Sentences with phrase «fray either»

The leader of the free world must remain dignified & above the fray.

However, God is also «in the fray» — in the texture of human life out of which the Bible's language takes form.

Since school prayer is clearly a matter of profound disagreement, it seems to follow that government should redeposit the question with local school boards, where it rested before the Supreme Court entered the fray in 1962.

Gingrich was vainly eloquent and put himself above the fray — that is, in some undisclosed location outside the real presidential rate.

His lovingkindness has not only drawn me, but sends me right back into the fray (the local church) to try again.

That is a tactical strategy... «while all of those religions down there argue about who is right, we are above the fray and have already figured out that they are all wrong.»

I am well aware that you atheists seek to brush this off and set yourself «above the fray», so to speak.

With public schools fast becoming incubators of gender ideology, parents need to cast off their fears of entering the fray.

These test our patience, try our endurance, and fray our emotions.

Paul's letter attempts to rise above the fray, saying that what makes us indispensable to one another, and what distinguishes Christians from the wider world, is not what we eat, or our ability to win a theological debate, or our moral superiority, or the utility of our practices, but our baptism, our unity in the gospel which demands that we remain with one another precisely in those places where we disagree.

The fertility decline agenda is now reaching into the U.N. Population Division, a statistics arm whose data was until recently considered objective and above the fray.

Life does not yield to such universal codes, and the fatal attraction drawing Ms. Harvey into the fray is the desire for some legal decision in some court, or a theological discovery in someone's heart, that will once and for all resolve every such case and eliminate all ambiguity.

As far as his recent political comments, well, I guess he could have stayed out of the fray.

Ironically, in calling for a cease fire in the culture wars, the author, a «progressive evangelical,» enters the fray fully armed for rhetorical combat.

The kind of «soul - searching» I have in mind is not the endless cycle of mutual recrimination between those who are alleged to have sold their souls to Hillary, those who are alleged to have sold their souls to Trump, and those allegedly cowardly souls who withdrew from the fray.

Would Pius V have earned Dostoevsky's approval by remaining above the fray and watching the Mediterranean fall under Turkish / Muslim control?

But coming from another planet, she shields herself in armor for the fray.

No answers in your last part of the post about what was wrong with what I stated, your age or why are you in the fray.

Stanley Hauerwas, one of the most distinguished and surely most interesting Christian thinkers of the modern era, has been in the middle of this moral and theological fray for decades, arguing in various ways that being a Christian means never killing others in war.

Until we as a people in this wonderful country agree to truly take religion out of the political fray we will continue to be subjected to the kind of nonsense in this article and following blog entries.

But we can not withdraw from the fray and abandon the struggle.

After the disaster and criminal charges, representatives of various tribal nations stepped into the legal fray, filing a federal lawsuit last March against Ray and those who run the Angel Valley Retreat Center, where he had leased land for his program.

Be like Bloomberg, take the road less traveled, be above the fray.

CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor Eric Marrapodi jumped into the fray on the topic with Foreman as well.

And our sermons float high, high above the fray because, Sister Joan, if I said what you are saying, do you know what would happen to my collection?

It is certainly like the Sufi master to see the link between culture and spirituality differently — not to allow ourselves to be pressed back and put down, not to simply abandon the fray, not to say, «I can't take them on one more time.»

We doing some of what has been suggested in this book, we are not closing down the church, but allowing it to rise up and follow our Master and Commander Jesus Christ into the fray once more.

Is not the transcendent, omnipotent, impassible symbol of God the quintessential embodiment of the solitary ruling male ego, above the fray, perfectly happy in himself, filled with power in the face of the obstreperousness of others?

When all the hubub first came up, I jumped into the fray in my monthly column in Outreach Magazine called «As I See It.»

Come on over and join the fray, if you dare....

It comes from a group of self - proclaimed wise men who present themselves as being above the fray.

The President, who was in full campaign mode for months, joined the fray, defending his agenda while excoriating its «enemies.»

I also know, though, that there are times I need to detach a little for my own sanity, and then after spending time being restored by Jesus, I can re-enter the fray!

Then Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group, announced that it was joining the fray, and backing Assad.

Recently joining the fray was evangelical scholar Ben Witherington III of Asbury Theological Seminary a prolific author of New Testament studies.

As controversy about religion at the academy became more and more public, Focus on the Family jumped into the fray and created a video, shown at its headquarters, that attempts to frame the debate.

Knowledgeable critics immediately jump into the fray, pointing out that the technology is not new, that in fact all the embryos used in the experiment were killed, and that the President's Council on Bioethics had considered the ACT procedure a year earlier and unanimously rejected it as unethical.

One dove broke free from the gull, after losing a few feathers in the fray.

In a hatbox's tied and knotted fringe, fray and cilia of thread, bistre - washed in sepia, under the bed, the dead lay color - blind in shades of gray: each cordoned heart, veined - red, darkened as on alchemists» hands the nitrate silvered.

In an age of fops and toys, Wanting wisdom, void of right, Who shall nerve heroic boys To hazard all in Freedom's fight, - Break sharply off their jolly games, Forsake their comrades gay, And quit proud homes and youthful dames, For famine, toil, and fray?

But as psychologist and author Dan Allender explains, «The problem with the «focus on God alone» trope is that it is not the primary message of Scripture... It is not that we are to focus on God and thus achieve mental health, it is that God enters the fray of mental complexity and makes His home not only among us but in us.»

And this is why I am staying out of the fray.

Secular politicians joined the fray when presenting themselves as crusaders against Haredi imposition served their interests, and the media was happy to sensationalize everything in order to sell newspapers and increase television ratings.

He avoids the fray by relying heavily on excerpts from Soloveitchik's published writings, transcriptions of tapes, and, to a limited degree, second «hand reports.

Nor do I suggest that it should refrain from entering the fray against opposing points of view.

Precisely because we know, with the writer to the Hebrews, that we have here no abiding city, we are from time to time tempted to retire from the fray, to set our minds on higher and better things.

But we persist in the struggle because we think it is our simple duty to do so, and we frankly do not take it well that so many of our fellow intellectuals — who if they can not join us in the struggle could at least offer moral support — prefer instead to strike ostentatiously Olympian poses above the fray and to chide us for our combative ways.

The church was speaking about a merciful God not perched above the fray but down here in the mess with us.

Family - owned retail craft chain Hobby Lobby joined the contraception mandate fray yesterday, suing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over its new requirement for employers to provide healthcare coverage for emergency contraceptives.

The prominent ex-Muslim went on to say that the Pope «has put himself above the fray; that is to say he has put faith and reason before other diplomatic and political considerations.»