Sentences with phrase «moral rudders»

Because I feel like, if we're gonna go back through history, the moral rudder of the American Church has been the black folks.

H. Richard Niebuhr taught us in The Kingdom of God in America that the triune themes of the sovereignty of God over the whole world, the reign of Christ in the heart and the expectation of a Coming Kingdom in and beyond time were all embedded in the term «kingdom of God,» and that these themes were decisive in the way Christian theology and ethics provided — with differing accents in different periods — a spiritual and moral rudder for American civilization, from its founding through the industrial era.