Sentences with phrase «from parochial»

In a case that's already made headlines because of the issue of gender in school sports, a New Jersey judge has been charged with ethics violations for allegedly acting belligerently after her daughters were expelled from their parochial school during litigation against the school.

In order for the fully integrated regional market to work, governance must be region - wide, divorced from parochial state politics, he says.

Now more than ever, students need the intellectual power to recognize societal problems; ask good questions and develop robust investigations into them; consider possible solutions and consequences; separate evidence - based claims from parochial opinions; and communicate and act upon what they learn.

The two were among numerous speakers at the Eggertsville Youth and Community Center, in a room packed with elected officials as well as students from parochial schools.

It's clearly Ridge - Newman is the main loser from his parochial electoral presence.

Beliefs fashioned from parochial school are never going to work well for an adult.

On the same day, the newspaper published an article accusing the Archdiocese of complicity in the firing of a married lesbian teacher from a parochial school.

From the universal God or from a parochial god?

As a sort of appendix Fr Skinner includes seven complete sermons, four from Parochial and Plain Sermons and three preached as a Catholic.

I am not a liturgist and, from the parochial perspective of a pastor who has studied worship much less than he has done it, I risk the tendency of many like me who probably unfairly think that liturgists are the ecclesiastical equivalent of lepidopterists.

Past achievements range from the parochial (a City of Alexandria Beautification Award) to the high profile (an American Association of Nurserymen Award, hosted by the White House).

Not exact matches

Unfortunately from my perspective, the company is famously parochial — meaning they're iconic and much - loved where they have stores, like in California, but they basically refuse to expand elsewhere.

Would we not expect something a little less parochial and regional from your cosmic super-minded god?

Mormons do not run religious schools that take public aid from the state, such as secular textbooks, though that is a practice approved by the Supreme Court in states with substantial numbers of parochial schools.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

On the other hand, more than 90 percent of the students in parochial schools, drawn from the same underclass population, go on to college or other advanced training.

Incidentally, Thomas was educated by nuns in parochial schools and graduated from Holy Cross.

This is perhaps most true of Newman's Parochial and Plain Sermons, the seven - volume collection of his sermons delivered in Oxford's Church of St. Mary the Virgin from the same pulpit that John Wesley once occupied.

With today's Catholic universities drifting away from any recognizable connection to the Catholic tradition, dioceses closing parochial schools, and the Church's ability to influence politics at a historic low, it's absurd to speak of a «resurgent» integralism.

And Protestants possessed a sense of unity as well, mostly when confronted by Catholics seeking public money for parochial schools or Jews seeking to oust Bible readings from public schools and other practices that seemed to cross the church - state line.

In short, from our perspective, it depended on an extremely parochial and naively optimistic view of American society and of the power of human rationality.

Civil religion — or, stated from one perspective, that liturgy which gives form to the parochial gods of nationalism and capitalism — is a profound threat to the human personality, Harrington believes.

Chaput also commented that the most vigorous opposition to catechesis in parochial schools in Philadelphia comes from the parents.

A political theorist and public intellectual dedicated to reaching beyond his parochial perspective to comprehend people in faraway cultures and distant historical epochs, Walzer all but excludes from his purview conservatives and conservatism in the here and now.

Nuns in the conference had long ago removed their habits and shifted away from the traditional roles within church structures, like working in parochial schools and hospitals.

It also exempts churches, parochial schools and other religious organizations from the requirement to provide contraception as part of their health insurance plans.

Most of these schools refer to themselves as «independent,» meaning free from any direct control by church, diocese, synod or parochial board.

About seventy - five parents from public and parochial schools are involved.

And for all its claim to fashionable multiculturalism («Women from the dominant culture, class, and ethnic group — especially in the United States — need to be careful not to generalize our experience as that of all women,» writes Ringe), the book is laughably parochial, designed strictly for Americans.

There they were in the illustrations to the antiquated children's biblical histories handed down from class to class in my parochial school; exotic, powerful female creatures with their veils and sandals and the bracelets they wore on their upper arms and ankles as well as on their wrists.

Tracing the interest of the bishops of the Catholic Church in obtaining federal monies for parochial schools, the magazine recalled that the church leaders had sought to obtain funding and avoid the «impending danger of a judicial establishment of secularism from public life.»

Marchers held banners from churches in Missouri and parochial schools in New Jersey.

The inquisition, The crusades («murderers bearing crosses» as Peter Beagle puts it), the enslavery of millions of indigenous people, the widespread teaching in parochial schools everywhere of the «perfidy» of the Jews, and uncounted other affronts to human civilization.And a billion people, many starving while the church enjoys incredible wealth, froth at the mouth and bleed from the eyeballs with maniacal love for the pope.

Basic theological studies, from which are likely to emerge less parochial theological statements, have come from younger scholars associated with the Society for Pentecostal Studies (135 North Oakland Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101.

Ninety percent of the students in the parochial schools of the city — drawn from the same population — go on to college or technical training for a real job.

Following this approach, we might exclude parochial schools but not nonreligious private schools from a school - voucher program, or bar religious student groups but not chess clubs and neighborhood - watch associations from meeting in public school classrooms.

This is not the genteel and parochial South of literary lore, and here Southern - ness is not a trend or fashion sensibility picked up on Pinterest — it extends beyond a devotion to monograms and making tablecloths from burlap found in the local Hobby Lobby.

A parochial sport, hunt racing often attracts its followers from the fox - hunting and horse - show worlds.

The winning team in every grade, in other words — with the exception of those outliers from San Benito — came from a private school, an exam school, a parochial school, or a public school populated by the children of Apple engineers.

February 13, 2014: Should families choose a parochial preschool for their child which is a different religion and the move from elementary to middle school

Family law courts are notoriously parochial, and bringing in an expert from across the state or country can easily backfire.

Over the last several weeks, Republicans have received support from organizations that back strengthening charter and parochial schools, campaign finance records show.

Mr Phillips should be aware that this issue is far from «parochial» and affects councillors, religious and non-religious, throughout the country.

His disappointment, according to this source, stems from his perception that the majority leader did not push hard enough for the education tax credit, which would benefit private and parochial schools.

Opposition continues in the Assembly even as supporters point to the dozens of lawmakers from both parties who have signed on in support of a version of the legislation, which would provide a tax credit to those who donate to public schools or to a scholarship program that benefits a private or parochial school.

Dolan is still smarting from what he believed was a failed promise last year from Cuomo to enact the education tax credit that would benefit those who donate to public, private and parochial schools.

Owing to a series of timing tweaks over the years — instituted by parochial aldermen — the city's main thoroughfare is little more than a series of stops and starts between red lights while the occasional vehicle enters or crosses over from lightly traveled side streets.

What is even sadder is that those parents often come from families that can't afford to send their children to private and parochial schools to avoid the insanity of this program.

With all of the pressures of the mounting economic storm blowing across the Euro zone, challenging Ed Miliband to mould a realistic alternative to the economics of the mad house, there will be many who will understand why seemingly more parochial issues do not necessarily merit the same degree of attention from him.

The tax credit has been long sought by parochial schools and the Catholic Church, who say it can prevent struggling schools from closing.