Sentences with phrase «faith groups which»

While I support the principle of civil partnerships, I do not think registering them should be mandated on faith groups which do not support them.

Further, most are absolutely certain that their particular interpretations are correct, and that the many hundreds of faith groups which teach opposing beliefs are in error.»

Not exact matches

It's a group defined by its values — faith, community and family — all of which directly influence buying decisions, brand loyalty and attitudes towards brands.

We began attending a church and small faith group, which helped us learn to give of ourselves, our time and our resources.

Stop the Traffik is a global coalition which already numbers more than 350 organisations including churches, community groups, other faith groups, businesses and NGOs (including Oasis Trust, Salvation Army, Tearfund, World Vision, JFCI, Christian Aid, Bible Society and Spring Harvest).

They silenced English Presbyterian and Independent criticism by the adoption of the Westminster Confession of Faith, which was the product of a group of English Puritan divines called together by the House of Commons, 1643 - 1649.

If so, we must listen appreciatively, remembering that, because all human language is relative and limited, we must not let any one word or group of words assume the qualities of an absolute, for that would be a return to the idolatry from which the faith of our fathers sought to deliver us.

This means I help oversee the work of the IJM Institute — which is where our group grapples with the issues raised by our work in the field, and asks the questions, «How does our faith inform our response?»

A lawyer representing the group said Islamic Sharia law, which views apostasy as a criminal offence, makes no provision for those wanting to leave the faith.

Despite an easy camaraderie and close fellowship which minimize faith commitments, it is nevertheless increasingly obvious that the two groups are taking separate approaches to their history - writing tasks.

The problem with blaming all this on faith or religion is that it hides the true culprits: fear, hatred, and selfishness — which culprits are leveraged by evil leaders of groups like ISIS.

The question for her then, is when she receives new life through the Messiah, Jesus, and allows her theology to be newly developed based on the Bible, which socio - cultural group does she want to live out this new faith in — her Muslim socio - cultural group, or a foreign Christian socio - cultural group?

Letty Russell has described the importance of «kitchen table» theology, which begins with the faith stories of ordinary women grouped around kitchen tables or in other everyday settings.

When television came in about 1950, each of these «faith groups» was given time each Sunday for their TV programs — programs which were broadly representative of the religious and cultural diversity of the country as a whole.

Theological educators in this second group stress that the conventional course of theological study is inadequate to the pluralism of ways in which the Christian faith is understood and lived.

(b) The Bible gives the authoritative content of the faith which provides substance for the small group experience, helping members avoid the «self - centeredness and sentimentality» of many prayer groups.

«Our purpose is not to denigrate any religion or faith, which would be repugnant to our educational purposes,» the Harvard student group had said in a statement, «but instead to learn and experience the history of different cultural practices.»

The group, which is still accepting donations to help the hostages heal, stated, «They have remained steadfast in their Christian faith despite a horrific year - long trial.»

The work of Professor J. F. Bethune - Baker, Professor Alexander Nairne, Canon Charles Raven, Dr A. C. Bouquet, and the Reverend J. S. Boys - Smith — all of whom were members of an informal group in Cambridge which was developing this line of thought — opened for me the possibility of a re-conception of Christian faith in terms of what was then being described as «emergent evolution».

It was exciting to see the group grasp the idea that they were faced with two options: either try to keep the whole law (which was impossible) or accept justification by faith in Jesus.

The problem for Jonah (and, certainly as understood in the biblical faith, the problem for all men) is the abandonment of the cherished hatreds, the nurtured antipathies, the cultivated distastes, the snide comparisons by which persons and groups and classes and nations maintain their own flattering images, their own sense of superiority and exclusiveness.

We have stressed the direct and concrete nature of the challenge to faith in the teaching of Jesus; we turn now to explore further the response - as - obedience aspect of that teaching in terms of a group of sayings which exhibit the radical and total character of the challenge of Jesus altogether.

Another example is the programs which all three commercial networks have provided to the major faith groups since the beginning of television, based on their historical commitment to providing an opportunity for religious expression in the society.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

At the Lund Conference on Faith and Order these elements of particularist group loyalties were identified, too simply I believe, as «non-theological factors» which have to be taken into account in ecumenical understanding.

The Reconstruction must move beyond narrow notions of religious groups and philosophical schools which conceive of themselves as tiny options, points of view, or faiths that exist solitarily in an otherwise cosmopolitan world.

The All Faiths Network, which is open to people of every faith and belief, has written an open letter requesting representatives from groups, communities, interfaith organisations, and business groups to add their signatures to the petition.

I had about much faith in this hoax as I do in most modern day religious group who claim anything if people did read the bible they would know before the rapture can happen Israel has to rebuild their temple on it original soil which is still held by 2 other groups.

The convener's task is to facilitate a process by which members may comfortably share their faith stories with the group.

The Obama administration released a proposal last week that specifies which faith - based groups could be exempt from or accommodated within the contraception mandate.

It is natural and appropriate to be scandalized that such claims should be made of just these all - too - well - known groups, faithless to their self - descriptions, thoroughly assimilated to the value system of the larger culture in which they live, complacent and at ease, often trivial and banal, subtly using the rhetoric of the faith to sanction their privileges and to obscure society's injustices.

Countless individuals were cast adrift from their hereditary moorings and groups and were hungry for a faith which would give meaning to life.

The issue has only become more urgent since then, with groups such as the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) lobbying this year for the First Amendment Defense Act, which «prevents the federal government from punishing an individual or faith - based business because they can not in good conscience accommodate same - sex marriage in certain situations.»

they give a high priority to evangelism: they will have one church service in the week devoted to evangelistic outreach or will give prominence to a call to faith in special services (however, this is less true of some Exclusive groups which keep themselves separate from society).

Attempts to make the nominally Christian peoples of Western Europe fully to conform to the standards of their faith were not confined to monastic movements and to groups which the Catholic Church branded as heretical.

Of interest also is the phenomenon already noted; the extent to which paid - time religious programs on television are bypassing reference to the group expressions and aspects of religious faith in favor of an individualized and privatized faith.

Crucially important to winning support for these reforms has been a grass - roots group on «faith and learning» which meets regularly to reflect on the college's religious character and to support efforts to strengthen it.

Other groups were the Scotists using the works of the philosopher Duns Scotus, championed by the Franciscans; the Thomists using the texts of Thomas Aquinas, championed by the Dominicans — Aquinas had worked philosophy and religion into a great single Summa, transposing Aristotle into the context of Christian theology under the influence of Augustine and Bernard, in which fides quaerens intellectum, faith seeking understanding, was integrated organically with philosophy; finally there was also a via antiqua, the ancient way, which was centred on Plato, but was also used to describe the Thomists.

Meanwhile, the conception of the church under the impact first of «toleration» and then of complete freedom and separation had largely lost the sacramental dimension which traditionally had sanctified her regular observances under Episcopal direction by making them intrinsically meaningful, and had become that of a voluntary association of explicitly convinced Christians for the purpose of mutual edification in the worship of God and the propagandization of the Christian faith as the group defined it.

So it's okay for anti-Christian groups, whoever they may be, to speak freely, but whenever someone wishes to express the tenets of their CHRISTIAN faith openly, which is what this country was founded on, then that's «hate speech.»

To play beautiful football, to put so much faith and trust in this group of players, to play with so much financial constraint, to move to a new stadium, all of which would put massive amounts of pressure on any manager, have left him seemingly in a position of appearing to have failed due to the lack of trophies.

The new requirement is one of many changes that were recently made, which also saw Free Schools become unable to teach against the scientific consensus, and also a check placed on plans for faith groups to take over Academies without a religious character.

Any groups which did not support democracy, human rights, the rule of law and mutual respect and tolerance of different faith groups would lose funding, Ms May confirmed

Equally, the criticism which can be levelled at all the parties in their dealings with faith groups is their tendency to instrumentalise them.

It's a «big society» initiative, which hopes to enable local communities and faith groups in particular, to create local solutions to social problems.

My instinct would be that the best (and pretty weak) case for good faith, reasonable proportionality, etc would relate not at all to the group of protestors who were contained, but either to some argument relating to the resource pressures of policing adjacent events, fears of the risks of issues involved in one becoming mixed up in the other, etc, etc which (at its very best) would be a highly pre-emptive and precautionary approach to a situation where there was no existing problem to be contained.

That breadth of support reflects the sensible way in which this has been proposed, demonstrating respect for differences over the principle of civil partnerships among faith groups.

It is exactly four years to the day since Citizens UK held an assembly at the Barbican which saw 2,000 people from civil society institutions, many of them faith groups, putting the issue of capping the cost of credit to the Treasury portfolio politicians of the three major parties.

I believe that such appeals carry grave threats to democratic discourse, and I think it wrong that faith groups, which in the United States and here enjoy significant hidden subsidies from other taxpayers, should award themselves a special right to influence the law and public policy and seek to impose their views on others who disagree with them.»

The campaign, which seeks to reform the faith school sector, brings together a range of groups and individuals, including educationalists, civil rights activists and both the religious and non-religious.