Sentences with phrase «helps adherents»

Prayer Pal helps adherents of Islam observe Ramadan and mark times to pray based on location.

He flew to New York to see a teacher named Mooji who specializes in a Hindu philosophy that helps adherents find a sense of self through liberation from worldly concerns.

(8) Yet rarely has the church addressed this aspect of culture in a sustained and balanced way that helps its adherents live faithful lives within this particular culture.

The task of the missionary today, it was maintained, is to see the best in other religions, to help the adherents of those religions to discover, or to rediscover, all that is best in their own traditions, to cooperate with the most active and vigorous elements in the other traditions in social reform and in the purification of religious expression.

In public education, then, the initial aim of instruction in the religious heritage is to help adherents of each tradition — Christians, Jews, Muslims, Ethical Culturists, Religious Naturalists, and all the others — to realize to the full the resources for the embodiment of religious faith available in their tradition at its best.

Not exact matches

Because their faith dictates that adherents strive toward a particular sexual ethic - one that confines sexual relations to those between a husband and wife and requires celibacy in all other circumstances - they seek to help patients manage sexual impulses through «cognitive behavioral change.»

This will help to make our different ethics of law expressive of our historical responsibility of building a common civil society for adherents of all Faiths.

Just over a year ago, Secretary of State Clinton launched an international initiative to promote this approach and it has won an increasing number of adherents, helping to build international attention and action.

Ironically, although Catholics historically placed less emphasis on education than did adherents of many other religions, their resistance to state - run schooling in many countries helped create institutional configurations that continue to spur student achievement.

There is some evidence that choice helps spur the overall school system to improve, but not as much as free market adherents might think.

Cultures often create the image of a powerful enemy from the thinnest of contexts; not only motivates the adherents to angry passion for all that the culture stands for (which is all that the enemy is not), but the active force of the enemy apparently unraveling and undermining all the good works, helps explain why there is little or no progress to Nirvana.

I can't help but think of all the CAGW adherents as similar to the cartoons of «prophets» with signs «THE EARTH WILL END TOMORROW».