Sentences with phrase «discussions about the church»

We met online, struck up a relationship, and engage one another now and then in discussions about the church, theology and spirituality.

So while yes, mercy is a theme of recent popes, and there is of course great popular devotion to Divine Mercy, I haven't seen the concept used in discussions about church policy in quite this way before.

And who can dispute the fact that pressure from our wider culture has been the major catalyst behind continuing Christian discussion about the Church and the homosexual?

Sometime during the discussion about the church's success, Jesus had slipped out the back door.

The first chapter is an excellent review of the discussion about the church - related college as shaped by Marsden, Burtchaell, Arthur Holmes, Jon Roberts, James Turner, Arthur Dejong, Richard Hughes, Robert Benne and Douglas Sloan.

Not exact matches

These discussions about compatibility have their place, but if we spend all our time justifying which side of the gender equality debate we're on, the conversation will never truly progress and the Church will never become the advocate for women it could be.

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.

Use this guide in your small group, house church or class to create discussion and convey biblical truth about how we should live now in light of the future reality.

The discussions at the Security Council of the U.N., for example, produce more moral statements about Russia's lies, violence, and manipulations than any church has ever done.

Mr. Kurtz, as is usual in these discussions, makes no complaint about black churches that are much more overtly political, nor about other religious organizations on the left that frequently come much closer to «electioneering.»

What might this mean for the present discussion about the place in the church of homosexually oriented believers?

If «believers» aligned their right beliefs with right practice, fewer church members would look elsewhere for critically important discussions about caring, inclusiveness, open dialogue, ethical decision - making, and shared doubts in the context of a disturbing contemporary polarized culture.

Please support victims of clergy abuse and create productive discussion about how we as a society can prevent future children from abuse, inside and outside the walls of the Catholic Church.

The Church of England carried on discussions over sexuality at its General Synod (when is it not talking about sexuality) but it was its advice to its schools which hit the front pages that encouraged teachers to let pupils cross dress.

Serendipitously, two weekends ago when he did that, it was a chapter about how discussions of theology need ordinary people to be involved, how well - educated and well - read and well - travelled scholars also need us low church experiential local folks talking about how we see and experience and know God, about how theologians are hiding in every walk of life.

Given that time after time the discussion of priestly celibacy in the media and in many Catholic journals and books begins and ends with statements about the marriages of the apostles and the attempts to impose celibacy in the 12th centurymotivated by a desire to protect the Church's property and by a dualist denigration of marriage, it was definitely good news to link priestly celibacy with Christ and his loving.

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

In recent discussions about Britain as a Christian nation, Archbishop Justin Welby defended the role of church schools.

He has recently joined our church, and he told me some weeks ago that if there were ever any opportunities for serious theological discussion he would like to be included; so I told him about tonight.

Such has been the case in recent discussions about the role of women in the church and the family.

A woman who is held back, minimized, or downplayed is not walking in the fullness God intended for her as an image bearer (for instance, take a look at Carolyn Custis James» excellent discussion about being an «ezer kenegdo» in her book, «Half the Church.»)

For instance, Chapter 15 on the laity begins with a broad discussion about how the Church grew, covering the establishment of monasteries and convents, Mass in Latin, the removal of rood screens and the history of the Reformation; while Chapter 16, on Our Lady, goes through the titles given to her, in order to answer criticisms that these titles and honours can not be supported by Scripture.

Any way say, Man of God respectable Terry Jones, of Florida's Dove's Church, maybe a day would come that the world and Muslims would thank you for your causing all these discussions to come out today's on this site blogs and many other sites blogs and to it leading to have more people religious discussions leading them read and learn more about Islam and the Quran many who's eyes had opened to reality converted to Islam or at least respect Muslims and their religion.

The discussion about the relationship of Christianity to other religions has given new relevance to a long - standing dispute between the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Churches about the relation of the Holy Spirit to the other two persons of the Trinity — the so - called «filioque» («and the Son») dispute.

while I'd be glad to enter into a discussion about that (considering the early church reject Tatian's Diatesseron — which offered a «harmony» of the gospels into one account), it misses the more foundational point.

The saying, therefore, belongs to the positive sayings about the Baptist and as such would have to be rejected, on Bultmann's grounds, as having a Sitz zm Leben in anti-Jewish polemic in the early Church, (As indeed it is by E. Jüngel, the only recent contributor to the discussion to deny the authenticity of the saying, who argues that Matthew has set John on the side of Jesus «aus antijüdischer Polemik» [Paulus und Jesus (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1964), p. 191].

New NAMB president, Geoff Hammond, has been facilitating a discussion about the future of church planting, evangelism, and sending missionaries in our convention.

The seminaries that train future clergy, and the churches that employ them, dominate most discussions about theological education.

No matter what activity was actually going on in the Corinthian church regarding «the dead», why is the discussion / controversy about baptism and not the «true» means of salvation according to Baptists and evangelicals: an internal belief in Christ; an internal «decision» for Christ?

In other words we could reduce our discussion about proselytism to those who have the right or not of approaching others with the purpose of winning them for their own church.

In this line of thought it is worth pointing out that Discussion about mission has raised a question about the very nature of the church.

Rossman: You found that church people became more involved and excited about theological and biblical discussions.

Offering some advice on what the Church could do better, Erik says, «It's important for us to have a discussion about it so we can have a healthier view, because we don't talk about it as a Church anymore.»

If you want to have a discussion about the deeper things in life — love, death, aging, loneliness, joy — you are more likely to find someone game for the topic in church than elsewhere.

if you can lie to yourself with immunity, you might be an atheist if you think the indifferent support your side, you might be an atheist if you don't think at all, you might be an atheist if you are drawn to religious discussions thinking someone wants to hear your opinion, you might be an atheist if you copy paste every piece of crap theory you find, you might be an atheist if you think you are right no matter what the evidence shows, you might be an atheist if you can't hold your water when you think about science, you might be an atheist if you can't write the word God, with proper capitalization, you might be an atheist if you think your view has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you think The View has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you live in a tar paper shack, writing manifestos, you might be an atheist if you think you're basically a good person, and your own final authority you might be an atheist if you think your great aunt Tillie was a simian, you might be an atheist if you own an autographed copy of Origin Of The Species, you might be an atheist if you think that when you die you're worm food, you might be an atheist if you think the sun rises and sets for you alone, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is Charles Darwin when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is you when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if you attend a church but palm the offering plate when it passes, you might be an atheist If think this exhausts all the possibilities of definition, you might be an atheist.

They had read polemics about church property restitution, they had met Hari Krishnas in saffron robes, they could find Rushdie's Satanic Verses sitting beside Discussions with Cardinal Ratzinger in bookstores.

Volf's discussion of the structures and catholicity of the free church prompts a final observation about this seminal book.

These comments generated a valuable discussion about power, leadership and the church.

Burtchaell's title, The Dying of the Light, illustrates the tendency toward excessive solemnity that bedevils most discussions about colleges of the church.

Recognition of this fact requires us to begin a discussion of presuppositions by speaking about the Church itself.

Much of the debate about the Church and power conflicts now going on in many American cities seems very familiar because it is a replay of discussions in which I was involved in the 1930's when the chief issue was the relation of the churches to the labor movement in its early struggles to achieve...

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.

Today I was reading a discussion over at Bob Robert's blog about how getting conversions should not be the primary goal of church planting.

For a helpful discussion of nineteenth - century influences on how we think about «the future of oldline churches» see William McKinney, «Revisioning the Future of Oldline Protestantism,» The Christian Century (November 8, 1989): 1014 - 16.

The multiple recent allegations of sexual impropriety lodged against megachurch pastor Bill Hybels are provoking heated discussion about how churches should respond to allegations of sexual abuse and how Christian men and women should relate to one another.

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

There is an important and ongoing discussion within the church about the issue of gay marriage and gay rights, and there is certainly room for theological disagreement.

Some scholars argue that because the churches were caught up in eschatological expectation, very little of their discussion about social ethics is relevant to modern issues.

Following my own path (and not going through the motions) was a hard decision but your writings and art sure help I don't think any from my previous church are interesed in my independent journey... and if I happen upon any of the members they are usually quite defensive about the church so I agree your advice is good to not get into confrontation / discussions.