When you do decide to start a profile, the site takes you through a range
of questions about your faith and beliefs.
He hosted dinner with a table of non-Christians full
of questions about faith.
Not exact matches
Those sorts
of questions are much more interesting and useful than
questions about whether a particular politician should accept paid speaking engagements, and certainly more important than the borderline silly
question of whether money that was accepted in good
faith ought to be paid back.
To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities
of faith discourage people from asking
questions about religious texts or beliefs.
7th US Circuit Court
of Appeals nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor, was
questioned intensely
about her Catholic
faith as a result
of past writings expressing her beliefs on whether Catholic judges should recuse themselves from death - penalty cases if they believed they would be unable to impartially uphold the law, writing that — in limited situations — judges should step back in cases that conflict with their personal conscience.
I know that after 9/11 it brought a lot
of fear and
questions about the Muslum
faith; but the Oklahoma City bomber was a terorist and it had nothing to do with the Muslum
faith.
Thomas thinks that it is the discipline
of metaphysics that asks
questions about the ultimate cause
of existence
of things, and, as he says, «not only does
faith hold that there is creation, reason also demonstrates it» (In II Sent., dist.
The Pascals wager I always found a interesting hurdle for those not
of Faith to overcome but the
question you raised
about the multiple
Faiths.
If Mormons can not respect the deeply held beliefs
of a
faith that is not their own, then I have serious
questions about the integrity
of LDS.
Catholics will have to make up their own minds — but I'll admit I have
questions about the
faith of Pope Francis, which seems, if not weak, at least different from that
of the Catholic tradition.
The movie served to give me a different platform to discuss
faith from, not to argue that my belief system is right and someone else's is wrong, but instead to point out that the world is hungry for
questions about the soul and what we don't see right in front
of us.
The truth is you can go on and on
about science and logic all you want but it doesn't address the fundamental
questions of our existence, which is where
faith comes in.
From Agnostic to Islam and I have seen examples in the past... so my humble request to you is not to stop... keep learning or studying the new stuffs... an advice to you when you decide to study or learn
about Islam — do not point to the people who does wrong things as wrong doing people are there in everywhere regardless
of faith, but look into the scripture and go to someone who has knowledge if you have any
question that bothers you but make sure that person is well educated to his community... i ask The Almighty God to open your heart...
Either this criminal is mentally stronger than most you as just by mere one sentence that God made him do so he has turned you guys into
questioning and arguing
about the existence
of God, Religion and
Faith... For a change, what
about discussing the nature
of his crime and a just punishment for him???... you bunch
of Sherlock Holmes
I talk
about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list
of rules, and how millennials long for
faith communities in which they are safe asking tough
questions and wrestling with doubt.
Purpose sees him asking the same
questions about life and
faith as many
of us, as well as facing up to his headline - grabbing mistakes.
Peter Kerridge asks three Christian business people hard
questions about the future
of the
faith
As David Kinnaman explains in his enlightening book, You Lost Me, one
of the top six responses among young adults is that they left the church because they didn't feel like their pastors, mentors, and friends took their
questions about faith seriously.
If we recognize that in order to draw conclusions
about matters
of this sort, we must ask
questions not answered by
faith in any direct way, the tone
of our debates can be improved.
CNN: Franklin Graham apologizes for
questions Obama's
faith commitment The Rev. Franklin Graham on Tuesday apologized for publicly raising
questions about President Barack Obama's Christian
faith, saying «I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal
faith of our president, Mr. Obama.»
While
questions, experiences, and struggles related to sex can most certainly generate
questions about faith... (we are holistic, integrated creatures after all)... we have to be careful
of generalizing or oversimplifying here.
I'm convinced that one thing folks from my generation long for is the chance to talk openly and honestly
about our
faith, our doubts, our
questions, our ideas, our struggles, our joys, etc. in the context
of a
faith community.
As someone who consistently struggles with doubts
about my
faith, I've asked a lot
of «off - limits»
questions over the years, sometimes publically, sometimes privately.
The book includes a series
of reflections on the importance
of thinking critically
about faith and the value
of asking difficult
questions regarding everything from God to religion to language to government.
(CNN)- The Rev. Franklin Graham on Tuesday apologized for publicly raising
questions about President Barack Obama's Christian
faith, saying «I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal
faith of our president, Mr. Obama.»
With all
of this in mind, I'd love for you to try to tackle this
question, which was asked
of me in an interview for the Inspy Awards: Tell us
about a book that epitomizes quality [Christian]
faith - driven lit.
What started as a feeling
of betrayal by certain authorities within the church, spiralled into deeper and more enduring
questions about faith itself.
Pastors and mentors will
of course feel compelled to offer guidance and prayer as young adults navigate the tricky terrain
of sexuality, but they should not be deceived into thinking that the all the
questions about faith, science, technology, religious pluralism, politics, justice, equality, and ethics emerging from the Millennial generation are related to sex and can be solved by abstaining from it.
Questions also are raised
about the identity
of the church that plays such a major role in the Radical Orthodox account
of history,
about whether there is a doctrine
of providence implicit in it,
about the dismissal or ignoring
of Protestantism,
about the role
of Jesus in its Christianity,
about the role
of Socrates in its Platonism,
about its failure to engage with the challenge
of modern scientific and technological developments,
about how other
faith traditions are related to this version
of faith, and
about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.
The
question before anyone who cares
about the fate
of men and women in the modern world is the
question how a really saving
faith can be encouraged and promoted.
Like anyone with a radio ministry over an international network I received hundreds
of thousands
of letters from all over the world and, whenever they presented important
questions about religious
faith and practice, I answered them.
What tenets
of your
faith do you have
questions about?
If you have a
question for Makoto
about faith, art, or the challenges
of living as an artist in today's world, leave it in the comment section.
Many
of you, like me, found Brian at a critical juncture in your
faith journey when you wondered if you were all alone in the
questions you were asking
about Christianity.
Before, however, we look at the
questions of intellectual openness, fellowship with other
faiths and social engagement, it will help to see why many thinkers picture the new century — it seems presumptuous to speculate
about the new millennium — as very different from the century that is drawing to a close.
As is often the case when I write
about confronting doubt or
questioning certain theological traditions, I got a message or two urging me to stop asking so many pesky
questions and just enjoy the bliss
of absolute certainty that should accompany true
faith.
Now I can think
of all kinds
of questions I ask myself and my friends
about God and
faith and life,
questions I'm not as sure I have the answers to as I used to be.
He surely can not seriously imagine that men
of similar intellectual caliber to his own have not asked the same searching fundamental
questions about life and its meaning which he himself asks, and yet have come to the conclusion that the Christian
Faith is an indispensable part
of total truth.
My piece was not a «lament,» but essentially a defense
of Pope Benedict (as was my brief follow - up here) against just the type
of over-the-top criticisms cited elsewhere in Allen's article, even as I raised one respectful
question about the pope's prudential decision not to meet with leading dissidents — a legitimate, good -
faith debate among sincere Catholics.
For years I struggled with doubts
about my
faith, and through the emerging church movement, I found people who were asking the very same
questions -
about religious pluralism, the Problem
of Evil, inerrancy, the notion
of absolute truth, etc..
What I will note is that despite the lack
of ritualized outward observations, on the whole Quakers don't seem to have a problem remembering that we have an embodied, enacted
faith, nor a problem recognizing that all life is sacred — hence the
question above
about our notable counter-cultural activities.
Matthew is the author
of The End
of Our Exploring: A Book
about Questioning and the Confidence
of Faith and Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter to Our
Faith.
If employing the suggested possibilities would actually help Ogden with his stated intention
of being more adequate to the «objective» side
of faith assertions
about Jesus, and if these possibilities are inherent in the process philosophy which Ogden employs, the
question raises itself as to why Ogden has not developed his position along the suggested lines.
The soap opera section
of the show opened up
questions about faith, food, poverty, celebration, feast and deeper
questions on indulgence and waste.
Keller should have stopped a couple
of weeks early, before he wrote the disaster titled, «Asking Candidates Tougher
Questions About Faith.»
Yours was one
of the first blogs I found back in 2007 when I started searching the blogosphere for others who might be asking the same
questions about faith that I was asking.
Matthew Lee Anderson is the author
of Earthen Vessels: Why our Bodies Matter to our
Faith and The End
of our Exploring: A Book
about Questioning and the Confidence
of Faith.
In Christian
faith all thought
about love leads to the nature
of God, and therefore the reconception
of love leads to the
question of the being
of God to which we now turn.
Despite all the
questions I've had
about my
faith background, I've not once second - guessed the legitimacy
of «believer's baptism.»
One senses a basic healthiness
about my friend's stark religious
questioning — a religious health that flows from confronting the true issues
of faith simply, directly and honestly.