Sentences with phrase «from conservative churches»

A study by Bibby and Brinkerhoff reinforces the idea that there has not been the same falloff of youth from the conservative churches, and that they have acquired some members from the other churches.

«I'm picking up a message from the conservative church and they say... wait... I think they're saying they don't need you anymore.

It's actually quite similar to the Church of Christ ad that showed gay people turned away from a conservative church.

Not exact matches

From what it seems the church going group you grew up with is an uber - conservative environment.

Many conservative commentators point, as the icon for all that went wrong, to the 1967 Land O» Lakes statement, in which the presidents of Catholic colleges declared that their pursuit of academic excellence served a high Catholic goal and thus exempted Catholic schools from direct obedience to the hierarchy and magisterium of the Catholic Church.

In our own case, however, we do not want a more «conservative» political platform from the Catholic Church or any other cChurch or any other churchchurch.

Editor's Note: In light of the recent allegations surfacing about Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, this article is worth revisiting as a reminder that Christians, churches and conservative institutions are far from immune from sex scandals.

Ironically I went from what what most people would consider to be an extremely liberal and open minded church to a (somewhat) more conservative church, and find it more open to honest self examination.

In the beginning the Church, which like all institutions tends to be «conservative», prevents those who want to change everything from completely destabilizing our socioeconomic / political life.

The purpose of my project was to unpack and explore the phrase «biblical womanhood» — mostly because, as a woman, the Bible's instructions and stories regarding womanhood have always intrigued me, but also because the phrase «biblical womanhood» is often invoked in the conservative evangelical culture to explain why women should be discouraged from working outside the home and forbidden from assuming leadership positions in the church.

Though the title focus more on some of the more radical elements of the Emergent church who he fears (and demonstrates) are drifting far from biblical orthodoxy, Wittmer to his credit takes conservative Christians to task just as much and just as seriously.

Since it was founded in 2003, the conservative Jewish congregation had bounced from location to location outside Atlanta - a Methodist church, a windowless space in a school, any place they could rent or borrow as they grew.

Having grown up as part of a conservative evangelical church, I was taught as far backas I can remember to tell people about Jesus, to tell them that by inviting Him intotheir hearts, they would be saved from the fires of Hell and instead spend eternity inheaven with Him.

I've come to realize after growing up in a conservative church and then moving away from that environment that the majority of people that sincerely believe the Bible is to be taken completely literally have never read it all.

As has already been stressed, here the conservatives as well as the revolutionaries start from presuppositions which are objectively quite unjustified, for they regard either the past or the future of the Church as an ideal state.

Sham Pearls for Real Swine by franky schaeffer wolgemuth & hyatt, 290 pages, $ 14.95 In 1948, a young American minister from the conservative Bible Presbyterian Church moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, to serve as a missionary to Europe.

When I talk to my good friend who is a very conservative Catholic who views taking communion as sacred and every crumb is representative of Christ's body and not one crumb will drop... then compare it to how we do it at church... everyone ripping bread from the same loaf, crumbs everywhere, kids spilling the «wine»... does it really matter... is one more right than the other... one upholds church law on how communion will be performed versus our laid back version.

These fears are not so different from the fear I see in the eyes of protestors carrying signs that depict President Obama as Hitler, the fear I see in the red faces of angry preachers urging their parishioners to «take America back for God,» the fear I detect in some of the books against emerging church, the fear I detect in some of the books in support of the emerging church, the fear I hear in the voices of both gays and the conservative evangelical activists who lobby against them when both sides consider for just a second the possibility that maybe they have it wrong.

Surprisingly, mainline churches were also less likely than conservative churches to attract members from nontraditional households.

While 22 percent of mainline Protestants attend churches that offer formal marriage or parenting programs, only 20 percent of conservative Protestants do (though many evangelicals and fundamentalists get family support from parachurch ministries like Focus on the Family).

Inevitably the past would project itself into the conference — too much so — but it was unavoidable with groups as conservative as were the delegations from so many churches.

Indeed, in historical perspective the figures for membership and attendance could easily be used to argue that the so - called conservative churches have been growing less spectacularly over the past 20 years than in the period from 1920 to 1965.

that liberal policies have been acting to stem an earlier flow from liberal churches to conservative ones.

I never was [fully] conservative on the gay issue, but I tried to walk a pastoral road, where I would not drive either gay people away from the Church or conservatives away from the Church.

The list ought to be supplemented by a similar catalog of what, from our point of view, are the gifts conservative Protestants bring to the church.

(«Religious switching,» as Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney call it, goes both ways, but aside from the drift into secularity and out of active church life, the dominant one is from the conservative toward the moderate or liberal side.)

In ten years the church emptied from a few hundred to only a handful of members, as people left and found other conservative churches.

Too often the debate between a Bernard of Clairvaux and a Peter Abelard is read in terms of the latter's so - called heterodoxy when it was just as much about Bernard's progressive vision of a church disentangled from the control of secular princes over against Abelard's more conservative view of an ordered relation of patronage and rule between secular rulers and sacred institutions.

A survey that William McKinney and I recently conducted invited 1,500 conservative and mainline Protestant denominational leaders to choose from a list of 63 contemporary religious leaders and authors the ten who have had «the greatest impact on your thinking about the church's life and mission today.»

«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.

Therefore, after our imaginative interpretations are made with vigor in dispute with others in the church, we must regularly, gracefully and with modesty fall back from our best extrapolations to the sure apostolic claims that lie behind our extremities of imagination, liberal or conservative.

«27 It grew rather from an opposition to the church as a definite socio - political form which in the name of so - called religion defended the old social order with all its injustices, its cultural backwardness, and its conservative immobility.

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They are notable for their balance of approach which was far from the rigidity of spirit which often infects those of a conservative and doctrinally orthodox mindset in the Church.

(CNN)- Thousands of Africans have expressed their hopes that the next pope will be the first from their continent - with a majority believing it would mean the Catholic Church becoming more conservative.

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

Unfortunately we have heard from our churches in the northeast provinces complaining that in the past couple of years many conservative south Korean Christian workers, often with a large amount of foreign currency, have been trying to apply their church - development methods to the churches in Manchuria.

From 1960 to 2000 the membership of liberal Protestant churches, measured per 1000 Americans, had shrunk 49 %, Catholics had shrunk 5 %, while conservative Protestant churches had grown 158 % and the LDS Church had grown 122 %.

I noted that his position elevates people above geography, and his announcement does diverge from conservative views within the church.

I will worship God every day in my heart and in my deeds, but I will do it from HOME, and I have already stopped giving my weekly donations to the «Conservative Church of the Pedophiles.»

How can someone, say, develop from Stage 2 to 3, or 3 to 4, or 4 to 5, in an evangelical, conservative, or fundamentalist church?

After living a short time in Mississiippi, the reaction from a small radical conservative group in this Mississippi church is no surprise.

For most people in America, all those not familiar with the complicated ideological positioning on the right end of the political spectrum, the term «conservative» evokes images of the board room, the country club, and the Episcopal church located not far from the latter.

And though the majority of the participants were from conservative denominations, Vineyard churches or nondenominational churches, there was no shortage of representation from the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Episcopal Church.

From 1970 to the present, mainline churches have officially been more tolerant than conservative churches of divorce, abortion, gender equality, family pluralism and homosexuality — all changes in keeping with the family modernization process.

Conservative evangelicals who interpret revelation in terms of the love embodied in and taught by Jesus Christ will not be too different from Christians in old - line churches who also understand God in terms of this same love.

The Episcopal Church consecrated its first openly lesbian bishop Saturday in the face of objections from some conservative Anglicans.

At the same time, general cultural trends are moving away from the conservative religion of the immediate past; eventually, conservative churches will face slowly diminishing constituencies.

Here he differs from other conservative Christians, including some Catholics, who think the reestablishment of responsible male headship in church and home is necessary for the reformation of church and society.

Large numbers of those alienated from the churches of their youth (or offended by the TV presentations of conservative evangelists will not be attracted by the prospect of continuously compromised national curricula or social witness.