Sentences with phrase «creative religious communities»

Women and men, living and working together in harmony and equity, can build stronger, more creative religious communities and societies.

Not exact matches

Even if we consider the three major religious groups as ethnic traditions rather than religious in the narrow sense, their brightest and most creative intellectuals and artists have been absorbed into the general American intellectual and artistic community so as to deprive the communal groups of their natural cultural leaders.

This paper attempts to wed together descriptive documentation and interpretive analyses.1 It focuses upon a religious phenomenon that is central to one community of Dalits in South India.2 Accordingly, it seeks to probe and explicate the resistive and creative dynamic that is operant in the religion of the Paraiyars.

«Instead of exploring creative ways sport might serve true religious purposes such as spiritual growth and enrichment, the Christian community has seized on sport as a tool of status enhancement, advertising, and evangelism,» he says.

Such a program will be of mutual benefit to the local churches and the mental health center in a local community, for it will mobilize the clergy and the resources of the religious community in a creative partnership of community service and improved health.

Millennia Awards are given to participatory communities which bridge superficial cultural and religious divides — exploring commonality as much as difference; maintaining fresh, creative, missional formats accessible and relevant to a diverse audience; remaining sensitive to our shared humanity and common need for grace as we learn and grow together.