Sentences with phrase «of high church»

Though some of the programs are broadcast in almost every market in the country, religious programs in general are to be found clustered in areas that already display a high degree of religious interest and church affiliation: on Sunday mornings, in geographical areas of high church attendance, and on stations recognized as being «religious» in their format.

From Cassie: Growing up Chinese, my parents found any visual depiction of Christianity to be idolatrous, which I believe is due to the fact that much of the trappings of high church tradition were too similar to the ancestor worship with which they grew up.

I do admit I enjoy the theatrical aspects of a high church service, but rather in the same way as Grand Opera.

so make sure you wear your comfy shoes before you commence your climb of the highest church tower in the Netherlands.

Not exact matches

The extreme violence, high number of abortions, and criminality associated with drug cartels prompted the church to carry out this unique kind of exorcism.

where the high court ruled against the Native American Church, of Oregon, which incorporated a peyote - taking ceremony into its rites.

Instead, it is in the control of a higher power that cruelly takes the lives of tens of thousands of Americans every year — and this ideology becomes even more absurd when you consider that we are supposed to have a separation of church and state.

Cities Will Pay You to Move There (Wall Street Journal) • Better Call Cohen: The Shady Cases of Trump Lawyer's Personal Injury Practice (Rolling Stone) • An MSG Convert Visits the High Church of Umami (New Yorker)

Community programs are tailored to meet the need of the consumers in the community and include investor education and protection programs in high schools, on college campuses, in libraries, churches, senior centers, sports venues and anywhere else in the community where people meet.

Believers and non-believers alike, united by a common concern for the future of the planet, have high hopes that someone who chose to name himself after that great lover of creation, Francis of Assisi, will say something truly transformational, for as a Canadian Council of Churches document lamentably observes, transformative change has not «found traction within political processes.»

While any fair - minded high - church reader of Ross's work should be able to finish this book with a greater understanding of evangelical liturgical practices, I am not sure that he will come away from this book feeling more sympathetic to low - church evangelicalism.

Churches were built on choice real estate in the center of town or on the highest hill.

The highest ranking member of China's officially recognized Protestant church has been imprisoned after he vocally opposed the government's plan to demolish crosses displayed on churches in the province of Zhejiang.

She cites John's emphasis on personal faith, de-emphasis of high offices, and prioritization of Christology as ways in which this particular gospel has deeply influenced low - church liturgical practices.

Did you know that one of his very good friends was a black man, who he ordained to a high church position?

The divine head of the Christian Church is the invisible Jesus Christ and every local bishop or pastor should be directly responsible to Him (in the true Church even every ordinary member of the Church or Christian has a high responsibility, not only the pastor).

You see, the Church encourages people to examine reports of miracles and only promotes those that meet its high evidential standards.

One of my best friends in high school left the church when she was 17.

I will no longer temper my understanding of truth in order to pretend that I have even a tiny smidgen of respect for the appalling negativity that continues to emanate from religious circles where the church has for centuries conveniently perfumed its ongoing prejudices against blacks, Jews, women and homosexual persons with what it assumes is «high - sounding, pious rhetoric.»

«They're very often wonderful places where people's dignity is protected and if you will invest those and churches get involved in those we'll see even higher levels of end of life palliative care there.

Attempts to compare evangelical liturgical practices to those of more high church traditions are often doomed from the start because of the fundamentally different assumptions that undergird both.

In her book, Melanie Ross has provided us with an affectionate framing of evangelical liturgical practices that will surely bring a greater and much - needed clarity to the conversation between evangelicals and high - church Christians, if not a greater sympathy.

The Formula of Concord, which is central to the confessional documents of the Lutheran church, declares that original sin has replaced the image of God in human beings with «a deep, wicked, abominable, bottomless, inscrutable, and inexpressible corruption of his entire nature in all its powers, especially of the highest and foremost powers of the soul in mind, heart, and will.»

(Let me just say, I'm no average church member; I grew up in the Lutheran church; I attended a Christian high school and a Baptist college, and ultimately was a pastor's wife in an Assemblies of God church) What if none of them completely resonates with you?

For many, the Church lives on the outskirts of culture with walls too high to climb, and no doorway to be invited into community, if you're different or new.

But it takes a special kind of nerve to caution conservatives about «the high costs of tying a church with a rich tradition of social teaching to the right end of politics,» when you are on board with efforts at the left end of politics to alter and thereby betray that tradition.

As a result, evangelical liturgical practices tend to be far more fluid than the practices of more high church traditions, as the practices flow from a belief that spiritual regeneration precedes liturgical practice — and regeneration can not be reduced down to easily identified physical characteristics.

In one of Ross's most effective chapters, she argues that low - church evangelical liturgy has taken many of its cues from the Gospel of John, while more high - church traditions have tended to look toward the synoptics.

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Many conservative commentators point, as the icon for all that went wrong, to the 1967 Land O» Lakes statement, in which the presidents of Catholic colleges declared that their pursuit of academic excellence served a high Catholic goal and thus exempted Catholic schools from direct obedience to the hierarchy and magisterium of the Catholic Church.

The decision comes at a time when racial tensions in the US are high after the Charleston massacre, arson attacks against several black - majority churches and several incidents of alleged white police brutality against unarmed black suspects in the past year.

Given that its figures do not include Cardiff where rough sleeping is highest, as well as other parts of Wales, the 18,000 hours is just a snapshot of what Welsh churches are doing for people who don't have anywhere to live.

«To dismiss the attention due the Church's written instruction as listening to a dusty document, Mankowski writes, «is more the language of a high school manifesto than an episcopal council, and is especially perverse given the purpose and history of the magisterial office.»

«Old English cirice, circe «church, public place of worship; Christians collectively,» from West Germanic * kirika (cf. Old Saxon kirika, Old Norse kirkja, Old Frisian zerke, Middle Dutch kerke, Dutch kerk, Old High German kirihha, German Kirche), probably [see note in OED] from Greek kyriake (oikia), kyriakon doma «Lord's (house),» from kyrios «ruler, lord,» from PIE root * keue - «to swell» - etymonline.com

Also, if you don't pay into the church you get excommunicated and / or can't go to «temple» proceedings and won't get into the «higher» levels of Heaven.

Hillsong New York pastor Carl Lentz is quickly becoming one of the most influential pastors in America, and along with drawing thousands to the church's weekly services, regular visitors include everyone from ministers to pop - stars, athletes and high - profile cultural figures.

Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself of a commitment to abortion rights: the increasing numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity of ecumenical teaching on the dignity of the human person; and the providence of God.

In the measured decade, churches, temples and synagogues told surveyors that congregations that were innovative and contemporary showed the highest amount of «high spiritual vitality.»

A spokesman for the church said: «An increasingly busy programme of worship and church activities has led to ever higher demands on the church space, and the hire space is also shared with the church administration office.

As for the ecumenical part of the equation, the Holy See seems to accord highest priority to avoiding anything that might give offense to the Russian Orthodox Church, which it perceives to be one key to advancing a broader agenda of ecclesial reconciliation between Christian West and Christian East.

• Reviewing Philip Gleason's excellent history of Catholic higher education, Contending with Modernity, our premier evangelical church historian, Mark Noll of Wheaton, says Gleason's argument has much wider application.

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A theologian who is an Episcopalian, Lutheran, or Baptist (at least a high church Baptist) might agree with all his stated «limits of Catholic orthodoxy.»

Approval ratings remain high for the Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Vatican City State, Servant of the servants of God, according to Pew:

Well if it's a wakeup call from a higher being a big part of his message seems to be he doesn't like churches.

But that's not really the point of the yarn theory (or spaghetti theory as I seem to remember it from my high school days in the Methodist Church).

The LDS have tried to distance themselves from this event but it was ordered from the highest level of the LDS church in that day.

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I'm perfectly willing to go to a Protestant church, and I find that some of them, which are called Presbyterian, have very high - church ways of being Presbyterian.

We develop unrealistic expectations of ourselves, careers, marriages, church and so on (and then we get depressed when our too - high expectations go unmet).