Sentences with phrase «different church in the state»

In his role as president of the Massachusetts Conference of the UCC, Antal said he spends each Sunday preaching at a different church in the state and tries to incorporate climate change into roughly every other sermon.

Not exact matches

Since these two were raised in different states and went to different churches I have to believe this is an underlying current in all Mormon churches.

In a calmer, more reflective tone years later, Madison expressed satisfaction that the idea of separation of church and state that he promoted and built into the 1st Amendment allowed those with different beliefs to flourish:

Different though their status was — Protestantism as the historical religion of state in Prussia and elsewhere, Catholicism as anxious protector of its endangered milieu — both churches were prisoners of the desire, above all, to preserve a threatened status quo.

As the curtain rises on Election Year 2012, the Catholic Church in the United States finds itself undergoing historic changes that indicate that the future face of the Church on these shores will be much different from what it has been historically.

The body of Christ, the church, and the state are two separate and very different entities in our country.

Protestantism accepted the idea that uniformity of belief is a necessary factor in a church, so that as new formulations of belief have arisen new churches have been founded to represent them, until in the United States we have over two hundred different kinds of Protestant Christians.

In order to avoid misunderstandings it may be said in passing that such rules must be different in a society like the state of which one is a compulsory member, from those obtaining in a voluntary society like the Church, to which one need not belonIn order to avoid misunderstandings it may be said in passing that such rules must be different in a society like the state of which one is a compulsory member, from those obtaining in a voluntary society like the Church, to which one need not belonin passing that such rules must be different in a society like the state of which one is a compulsory member, from those obtaining in a voluntary society like the Church, to which one need not belonin a society like the state of which one is a compulsory member, from those obtaining in a voluntary society like the Church, to which one need not belonin a voluntary society like the Church, to which one need not belong.

Jefferson's letter in response argued for a very different concept - a «wall of separation between Church & State» - that, according to him, was enshrined in the First Amendment.

The only Christians who helped us with our marriage issues were my parents who live in a different state and have no affiliation with our church.

With the emancipation of church from state in the post-Reformation era, churches in North America have inherited a rather different set of implications for the conversion of political figures.

Christians will sing a different «separation of church & state» tune when «Allah akbar» replaces «in god we trust!»

Since the majority of my family is affiliated with different Pentecostal denominations, I have followed closely the growth of the Pentecostal church in the United States, as well as in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Winthrop was, unlike Augustine, the leader of a total society in which church and state, though different, were closely connected and in which Christianity informed the political as well as the religious structure.

The way in which Virginia approached the question of religious liberty was very different from the path chosen by Massachusetts and other states, but the Virginia way has become the standard by which American liberals today measure the relations of church and state» and even of religion and society.

Church and Country are in altogether different spheres... The Church is supreme in one order of things; the State is supreme in another order.

I was already drawn towards the early emerging - church conversations in the United States (where I lived at the time), and this book was just so different.

(Though, the multi-site church Life.Church draws 70,000 in locations across seven different states.)

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I haIn a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I hain my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I hain the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I hain Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

The historical forces now pushing those issues toward the top of the social agenda — and therefore toward serious consideration by the churches — are different from those of the turbulent 1920s and «30s, when the masses of working people in the United States were struggling for the basic right to have a union, a decent wage and tolerable working conditions.

Many religious leaders, as well as public officials, talk of friendship between church and state, and claim that in charging the government to be neutral regarding religion the founders meant «neutral among different sects.»

American and British theologians oft en find themselves in significant agreement — drawing on similar sources and reaching shared conclusions — but geographical distance as well as the very different church - state relations in the two nations have meant that Christians in one region are often unaware of theological developments in the other.

Yet in other respects — notably our ecclesiastical diversity, the freedom of the Church from state control, and the predominance of liberalism and fundamentalism rather than the new orthodoxy as the prevailing theological climate — our situation is different, and it will sharpen the discussion to keep it within such bounds.

Rather than use Niebuhr's schema, I want to propose a different set of models for the interaction between church and state in the North American context.

It simply has the Establishment Clause, which is interpreted in various ways, one of them being «the separation of church and state,» which in turn is sufficiently ambiguous to be applied in numerous different fashions.

This is apt to be a limited remedy, however, due to American church - state entanglement anxieties that other countries don» t share; prohibitions in many state constitutions that make such public financing difficult or impossible; and our conviction that what» s valuable about private education is its freedom to be different.

In her free time, Dr. Kroeger enjoys playing the piano, reading both classic and Christian novels, attending Bible study at church, scrapbooking, bike riding and hiking the tallest mountain peaks in different states with her sisterIn her free time, Dr. Kroeger enjoys playing the piano, reading both classic and Christian novels, attending Bible study at church, scrapbooking, bike riding and hiking the tallest mountain peaks in different states with her sisterin different states with her sisters.

We go to our old church in a different state (4 hours away) on the rare occasions that we are able finacial and time wise.