I should note that most of the teens in my study had some religious affiliation, which makes these findings all the more interesting and provocative for current
leaders of religious organizations.
Yesterday I posted about the
number of religious organizations that filed chapter 11 between 2006 and 2017, and how their filings track fluctuations in consumer bankruptcy filings during those years.
The least restrictive Blaine Amendments, such as the one in Kentucky, forbid only direct funding of religious education; the most restrictive Blaine Amendments, such as those in Florida and Georgia, prohibit both indirect and direct
funding of any religious organization.
Writing in support of a letter from dozens
of religious organizations calling for repeal of «don't ask, don't tell» - including the Episcopal Church, the Union of Reform Judaism, the United Church of Christ, and the United Methodist Church - Captain John F. Gundlach, a retired U.S. Navy Chaplain noted that:
And its narrowness and seeming bias (against school choice and the involvement
of religious organizations involved in education) doesn't do much to reclaim journalism's reputation for fair, steady coverage.
Borrowing from New York's playbook, Illinois funders, advocates, and parents built an extensive
coalition of religious organizations, community groups, and, surprisingly, some blue - collar labor unions (not teacher unions) to advocate for the reform.
Although he has moved on, he says the experience of door knocking on
behalf of a religious organization instilled in him the emotional resilience needed for a real estate career.
About 400 educators, human - services professionals, and
officials of religious organizations gathered at the 10th annual «working with families conference» late last month to plan strategies to grab national attention for problems in their rural communities.
The government has created the State Administration for Religious Affairs under its United Front Work Department to keep a close eye and a short leash on practitioners, effectively installing itself as the high priest presiding over the internal
affairs of religious organizations.
Today, tens of
thousands of religious organizations, and tens of millions of Americans, continue to believe and teach that the proper understanding of marriage is a union of one man and one woman.
The implication is that the
actions of religious organizations are more likely to be guided by bigotry, and that furthermore, they (for some unknown reason) have a greater right to discriminate than anyone else.
If the institutions of public education fail to teach for religious commitment and thereby both make education personally superficial and effectually promote irreligion or idolatry, it will be necessary, for the well - being of society, to have the instruction of the young carried on in nonpublic schools under the
auspices of religious organizations.
The human community is frustrated and impeded through pervading patriarchy, caste and class systems in society, through institutionalized and bureaucratic power -
structures of religious organizations and communities and through compliancy towards rampant capitalism and consumerism, acquiescent to unchecked individualism and a culture of competition.
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.
«They understand the
importance of religious organizations and nonprofits, but religious organizations in particular, which is what the Johnson Amendment affects, to have the ability to speak freely, and that they should not live in fear of the IRS,» Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and a member of the GOP platform committee, told Time.
Why privilege contemporary evangelical and Pentecostal religious bodies as somehow closer than «church»
types of religious organization to the original meaning of Christianity?
Those who have few boundaries around their sexual behavior seem to jump in and
out of religious organizations just as quickly as they hop in and out of liaisons.
«Today's action by the U.S. Supreme Court represents a major victory for the
freedom of all religious organizations to hire employees who share the same faith — whether Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, or any other religion,» World Vision U.S. president Richard Stearns said in a press release.
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.»