Sentences with phrase «of national church»

It has inhibited the development of a national church in the sense that France and Spain have national churches religious patterns that are at the same time genuinely Catholic and expressive of the national popular culture.

And the actions of national church bodies belie seriousness, pretending action while only issuing pronouncements which are systematically ignored by the churches, the press, and society.

He is treating this loose confederation of national Church bodies less like what it is, and more like a snotty country club.

We accepted our board's requirement that we would work in Argentina as willing servants under national leadership and as supporters of the national church's own mission goals.

The figures published provide a breakdown of pay by gender for staff of the National Church Institutions (NCIs) and do not cover clergy ministering across the 42 dioceses of the Church of England.

Some time ago, however, some consultants studied the decision - making process of a national church organization that strongly espouses pluralism and found that at every level decisions were made in a way that actively inhibited pluralism.

In addition to inhibiting the growth of national church structures, the generalized economic deprivation of blacks in America has contributed to the continued fragmentation of the Afro - American religious community.

A South Carolina judge on Wednesday (Jan. 23) issued a temporary restraining order that prevents the national church from using the name or seal of the diocese, which espouses a more traditional theology and disapproves of the national church's acceptance of same - sex marriage and gay bishops.

Many of your people's ideas are quite opposite to yours and to the hopes of the national church.

The Rev. David L. Norgard, who is openly gay and is chairman of the national church's Standing Commission on Evangelism, says, «I'm thoroughly convinced, and hold it as a point of faith, that in the long run people are turned off by a church that excludes.»

Huw Edwards, BBC newsreader and Vice-President of the National Churches Trust, said: «I'm delighted that this Christmas the future of 29 churches and chapels is being safeguarded by National Churches Trust grants.

The independence and autonomy of national churches are now the reality with which Western agencies deal throughout the Third World.

Fair enough: decades of Communist tyranny set atop centuries of other, far more invincible tyrannies have effectively shattered the Orthodox world into a contentious confederacy of national churches struggling to preserve their own regional identities against every «alien» influence, and under such conditions only the most obdurate stock survives.

Claire Walker, Chief Executive of the National Churches Trust, said: «At the heart of communities in cities, towns and villages, cathedrals and churches are a treasure trove of architecture, history and faith.

«Our joy is beyond words,» Simon Pandey, general secretary of National Churches Fellowship of Nepal (NCFN), told CT..

Huw Edwards, broadcaster and journalist and Vice President of The National Churches Trust said: «At the heart of communities in cities, towns and villages, churches are a treasure trove of architecture, history and faith.

A small number of national churches and synagogues maintain special aging offices, with staffs and budgets, and some of these Orthodox, Jewish, Protestant and Catholic bodies are members of the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging.

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If one follows the history of the emergence of the national Orthodox Churches in the nineteenth and twentieth century, one realizes that the eventual autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is only a matter of time.

Welcoming her comments, Stewardship's chair of conferences, Rev David Senior, said: «The Minister has also invited responses from churches and charities and is keen to hear from those who might feel that are facing difficulties in their relationships with national or local Government, or government agencies on the ground of their faith.

The shift at New Life Community Church in Chicago is a reflection of a national trend, according to Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

CNN: Convention's Mormon speakers expected to shed light on Romney's faith life Mitt Romney is famously quiet about his Mormon faith, but his campaign has said that some of Thursday's speakers at the Republican National Convention will shed light on the candidate's role in the church — and that Romney may open about his faith, too.

An Australian Primate rebuked Archbishop Glenn Davies and Bishop Richard Condie for attending the ceremony, saying the new role doesn't align with his National Constitution and the Church doesn't approve of the move.

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.

National Cathedral's full name is The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the City and Diocese of Washington, so maybe a name change is in order.

The National Churches Trust has awarded # 390,000 to places of worship across Britain to keep them going for vital maintenance work.

Hitler wrote a speech in which he talks about this alliance, this is an excerpt: «The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church.

A London church known as The National Musicians» Church is in a row with one of the UK's best - known composers after it said it wouldn't allow choirs and orchestras to play non-Christian church known as The National Musicians» Church is in a row with one of the UK's best - known composers after it said it wouldn't allow choirs and orchestras to play non-Christian Church is in a row with one of the UK's best - known composers after it said it wouldn't allow choirs and orchestras to play non-Christian music.

A considerable majority of Americans describe themselves as Christian, and it's not even possible to be elected to national office here without making a big show of one's Sunday morning church routine.

In both England and America, Victorian preachers, novelists, poets, and statesmen alike struggled hard to maintain a national ethic of private domesticity and public respectability without the church and chapel in which that ethic was born.

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To wed at the National Cathedral, one member of the couple must be baptized into the Church, and both must commit to a Christian marriage of «lifelong faithfulness, love, forbearance and mutual comfort.»

The National Churches Trust has said that everyone can contribute to the survival of their local church, by clearing drains or gutters so churches remain watertight, showing people around them as a volunteer, and reporting any suspicious behaviour to theChurches Trust has said that everyone can contribute to the survival of their local church, by clearing drains or gutters so churches remain watertight, showing people around them as a volunteer, and reporting any suspicious behaviour to thechurches remain watertight, showing people around them as a volunteer, and reporting any suspicious behaviour to the police.

Church membership increased dramatically, particularly among Methodists and Baptists, whose belief in the possibility of moral perfection generated renewed interest in national morality.

Christian Zionism has been denounced as unbiblical and even unchristian by some Christian groups, including the National Council of Churches, but it has become an orthodoxy of sorts among Republican social conservatives.

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.

Men like Hadjadj (a Jewish Arab from a far left atheist and anti-Catholic background) credit their own conversions to national authors like Bloy and Péguy, to the power of grand old churches, or, indeed, to the theological basis of French humanism and universalism.

Officials of the National Council of Churches and some Jewish organizations were beating the war drums.

According to this version of historical remembrance, Russians will experience national renewal today if they honor the Church's great sacrifices under communism.

He found the national churches of state Protesentism more to his liking, simply because they were easier for him to control and because they represented the religion of the north German states.

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It is not clear who will pay for replacement windows, as the National Cathedral still struggles to raise millions of dollars for repairs dating from 2011, not to mention basic ongoing maintenance for a sprawling magnificent church that lacks a strong supporting congregation.

Highlighting the creation of the Church's National Safeguarding Team in 2015 and new policies, she added: «The Archbishop believes this level of rigorous response and self - examination needs to extend to all institutions, including the BBC.»

The National Church of England was also notified, to prevent him from applying for ordination elsewhere in the country.»

Pastor at United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas — speaking at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday, January 22, 2013.

Though the dedication ceremony for the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial has been moved to a Roman Catholic church in Washington, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, National Cathedral officials said they hoped to host services Sunday.

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred, by George F. Will (Crown Archetype): America's premier political columnist begins his latest reflection on the National Pastime with some charming, autobiographically - derived advice for Catholicism: after recalling that he became a Chicago Cub fan at age seven, «when I was still not as discerning as one should be when making life - shaping decisions,» the elegant Dr. Will notes that «The Catholic Church thinks seven - year olds have reached an age of reasoning» and remarks, «The Church might want to rethink that.»

Catholics, who had tolerated a degree of ethnocentrism within the Church, learned from Hitler that national idolatry was Christendom's deadliest foe.

New research from Gallup shows that, with only 44 percent of Americans having «a great deal» or «quite a lot» of confidence in religious institutions, Americans» trust in church is at its lowest point since the national research organization started asking the question in 1973.