Sentences with phrase «conservative churches face»

The problem which conservative churches face is obvious.

He pointed out that the human rights ordinance «had brought the community's conservative churches face to face with the problem of homosexuality for the first time.»

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It is the state of those who ecclesiastically are conservative in face of the experience of profound changes in the Church.

These fears are not so different from the fear I see in the eyes of protestors carrying signs that depict President Obama as Hitler, the fear I see in the red faces of angry preachers urging their parishioners to «take America back for God,» the fear I detect in some of the books against emerging church, the fear I detect in some of the books in support of the emerging church, the fear I hear in the voices of both gays and the conservative evangelical activists who lobby against them when both sides consider for just a second the possibility that maybe they have it wrong.

It's facing serious strains over the ordination of women bishops and gay priests, and the Catholic Church has reached out to disaffected Anglicans, raising the possibility that conservatives could leave en masse.

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.

The Episcopal Church consecrated its first openly lesbian bishop Saturday in the face of objections from some conservative Anglicans.

At the same time, general cultural trends are moving away from the conservative religion of the immediate past; eventually, conservative churches will face slowly diminishing constituencies.

But the measure faced potent opposition from antiabortion activists, the Catholic church and fiscal conservatives, because it would pay for research on discarded human embryos and increase the state's debt.