Sentences with phrase «now head of the church»

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But now they're «frozen» because, like the parishioners at that Berkeley church, they're part of an organization where simply saying something, asking a question, pushing back on a planned initiative, turns heads.

Transition team member the Rev. Benjamin Chavis, a former vice-president of the National Council of Churches [and now head of the NAACP], explained why with one word.

As the head of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, he now talks as if the churches do not have any conceivable role in American public life.

Now, three years out of pastoral ministry, and looking at heading back into it through church planting, I have been able to think, reflect, watch, and study these two models at work, and see numerous pros and cons to both.

But now, after further investigation, the head of the Catholic Church is expressing regret over...

If they were, then the emergent theology could compete on a more equal basis with traditional ones, and the insights and convictions now gathered under the heading of a theology of nature could penetrate more deeply into the life of the church.

You defenders of religion keep some interesting company: Osama Bin LLaden, Iraninan Mullahs, Saudi Wahabists (who will cut your head off in public if you preach anything but Islam), Joe Smith who preached that black people did not have souls (the church changed it mind after the civil rights act and are now bigotted against gay people), the Taliban, the pope and his child rapists, ignorant & stupid evangelicals who think that revelations is a roadmap to the future.

We are feeling the first affects of it now, and many churches, preachers and members are burying their heads in the sands not wanting to believe it.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

The substance of what is proclaimed is the same as what is recollected, the same as is now acknowledged by the congregation in thanksgiving as God's salvatory and present power, the same as is offered and received in participation of the members in the Head of the church.

His grandfather, Gilbert Calver, was general director of the Evangelical Alliance and helped launch Christian charity Tearfund, and his father, Clive, who now pastors a church in the US, also worked as head of the EA and was one of the founders of Spring Harvest.

A newspaper has now revealed the former head of the Catholic Church in Scotland is living in a bungalow bought by his predecessor Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh Leo Cushley.

Oh the joy if only we could go back to the early 1800's where a good honest white land owner could head to town any Saturday and buy a whole new pack of n e gros to take home so he could help with the building of his new Church... And don't forget ladies, you are meant to be seen, not heard, and don't you dare be so immoral as to let your ankle show... Now get back in the kitchen!!

Even now, in the church I go to, during Praise and Worship I could feel that I was maybe getting ready to speak in tongues, and I'd have to shut it off because I don't know what that church would do if I started screaming out in tongues in the back... It feels like a lot of energy coming through the top of your head — I'm going to sound like such a lunatic — and then your whole body is filled with this electric current.

When your pastor convinces you that it's best not to have relationships outside of his church, and you listen, then you make the decision to leave and realize all your relationships were in the church, and now you're out and utterly alone, AND dealing with the pastors voice in the back of your head saying you were never enough to begin with... it puts you in a very lonely and sad place.

In fact, Christ is now not only head of the church, but head of every ruler and authority (see Eph.

As a former head of a church, I objected to this idea during Prof. Mills» tenure, and I am adding my voice now to the people who are objecting to this idea by telling government to stop it... Lets allow religious groups to do whatever they want to do, but government should concentrate on its mandate by providing jobs and putting up infrastructural developments with such monies,» he admonished.

Jack Layton, now heading the official opposition, also seems to have bought into the urban fears and related police fantasies of gun - toting street gangs with scary tattoos crashing our Sunday church brunches and demanding our bland potato salad.