Sentences with phrase «national churches over»

Nonetheless, the fear of mission board executives that growing numbers of enthusiastic but poorly prepared volunteers would undo some of the self - sufficiency that had been developed in national churches over the years is not completely unfounded.

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For single women, pick a fight over contraception with the Catholic Church and run a national convention in which the centrality of abortion rights startled even seasoned observers.

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But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the past few decades in America — the great explanatory event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»

The current political climate within the American Church is full of debate over a myriad of national and moral issues, however, protecting the environment should not be up for debate...

The National Council of Churches (NCC) sent forth a statement, solemnly opining that «it is blasphemy to invoke the infinite and holy God to assert the moral superiority of one people over another or one political party over another.»

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In total, Catholic institutions employ over 1 million people, reckons Fred Gluck, a former McKinsey managing partner and co-founder of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church.

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«Representative of these various types were men like Roger L. Shinn, who succeeded Niebuhr at Union in the chair of Applied Christianity; George William Webber, founder of the East Harlem Protestant Parish and later president of New York Biblical Seminary; Truman Douglass, leading spirit in the affairs of the National Council of Churches and pioneer in church involvement in human issues; and Martin Luther King, Jr. «73 Niebuhr was at the apex of his influence in the early 1950s and was to remain there for over a decade longer.

Although historically it has not always resisted associating itself with Polish national interests, the Ukrainian Catholic Church today has vigorously embraced the Catholic social teaching begun under Leo XIII and developed over the last two centuries.

Their shared experience of martyrdom under the Soviets should remind them that a national politics favoring one church over another can quickly turn against all of them.

In one of those interesting accidents of timing only a few months before Magic Johnson put human sexuality on the national agenda, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) tried to correct this institutional paralysis over sexuality when it considered a study document designed to confront the inadequacy of both an empty moralism and an arrogant secularity.

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Consequently when in the life of the church cultural forms triumph over religious content and faith disappears, and when in the course of time men begin to wonder what content these forms were originally intended to symbolize, the historic explanations which they will advance will be given in terms of national or racial destiny rather than in terms of a rediscovered religious truth.

Clearly, the negative reality over which the Nicene ecclesiology sets the confession of the church's «catholicity» is the tendency of all human communities, including religious as well as national, racial, sexual and other communities, to build protective walls against «the outsider,» and so to become parochial, provincial, chauvinistic, narrow.

Ecumenically, Pentecostals have slowly become involved over the course of the last generation in bilateral dialogues — for example, with the Roman Catholic Church and with the World Alliance of Reformed Churches — and have participated in various discussions organized by the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches.

If the bishop is right and the Anglican experiment is over, then every national church within Protestantism may soon face a similar fate.

The 50 year old presided over a national service to mark 20 years since women's ordination in the Church of England.

Shurden, in an article last year in the Fellowship newsletter, put the Baptist conflict into three periods the struggle for national control (1979 - 1990), the fight over state conventions (1990 - 2000) and bitter battles in local churches (2000 - 2010).

The participants were selected from the over 90 foreign branches of the Church across the globe comprising of apostles, prophets, evangelists, area heads, retired heads, directors, heads of the Church's tertiary educational and bible training institutions, national heads and leaders from the Church's autonomous nations, among others.

Although Scotland and England have been in a union for over 300 years, they have never merged completely: there have always been separate Scottish institutions, a different national church, a different legal system, different administration of government and now a Scottish Parliament dealing with the majority of domestic Scottish affairs.

«Our party has always been a broad church, and despite my principled differences with Jeremy over many issues of defence, foreign policy and national security, I agreed to serve on his front bench because of the mandate he was given, his assurances that honesty and difference were welcomed, and due to the many areas we agreed wholeheartedly on such as fighting the vicious Tory trade union bill - which I was proud to lead our work on - cuts to tax credits and tackling climate change.

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At the same time, Tocqueville observed in European countries that activities like schooling that had formerly been part of the work of guilds, churches, municipalities, and the like were being taken over by the national government of those countries.

So, the events of the past few years — among them the violence of white supremacists in Charlottesville, the church shootings in Charleston, the national debate over Confederate flags and memorials — certainly shaped the book, especially as they emphasize the extent to which the history of our country is built around the armature of slavery and the Civil War, and how far we still are from putting those issues behind us.

Views from the church look over George Davis Park with cane fields behind, and views of the Great Dividing Range and the Daintree National Park in the distance.

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 /?

Over the course of his nine - year stay the national landscape was transformed; newfound wealth gave rise to a series of landmark architectural and engineering projects which included the construction of new housing, churches and bridges.

Over the course of his nine - year stay the national landscape here was transformed: newfound wealth gave rise to a series of landmark architectural and engineering projects, which included the construction of housing, churches and bridges.

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