roles.

It turned out to be essentially a continuation of what had already been revealed — a plea for prayer and penance, but with an added series of images: a ruined city, a rugged Cross, a Pope shot at with arrows, bishops, clergy and faithful people martyred.

Last time, they killed the idea of people crossing the Tiber in parish groups, but put in place fast - track provisions for the recycling of Anglican clergy.

And at Connecticut's Fairfield University, scholars, clergy, and lay Catholics recently discussed the implications for the church of having many gay and lesbian people, both in and out of the closet, in roles as priests and ministers.

It is because their clergy really had been given an apparently well - founded hope that they would be able to «cross the Tiber» with their people (possibly under provisions made by Pope John Paul for the reception of whole Anglican parishes in America): and because of the sense of massive betrayal they felt when some of our bishops confronted Cardinal Hume, who had originally been inclined to respond positively, and forced him to back down.

Groups like Clergy for a New Drug Policy seek to reform the enforcement laws to get to the root of real problems like addiction and poverty, instead of just locking up millions of people, turning them into felons for life.

It promises satisfaction for clergy who aim to share the church's ministry with the whole people of God to whom that ministry properly belongs.

For it is not true that only the most stupid, narrow - minded and clerical men rise to the highest ecclesiastical offices, so that a generous, holy and idealistic people would have a wholly unworthy clergy.

«There is a call on many pastors, on many people that are in the clergy to stand up for people or for their injustices... when you look in the Bible that is what you see in the characters that stand out including Jesus himself.

As regulations grew in severity, the Puritan clergy rallied the people, and revolutionary agitators such as Samuel Adams cried for action.

The devoutly leftist People for the American Way (PAW) got into the act with a statement signed by a select group of clergy asserting that «God is neither Republican nor a Democrat.»

The way we design church buildings make it impossible for every person to be involved, and continue to widen the unbiblical clergy - laity chasm.

Apart from being a smooth con to support their respective clergy, religions continue to be nothing more than primitive soporifics for the weak, gullible and stupidest people who can not accept responsibility for and limits to their own lives.

Those of us who conduct them have come to expect that about a hundred people — clergy and laity — will show up for a one - or two - day regional workshop on worship.

Islam today still beheads people for apostacy — if not on the national level then at the village / local level (saudi arabia, Iran), still burn people to death for witchcraft (indonesia and saudi arabia), Draw the prophet and earn yourself a death sentence from the Clergy, Write a book critical of islam and get the same deal, write a magazine article expessing concern about the rise of islam in your country and have your throat slit on a public street in YOUR own country...

This is why the Irish clergy are often so timid about proclaiming Christian doctrine: they know well that people like them personally and that they are grateful for the social work done by the Church, but that Church teaching is deeply resented, and that any attempt to state it is met with bitter hostility.

If it is true what I suggest in Skeleton Church, that the church is the people of God who follow Jesus into the world, then buildings and clergy and worship services are not only not necessary for being the church, but can actually obstruct the people of God following Jesus into the world.

It might help feed some poor people, clothe their clergy in gold or pay for their victims of abuse, but not much else.

For many years the several churches of the Reformation tended to look with suspicion on this practice; more recently, some of them have recognized its value and have urged their ordained clergy to commend it to their people in whatever form may seem suitable.

Alcoholics Anonymous, drug rehabilitation centers, coalitions for social and political reforms, therapy clusters, the adult education movement — these and other activities provide opportunities for people to «get involved,» without the benefit of clergy.

In 1979 the Catholic bishops of England and Wales issued guidelines for the clergy titled An Introduction to the Pastoral Care of Homosexual People.

All mainline clergy could cite examples of persons who have left their churches — where clear - cut «answers» rarely are given — for fundamentalist churches where authoritarian pastors rule.

I then reflected further: If doctors expect people to come for regular physical examinations, why do we clergy not expect our parishioners to come to us for regular spiritual checkups?

Further, if something is wrong for clergy, it should be wrong for laity, otherwise a false separation is introduced into the people of God.

He said: «I think it's very needed... and it's very important for me because sometimes it's hard to find other people that I can... speak to about this issue that are also clergy because the percentage is so small.»

This meant for the earliest disciples a basic renunciation of the struggle for existence, implemented by a complete break with the power structure of society: the automatic prerogatives of the chosen people, the security of the holy tradition, the comfort of established religious organization and clergy — all such props, controlled by man and as a result constantly available to him for securing his existence, were in principle eliminated.

Educated clergy were essential to the challenge to Catholic authority, and for centuries in Protestant countries, including the Protestant colonies in America, clergy typically were the best educated persons in a town or village.

These differed somewhat for those in a monastic order, for the clergy, and for the lay people; Christian duties also differed for the aristocrat and the peasant.

The married mother - of - two described how her motivation for joining Gogglebox was to change how people perceive clergy.

This is well brought out in a debate within the General Conference of the United Methodist Church in the U.S.A. on moral sexual behavior expected of Christians and whether standards should be stricter for clergy than for lay people.

It's terrifying that this guy says he has tried to help people for years in his position as clergy.

Aside from being sort of disrespectful to nonbelievers and people of other faiths, allowing clergy to «give a brief benediction or comment» would make for a very long ceremony, not only because so many religions would have to be represented but because so many members of the clergy don't know how to be «brief.»

What began as an effort by legislators to expand judicial accountability for sexual abuse by Catholic clergy has grown to cover people in every walk of life.

Scott Hahn has founded a study centre specifcally to «promote biblical literacy for Catholic lay people and biblical fuency for Catholic scholars and clergy» — a fruit of Pius XII's Divino Afante Spiritu and Vatican II's Dei Verbum.

Approximately one - fourth of the comprehensive community mental health centers that were operational in 1968 had clergymen on the staff; another 25 percent had a staff person designated to work with the churches and clergy within the catchment area being served; and the remaining half of the existing centers generally acknowledged that one of their goals was to relate in some helpful way to the churches and clergy, but had not yet formulated any plans for accomplishing this.

Assumptions about confidentiality held by a clergy - person or a worshiping community have significant implications for community life.

Toward the end of the tenth century agitation began for the Peace of God, which sought to exempt from attack all persons and places consecrated to the Church — churches, monasteries, clergy, monks, and virgins.

Clergy can, for example, be empathic listeners, and can ask questions that will encourage people to express their feelings, no matter how «crazy.»

The Puritan clergy rallied the people against British rule, paving the way for the American Revolution.

This short introduction to the Old Testament is designed for colleagues in teaching as well as formal and informal students including working clergy persons and lay persons.

Consequently there is reason to be concerned for the mental health of the clergy, and how they prepare to assist persons who are wrestling, as we all do at one time or another, with emotional problems.

In the urban centers there were cathedral churches staffed by a considerable corps of the clergy responsible for the cure of souls in the area and sometimes, as in the case of Chantry priests, committed to saying masses for designated persons living or dead.