Sentences with phrase «major denominations»

Earlier this year, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) reported in its monthly Evangelical Leaders Survey that 90 percent of its board of directors, including the leaders of major denominations and ministries, oppose using the pulpit for political endorsements.

Concerns such as these prompted us to conduct a thorough survey of Protestant ministers from nine major denominations in California.

Several major denominations have led the way in adopting statements voicing church concern for persons with handicaps.

With the United Methodist Church currently the only major denomination involved in the field of liturgical revision, there is evidence that some congregations in other denominations are using SWR materials in place of or in addition to their own.

Two other major denominations are having internal troubles.

But many mainline Christians, including a number of those who, having been affected by the renewal movements that have swept through major denominations at the grass - roots level, seek a deeper spirituality are unhappy with the choice before them.

Plus, I would add notable bishops of major denominations, several of them have had a prominent public presence: Desmond Tutu, Rowan Williams, Eugene Robinson, Katharine Schori, Mark Hanson, Elizabeth Eaton.

According to Pew Research Center, across most major denominations, Christians think abortion should be illegal in almost all cases (for example, 71 percent within the Assemblies of God, 66 percent within the Southern Baptist Convention, 77 percent within the Church of God).

Statistics indicate that major denominations — including traditional black churches — have increasingly exclusive memberships, defined along economic, class and ethnic lines.

«23 «It can be safely said,» states Thomas Luckmann, «that within Protestantism doctrinal differences are virtually irrelevant for members of the major denominations.

I see two indications: recent developments in sacramental theology have helped us to understand the sacraments more clearly as divine actions, and the new sacramental services of the major denominations have made this understanding much more explicit for all to grasp.

Why when almost every major denomination on record opposed unilateral U.S. action in Iraq, did most people in the pews support it?

Such a strategy should be formulated in close collaboration with an interfaith advisory committee composed of clergymen representing the major denominations.

To this day, major denominations» Sunday School curricula teach that the miracle of the fish and the loaves is best explained to children by telling them that Jesus» example in sharing what little he had inspired the five thousand to share the fish and loaves hidden under their tunics.

Whitefield preached in pulpits of all the major denominations.

The current practice ranges all the way from seven to eighteen years among the major denominations.

Among the more than 200 professional staff members, 10 clergy representing the major denominations are at work side by side with psychiatrists, physicians, social workers, psychologists, nurses, and others.

ADF spokesman Greg Scott said the organization contacted «pastors, priests and rabbis from every major denomination,» and knows of 33 clergy in 23 states who intend to take part on Sunday.

I take pride in Islam's centuries - long eminence as a global civilization, upholding religious tolerance at a time when it was little known and less practiced elsewhere and fashioning arabesques of unity in diversity out of the races and major denominations of Eurasia and Africa.

Most of the major denominations have councils for health and welfare, designed not only to work with the health and welfare institutions operated by or related to the denomination, but also to relate the denomination to the varied secular institutional responses and thus to keep open the lines of communication between religious motivation and secular response to need.

At least among the major denominations the leadership of the churches is generally in the hands of persons not only of insight and faith, but of high educational attainments.

That «distinctive faith» ventured down a different ecumenical path in 1960 with the proposal by United Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake that four major denominations — his own, the Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church and the United Church of Christ — merge into one denomination.

All the major denominations expanded their home mission work in an attempt to follow people into new areas.

It is still possible that we will see the merging of these groups into a major denomination.

Yet, the leaders of pretty much every major denomination talk about the significance of «inter-faith dialogue».

Only one major denomination has ordained a stated homosexual: The Rev. William R. Johnson was ordained by the United Church of Christ in 1972 and then only after prolonged study and debate in his association.

While no doubt there are presently ordained homosexual ministers in every major denomination, the vast majority of them continue secrecy about their sexual orientation.

The last time we saw such a massive shift in Protestantism was in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the Holiness and Pentecostal movements spawned over ten major denominations.

On the other end of the spectrum, you have some of the major denominations that are united under the umbrella of Mennonite Central Committee (our social justice / mission organization).

If politicians only had the nerve (they don't) to do that to the major denominations we could pay off the national debt.

Anglicans to name one major denomination.

On Wednesday, 36 Anglican bishops and more than 600 church leaders from all major denominations signed a letter demanding action from ministers.

Four major denominations of of churches ran the schools.