Sentences with phrase «national church structures»

In addition to inhibiting the growth of national church structures, the generalized economic deprivation of blacks in America has contributed to the continued fragmentation of the Afro - American religious community.

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These changes in the numerical balance, together with the increasing replacement of American missionaries by nationals in leadership positions at the lower levels of church structure, have inevitably raised the issue of when and to what extent the distribution of leadership and other staff at headquarters will reflect these developments.

In such a situation local groups ready to move together quickly for the sake of mission could do so; already - developed structures and organs (such as the National Council of Churches» Commission on Regional and Local Ecumenism) could be utilized and built upon; those no longer useful could be let go.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

The church he grew up in, Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta, has become a historic structure and national treasure.

With the exception of humanitarian relief, church people now tend to concentrate on local issues, showing less interest in national and international concerns and institutional structures, which are seen as overpowering and self - perpetuating.

The black churches do OK with very lean national structures.

«The Evangelistic Witness is directed towards all of the ktisis (creation) which groans and travails in search of adoption and redemption... The transfiguring power of the Holy Trinity is meant to reach into every nook and cranny of our national life... The Evangelistic Witness will also speak to the structures of this world; economic, political, and societal institutions... We must re-learn the patristic lesson that the Church is the mouth and voice of the poor and the oppressed in the presence of the powers that be.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan cChurch; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan cchurch and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan churchchurch.

The largest bodies were Baptists (in several national or regional conventions, some of them Negro, for the majority of such Negroes as became Christians were Baptists), Methodists (in more than one ecclesiastical structure, some of them also Negro), the Disciples of Christ (of American origin), the Church of Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ (Mormons, also sprung from the soil), Christian Scientists (likewise indigenous), and the Seventh Day Adventists (born in the United States).

Assuming further that a vital mission program involves the same complex of activities and structures that are now present at the national level, what should the local associations of churches do?

The building of the Church as a community with complex organizational structure, with manifold functions and leaders, with various responsibilities to the society around it, can easily degenerate into the building of religious clubs, of sororities and fraternities and of national associations for the promotion of good causes, if the understanding of the Church's purpose, of its responsibility to God, of the nature and action of God, of man and his history, of the meaning of the Church's work in all the complex of human activity and of the interrelation of the various aspects of its work are lost to view.

Technology once relegated to off - grid powerfor remote telecommunications, offshore oil - drilling platforms and rural infrastructureis now feeding some schools, churches, wholesale warehouse stores and national park structures.

Strategies of Non-Intention: John Cage & artists he collected / Gering / 14 E 63 (new location) / thru 8/31 Lyonel Feininger / Moeller / 35 E 64 / thru 6/27 (extended) Billy Al Bengston / Franklin Parrasch / 53 E 64 (new location) / thru 6/28 Mark Grotjahn / Blum & Poe / 19 E 66 (new in NYC) / thru 6/21 Lynda Barry / Baumgold / 60 E 66 / thru 7/11 Kan Yasuda / Eykyn - Maclean / 23 E 67 / thru 6/27 Horacio Zabala; Eduardo Kac / Faria / 35 E 67 / thru 6/21 Anna Maria Maiolino / Hauser & Wirth / 32 E 69 / thru 6/21 Copied / Roth / 160A E 70 / thru 6/20 Nalini Malani / Asia Society / 725 Park @ 70 / thru 8/3 Distilled: The Small Painting Show / Jacobson / 17 E 71 / thru 7/31 Pierre Soulages / Levy / 909 Madison @ 73 / thru 6/27 Pierre Soulages / Perrotin / 909 Madison @ 73 / thru 6/27 Helen Frankenthaler and David Smith / Starr / 5 E 73 / thru 8/8 Frank Stella / Van Doren Waxter / 23 E 73 / thru 6/27 Carved, Cast, Chrushed, Constructed / Freedman / 25 E 73 / thru 8/22 (extended) Peter Sis curated by Charlotta Kotik / Czech Center / 321 E 73 / thru 9/1 Harmony Korine / Gagosian / 821 Park @ 75 (new, additional location) / thru 7/11 (extended) Jeff Koons / Whitney Museum / Madison @ 75 / thru 10/19 Opening 6/27 Kathleen Kucka / Geranmayeh / 956 Madision @ 76 — floor 3 / thru 6/28 Jasper Johns; Roy Lichtenstein / Castellli / 18 E 77 / thru 6/27 The Shaped Canvas, Revisited / Luxembourg & Dayan / 64 E 77 / thru 7/3 Ed Rusha thru 7/11; Marcel Duchamp thru 8/8 Opening 6/26 / Gagosian / 980 Madison @ 77th Barbara Crane / Higher Pictures / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 6/21 Journal / Venus Over Manhattan / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 7/26 Lynn Chadwick / Blain - DiDonna / 981 Madison @ 77 / thru 7/25 James Lee Byars / Werner / 4 E 77 / thru 8/30 Peter Davies / Roitfeld / 5a E 78 / thru 8/10 Eddie Martinez / Half / 43 East 78 / thru 7/15 Nancy Graves / Mitchell - Innes & Nash / 1018 Madison @ 78 / thru 6/27 Jean Dubuffet; Miquel Barcelo / Acquavella / 18 E 79 / thru 9/19 Opening 6/30 Lucien Smith / Skarstedt / 20 E 79 / thru 6/27 Luke Diiorio / Blumenthal / 1045 Madison @ 80 / thru 7/2 Lucas Samaras thru 9/1; Dan Graham with Gunther Vogt thru 11/2; Goya thru 8/3; Etc. / Met Museum / 5th Avenue @ 82nd Italian Futurism thru 9/1, Etc. / Guggenheim / 1071 Fifth Avenue @ 89 The Annual: Redifining Tradition / National Academy / 1083 Fifth Avenue @ 89 / thru 9/14 Sophie Calle / Cooper + Perrotin @ The Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest / 2 E 90 / thru 6/25 Mel Bochner thru 9/21; Other Primary Structures thru 8/3; Etc. / Jewish Museum / 1109 5th Avenue @ 92 Museum Starter Kit: Open with Care, Etc. / El Museo del Barrio / 1230 Fifth @ 104 / thru 9/6 Glenn Kaino; When the Stars Begin to Fall; Carrie Mae Weems; Etc. / Studio Museum / 144 W 125 / thru 6/29 If You Build It / No Longer Empty / 115 & St. Nicholas Ave. / thru 8/10 Opening 6/25 (7 - 9 PM) BROOKLYN Parallel Shift / NARS Foundation / 201 46th Street — floor 4, Sunset Park / thru 6/20 Itness: MaDora Frey; Nicola Ginzel; Heide Hatry; Fawn Krieger; Seren Morey / Trestle / 168 7th, Gowanus / thru 7/2 Myles Bennett, Jay Gaskill, Cat Glennon, Enrico Gomez, Eliot Markell, Esther Ruiz and Jeanne Tremel / Ground Floor / 343 5th / thru 6 /?

The Shaped Canvas, Revisited / Luxembourg & Dayan / 64 E 77 / thru 7/3 Diane Arbus; Cady Noland / Gagosian / 976 Madison @ 77th (new location) / thru 5/23 (extended) Richard Prince; Alexander Calder / Ed Rusha / Gagosian / 980 Madison @ 77th / thru 6/14 Barbara Crane / Higher Pictures / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 6/21 Poetics of the Gesture: Schiele; TTwombly; Basquiat / Nahmad / 980 Madison — floor 3 / thru 6/14 Journal / Venus Over Manhattan / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 7/26 Opening 5/28 Lynn Chadwick / Blain - DiDonna / 981 Madison @ 77 / thru 7/25 Opening 5/29 Sigmar Polke / Werner / 4 E 77 / thru 6/7 Hugo McCloud / Roitfeld / 5a E 78 / thru 6/7 Andrew Kuo / Half / 43 East 78 / thru 6/2 Casting Modernity / Mnuchin / 45 E 78 / thru 6/7 Jean - Michel Basquiat / Acquavella / 18 E 79 / thru 6/13 Lucien Smith / Skarstedt / 20 E 79 / thru 6/27 Dean Levin / Blumenthal / 1045 Madison @ 80 / thru 5/30 Lucas Samaras thru 6/1; Dan Graham with Gunther Vogt thru 11/2; Goya thru 8/3; Etc. / Met Museum / 5th Avenue @ 82nd Italian Futurism thru 9/1, Etc. / Guggenheim / 1071 Fifth Avenue @ 89 The Annual: Redifining Tradition / National Academy / 1083 Fifth Avenue @ 89 / thru 9/14 Opening 6/11 Sophie Calle / Cooper + Perrotin @ The Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest / 2 E 90 / thru 6/25 Mel Bochner thru 9/21; Other Primary Structures thru 8/3; Etc. / Jewish Museum / 1109 5th Avenue @ 92 Museum Starter Kit: Open with Care, Etc. / El Museo del Barrio / 1230 Fifth @ 104 / thru 9/6 Glenn Kaino; When the Stars Begin to Fall; Carrie Mae Weems; Etc. / Studio Museum / 144 W 125 / thru 6/29