Sentences with phrase «of religious organization into»

What happened, of course, was the transplanting of foreign denominations, or more specifically an insertion of the «American pattern» of religious organization into a Brazil still marked by the traditional «Latin pattern.»

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The policy goes into effect on August 1, but U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced in a statement January 20 that religious organizations that do not provide contraceptive coverage based on religious belief will have until August 1, 2013, to comply.

Accepting the divine entry of God into human history through the man Jesus Christ explains the extraordinary strength and resilience of the Christian Church, and also why it is a mistake to regard it as a purely human organization of those who happen to share the same religious views.

Surely we may ask him whether his view of the Church, too, must not include doctrines that ought not even to be tolerated in the Church if she is to have one confession and not to degenerate into a mere external religious organization.

I'm going to tell you a little about myself by way of introduction and how I happened to get into the work that I do - of working primarily with congregations and occasionally with other religious organizations around issues of human differences.

I'm going to tell you a little about myself by way of introduction and how I happened to get into the work that I do — of working primarily with congregations and occasionally with other religious organizations around issues of human differences.

And so I can not support a party that sees itself as the political extension of religious organizations trying to use government to force themselves into my soul, into my faith, into my life.

I too am tired of selective appeals to «biblical marriage» that tend to glorify the modern nuclear family as the only ideal and render real people with real lives into a mere political / religious «issue,» and I too am reluctant to support an establishment that sends part of its profits to the Family Research Council, an organization that has fed blatant misinformation about homosexuality to Christians for years.

A few days later three «film doctors» — Lois Anderson from the American Baptist Churches, John Bachman from Union Theological Seminary, and I — were ushered into a room filled with representatives of Protestant New York, forty - three people from religious organizations across the spectrum, including every group from rock - bound fundamentalists to far - out liberals.

And of course all atheist and free - thinker organizations were banned in 1933, right when Hitler came into power, and secular schools were closed, with Hitler saying: «Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction... all character training and religion must be derived from faith.»

The vast majority, however, came into being as independent religious organizations after the end of World War II, when such groups could first register as independent religious corporations after the Allied occupation relaxed the restrictive legislations of the pre-war era.

As soon as you go out into the public realm, and put yourself in situations where you are no longer interacting with individuals PURELY of your faith, then you are now open to the government enforcing those people's first amendment rights, and the rights of an individual absolutely outweigh the rights of a religious affiliated private organization.

Social agencies, welfare groups, religious organizations, commercial concerns, all have marched into our communities — especially our inner - city communities — with preconceived notions of superimposing their structures upon a community, of afflicting a community with a structure that was developed in some think tank without consulting any significant forces within the community itself.

The CBN's research agency, in a study of partners and their giving, reported that as a result of their support of CBN and other religious organizations, partners found that «the volume of Christian mail coming into their homes is at times overwhelming... including what is described as a «redundant theme of financial crisis.»»

The broadcasters who have had money available for research into religious television's effectiveness, namely the evangelical and fundamentalist organizations, do not have a tradition of using empirical research for evaluating effectiveness.

Rather than merely pointing out the symbolic vistas along the expressway to an analysis of organizations, economics, motivations, and other «determinants» of religious belief, one sinks roots into the neighborhood of religious symbolism itself.

Joaquin Phoenix stars as Freddie Quell, the right - hand man of the title character (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who was a drifter before he was drawn into The Master's mysterious religious organization.

In the US, one recent police sting operation brought down more than thirty members of a religious organization who were sneaking drugs into one facility by enclosing them inside the tiny laminated tabs that denote the different books of the Bible.

Since we have agreed that I accept (at least provisionally, as far as the powerfully augmented eye can see) an expanding Universe and am therefore clearly religious about physics and mathematics and reason if nothing else, can you explain to me how God isn't something and yet is capable of things like sentience, action, choice, design, starting off Big Bangs out of nothingness — all things that seem to involve a remarkably high degree of material complexity and organization (not to mention time, and space and energy)-- not to mention various Amazing Powers to make an entire Universe poof into existence out of nowhere with just the right rules to work out to become (in very small part) me some 14 billion years later.

That's Matthew Anderson Stembridge, oddly renamed as simply Matthew Anderson in his 2012 «Green Corps Class of 2000» endorsement of his trainers, the individual I described in 2010 as co-author with Phil Radford of pro-global warming material (link broken in my 2010 piece, but is here as a PDF file, screencapture here) distributed into religious organizations that failed to identify what organization he and Radford were affiliated with.