Sentences with phrase «faith groups who»

It was folks putting together coalitions with groups that had human rights concerns, or faith groups who were concerned about creation care.

Are there local community or faith groups who can provide social interaction and guidance while settling into the new home?

We will introduce a new and uncontrollable source of factional discord between faith groups who are inside the political system (and in receipt of public patronage and money) and those who are not.

Dear Harriet... pls support amendment allowing those faith groups who want to register civil partnerships to do so http://bit.ly/cEAobq

Whilst I profoundly disagree with faith groups who hold these views, it remains perfectly legal for them to hold and preach them.

RT @nextleft: Dear Harriet... pls support amendment allowing those faith groups who want to register civil partnerships to do so http://bit.ly/cEAobq

They were speaking for a large group of leaders of many different faith groups who have signed a letter denouncing the HHS mandate as an attack on religious freedom.

Not exact matches

Last month, he said: «We are now seeing the rise of many populist groups across the world that are increasingly aggressive towards those who adhere to a minority faith.

He supports his argument with numerous persuasive anecdotes about individuals who have walked out of the underclass with the help of faith - based, grassroots groups that practice «hard - headed, soft - hearted» compassion.

But you can trust that other have seen him, you can trust what was written about him, thus it take really takes faith (evident demonstrations) to believe that Abraham existed because you honestly can't say you met the guy in person, but you believe right along with millions of other people who have met him either, as a group we are convinced that he was real.

In a study, conducted by a faith - based group no less, it was shown that ICU patients who knew they were being prayed for tended to suffer more complications and problems than those who were not or did not know.

«You have to ask why the bishops can't take yes for an answer,» wrote Gehring, who works with the progressive group Faith in Public Life.

I am happy that the writer had the choices that she did... She is also free to decide whether or not she is a Catholic... She however, took an available medication for a health problem... most Catholic facilities recognize such health problems and allow for that treatment... I am completly puzzled, though, that she would not want other Catholics to be able to choose differently than she did... for those people who wish to use contraceptive services and medication, options are open to them... I am not Catholic, did not grow up in a faith based family, and don't know whether a God exists or not... However, to leave a relgious group with no option but to contradict its own tenets is an attempt by those who don't believe in those tenents to mock them, certainly, but more to erode them... this seems the aim of many and when those folks operate from inside the government... that intrusion is an overreach of the govenrment...

Sure, invite people who aren't members of your faith / club / beliefs to attend your meetings and learn more, but if they want to join or be a leader, shouldn't the group be able to have at least some basic, common - sense requirements that they themselves set?

2) Who is / will be in hell: Nobody, just Satan and his angels, everybody, people who don't have faith in Jesus, people who aren't trying to be generally good, people who don't agree with doctrines X Y and Z, just the really bad people, the people I don't like, people who don't take a «final chance» at death, some other groupiWho is / will be in hell: Nobody, just Satan and his angels, everybody, people who don't have faith in Jesus, people who aren't trying to be generally good, people who don't agree with doctrines X Y and Z, just the really bad people, the people I don't like, people who don't take a «final chance» at death, some other groupiwho don't have faith in Jesus, people who aren't trying to be generally good, people who don't agree with doctrines X Y and Z, just the really bad people, the people I don't like, people who don't take a «final chance» at death, some other groupiwho aren't trying to be generally good, people who don't agree with doctrines X Y and Z, just the really bad people, the people I don't like, people who don't take a «final chance» at death, some other groupiwho don't agree with doctrines X Y and Z, just the really bad people, the people I don't like, people who don't take a «final chance» at death, some other groupiwho don't take a «final chance» at death, some other grouping?

Communities of faith are not bereft of the Spirit, and therefore of the possibility of renewal through the efforts of men and women who dare to act in the hope that the Church can contribute more to our public life than merely another interest group.

Third, if using an offensive screen name directed at a group of people who believe in faith and family, and differ their beliefs from yours is bigotted.

Let us be a group of people who want to listen in love and work out our salvation through faith together.

Rogers, who worked with the Obama administration during the planning of his first inauguration in 2009, will become Director of the Office of Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, a job that includes working with outside religious groups and acting as the top White House official on religious issues.

At all Faith groups and events we welcome non-Catholics who are sincerely seeking a deeper vision of Christ and encourage respectful and informed dialogue with all men and women of good will.

My definition of «church» has definitely changed over the years, and I find myself leaning more and more toward the idea that the true bride of Christ is a group of living breathing people — not a building, not an organization, not a set of doctrines, etc. — just people who continue on the path toward faith in God.

But for me it's important to remember that even after the Council of Chalcedon there were large groups of Christians who rejected what we call the orthodox Christology formulated there just because of their faith.

In a 5 - 4 decision this morning, the Supreme Court said that a California law school can require a Christian group to open its leadership positions to all students, including those who disagree with the group's statement of faith.

Mary was nominated by the Jersey groups of the Catholic Women's League, who say: «We are truly blessed to have some one of Mary's enthusiasm and endeavour in passing on the faith to the young people of our Island.»

Barna suggests that the group of believers that is growing most quickly might be those who are seeking to make sense of their faith outside the context of organised church.

Jeremy Yang, a senior at Harvard who sits on the board of the Harvard - Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship, said his group offers a place where faith and culture intersect.

«We are particularly disturbed that the two groups who appear to be among your primary targets, Muslims and Jews, have during the past six months been victims of faith - based terrorist violence in Chicago.»

They wonder what ecclesial status Tony Palmer — a longtime friend of the pope's who arranged the meeting — has, why the pope of the poor chose a prosperity - preaching Word of Faith group out of all the possible choices, and what the future implications might be.

They are therefore looked upon, not as a separate sect, but rather as a group of conservative, orthodox Muslims whose belief is centered around the Qur» an and the Hadith, who seek to express their faith in word and deed, and whose object is the reestablishment of the Muslim state on the basis of Muslim jurisprudence.

Though many Millennials have abandoned religion entirely, Barna Group president David Kinnaman believes the ones who keep their faith are more committed.

This issue is an extremely common topic at meetings and it is always stressed that believe in a Higher Power can be anything of your choosing and many AAs simply believe in the power of the group as a whole as their Higher Power (I have also know many people who started with this belief and later found faith in God).

I won't argue with you about «religion» if by that you mean the organization of groups of individuals who share a common faith and manner of worship and study about that faith.

When my wife and I moved to Pasadena, California, we joined a group of well - educated couples who were meeting in a local Baptist church on Sunday mornings for a freewheeling discussion of life, social issues and various cultural challenges to the Christian faith.

Wallis, who has spearheaded a group of evangelical leaders on immigration reform, said that Obama particularly mentioned the importance of faith leaders in the immigration debate.

The first of these is made up of the evolutionary biologists themselves; the second consists of those who believe that evolution requires a materialist, and hence atheistic, interpretation (evolutionary materialism); the third group comprises the proponents of Intelligent Design Theory (IDT); and the fourth is the evolutionary theists, those who consider Darwinian evolution not only compatible with biblical faith, but an illuminating framework for arriving at a deeper understanding of God than is implied in the notion of a designer.

«And there's another group who really liked Santorum,» Green continued, «and were quite excited about him not only because of the social issues but because they saw him as representing this positive role for faith and values in a society.»

As I use the word in this book, it refers to that group of over forty - five million Americans and millions more worldwide who believe in (1) the need for personal relationship with God through faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ, and (2) the sole and binding authority of the Bible as God's revelation.5 «Evangelical» is, first of all, a theological term, though its adherents may also have derivative sociological and psychological traits.

However, as writers in this group tend to suggest, that type of argument overlooks the fact that characterizations of the «essence» of Christian faith are themselves deeply shaped by the social and cultural locations of the people who make them.

If the Christian faith, the fellowship of the church, the significance of prayer and worship, the challenge of Christian service are important for that large segment of the population that fall in the range between 80 and 120, then it is important for these two youngsters who happen to be above and below that group.

Tarring a group of people who have not been given proof of the existence of a God or Gods (depending on your chosen «Faith») or of the ability of prayer to alter anything is not terribly helpful.

«Barack Obama will unite conservatives and people of faith more so than any single Republican candidate can hope to do,» said Mat Staver, an evangelical Christian who leads the conservative legal group Liberty Counsel.

This particular group is wrong about the cross, it should be displayed, along with the Star of David, the Crescent and Star, and whatever other symbols of faith the loved ones of those who died that day chose to believe in.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

Their defence of scrapping the cap follows another letter written on Tuesday to the Daily Telegraph by a group of 70 faith leaders, politicians and academics who warned lifting the cap would be «deleterious to social cohesion and respect».

Instructions on how to use and contribute to the database grew out of a 1995 agreement with Jewish groups that were horrified to find that people who died because of their faith were being baptized by proxy in Mormon ceremonies.

These tend to fall into two groups: those who follow Ratzinger's reading of the issue and those who continue to share the dream of the generation of 1968 of making the Catholic faith popular in the world, but who understand that to be popular today means being «post-modern» rather than «modern».

But the office's closure was protested by a variety of faith groups, including representatives from the Jewish, Sikh, and Muslim communities, who called its work valuable.

The key way to do that is with faith - based initiatives that work with the soul and then build relationships so that when [prisoners] get out, they won't go to the same old group of friends who helped drag them down.

Representatives will also be invited from a wide range of local faith and cultural groups, as well as the emergency services personnel who responded to the fire.

ISIS was responsible for half of all verified casualties (5,403) in Iraq during the first half of 2016, as the group kidnapped, harassed, and killed those of non-Sunni Muslim faiths (or Sunnis who disagreed with their extreme interpretation), the report stated.