Sentences with phrase «how religious leaders»

Sacred Acts: How churches are working to protect Earth's climate by Mallory McDuff offers stories (including several from Interfaith Power & Light affiliates) about how religious leaders, activists, and everyday parishioners are acting in good faith to define a new environmental movement where honoring the Creator means protecting the planet.

It was a panel discussion about one of the most significant public health issues on the planet: the world toilet crisis, and how religious leaders can help to fight it.

Event moderator Jennifer Wiseman, an astronomer and director of the DoSER program at AAAS, asked Tippett how religious leaders and journalists can also help improve science - religion communication.

So when Jesus quotes the law in Mark 7:10 about putting children to death for cursing their parents, He is not necessarily quoting it with approval, but is instead pointing out how the religious leaders were using the law to do the exact opposite of what the law said.

I would guess the best way to answer this question is to look at how religious leaders today justify their stance on the issue.

Not exact matches

The scheduled attendees of the conference encompass a wide variety of experts, ranging from medical professionals, hospice advocates, scholars, religious and spiritual leaders, as well as entrepreneurs and business men and women interested in learning how an understanding of death and dying can help them live lives of greater purpose and meaning.

Rabbi Jonah Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, discussed how people of all faiths need to unify to help others overcome social problems in the United States at an interfaith discussion of clergy leaders in Palm Beach County...

How about we have the government kill all the religious leaders that do not up hold the true meaning of God.

How can religious leaders support banning contraception?

I actually enjoy reading the bible, I enjoy listening to my religious leaders explain how different religious leaders have interpreted different sections of the bible over the years and what stories of morality etc. we can gleam from the Bible.

What upset the religious leaders so much about Peter's speech on Pentecost was how the good news was for all people everywhere.

How about you stop listening to what your lying religious leaders tell you is the truth and go learn the actual truth.

They used the lessons of how to live and how not to live handed down from their faith, parents and religious leaders to make choices.

And so now, the religious leaders get their heads together again for another theological question, namely, how they can use the law to kill someone.

Have you ever noticed how Jesus seems to walk right into traps laid by the Pharisees and religious leaders?

The Law can be used in either way, and while many religious leaders used it to destroy life, Jesus wanted to show how to use the Law as means of giving life.

The house invited leaders from major Judeo - Christian religions to say how the mandate would infringe upon their religious freedoms.

And when a fan in the audience — one of a dozen or so selected by the singer's team for a question - andanswer session — asked if he had any advice on how to get through a romantic break up, he demurred, flashing a bit of the humility that every religious leader knows is crucial in establishing a bond with one's flock.»

Ultimately, the programs that the religious leaders were lobbying for were protected in the debt ceiling deal, though it's unclear how big a role the religious leaders played.

I was involved with the Children of God in my late teens - in Texas — me and my ex was married and exploring a lot of religious groups — but I could see how wicked they were when they started separating the wives from their husbands and drinking and the leaders using drugs - so I left abruptly after 2 weeks - if I didn't know the WORD of GOD I would have been a fool of fools.

If you attend church and give an «offering» you are paying for that religious leader to tell you how to live your life.

Poll clergy, seminary faculty, and other religious leaders to determine whether or not they consider poll results useful and, if so, how.

John 3:3 is found near the beginning of a conversation Jesus has with Jewish religious leader named Nicodemus about how to be born again.

How to understand the alcoholic and what can be done for him rank first and second in the list of problems which prove most puzzling [to religious leaders].

But one of the leading Islamic religious leaders in the Middle East says Muslims competing in the Olympics should observe the daytime fast, regardless of how it affects their performance.

I expect you will soon find yourself wondering how different the supernatural claims of your religious leaders are to the supernatural claims of your average back alley fortune teller or tarot card reader.

What upset the religious leaders so much about Peter's speech on Pentecost was how...

Even if it is unpopular and flies in the face of what other «religious» leaders do and think, we've been given a picture of how to treat those who need our help, even if they are different than us.

John How can the voice of a religious leader be the voice of God?

Watch how she defends her neighbor to the religious leaders.

Altee11, no matter how many meetings between the leaders and religious leaders and community leaders, etc, NOTHING will be change if their mindset is NOT changed.

The question in their minds would have been «how can we be more righteous than the religious leaders?»

When one of the religious leaders asked Jesus how he could have eternal life, Jesus told him to love God and love his neighbor as himself.

Nevertheless, this country is too big and too diverse to seriously expect that everyone walks the same path regarding spirituality, and it's completely reasonable to understand how and why our nation's President or Presidential candidates would not necessarily share our religious views, but still be capable of being great leaders.

Look at all religious leaders and followers of ANY FAITH and look at how they live.

Having been a part of a church that went through the painful resignation of a lead pastor, and having been the daughter of a religious leader who resigned due to moral failure, I know how incredibly difficult this transition will be for everyone involved.

We at the counseling center believe that it is important that counselors, parents and religious leaders alike learn how to identify the various indicators of sexual abuse.

And He taught me how to always trust in Him more than in human beings, leaders, books, institutions and religious systems, and to understand others as He did and does understand me.

Then you wouldn't be following these GOP Taliban or your religious leaders who only care about how much money THEY can make.

In addition, religious leaders often have the stature to advocate and negotiate with the most senior national decision - makers as countries make tough decisions on how to allocate scarce resources for health.

If, then, he will consider the lives of the great religious leaders and discover how they reached their goal, he will, without doubt, pursue Islamic doctrines, and he will heartily follow the Prophet of Islam and his true descendants.

How many religious leaders have believed what they believed and wound up being nuts?

In fact, the entire letter of Paul to the Galatians is about how some Christians were beginning to return to the teachings of Jewish religious leaders rather than continue in the teachings of Christ.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

and on that note... I wonder how many pastors and other religious leaders don't really believe in religion.

Speaking hours after a terrorist attack killed 21 people in a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would hold an interreligious meeting in October in Assisi, Italy, to discuss with other religious leaders how religion can promote world peace.

I always kind of wondered HOW she was caught in adultery, and if it wasn't some extra hypocrisy among the religious leaders, in that maybe the man she was «adulterating with» was one of them.

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

It is true that the religious leaders were impressed by how much He knew as a 12 year old, but there is nothing in the text to indicate that He is behaving like a know - it - all smarty pants, showing off His knowledge to the teachers.

Academicians analyzing the 2000 election were struck by how Bush had integrated the hitherto demanding leaders of the Religious Right into his electoral coalition without provoking negative attention.