Sentences with phrase «of radical things»

Two months ago, we did the most radical thing we have ever done — and our list of radical things includes one of us getting arrested in China, and giving up our personal Christmas money to pay the mortgage of someone whose own pride tried to harm our ministry.

Not exact matches

It's difficult to know until a group of unelected officials is forced to do some radical things that a critical mass of voters dislike.

In response to this 2011 request, the FBI checked U.S. government databases and other information to look for such things as derogatory telephone communications, possible use of online sites associated with the promotion of radical activity, associations with other persons of interest, travel history and plans, and education history.

«If Muslims get less happy with their place in the world, more resentful of their treatment by the West, support for radical Islam will grow, so things will get worse for the West,» he wrote.

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Because when you go to radical transparency, then people get to see things for themselves, which is, if they don't, they can't be part of that idea meritocracy, because it's not transparent.

The fact that a few radical nuts, most of whom have a very tiny following, said untrue and aweful things does not make that the message of Christians as a whole.

The beautiful and dignified celebration of the liturgy remedies the dulling of Christian and human sensibilities, motivates Christian mission and service, and reminds us that the disciples of the Lord are ambassadors of the King of Glory, who bear witness that the present things are passing away in light of the radical reordering of history and the cosmos by the Paschal Mystery.

And the infuriating truth is that it's all the radicals that do and say wrong, horrible, cruel, and stupid things «in the name of Christ» that make the news.

As a follower of Jesus, I believe that the only thing that breaks us free from the fear of scarcity is a radical act of generosity.

It's always difficult to discern how things * could * sift out and where they * could * end up while you're right in the middle of such radical cultural change.

«One of the most radical things you can do is to actually believe women when they tell you about their experiences.»

But the charge puts me in mind of the colloquium discussion in the January issue of First Things which treated the debate between so - called «liberal» and «radical» Catholics, perhaps because my contribution to that discussion has elicited similar accusations of political irresponsibility or moral cowardice from people sympathetic to the liberal line of thought.

Other things are thrown in too, like a sense of meaning and purpose, finding the truth, being prepared for the end, radical service, self - development, you name it.

The radical message of the God of the Bible is most clearly seen in the cross which tells us two things: 1) We are worse off than we want to admit (the evil * we have done * means we ALL deserve to die — who killed Jesus?

A radical faith, according to Altizer, «can know no logos of things.»

What they lost to was a radical, liberal read of what Jesus» teaching was regarding human equality and loving your «neighbor», and I think the same thing will win the day here.

I particularly found my experience the Buddhist «meta» or loving kindness and finding contentedness through all things through the teaching of the Buddhist Tara Brach and her book «Radical Aceeptance» worked more for me though applying the same principles of love including love of enemies that Christianity teaches.

Second, a consistent acceptance of process generalizations about how things go in the world can provide the material for the radical reconception, of what can be affirmed about that reality greater than humankind or nature — about God, to use the traditional word for that reality.

Correlatively, understanding God involves growth in one's grasp of the concept «contingency,» the capacity to discern one's own, and everything else's, radical dependence on God's power; but that is inseparable from, though not the same thing as, growth in one's grasp of the concept «thanks,» a capacity to respond appropriately to that contingency.

You don't have to make any radical changes all at once, or go as far as HFASS and Gregory of Nyssa, but doing things differently now and then actually enriches the inherent beauty of the liturgy and reminds both longtime members and newbies why it's so central and so important to the life of your church.

As to the first of them: To reject radical Christianity in order to plunge into action may be the thing for people who have a passion for action, but it is to reject Christianity itself.

We also have the ecclesiastical radicals who say critical things about the present form of the institutional church.

This new form of being involves a radical new relation to all things.

There was in some communities a practice of having all things in common, and there was practised for a time in some groups what Charles Williams has later called «an experiment in dissociation», the living together of men and women with a complete renunciation of sex.12 But these radical experiments never became normative for the churches.

He was definitely a nonconformist in a lot of ways (the things he said and taught were pretty radical), though he was also the biggest conformist in all of history if you think about him being the only person to perfectly abide by the law and conform to the pattern of humanity as God originally intended.

Chad Radical Christianity makes people kill doctors, beat up gays, force women to carry unwanted pregnancies, deny good science, burn children's books, and a mult.itude of other stupid and harmful things.

From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

A subtitle like «The Violent Legacy of Monotheism» suggests what Regina Schwartz does in fact at least partially deliver with The Curse of Cain: yet another piece of highly marketable radical academic ressentiment, to be welcomed by those who applaud such things and decried by those who revile them.

Actually Brehvik does not consider himself a christian in his words, «in the strictest sense», so the first part of your point is moot... Secondly I think a fairer statement would be that not «all» muslims are violent extremists, as many who don't live in western countries are, as their book does instruct them to kill any and all who do not procalim allah as the one god and mohammed as his prophet... As far as having extreme passion for one's beliefs, if someone was truly to be an «extreme» christian that person would be completely loving as this was Jesus» command to love both God and everyone... to take that to the extreme would mean «extreme» loving, like the radical kind of love that caused Jesus to endure the cross for the sins of us all... includinig the man who committed this atrocity and yes any and all of the muslim's who have committed similar things.

Conservatives, despite their substantive disagreements about the ultimate nature of things, have resisted liberal and radical calls for «transparency» in social life precisely because they understand that society can not withstand a too systematic or energetic analysis of its sometimes fragile foundations.

Sometimes, people overthink things and yet with such little creativity - the truth of who Jesus (incarnate God) is far more radical than anything Crossan could up with.

They had, it seemed, promoted a posture of radical self - examination about some things — usually very personal patterns of behavior — but they refused to extend their questions to systemic and institutional matters.

But there are others for whom evil is no mere relation of the subject to particular outer things, but something more radical and general, a wrongness or vice in his essential nature, which no alteration of the environment, or any superficial rearrangement of the inner self, can cure, and which requires a supernatural remedy.

It affirms the intrinsic value of all things and their radical interdependence in such a way that those who follow him should be profoundly sensitive to the inherent importance of what happens to all things and to how the effects...

We must be willing to assert the increasingly radical claim that there are some things too sacred to be bought and sold, that there are spheres of human life into which markets can not be permitted to enter.

He has intermittently interesting things to say about all of these things, but about none of them does he establish his thesis» which is that Progressivism was a radical and utopian project.

I have had family members that have had radical personality changes after a stroke and some of the things that they said were pretty strange.

I believe that if we, as followers of Jesus, are truly going to be living radical, missional lives of purpose, protecting the planet, healing the abused, giving water to the thirsty, feeding the starving, inventing new and better ways of doing things, and leading the way for global change, then every year we should see more and more Christians on this list.

The world of youth is filled with novelties gone stale, while the really new thing is the call to radical fidelity.

You conservatives imagine all sorts of things: «he's a muslim», «he's in league with a radical Christian minister».

The second factor that enabled the radical character of these decisions to pass under the radar is that most people just couldn't believe the Supreme Court would do such a thing.

This tactic is part of the broader strategy of South Africa's left - wing radicals to eliminate by whatever means — including gruesome physical violence — those who do not see things their way.

Rather, we are applying certain methodological features of Quine's analysis of things in the world to Whiteheadian actual entities in order to recover aspects of the less radical Quinian world view.

Is Shane Claiborne one of a kind — a radical follower doing things not all of us could, or is there something in him which could challenge all of us?

But the radical act of staying put, the theology of place, is teaching me, the over-thinker, that thinking isn't the same thing as doing, my intentions and beliefs and pontificating about community matters not one iota if I am not engaged in living out the reality of it.

Now, whether one views it as a good thing or not, European culture appears destined for a radical shift over the course of the next 50 years as their populations become increasingly of non-European origin.

We criticized radical Islam as a natural outworking of the violent tone of the Qur» an without acknowledging the fact that the God of Israel ordered his people to kill every living thing in Canaan, from the elderly to the newborn.

Sarah Arthur is the author of over eleven books, including, with co-author Erin Wasinger, The Year of Small of Things: Radical Faith for the Rest of Us (Brazos Press, January 2017).

But acknowledging the reality of potentia absoluta led to a «radical indeterminacy» in which all ordinary assurances about the proper order of things were tossed out the window.