Sentences with phrase «impact on faith»

The November 2002 issue of the Christian Banner featured an article entitled «Above All that We Ask or Think: Mid-South Family Shares Joy of Their Adoption Journey» which recounted Abrazomom Susan Word's open adoption experience and its impact on her faith and her family.

If she follows trends found in every major study of higher education since the 1950s, Paula's experience of college will have a secularizing impact on her faith, mediating the intellectual relativism and cultural eclecticism that is so much a part of her postmodern world.

Whatever form it takes, the abuse of power by a Christian leader, whether in a local church setting or by someone with an international platform enhanced by TV exposure, can have a deep and corrosive impact on the faith of individual believers.

Each of the six denominations has great but untapped potential to increase its impact on faith maturity and loyalty.»

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For a service that has had such a profound impact on recent historical events, including the Arab Spring and London riots, it's a very bad precedent that has shaken the faith of many users.

One thing I found really interesting is that one conclusion the book came to is that these «faith wars» had a direct impact on the fall of the Roman Empire because the gov» t had to deal with the internal struggle and the external enemies had to take a back seat in importance or at least drastically distracted the leadership.

In my experience, the people with the most impact in my life have been those who quietly serve and comfort, not those who wear their faith on their sleeves.

The radical secularization that has transformed Christianity's heartland into the most religiously arid half - continent on the planet has at least as much to do with the craven surrender of ministers of the gospel to theological and political fads, and their consequent loss of faith, as it does with the impact of urbanization, mass education, and the industrial revolution on Europeans» understanding of themselves.

(http://outcampaign.org/) If it ever comes to fruition, real life being what it is, I'd like to try and show that people with no faith can still have a normal positive impact on local society.

This has resulted in a way of understanding Christian faith that maximizes the «forensic» rather than the actual impact of grace and tends to contrast faith and reason, faith and works, and so on.

«Their experience shows us that if the law is changed, it will have direct impact on people of faith and faith - based institutions.»

The Need To Develop It remains strange that so many of the Church's leaders seem incurious to the opportunity of science for the Faith, as the potential impact of science on society (for good and ill) becomes ever more important with each passing year.

A survey last month by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found «little evidence to suggest that concerns about the candidates» respective faiths will have a meaningful impact in the fall elections.»

Chine is of Nigerian descent and has a passion for reporting religion's impact on society, as well as writing and speaking about faith, race and gender.

Daniel Clendenin suggests that while Orthodoxy may be too small to have an effect on American religion as a whole, conversions may be having a «seismic impact» on the way the faith is practiced in the U.S..

Seldom making a serious impact on the life and policy of the church body, it consumes its energy in planning conferences on evangelism or on prayer and encourages the new packaging of old revival techniques in such activities as the charismatic movement or the Faith Alive movement.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

I hate it, but I really don't see how you could get faith out of politics because a person's faith does impact their decisions day - to - day, and a voter needs to vote based on what a person will do with their authority.

For people whose faith claims rest as resolutely on incarnation as Christian claims do, the impact our own peculiarly incarnated lives have on the way we do theology — and therefore on the sort of theology we do — ought to fascinate us.

Even so, I found Hartshorne's work to be highly suggestive for unfolding the distinctively Christian vision of God, perhaps because his own value assumptions have been significantly conditioned by the impact of biblical faith on Western thinking about God.

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

Talk is cheap, Billy Grahm has had the impact on this world because he is a man of faith and a man of action, something people like you will never hope to achieve.

According to a new national survey, it won't affect Romney in a hypothetical general election faceoff with President Barack Obama, but his Mormon faith may have an impact on the former Massachusetts governor's chances in the GOP primaries and caucuses.

If the Easter faith is understood primarily as the conviction of the exaltation of the crucified Jesus to be Lord and Savior, it is possible to understand how it could have arisen among the dispirited disciples as their response to the «offence» of the crucifixion of their Master, while they wrestled with that problem in the light of the impact made on them by the life and teaching of Jesus, and in the light of their study of the scriptures, of their current convictions about similar figures and of their belief about God.

I have gone through a similar journey in my faith and thinking, but fortunately with lesser impacts on how people have treated me.

The scientist's attitudes may also have a more direct impact on his religious faith.

None of us are so untouched by the biblical stories of God's self - disclosure that our understandings of mystery, nature, history, and self are innocent of the interpretations provided of them by the impact of biblical faith and doctrinal traditions on our culture and language.

We do this to understand the impact that television is having upon our worship practices and take on the larger question of how we are to interpret our faith in our «electronic» cultural milieu.

There is a hidden epidemic of infertility, and the impact on families and the faith of those affected is seismic.

She said: «The Christian leadership in Nepal are planning to analyse how this law will impact them, and are coming up with a document to educate other leaders in the country on how they can still continue to share their faith in a way that respects the government's laws.»

Wuthnow draws the subtle distinction that «rhetoric about faith - based programs has had one kind of impact on civil society while the reality of these programs has had quite a different effect.»

Of course, such negative impact of religious studies on religious faith is mitigated by many other persons in the discipline who entered the field as an extension of their religious calling and whose more positive perspectives are apparent despite pressures not to reveal any explicit religious commitment.

If you do not have Christian faith, you can not grasp the impact on the Christian home of this type of lust.

A center is needed to ensure that the fruits of these efforts are better coordinated and communicated to the faith communities so that they have a real impact on a dangerous and divided world.

Whatever one thinks of her faith, however, her impact on Canadian music can not be ignored: with 24 albums (one triple platinum, four double platinum, and three platinum), Rita MacNeil will long be remembered.

But beyond CGI - voyages on the «Ship of the Imagination» through the far reaches of the galaxy, Tyson looks at the history of science, its intersections with faith and its impact on culture.

Someone like you who spouts hate for people of faith have no impact on them.

I was so incredibly struck in writing these stories by the incredible power faith had in people's lives, it has made a profound impact on me in my belief.

In an interview with the Patheos blog Sister Rose at the Movie, he said that the film was, «a meditation on doubt, faith, a serious study about belief» and discussed how it impacted his own personal faith.

Reporting on the recent Barna study on Gen Z attitudes and behaviors, Jonathan Morrow, director of cultural engagement at Impact 360 Institute, writes: «With the best of intentions, we bubble wrap our kids and create Disney World - like environments for them in our churches, and then wonder why they have no resilience in faith or life... In short, teenagers need a grown - up worldview not coloring book Jesus.»

He is currently employed on the Electronic Culture Research Project, a special initiative of the Uniting Church's Commission in Victoria to explore the impact of electronic media on global cultures and the implications of this cultural change on religious institutions and on the social experience and expression of religious faith.

It is one, though, that is having a much more significant impact on the understanding and practise of religious faith because it is laying the foundations for a change that will be durable over a much longer period of time.

So I am deeply concerned about the impact the Supreme Court's ruling might have on faith - based or other educational institutions — including schools from grades K - 12, colleges, universities, theological seminaries and graduate schools — that hold to natural or conjugal marriage, which has only come into question within the past decade.

«Noting the fact that the Sexual Orientation Regulations are being voted on in the House of Commons today,» said the Cardinal, «I again express our concern at their impact, not only on adoption services, but on cooperation between faith - based voluntary agencies and public authorities in public funded services....

The faith Brady espouses in his program and its impact on his career has led to other players feeling pressured to turn to Guerrero and the TB12 method.

Ultimately, I personally am just sick and tired of putting so much faith in Wenger, hoping and praying that he will make those decisions that will have a positive impact on our season, but he never does!

However, a rule banning all religious clothing on the basis of presenting neutrality towards the customer was found potentially to be unjustified indirect discrimination, if for example the employer could have reasonably moved the employee to a non-customer-facing role, because such a ban may impact Muslims more than those of other faiths.

However, while the storm around Farron's views on gay sex is not in line with the vast majority of the party's members, we should not forget that his faith also had a profoundly positive impact on the party.

The delegation, led by the Electoral Commissioner of DR Congo, Nangaa Yobeluo Corneille, sought to acquire from Ghana how activities of various institutions and systems including Ghana's faith - based organisations, the National Peace Council and Political Parties impact on the electoral process of Ghana.

However, England falling out of the Mexico World Cup at the quarter - final stage in 1970 may have had some impact on voters» surprising decision to get rid of Wilson and put their faith in Edward Heath.