Sentences with phrase «into national churches»

The secretary warned that «we can not afford to fragment into national churches.

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To wed at the National Cathedral, one member of the couple must be baptized into the Church, and both must commit to a Christian marriage of «lifelong faithfulness, love, forbearance and mutual comfort.»

«I am optimistic this national grief will usher in a new paradigm for the church in Ethiopia,» he said, «as leaders work tirelessly to transform it into missional dialogue.

Initially, I was caught off guard that this thread turned into being about public figures from Emergent Village who gained some degree of national - level prominence coming out of the «emerging church» movement.

Theology professor Andrey Shirin wrote that the legislation, which significantly restricts all non-Orthodox congregations, reflects the historic ties between religion and Russian culture: «This intentional connection between church and state allows the Orthodox Church to enjoy all the attendant privileges of political preference and feeds into a uniquely Russian national identity.&church and state allows the Orthodox Church to enjoy all the attendant privileges of political preference and feeds into a uniquely Russian national identity.&Church to enjoy all the attendant privileges of political preference and feeds into a uniquely Russian national identity.»

This intentional connection between church and state allows the Orthodox Church to enjoy all the attendant privileges of political preference and feeds into a uniquely Russian national idechurch and state allows the Orthodox Church to enjoy all the attendant privileges of political preference and feeds into a uniquely Russian national ideChurch to enjoy all the attendant privileges of political preference and feeds into a uniquely Russian national identity.

It has not taken long for Dolan's role as spokesman for the Catholic Church on the national stage to draw him into a prominent debate that was occasioned by a controversial action of President Obama regardingthe definition of marriage.

In 1054 Rome and Constantinople parted in acrimonious mutual misunderstanding, and during 400 years of Ottoman rule the «one, holy, catholic, apostolic» Orthodox church of the East fragmented into a host of ethnic - national churches: Greek, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Armenian, Romanian.

Fair enough: decades of Communist tyranny set atop centuries of other, far more invincible tyrannies have effectively shattered the Orthodox world into a contentious confederacy of national churches struggling to preserve their own regional identities against every «alien» influence, and under such conditions only the most obdurate stock survives.

The Roman Catholic Church has splintered into the relativizers whose chief concern is to justify the right of priests to remarry, and the Americanizers whose papacy is located in Cicero, whose Latin mass culminates with the singing of the national anthem, and whose high feast day is Property Rights Sunday.

Behind this heresy, which I saw penetrating into the church, there stood from the very beginning the one who soon stepped out as the far more dangerous adversary, the one hailed at the beginning — and not least by many Christians — as deliverer and savior: Hitler, himself the personification of National Socialism.

We may expect the Salvation Army, the Church of the Nazarene, and the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) to provide a center of gravity that will continue to pull Holiness identification away from the National Association of Evangelicals into some suspended position between the NAE and the NCC.

In 1987, Peter Gillquist, a former leader in Campus Crusade for Christ, and 200 others in a single evangelical congregation made national headlines when they were chrismated (or confirmed) into the Antiochian Orthodox Church.

Edward L. Cleary, a Catholic priest, says that «for every Catholic actively practicing his or her religion, in many countries an equal or larger number of Latin Americans participate in some other form of religion, «5 and Brazilian archbishop Lucas Moreira Neves, Secretary of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops in 1985, taking into account all these events, has roundly affirmed that «The springtime of the sects could also be the winter of the Catholic Church.

These media issues were discussed by the National Council of Churches study committee with a number of the media creators in Los Angeles, people who spend most of their time bringing into being the world of television.

The idea that people in the power center should plan for others extends into corporate offices, national church bureaucracies, and social welfare agencies.

«Christians therefore have the right to deny entry to any religious department officer who requests entry into a meeting at a house, church premise, or any private property used for Christian worship and activities,» wrote Eugene Yapp, secretary - general for the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF), in an advisory to the nation's nearly 2,500 evangelical churches.

The bomber crashed an explosives - filled jeep into the St. Rita Church in the central Nigerian town of Kaduna, killing himself and seven others at the scene, said Musa Ilallah, a regional coordinator for the national emergency management agency.

(CNN)- After years of keeping quiet about his Mormon faith, Mitt Romney's campaign thrust his church life into the national eye Thursday night, as a handful of Mormons took to the Republican National Convention's stage to deliver moving testimonials about the Republican presidential nominee's role as a member and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Schurch life into the national eye Thursday night, as a handful of Mormons took to the Republican National Convention's stage to deliver moving testimonials about the Republican presidential nominee's role as a member and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - daynational eye Thursday night, as a handful of Mormons took to the Republican National Convention's stage to deliver moving testimonials about the Republican presidential nominee's role as a member and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - dayNational Convention's stage to deliver moving testimonials about the Republican presidential nominee's role as a member and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day SChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.

Will they allow Moscow Patriarchate parishes to continue their work, or will they try to force them into a new Ukrainian national church?

The United Church of Canada was formed in 1925 with the union of the former Congregationalist, Presbyterian and Methodist churches into a single national body.

It is unlikely that either churches that are very conservative and thoroughly displeased with the directions their denominations are taking, or churches that are radical «do - it - ourselvers» and think the national bodies are still in the Middle Ages, will want to buy into the systems, though they could use much of what will be developed.

He says that where churches have become involved on a local level, providing food for example, this has spurred them into campaigning for change on a national level, which is what is really needed.

Economic ideology that turns human beings into relentless market maximizers undermines commitments to family, to church, to neighborhood, to school and to the larger national and global societies.

Nourished by Dewey's thought, Protestant liberals such as Charles Clayton Morrison, owner and editor of the Christian Century until 1947 could fuse social gospel into the civil experiment of constructive Protestantism united under a National Council of Churches.

«The Evangelistic Witness is directed towards all of the ktisis (creation) which groans and travails in search of adoption and redemption... The transfiguring power of the Holy Trinity is meant to reach into every nook and cranny of our national life... The Evangelistic Witness will also speak to the structures of this world; economic, political, and societal institutions... We must re-learn the patristic lesson that the Church is the mouth and voice of the poor and the oppressed in the presence of the powers that be.

They introduced Christ also as the revelation of God's purpose in world history and as the Messiah who fulfilled that goal in the end; it brought the peoples out of their traditional isolation into the realm not only of universal church history but also of secular national and world history.

Had the civil monarchs early scored a complete victory, in Western Christendom the Church would have been divided into many national churches and Christianity would have been fully subordinated to secular interests.

The ablest of the Italian clergy have been drawn into the international bureaucracy of the church, not into the formulation of a peculiarly national expression.

In particular, Oppenheimer points out the reality that both the NFL and Christian churches make their home on Sundays, «and 50 years into [the] national experiment of mixing the two, it is not at all clear that faith has won the day.»

I think the time has come for black theologians and church people to move beyond a mere reaction to white racism in America and begin to extend our vision of a new socially constructed humanity in the whole inhabited world... For humanity is whole, and can not be isolated into racial and national groups.

Then, Dolan argues, Carroll understood the importance of creating a «republican» form of Catholicism in which the Church would absorb the new national experiment in democracy into its own internal life.

Shurden, in an article last year in the Fellowship newsletter, put the Baptist conflict into three periods the struggle for national control (1979 - 1990), the fight over state conventions (1990 - 2000) and bitter battles in local churches (2000 - 2010).

The building of the Church as a community with complex organizational structure, with manifold functions and leaders, with various responsibilities to the society around it, can easily degenerate into the building of religious clubs, of sororities and fraternities and of national associations for the promotion of good causes, if the understanding of the Church's purpose, of its responsibility to God, of the nature and action of God, of man and his history, of the meaning of the Church's work in all the complex of human activity and of the interrelation of the various aspects of its work are lost to view.

Around 6 a.m., they sealed the bulk pans, slid them into insulated boxes, and loaded them onto trucks or other vehicles for delivery by more than 150 churches, civic groups, shelters, and first responder organizations such as police, fire departments, Coast Guard, and the National Guard.

The government is continuing to tell the people of Ireland that they will forge ahead with their plans to enter into a church state partnership for the new National Maternity Hospital.

National Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams, says he will be very much surprised if Prof. Emmanuel Martey, sits unconcerned for a new pastor of his church appointed into office less than five months goes about raping girls without him cracking the whip.

More's the pity, as the movie begins with Ronald Reagan quoting Alexis de Tocqueville in his «Evil Empire» speech (delivered to the National Association of Evangelicals on March 8, 1983) on a television in a snowed - in New Mexico E.R.: «Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the greatness and the genius of America... America is good.

The scandal developed into a national story as more victims of abuse at the hands of Catholic priests came forward and resulted in a global crisis for the church.

One trial in particular drove Patterson's story into the national spotlight when supporters of the Westboro Baptist Church descended upon the school in protest of Landon's election.

One trial in particular drove Patterson's story into the national spotlight when supporters of the Westboro Baptist Church descended...

The executive director of the National Secular Society Keith Porteous Wood said: «A mass conversion of voluntary controlled schools into entirely self - governing academies freed from the moderating influence of local authorities will be the churches» dream and most parents» nightmare.

David Farley is the author of An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town (which is currently being made into a National Geographic documentary) and a Contributing Editor at AFAR magazine.

The museum's holdings of 1,215 American paintings alone will grow by 226, including beloved works like Frederic Edwin Church's 1857 «Niagara,» a 7 1/2 - foot - wide blockbuster that Nancy Kay Anderson, the curator of American and British paintings at the National Gallery, refers to as «our «Niagara» problem» because it is so important and so large that paintings at her museum will almost certainly have to move or go into storage to accommodate it.

In a speech to the Church of England's national assembly this week, he said: «I believe quite strongly that it is not inappropriate for a pastor of the Church of England to address issues around the perceived concerns of other religious communities and to try and bring them into better public focus.»

The National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families came at a time when churches had already begun to grapple with issues arising from the effects of missions on the lives and cultures of Indigenous people.

HREOC, ATSIC and PIAC remained concerned about the inadequacy of the responses of governments and the churches to the issues raised in Bringing them home - the report of the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their families.