Sentences with phrase «of faith communities»

Members of the faith community joined advocates and clients in calling for supportive housing.

Do you use these skills as part of a faith community or for a student project at school?

With this act, we were trying to illustrate that it is the people of our faith community who are the church and not the building.

We discovered that «attending» church often does not = finding «the support of a faith community» for many people.

Such an effort is a necessary component of any sort of engagement of theology with those who live outside the context of the faith community.

Today's college campuses offer ample opportunity for such an awakening and a plethora of faith communities from which to begin the journey.

Most of us tend to operate solely within the isolation of our faith communities (this is totally normal and understandable).

Faith communities can help facilitate the connections between the campus and the surrounding area, though many students offer volunteer time without the prompting of a faith community.

This is as true of the theological thinking of faith communities as it is of the thinking of political and scientific communities.

So far climate change hasn't been a central concern of any faith communities, but that may be starting to change.

In response to the worsening climate emergency, the author hopes his book will inspire members of faith communities to take action on behalf of the global environment.

Can they do all that and occasionally appear in person at a brick - and - mortar church and still be part of a faith community?

The National Education Association hosted a National Summit on Family, School, and Community Engagement last week in Alexandria, Va where educators, education leaders, parents, family and community activists, business leaders and representatives of the faith community met for two days of small group and panel discussions.

I know that more than anything my wife is looking for the support of a faith community in raising our daughter, and we don't really have that to any great extent right now.

Speaking at a Mass at St Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham, he said: «It is simply unacceptable to suggest that the resources of the faith communities -LSB-...] can work in cooperation with public authorities only if the faith communities accept not simply a legal framework, but also the moral standards at present being touted by government.»

By Amy Buffenbarger The National Education Association hosted a National Summit on Family, School, and Community Engagement last week in Alexandria, Va where educators, education leaders, parents, family and community activists, business leaders and representatives of the faith community met...

In order to issue the just - quoted pronouncement with such confidence Hitchens already has to have subscribed to the creed of a faith community for which scientism and scientific naturalism provide the dogmatic substance.

The Advent Conspiracy is now a global movement of faith communities.

Getting to know someone for whom faith looks differently helps us take the first step out of the comfort zones of the faith communities and the traditions we know and cherish.

It is the relationship to a community of faith which may make it difficult for a person of one faith to treat scriptures of another faith with the same authority as he or she accords to the scriptures of the faith community to which she or he belongs.

Along with pastoring The Way Christian Center in the Bay Area, I serve as the director of the LIVE FREE Campaign, a faith - based movement committed to organizing the moral voice and actions of the faith community to end gun violence and mass incarceration.

In 1996 the pastor of Faith Community Church in West Covina, California, told the Los Angeles Times: «What we were aiming for was the feeling of a mall.

Among the swarm of faith communities was Central Presbyterian Church, making the drive from downtown Atlanta.

Formal dialogue, in which authorized representatives of faith communities present their official positions, has never attracted me.

If it is someone outside of the faith community, than you need to be loving them and being Jesus to them... if they are a brother or sister in Christ AND you have the relational credibility with them to do so, a confrontation is appropriate if you do it in accordance with scripture.

First, the prophet (as iconoclast) is incongruous in what Weber (and, with modifications, Troeltsch after him)(45) called the «church» type of faith community.

Dan and I are still in search of a faith community that feels like home, but at the risk of sounding cliché, «not all who wander are lost.»

He said that just because we'd been burned by mucked - up Christianity didn't mean we should deprive our kids of a faith community.

That's especially true of the faith community.

It says: «As leaders of faith communities, we wish to state our joint response to Lord Falconer's Assisted Dying Bill.

Structuralist criticism of Scripture looks to structures of a faith community's corporate mind for meaning.

«We affirm the right of faith communities, congregations, and religious organizations to define marriage in accordance with their own traditions and interpretation of Scripture.»

For us humans it may well be that the quest for cosmic purpose coincides with the search for this kind of a faith community.

The economic circumstances of the families and the nature of the faith communities were different and yet both acknowledge the role of family and faith community in creating the framework in which a call could be heard.

I would not bash all members of this faith community because of this poor excuse for a pastor, and you shouldn't do the same with my Church either.

He is now a molder and shaper of a faith community that affirms and celebrates rich traditions of black worship, music, and preaching but also lifts up the equality of men and women in the sight of God and the liberation of all oppressed people — particularly people of color.

Faith Community Christian Academy Preschool is the primary school of Faith Community Christian Academy, a college preparatory, Christian Academy.

Some senior party people have told him that he'll have civil disobedience and an estrangement of faith communities.

«I think Mormons are an interesting case because it's one example of a faith community that has really high fertility patterns, in fact the highest fertility patterns in the U.S., who don't seem to suffer as much by having these large families when we look at educational attainment,» Gibbs said.

«Providing congregations with the necessary resources to help their members find meaningful work deepens the commitment of the faith community while improving the quality of life of people with disabilities.

One such program is Putting Faith to Work, a program funded by Kessler Foundation that utilizes the networks of faith communities.

Part of Topic 4 Religion and Multicultural Society Covers the idea of faith communities and includes relevant quotes Pupils are further given the opportunity to discuss and evaluate religious involvement in politics Hope it helps as this is the last year of the SPEC

Bills recently re-introduced by Representative Todd Rokita (R - IN) and Senator Marco Rubio (R - FL) include a key provision that has inflamed much of the faith community.