Sentences with phrase «discussions about faith»

They engage in sincere discussions about faith and Christianity.

Can we drop the politics now and get back to discussions about faith?

Since the show debuted in 2012, family prayers, discussions about faith and good old - fashioned Bible Belt family values have been a staple of Duck Dynasty.

Can we drop the politics now and get back to real discussions about our faith?

A week of worship, music, discussions about faith issues and mission activities, such as «Open the Book» presentations, will take place in a tent run by people from most Christian denominations.

When I first started writing about religion for an online news site, I eagerly turned to the comment section for my articles, fishing for compliments and wondering if I had provoked any thoughtful discussions about faith.

but this one at least) who provokes a discussion about faith and morals and not about party A versus party B and the tiring election.

We're having a great discussion about faith - changing books already, if you'd like to weigh in on Sunday's post.

Avoidance of the emotional side of the centuries - old discussion about faith and religion is the better way to reduce the noise and to understand the other side of the question.

Click the audio player for a Q&A with Joanna Brooks from CNN Radio's John Lisk http://podcasts.cnn.net/cnn/services/podcasting/audio/cnnprofiles/cnnprofilesa02-06-2012.mp3 Amid Mitt Romney's presidential bid, the «I'm a Mormon» ad campaign and the smash - hit Broadway musical «Book of Mormon,» this Obama supporter has emerged as a refreshing voice for media, hungry for frank discussion about her faith.

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The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking of churches and discussion about a common calendar; but they also include problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts of fasting and, in particular, regulations of marriage in a multicultural and interreligious world.

In time, this discussion about the cardinal virtues passed into Catholicism, where it was incorporated into a structure of thought in which these virtues were seen to be the basis for, and as becoming finally realized in, the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love.

When discussion of faith schools comes to the fore, we are still largely talking about church schools.

I have with in the past year had my name is removed.One thing in Catholic circles, we don't do this, We don't have discussions (OP) about other people's faith and discuss what they do wrong.

Discussion groups about matters of faith emphasize that everybody's view is wanted and welcome.

In the Christian Institute for the Study - of Religion and Society there was an open discussion about a proposal that since Christ transcended not only cultures but also religions and ideologies, the fellowship of confessors of faith in Jesus as the Messiah should not separate from their original religious or secular ideological community but should form fellowships of Christian faith in those communities themselves, and that so long as the Law sees baptism as transference from one community to another it should not be made the condition of entry into the fellowship of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper but made a sacramental privilege for a later time (Ref.

One can read a good many books about the moral and political implications of Christian faith without finding much discussion of prisons.

Fear is what prevails in most Muslim heart when in comes to trying to have any rational discussion about who carries out any break in the tenets of this faith.

It is true that he begins when he meets them on the road by asking about their discussion, that he takes them where they are; but this is because they are where they should not be - they need to come to faith, these foolish men so slow to believe what was in the scriptures.

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

I can't write about books that changed my faith without including something from the emerging Church discussions.

I've witnessed literally to thousands of college students in one - on - one discussions and when it comes down to it, most of them could care less about the excellent historical, scientific, and textual evidence we have for our faith.

The Regensburg lecture and the responses to it can stir discussion among Christians about our own responsibility to persons who are not members of our own faith.

First, one can raise questions about the freedom of the act of faith; one then situates the problem in the field of an essentially psychological or anthropological discussion.

An event billed as a discussion on the economy turned personal Tuesday when a woman asked President Barack Obama about his Christian faith and views on abortion.

which so often permeates discussions about women in the church and in the world, particularly for people of faith.

Following the 1975 Nairobi assembly, at which there were sharp disagreements about the Christian attitude to people of other faiths, the phrase «A Just Participatory and Sustainable Society» provided the framework for discussion of social ethics.

Questions about the transmission of faith from one generation to another were surely a part of New Testament discussions about membership requirements in a Christian community.

What really makes people show disrespectful and not used to civilized / scholarly discussion is when they go into news forums talking about the catholic faith, christianity, judaism etc. and start insulting with a very proud and selfish tone, and in obvious bad faith.

A further factor at work in the situation was the feeling that a discussion of «faith» in the teaching of Jesus would lead to a discussion of Jesus» faith and this would be an illegitimate psychologizing about Jesus.

With a few exceptions teachers and students do not engage in a denominationally restricted discussion but participate in a Protestant and a Christian conversation or debate about the ultimate problems of faith and life.

I thought that this subject could really augment our discussion surrounding my recent post about A New Kind of Fundamentalism, in which I argue that a commitment to love God and love people provides the foundation for the Christian faith.

I entered into the earlier long discussion on ontology and epistemology in preparation for submitting and testing the following assumption: Let us assume that the way we come to faith in God and come to develop symbolic expressions about relationship to Him is not fundamentally different from the way we come to have certitude about and develop symbolic specificity about our other relations.

We did end up having a discussion about different faiths - expressing nor endorsing opinions on any in particular but merely educating the students on the differences (and then they pointed out the lack of difference between many).

Only as laymen decide they care enough about the applications of the Christian faith to unite in study under leadership, or to unite in discussion to learn from one another in a fellowship, are we apt to get far toward bridging the gap between the Church and the world.

Both of them are now believers, which is their choice as adults, but they fully understand my position on religions and we sometimes have some wonderful discussions on the subject, but I usually just get them confused because I know so much more about the Christian faith than they do because I have studied it from a secular point of view.

Of course, Rollins advocates changing the way we think about faith, (which we will discuss more exhaustively in our next discussion).

Maybe if we were having a discussion on something like faith or the topic of this thread but considering this all came about from you trying to «win» an argument on a grammar technicality..

Toward the end of the interview though, the discussion took a turn for the spiritual when Gates is asked about his views on faith.

There's no discussion of proselytizing; she's talking about people who belong to a faith and who still want to be.

The fact of evil in the world and in human experience raises serious questions for any Christian discussion, as much about human existence as about the reality and activity of God who in Christian faith is affirmed to be nothing other than «pure unbounded love.»

«I'm hoping the data opens a discussion about preachers» eschatological beliefs, why they hold those ideas, and how congregants and faith leaders can better understand the biblical texts,» he said.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

She writes about her journey through pregnancy loss, as well as discussions on faith, chaplaincy, and vintage sewing on her blog, Restless Weaver.

2 p.m., NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray will participate in a Facebook Live discussion with Kay Warren — a national faith leader, author and co-founder of Saddleback Church — about how faith leaders can address mental illness and addiction in their communities.

Following the tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, Public Advocate Tisch James is inviting faith leaders from across New York City to join her in a discussion about safety in local houses of worship.

And for those people who don't accept it, the exhibit may enable the families to have a discussion about what their 15 - year - old saw and how that fits into the overall faith of the family.

But yesterday, Elsevier released a statement saying that it would restore access to the institutions «while good faith discussions about a nationwide contract carry on.»

Because of my commitment to my faith, she is either a Christian or open to discussions on faith and learning about mine.

Underpinning the discussions about love today is a powerful streak of bad faith.