Sentences with phrase «conservative churches»

That's why breastfeeding rates are so low especially in conservative churches.

, something still around in some of the more conservative churches.

Why the issue of homosexuality has posed such a problem for conservative churches relates to their understanding of Scripture.

But it is not the case that this freedom is complete or even that it is greater in secular institutions than in church ones, except for those of very conservative churches.

I was brought up in the church, a quite conservative church.

Contemporary conservative churches often... [center] attention on the nuclear family.

From the lesbian couple whose conservative church chose to break with its denomination rather than deny them membership.

The tones and suggestions of many of the cartoons that slight conservative churches because they have a view towards same - sex marriage that isn't consistent with the prevailing view here.

I've concluded the more conservative churches are big on correct doctrine.

Many conservative churches are able to maintain the tension between their ideals about families and realistic support for where families actually are.

In the present decade, while the Christian Church has slowly declined to 1.3 million members, the Churches of Christ have achieved a membership of approximately 2.5 million; the two wings of the «Reformation» seem classic examples of the contrasting religious patterns assessed by Dean Kelley in Why Conservative Churches Are Growing (Harper & Row, 1972).

A number of conservative Church of England figures have signed a letter which defends the former Archbishop of Canterbury against any criminal probe, calling the idea «bizarre».

Some of the most tortured ministers I have met are those from conservative churches who felt forced by the threat of job loss to mouth doctrines in which they no longer believed.

It has frequently been noted that the mainline and accommodating churches are in decline, while conservative churches continue to grow.

Alise, whose best friend is gay, is openly gay - affirming, and yet she continues to attend and serve a more conservative church where few of her fellow worshipers would agree with her position on homosexuality.

During the day reserved conservative church going.

The problem which conservative churches face is obvious.

As a pastor's kid who had grown up in a small, moderately conservative church, the sheer...

In ten years the church emptied from a few hundred to only a handful of members, as people left and found other conservative churches.

Though we both grew up in conservative church cultures, Nadia spent much of her young adulthood battling addictions while I kept working the good - girl schtick, even when it wasn't working for me, even when it became shallow and untrue.

Conservative church groups and liberal non-profits alike will surely be interested in gaining clarity about the identifications underlying donor behavior.

These groups unwittingly weaken the impact of the Christian message either as they try to alter the distinctive character of entire denominations, attempting to turn liberal churches into conservative churches, or as they undermine the consistency of image projected by liberal churches in areas important to their particular constituency.

Mainline Protestants (Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the like) and evangelical / fundamentalist Protestants (an umbrella group of conservative churches including the Pentecostal, Baptist, Anabaptist, and Reformed traditions) not only belong to distinctly different kinds of churches, but they generally hold distinctly different views on such matters as theological orthodoxy and the inerrancy of the Bible, upon which conservative Christians are predictably conservative.

They will form the next generation conservative churches to fit their feelings in this, and Christianity's opposition to gays will become history.

If this denomination splits, within minutes the new conservative church will be organized into warring factions.

Conservative churches turn out to be indirectly ensuring the survival of liberal churches this way a proportion of their ordinands become more liberal and go on to pastor liberal congregations, or turn evangelical churches into liberal ones.

«On the whole, conservative churches tend to be stricter in terms of what they require people to believe and their demands upon them, something which generally makes an organisation stronger.

Pastoring conservative churches for 20 + years has taught me that too many professed Christians don't know what they might believe because of self induced Biblical illiteracy.

In the more conservative churches sin has been generally conceived as a state of inherited Adamic guilt, not very sharply defined or related to the moral life, but nevertheless with some moral content in the individual's personal relations.

To make matters worse, with some important exceptions, the white conservative Church has largely supported the president, shrugging off his rampant dishonesty, self - aggrandizement, racism, misogyny, and bullying.

Like many black Christians, David grew up in a theologically conservative church culture that views the Bible as the authoritative word of God.

For example, one of the great problems facing liberal and conservative churches alike is that their membership has been schooled on the distinction between public and private morality.

Churches characterized by compassion and care no longer are able to retain membership, particularly that of their own children, whereas conservative churches that make moral conformity and / or discipline their primary focus continue to grow.

I think my biggest issue was that such a big wedge had developed between the progressive and conservative churches after the bombing of the World Trade Center that there was no space in between.

I'm a member of a conservative Baptist church and have attended highly conservative churches through the years.

Nonetheless, the ready acceptance of concern about porn in many conservative churches raises serious suspicions that pornography has been singled out for action because it is sexual, not because it is violent or actively degrading to women — especially since many conservative Christians have criticized battered women's shelters, sex education and planned parenthood centers.

This was slow at first, but since the Second World War, it has grown in strength, and has now taken root in the Roman Catholic Church — the largest and hitherto the most conservative church of the West.

Nevertheless, some of the more conservative Church members and ministers are still concerned that they may end up being forced to preside over such ceremonies some time in the future.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if liberal and conservative church people, who love to quarrel with each other, came to a common realization that the real issue confronting us is whether the news of God's abundance can be trusted in the face of the story of scarcity?

The profile is an exercise in standard revisionism, bent on demonstrating Francis» break from the supposedly conservative Church of old.

Most of the very conservative churches still use the King James version and it is this version which is distributed in such vast numbers by the British and American Bible Societies.

The potential galvanization of socially conservative church - going voters against Christine Quinn as the Democratic nominee for Mayor should not go unnoticed.