Sentences with phrase «members of your religious community»

But even broader contributions await release in the priests, pastors, rabbis, lay leaders, and grass - roots members of religious communities (i.e., congregations) Approximately 124 million members of 320,000 churches and temples are served by 246,000 clergymen and rabbis.

Of course, one of the main problems is that there are many people who don't want to understand each other, or they feel they already understand the religious other because some book told them what others believed or some member of their religious community did all the research for them so they wouldn't have to do it themselves and told them what others believed.

To say that all religious communities recognize the right of people not to be tortured, or that all religious communities support the self - determination of indigenous peoples is not very exciting: even if these claims are true (and I suspect that they are not), they bear little relation to any claim that a faithful member of any religious community would recognize as his own.

Members of religious communities may pray together several times each day.

Margaret Gillen, SCC and her brother, the late Peter Gillen; survived by the members of her religious community and many friends from St. Joseph Parish in Rockdale.

Thus a science - trained professional might «believe in» human evolution when he or she is engaged in professional tasks that depend on the truth of that theory, yet still disbelieve in human evolution when he or she is acting as a member of a religious community, in which such disbelief enables her to both experience membership in and loyalty to such a community and to express the same.

Offer to visit or take meals to members of your religious community when they are ill.

Not exact matches

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

Stevens went so far as to worry that these students would be forced into religious conformity and, indeed, to be «outsiders, not full members of the political community.»

Orthodox Jews have been expelled from the military for wearing yarmulkes; a religious community in which all members worked for the church and believed that acceptance of wages would be an affront to God has been forced to yield to the minimum wage; religious colleges have been denied tax exemptions for enforcing what they regard to be religiously compelled moral regulations; Amish farmers who refuse Social Security benefits have been forced to pay Social Security taxes; and Muslim prisoners have been denied the right to challenge prison regulations that conflict with their worship schedule.

While personal relationships could form across confessional lines» families hired servants from other communities, for example» and while some religious leaders encouraged respect and compassion for members of other faiths, the relationship among Christians, Muslims, and Jews was hardly a model of cooperation.

Conroy's job as a chaplain was to pray at the beginning of every House session and also to serve as the religious counsel to every member of the House of Representatives community.

«Sadly, it seems to be increasingly acceptable in certain belief systems to kill as many members of the other religious community as possible,» she said.

The New York Times noted that the bishops have an «idea» that religious Americans are «the victims of government - backed persecution», while painting their decision to eliminate adoption services as slamming the door in the face of the loving members of the gay community.

Therefore, in practice, religious liberty now frequently describes the freedom of a community to live in accordance with a moral vision shared among its members.

Thirdly, just as Christian scriptures are the gift of the Word of God offered by the Christian community as a record of its faith, so other scriptures can be considered also as a gift of the Word of God offered to Christians by members of other religious traditions.

(Isaiah 57:8, NASB) And the Dead Sea scrolls refer to a member of the Hebrew religious community at Qumran being fined for exposing his «hand.»

What Ehrenreich could not imagine is that the five authors of Habits were all active members of their respective religious communities; she assumed — and statistically she would be right in her assumption — that we would be atheists.

Religious members of the movement are embarking on our 40 Days for Life campaign, in which we pray, fast, hold vigil, and perform community outreach, all in service of saving men, women, and children from abortion.

He developed no systematic position on the question of the rightness of converting sincere members of other religious communities to Christianity.

Thomas added that the sentence was «clearly issued on a punitive rather than on a legal basis» and said: «The constant harassment of members of the Christian community ought not to be occurring in a country where the constitution not only recognises Christianity, but also states that no - one should be molested or taken to task simply for holding a religious belief.

If some members of the Muslim community voluntarily choose to wear a burque as a demonstration of religious piety or modesty, it is no different than an Orthodox Jew wearing a yamulke or an Amish man maintaining a beard.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

Nearly all (98 per cent) of the programs studied are open to all community members without regard to their religious affiliations.

Research into the role of the churches in community mental health may take two directions: (1) statistical studies, empirically designed, as to the effect of religious beliefs, membership in, and activities of, members of churches and synagogues, and (2) the effects of training in mental health principles and skills of clergymen and laymen in improving their effectiveness in religious behavior.

One that was based on a survey of mainline church members, for example, suggested that identification with the local community served as an important plausibility structure for traditional religious tenets.13 Furthermore, those who made such localistic identifications were considerably more likely than «cosmopolitans» to espouse traditional religious beliefs (controlling for a variety of other factors) and to allow these beliefs to influence their thinking on racial and social questions as well.

Radical proposals are made that we abandon the myth of incarnation and, indeed, all doctrines that can not be accepted by members of other religious communities.

On the basis of these messages a religious community developed, claiming to serve God, numbering some thousands in Muhammad's lifetime, and now having several hundred million members.

It is interesting to study comparatively the meaning and function which the notion of the religious community actually has for its members, especially in the case of great mass cults.

«The International Association of Genocide Scholars, over 200 members of Congress, and over 70 human rights experts and organizations, spanning the nation's religious and political spectrum, have raised their voices that the treatment of these communities by ISIS meets even the strictest definition of genocide under international law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of Christians (IDC).

In accordance with the nature of the basic religious experience the conception of the nature and function of members of the community will vary.

The Bible was not written for the unbelievers (atheist, members of the religious and gay community, etc) and in their sinful state they are alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them (Eph.

First of all it has to be said that, even if a real understanding should be impossible, a good acquaintance with the teachings and practices of a religious group already marks a great step beyond the prejudices born of ignorance which have so frequently tended to poison the relations between members of different religious communities.

In a genuine religious community the satisfaction of forming a part of the group — however insignificant — will be outweighed by the humble realization of the members» shortcomings.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

The purpose of these organizations, and of their local offspring and analogues, is principally to sponsor discussions, and sometimes joint action, among members of different religious communities — Buddhist, Christian, Confucian, Jewish, Hindu, and so on.

Suppose, to make this abstraction concrete, that I, as a member of a particular religious community — in my case, as I have said, the communion of Anglican Christians — find myself in contact with a Gelukpa Tibetan Buddhist who, so far as I can tell, believes and teaches things that I think are incompatible with what I believe and teach.

But the question of what form of the family will most fully release the freedom and capabilities of its members and sustain the growth of the most intimate and full community of persons can not be answered dogmatically out of the religious tradition.

Only two presidents have overcome these desiderata (John Kennedy and Barack Obama), and they have run against their religion (in the case of Kennedy) and their race (in the case of Obama), reassuring the American people that they weren't really all that Catholic or all that black — that they were Americans first, and members of their religious or racial communities second.

School sponsorship of a religious message is impermissible because it sends the ancillary message to members of the audience who are nonadherents «that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community.»

Much more promising is the appearance here and there of day - care centers at the parents» workplace, and day care provided by parishes and temples where it serves the triple purpose of providing meaningful work for members of the community (especially older people), meeting a pressing need of the community's young couples, and beginning the religious education of the community's children.

Quoting from the article: «Sadly, it seems to be increasingly acceptable in certain belief systems to kill as many members of the other religious community as possible,» she said.

And one must be concerned to build an environment on campus in which religious ideas and values can flourish, so that every member of the campus community is touched.

It is clear to me that the vast majority of the members of the various communities that enrich our wonderful NYC are wonderful human beings that are mostly consequent with the ethical and moral standards that they hold dearly and which may have been passed to them through religious education or through family values or acquired through rational thinking..

This metaphor emphasizes that the autonomy and security of each community's religious experience and expression must be guarded by all members of the extended family, and that the interaction within the common spaces of the house must be governed by mutually agreed codes of conduct allowing for free exchange of ideas and not leading to the theological «annexing» of one unit by another.

The flyer then explains that you don't have to believe anything to be a member of this community, and concludes: «It's a religious community for people who question.

Religious leaders, community members and activists took to the streets Sunday in New York to protest upcoming congressional hearings, convened by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, on «the radicalization of American Muslims.»

As members of these other religious communities became friends and neighbors, this kind of Christology ceased to be convincing.

The prophets after the Exile are of a lesser breed, and most of the authors of the period are anonymous members of the community who give expression to a wide range of religious experience as it comes to individuals living within the framework of a religious society.

She serves the Jewish and broader religious communities in a number of capacities including as a member of the Global Initiative for Faith, Health and Development of the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty, as a member of the Summit on Religious Leadership in Response to HIV and as a board member of the Ziegler School of Rabbinicreligious communities in a number of capacities including as a member of the Global Initiative for Faith, Health and Development of the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty, as a member of the Summit on Religious Leadership in Response to HIV and as a board member of the Ziegler School of RabbinicReligious Leadership in Response to HIV and as a board member of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.