Sentences with phrase «nonreligious groups»

Listing community activities and nonreligious groups that you participate in is a good idea.

Washington — A broad coalition of education and legal groups has drafted guidelines for the implementation of the Equal Access Act, which the Congress passed in August to guarantee student religious groups the same access as nonreligious groups to public - school facilities.

Not exact matches

Ultimately — and this is quite a bonus for a group claiming to be nonreligious — one arrives at «God - consciousness.»

All religious groups seemed equally at risk of losing teens; no single religious group stood out as responsible for producing nonreligious teenagers.

True, but if agnostics and nonreligious demographic groups are growing that means the religious group is shrinking.

As far as the relationship of the members of a religious group to each other is concerned, we might well expect to find a dimension of depth to which a nonreligious association will not — necessarily — aspire.

Although many observers see this growth only as evidence of the increasing irrelevance of religion, the nonreligious represent an important cultural group, as liberal on social issues as the most committed religious people are conservative.

Religious individuals or groups are quite free under our Constitution to advocate or oppose policies on religious grounds or nonreligious grounds.

Many groups will consist of nonreligious as well as religious people, but all will function as little churches, with members coming together for refreshment and going out to serve.

Following this approach, we might exclude parochial schools but not nonreligious private schools from a school - voucher program, or bar religious student groups but not chess clubs and neighborhood - watch associations from meeting in public school classrooms.

Ideally, to distinguish the effects of peyote per se from those of the ceremony and of church membership, one group of alcoholics could receive peyote in a nonreligious setting; another group could receive a placebo.

Thus, religious scholarship groups would face the choice of giving scholarships to promote other faiths or totally nonreligious schools — which violates their religious freedom to focus on advancing their own faith.

In the face of these patchwork gaps, American human rights groups have been advocating for the adoption of a federal bill titled the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would prohibit discrimination in hiring and employment on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity by nonreligious employers with over 15 employees.

They are also nonreligious, nonesoteric and deliverable in group format (although homework in the form of mindfulness practice is an essential component).