Sentences with phrase «keep faith communities»
A religious freedom advocate looks at the factors that keep faith communities resilient in conflict.
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I struggle with my faith, but my community helps me keep it.
4, Is it possible for a community to be composed of people of all kinds of levels of faith and even of no faith at all, or for those who hold a vastly differing views of scripture to keep fellowship?
Moreover, in keeping with the Church's teachings on subsidiarity, free will and real love, it seems most if not all the issues raised in the letter questioning Speaker Boehner's faith would be more efficient, effective, just and respectful of human dignity if they were left to the individual, family, community or state level.
From Agnostic to Islam and I have seen examples in the past... so my humble request to you is not to stop... keep learning or studying the new stuffs... an advice to you when you decide to study or learn about Islam — do not point to the people who does wrong things as wrong doing people are there in everywhere regardless of faith, but look into the scripture and go to someone who has knowledge if you have any question that bothers you but make sure that person is well educated to his community... i ask The Almighty God to open your heart...
The goal is to keep people from being anonymous, going from church to church with needs, and never connecting with a community of faith.
Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.
What obstacles keep you and your faith community from engaging more?
In such communities people keep faith with the allegiances that give meaning to their lives.
Partly because of the opposition of Communist countries, The United Nations has kept itself at some distance from faith communities, although Religious NGOs have, for many years, made a contribution at certain levels, in particular to specialist agencies.
Church and Christians can so strangely keep us from Jesus, but if you find a faith community that feels like the gospels and prioritizes our neighbors and sticks together even though their leaders are just medium and stuff goes sideways...
In Practicing Our Faith we talk about practices that address fundamental human needs: honoring the body, hospitality, household economics, saying yes and saying no, keeping Sabbath, testimony, discernment, shaping communities, forgiveness, healing, dying well and singing our lives.
After years and years of serving communities, keeping the faith, and struggling through everything, the last thing I want to be is bitter, grumpy, sad, narrow - minded and hateful.
It is the task of theology to keep categories clean, to explicate the faith of the church in categories which are inwardly fashioned by the particularity of the events and affirmations which are constitutive of the community of the people of God.
In our thinking, in our prejudices, and in our church communities we need to examine ourselves and ask, «How do we use our faith to bring the love of Christ into the world, and in what ways do we use our religion to keep the world out?»
Here's what I'd like of the «faith community:» keep it to yourselves and quit trying to insert your religion into politics and thus impose its tenets on those of us who have no use for religion of any sort.
Christian theologians explore their faith within a particular community and tradition, though «keeping faith with tradition... is not at all being bound by the letter of the law; it is more a matter of the company you keep — or the books you reach for first — when you want to do your best thinking.»
That is, will the faith - communities while keeping their separate identities be prepared in the present historical situation of pluralism, to interact with each other bringing their respective religious and / or ideological insights on the conception of the human so as to build something of a consensus of cultural and moral values on which to build a single larger secular community?
Perhaps the most unexpected lesson I have learned in the dialogue with people of other religions is how important it is for me to keep in touch with those of my own faith community who remain suspicious and fearful of that dialogue.
The work of the Paraclete is within the community of faith, keeping the words of Jesus «fresh.»
Scholars who are Christians are trained by the dominant academic culture to keep quiet about their faith as the price of full acceptance in the academic community.
Faith, Community, and Labor Join Together to Keep SUNY Downstate Medical Center a Full Service Public Hospital Sunday January 06, 2013 at 09:03 pm
On National Homeless Persons» Memorial Day, a coalition of faith leaders, advocates and housing providers gathered at the State Capitol in Albany to demand the Governor keep his promise to fund thousands of units of supportive housing for the homeless in communities across New York State.
This keeps me in community and surrounds me with people who can help guide and challenge me in my faith.
Originally intended as a way of keeping Jewish singles from marrying outside the faith; the speed - dating movement has flourished in both Jewish and secular communities throughout the world.
Such is the display of fair - weathered faith in Joshua Marston's fourth feature film, Come Sunday, which relates the true trials and travails of evangelical Bishop Carlton Pearson, who in the late 1990s caused waves amongst his religious community in Tulsa, Oklahoma when he announced God spoke to him and confirmed all souls are eligible to be received in heaven, whether they accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior or not (which also negates the threat of hell, a punishment which has kept communities frozen in antiquated fear - based decision making for centuries).
Keep in mind, success is not a solo journey; it takes all of us working together — parents, grandparents, teachers, pastors, principal, and our faith community — for our students to achieve greatness.
While projecting a unique and expressive voice in Jacob, Hautman sensitively and gracefully explores powerful ideas about faith and church communities, keeping a deft balance between criticism of religious fervor and deep respect for faith and belief.
In this climate of crisis and shifting political winds it is all the more important to keep faith with those who share our values and our visions and who strive and struggle to build that different world created by community rather than privilege.
Keeping these local voices front and center, Wasserman worked with other local community - based organizations to form a strategic alliance with faith, health, labor, and environmental groups and reached out to local policymakers.
They were then faced with a dilemma: tell the public the truth, with the risk that lay people would lose faith in the CAGW hypothesis; or, to preserve that faith as long as possible, keep this information within the scientific community in hopes the planet would start warming again.
Just as the US dollar is backed by the «full faith and credit of the US government,» bitcoin is backed by the faith of the community that keeps putting money into it.
This work engages public child protection agencies, human services providers, local organizations, the faith community, and neighborhood leaders, using the motto, «Keeping children safe is everybody's business.»
Instead, I turned to my faith and reached out to my friend and business associate, George Head, and my community for the courage, strength, and support to keep fighting back.