Sentences with phrase «founded by churches»

Thus in many southern cities private academies, established to circumvent the Supreme Court's decision ordering the end of school segregation, have been founded by churches.

A college founded by another church has in the latter years of its nearly 170 - years existence redefined itself as «nondenominational.»

Not exact matches

That's the vision of Harvard geneticist George Church, who has been experimenting with recreating an actual Wooly Mammoth by combining DNA from one of the long dead creatures found frozen in Siberia with material from modern elephants.

Believers and non-believers alike, united by a common concern for the future of the planet, have high hopes that someone who chose to name himself after that great lover of creation, Francis of Assisi, will say something truly transformational, for as a Canadian Council of Churches document lamentably observes, transformative change has not «found traction within political processes.»

Yet those so insistent on stamping political correctness on the churches and being guided by praxis apparently find themselves more comfortable with the spirits of the age, or the «new age,» than with the paraclete.

A comment was made that most churches don't preach Jesus... I find that frustrating because in most churches we hear all day long about Paul, what he has to say about «Christ», all feeling one step removed from Jesus by name, preferring to speak of Him by His title.

Although they are aware that the intellectual landmarks are changing, they find it difficult to believe that the basic commitment to civility, relevant evidence, and respect for the tradition of the church across the ages might be overtaken by a very different vision of the church.

Our founding fathers knew this well when they told Religion to stick it in its ear by separating church and state.

I opened my mail box today and happily found a package with Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Viking, March 2010), a monumental work by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University and author of The Reformation and Thomas Cranmer, both highly acclaimed....

And don't forget all the victims of Christianity's own Jim Jones... I'm certain you and all you Christian Extremists are in your churches, always trying to find ways to brainwash everyone into committing suicide like Jim Jones and have plans to blow up buildings like Timothy McVeigh and think about as well as act upon your perverted thoughts by molesting young boys... don't you?

The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya Duke University Press, 519 pages, $ 47.50 When we cut through the many good reasons that lead social scientists to study religion, we find ourselves in the end confronting questions about politics.

Macedonia Church of God in Christ had been founded by Robinson's father in 1950.

I don't think that she finds the fact that people in their 20's and 30's are going to churches led by male pastors disturbing: It's that they're attending churches where a female pastor would not even be an * option *.

I eventually found him a church, but it wasn't contemporary worship and was inhabited by a bunch of stodgy people even though they were a welcoming congregation.

You are just as guilty by as - sociation, and are hiding under the cloak of the church (not the one jJesus founded)!

«I do find it a puzzling quality of liberal Christians that they tend to get excited when something that had been a cherished belief or practice of the Church is shown to have been false,» says Rod Dreher, commenting on a new book by a Notre Dame historian who says that the early Church's stories of martyrdom were false.

Much of the Christian church in the United States finds itself in the grip of the same phenomenon: people drop by occasionally, but an increasing share of the population searches for spirituality in other ways.

This friendship with the Lord Jesus is found in the Word of God recognized as such by the Church in the Bible; in the sacraments; in works of charity and service; and in the fellowship of those who have recognized and embraced the risen one.

i really would love to be led by somebody who feels what i feel and is courageous enough to say that even though he is the pastor and this is his church and there is nothing to be afraid of because Christ found us and not the other way around, yet he still gets scared.

Those seeking church positions are often regarded as too liberal theologically or lacking the ascetical formation emphasized by church seminaries; graduates of departments such as sociology find that employers often prefer students of state universities whose training has been entirely secular.

They used the history of the mother country (England) as a model for what they DID NOT want... hundreds of years of war, murders, political intrigue, bigotry, and intolerance nearly all caused directly or indirectly by the Catholic church in Rome or later the Church of England (founded by Henry the VIII because he wanted a divorce..church in Rome or later the Church of England (founded by Henry the VIII because he wanted a divorce..Church of England (founded by Henry the VIII because he wanted a divorce... LOL)

At St. Sepulchre's - which is now part of a network founded by evangelical church Holy Trinity Brompton - «music and musicians are at the heart» of its ministry, according to the church's website.

Research by the European Parliament has found 200 churches or Christian places of worship are attacked every month across the world.

Welcome to the official website of the Church of Satan (Church of Satan dot com) Founded on April 30, 1966 c.e. by Anton Szandor LaVey, we are the first above - ground organization in history openly dedicated to the acceptance of Man's true nature — that of a carnal beast, living in a cosmos that is indifferent to our existence.

In contrast, I am suggesting that our preaching should presume that we are preaching to a Church in the midst of a war — a position you may find odd to be advocated by a pacifist.

The remains of the medieval church where William Wallace is thought to have been made Guardian of Scotland after defeating the English army has been found by archaeologists.

Research by the European Parliament has found 200 churches or Christian places of worship are attacked... More

I went to a small town in the midwest to work for a non-profit thinking it'd be like chicken - soup - for the soul... INSTEAD it was a fundamentalist nightmare... it was NOT just small town mindedness... I could hardly find a church with out people wondering — why is this attractive woman in her early 30's unwed (or at least divorced with 3 kids) people were cold and unfathomable judgmental and sometimes downright hostile eager to quote scriptures seemingly un-lead by the Holy Spirit.

Founded by Michael Novak and Notre Dame philosopher Ralph McInerny, Crisis rendered invaluable service in the 1980s and 1990s by challenging with intellectual force the hegemony then enjoyed by liberal proponents of the «post-Vatican II Church» as represented by, inter alia, lay - edited Commonweal and Jesuit - edited America.

In the letter, which I couldn't find online, he begins by «reiterat [ing] my uncompromised commitment to the Magisterium of the Church in all its fullness, including the Church's unambiguous teaching on homosexuality,» providing a number of examples.

Here's the thing — you can find any number of Stepford-esque church members who will attest that they and the folks they know are «just good people», etc. (and I, too, know many very pleasant and admirable Mormons), but that doesn't address the creepy facts related to the administration of the overall organization (which is by no means a true non-profit, BTW).

jesus never said anything against it you can only find it in the Law and in the letters written by the church,....

Which were then found by Joeseph Smith and strangley no one else has seen them... but the church still claims to have them in the Temple... what a sham... folks... this religion is more of a cult than mine...

Nobody is asking anyone to stay in the only and true church founded by our Lord Jesus Christ.

According to the letter, one list posted includes the names of all Boston Archdiocese clergy who have been found guilty of sexually abusing a child by the Catholic Church or under criminal law, as well as any accused individuals who voluntarily requested removal from the clergy.

They believe The Church of Jesus Christ, which existed long ago, was restored by a prophet named Joseph Smith, who founded the LDS Church in 1830.

The way you find out about a religion is not listening to a bunch of bigots but by asking memebers of the church what they believe.

hey G, I am acquainted with your theory there... it is called Preterism... it is the standard interpretation of Revelation given by liberals... I walked away from that belief and the church I was raised in when I found out what they are teaching... Nope, the book of revelation is not a «code» for the events of the day at the time of the fall of Jerusalem.

One will not find this emphasis articulated more simply and straightforwardly than in the statement on family life priority adopted by the United Church of Christ in 1981.

In the context of 1 Timothy the most likely interpretation that takes into account the immediate context is that, rather than abandoning their intended roles by demanding teaching and authoritative positions in the church, women will find true fulfillment through childbearing.

The founding fallacy in the new church was a «defective ecclesiology» that provided for governance by a lay majority, dominated under a quota system by minorities and feminists, in which theologians were marginalized and issues of race and gender took precedence over traditional ecclesial and confessional concerns.

It's true that persecution still endures — and it's been meticulously documented each year by the Texas - based ChinaAid, an organization founded by a former Chinese house - church pastor who was himself targeted once.

An example is the Native American Church of New York, founded by Alan Birnbaum, apparently a New Yorker but apparently not a Native American.

Over the course of a few years, there would be an erosion of the Church's public presence, as Catholic institutions find themselves burdened by fines and unable to offer health coverage.

The simple truth is that the internet and social media has userped the power of the «church» to control the people, and people who once occupied pews now find it easier to find like minded believers (of all fathis and creeds) online and can be exposed to any theology they want by simply using Google.

The rot found its way into Braaten's own church and seminary» a process hastened, in Braaten's telling, by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago's acceptance, in 1983, of ten faculty members who had lost their positions at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in the 1970s civil war between moderates and conservatives in the Missouri Synod.

In case you did not know it, that set was given many years ago by the family who founded this church.

The polarization is so deep that when, in 1996, the late Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin founded the Catholic Common Ground Initiative as a means of addressing division in the church, he was criticized by some liberal Catholics who thought that the project was not radical enough and by some of his brother cardinals who believed that it jeopardized the essential truths of the faith.

Thus, the Church considers all goodness and truth found in these religions as «a preparation for the Gospel and given by him who enlightens all men that they may at length have life.

But now I say unto you, report those who disagree with you to the church or denominational authorities, label them heretics or say that they raise «red flags» and let everyone know not to listen to them, criticize their positions without ever going to them personally to find out what they actually believe and are teaching, align them with other «heretics» without ever researching their books, writings, and messages, and above all, side with your friends against them even if you personally have never been hurt or offended by them.