Sentences with phrase «ecumenical organizations»

Reformed Christians, both pastors and laypeople, were very much in the forefront of the early ecumenical organizations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In the later «60s those of us who had final administrative responsibility in ecumenical organizations lived from payday to payday.

In the «50s, those of us who worked for ecumenical organizations felt we were riding the wave of the future.

Thus we understand ecumenical organizations making great strides in «Life and Work» projects long before serious conversation about «Faith and Order» can get underway.

Ecumenical organizations, of course, are too often only inept expressions of the ecumenical movement.

But the fact remains that generations of youth were energized by what they experienced as a new vision of what it means to be a Christian, that the mainline Protestant churches formed ecumenical organizations to work together to implement the new vision, and that, finally, in the depression, many of their practical proposals for social reform were implemented.

When the major networks refused to sell them time, preferring instead to donate it to representatives of mainline denominations and ecumenical organizations, independent broadcasters bought time on local stations, laying the groundwork for what later came to be known as the electronic church.

Churches, mission boards and ecumenical organizations try, intermittently, to interpret Latin American developments.

In 1942, convinced that the reports of the «final solution» were accurate, ecumenical organizations (including the Federal Council of Churches in New York) strongly condemned their governments for failing to take in more refugees.

But preferred partnership arrangements are with those denominations, leaders and ecumenical organizations sharing their goals: social change, development projects and institutional support.

Monica Maxon is involved with Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation in Washington, D.C., and ecumenical organization for both individuals and congregations.

On the road of the Church's missionary obedience, the Holy Spirit will reveal the form of ecumenical organization which is most in harmony with the reality of the Church as a world community which seeks to be loyal to its mission and unity.43

Over nine years, Desbois and his ecumenical organization, Yahad — In Unum have searched for evidence of what Desbois calls the «Holocaust by bullets.»

Care and Counseling Center of Georgia: A nonprofit, ecumenical organization offering low cost counseling, pastoral care and education to individuals, couples, and families.

Not exact matches

As Cardinal Kurt Koch, the Vatican's top ranking ecumenical leader, said after the Paris massacres, the radical Islamic state is a «satanic terrorist organization,» which murders defenseless human beings — including countless Muslims — at will.

It was a decision that surprised many but one that made sense, given the organization's ecumenical nature.

In England there is the National Marriage Guidance Council, a secular organization, in which the church and church workers are playing an important role; this means that the work is in fact on an ecumenical basis.

The contributions on the one hand of Biblical, historical and systematic theology, of history, the sociology of religion and the theology of culture; and on the other, the practical experiments and experiences in ecumenical, national, municipal and parish organization of church life, will, one may hope, eventually be brought together in some kind of temporary historical synthesis.

is an ecumenical, all volunteer organization that «equips people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly, and celebrate responsibly.»

Americus, GA United States About Blog The Fuller Center for Housing, founded by Millard and Linda Fuller, is a non-profit ecumenical Christian organization devoted to an unrelenting quest to provide adequate shelter for all people in need worldwide.

Christian Healing Ministries, founded by Francis and Judith MacNutt, is a Christ - centered, ecumenical, non-profit organization that is dedicated to the practice and teaching of healing prayer.