Sentences with phrase «congregation about some concerns they had»

But in February of 2013, we were told one of the people from the Alliance District Office was coming to speak to the congregation about some concerns they had.

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Wuthnow is most concerned about how the hegemony of government standards eventually erodes the freedom and particularity of congregations — just as standardized tests have eroded the freedom and particularity of schools.

A congregation concerned about the prosaic quality of its self - understanding might therefore begin to tell its story in circumstances that before had encouraged the other types of self - description: mechanist accounts of numbers and program, organicist projections of family, contextualist categorizations of age, class, and the like, and formist symbolizations of property or other important totem.

«The sisters are wonderful people who work very hard, and yes, they do care about the poor, and they do care about social concerns, and the congregation of the dogma of the faith has come down on them really hard,» said Eileen Sammon, one of the protesters gathered outside St. Patrick's.