Sentences with phrase «like churches»

The walls that once pressed so hard now lend support — like the steel plates and cinderblocks that Carl Andre once laid for me on the floor, like the churches that once functioned simultaneously as art, symbolism, and a civic space.

Including several attractions to visit, like churches, temples, and museums it's my favorite area to stay in Cusco and enjoy the history and gastronomy of the city.

People are eligible for credit union membership through their employer or organizational affiliations like churches or social groups, or a community - chartered credit union.

Among a more secular and mobile population, social institutions like churches and clubs have faded in importance.

I like hiking and visiting ghost towns, old abandoned buildings like churches and I am a photographer.

Places like churches or other organizations are holding them to help them earn money for their establishment or group.

«Conventional» places in finding a person to date like churches, bars or nightclubs and communities may still work for some girls.

«I would have encouraged someone doing this type of study to look for indicators of social cohesion and connections — for institutions like churches,» whose members, for example, might have social contacts who can shelter them in emergencies, explains Jason Corburn, who directs the Institute of Urban and Regional Development and the Center for Global Healthy Cities at the University of California, Berkeley.

But, like the churches and local councils that Justice Goddard will investigate, it must answer the charge that it may have put protecting its own position ahead of its duty of care to young people freely giving up their time to support it.

On Tuesday, the town board will hold a public hearing for a proposed law to restrict indoor smoking businesses to industrial and business zones, which would effectively bar them from opening near homes and public places like churches and schools.

Since the Rabsky Group began to push for the rezoning last fall, rowdy protesters — wrangled by North Brooklyn community groups like Churches United for Fair Housing, St. Nicks Alliance, Make the Road and Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A — have shut down and disrupted a slew of public meetings.

Nonprofit groups like churches, schools, etc. can buy Bel Soley products at wholesale prices and resell them to raise funds.

If you like churches, this is the place to visit.

Like all churches are preach a «worm» theology.

Such is the first, superficial impression: our schools, like our churches and our ministers, have no clear conception of what they are doing but are carrying on traditional actions, making separate responses to various pressures exerted by churches and society, contriving uneasy compromises among many values, engaging in little quarrels symptomatic of undefined issues, trying to improve their work by adjusting minor parts of the academic machine or by changing the specifications of the raw material to be treated.

The so - called SCOTUS is allowing corporations to be treated like churches, s how hard would it be fort a corp to declare openly as one?

Control, in most communities like churches that we belong to, is subtle enough that you can't tell that it exists.

The memo makes clear that religious protections are not just guaranteed to a narrow slice of groups, like churches, nonprofits, and organizations with solely religious work.

Persons or groups with strong commitments to social action or evangelical faith often shun direct engagement with Wiltshire - like churches, dismissing them as lost to the cause, and instead issue more general pronouncements that avoid the nastiness of encounter with specific congregations whose values oppose their own.

Yes, just like churches have in countries that ban the bible.

--- Yep, just like churches, bars are made up of many different societies and cultures.

The Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United, said when Jeffress posted the endorsement on the church's website, he was offering an endorsement from the church, a violation of IRS rules for tax - exempt organizations like churches.

Noone want to force churches to marry gays, but it certainly seems like churches want to prevent gays from being able to obtain a legal CIVIL marriage that gives them the same benefits (taxes, survivorship, etc) as other people have.

I like churches with amazing worship bands — they make me feel good.

I like churches where my friends go — they make me feel good.

Why do some Christians feel so threatened when things like the churches teaching on hell are challenged?

And so building relationships, I would say, is the second thing that we would like churches to do.

This is causing a splintering and flourishing of non-denominational and alternative Christian - like churches as well as a recent social acceptance of simply not involving oneself in church at all as a «None».

Remember, the synagogues were like our churches.

Also, it sounds like churches, on average, dole out 12 % of their budgets to building payments (excluding utilities).

Churches do not look like churches any more!

I don't know about others, but this sounds not just like some churches I have been to, but some places I have lived and certainly the way I grew up at times - «Look good on the outside and cringe and die a little each day on the inside.»

People who try to go back and do what was done before (like churches to try to return to the «early church days»), are like actors who, when they get to the end of act 4 in they play, rather than start in on improvising act 5, decide that the best thing to do is just repeat act 4.

Synagogues were very much like our churches, and on the Sabbath, people would gather in the synagogue to hear a Rabbi teach.

they are a tax - exempt, non-profit enti «ty, like all churches.

I'm sorry but I find this offensive... It's like churches want to hijack the benefits science has brought to the healing of AIDS patients as a miracle of their god.

it gave you things like churches, podiums, bibles, crucifixes on a necklace.

Most normal, sane people would * always * put their children before even their own lives, never mind social pressure groups like churches.

Like churches should be, bringing people in, equipping them for life and sending them back into the world.

Like churches should be, bringing people in, equipping them for life and sending them back into the world,» says Hahn.

I have heard of Willow Creek - like churches that have invested more than $ 100,000 in stage and sound equipment.

Christianity in America is very much AFRAID that they will become like the churches in Europe, and be little more than social clubs.

And yes, our church isn't perfect and, in fact, it makes me a bit crazy sometimes just like all churches do for all people who show up and put their hearts on the line.

As a result, you feel like all churches are bad, and you advice to others reflects that.

But my experience and from things I read, even on this blog site, most, not all, but most don't like Churches teaching biblical morals and ethics.

«And the thousands of volunteers in our country who will give up their time to make someone else's Christmas that little bit better: from faith inspired projects like the Churches Together initiative in my own constituency - to aid workers helping those in war - torn parts of the world.

Well if it's a wakeup call from a higher being a big part of his message seems to be he doesn't like churches.

poor this rich that church here politics there why argue about church an politics its the same funny how people loose there jobs but churches an politicians pockets keep getting bigger but nobodys crying about bet that new guchi shirt impressed the preachers wife you wore on sunday but you argue for the poor, ol lutz says 25 k die a day well then why worry about charitys they collect 10,25 % just like churches an line thier pockets, so why argeu you stoopid sheep

You had to perform a public service (like a church or a university).

Seems to me like your church becoming a small giant.