Sentences with phrase «on issues of religion»

The Los Angeles artist — known for sprawling, ribald installations made with everything from neon to cardboard to peas — often touched on issues of religion, sex and commerce in his work.

Upon reflection, I can not claim that any major changes on the issues of religion, God or Christ have occurred for me over the past ten years.

It found the program in question «entirely neutral» on the issue of religion: «It provides benefits directly to a wide spectrum of individuals....

Not exact matches

And most times, I am asked series of questions ranging from issues bordering on how to start a business, investments, life, economy, religion, relationships and politics.

Science is and should be seen as «completely neutral» on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results, says Father George V. Coyne, director of the Vatican Observatory, while noting that «science and religion are totally separate pursuits.»

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday issued a statement saying the U.S. government «in no way condones such acts of disrespect against the religion of Islam, and is deeply concerned about deliberate attempts to offend members of religious or ethnic groups.»

I too think there is a trouble with Ayn Rand's view of religion, and I anticipated a thoughtful analysis on the order of Hart's discussion of the New Atheists in the May 2010 issue.

I am appreciative of your valor in combat and for all the good things that you do, but that has nothing to do with the issues that are brought on by religion.

Different organizations will highlight different issues: Some Jewish leaders will be most concerned with anti-Semitism, Vatican relations with Israel, and the Israeli - Palestinian conflict; others will focus on interfaith dialogue on theology and history; others will discuss social and economic policy, and the place of religion in politics and the public square.

Robert L. Wilken's «The Christian Intellectual Tradition» (June - July) touches on the central issue of religion and public life: truth.

Why is religion all of a sudden an issue on CNN?

This article in the current issue of the Weekly Standard on the connection between religion and the death penalty.

«Through the UK - Sudan Strategic Dialogue, and our policy of phased engagement, we continue to raise human rights issues with the government of Sudan and make regular representations on freedom of religion or belief, including in relation to reported church demolitions, most recently during the Archbishop of Canterbury's visit to Sudan in July.»

In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of money than their public school peers.

Never must one of these new religions be laughed at or dismissed easily; rather it must be understood on its own terms and as a serious response to some fundamental issues raised by the women's movement.

my personal issue is with organized religion and the fact that there are people out there who prey on the weak - minded for insane amounts of income.

There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic issues and the concomitant demand for justice express the identification with the poor that is the glory of liberation theology.

However, the real issues lie (1) in the opportunity to teach religion at all, and (2) in the provision of persons properly qualified to teach it on a nonsectarian basis.

When the later Judaism saw in retrospect this conflict between prophetic ideals and popular religion, it was clear that the social solidarity of the nation had been on the wrong side of the issue and that Jeremiah, in his courageous and sacrificial isolation, had been right.

And the book also offers a deliberately wide array of approaches to trinitarian issues, including not only historical and systematic theologians, but biblical scholars and analytic philosophers of religion, writing from a variety of theological and communal points of view» Roman Catholic, Protestant, and, in one case, Jewish (the New Testament scholar Alan Segal, who contributes an instructive if somewhat technical chapter on the role of conflicts between Jews and Christians in the emergence of early trinitarian teaching).

It's an imposition of a civil religion (democratic process) on a religious leadership selection issue.

But when the subject of civil religion became a minor academic industry, I became increasingly concerned, as conferences, panels and symposia on the subject proliferated, that the whole issue was bogging down into arguments over definition and that substance was being overlooked.

When I was induced in 1965 to write an essay for an issue of Daedalus on religion in America, I chose the theme of religion in American public life, concluding with a ringing condemnation of the Vietnam war.

What is now being lost is a focus on true issues of religious liberty and the very definition of «religion» itself.»

The CNN debate opened with discussions on economic issues, but later veered toward faith - based matters like the role of religion in candidates» decision making, abortion, gay marriage — and how the United States ought to treat Muslims living within its borders.

First, young Christians are increasingly turning away from the supernatural nonsesnse of religion (immortality, mind reading, sky - gods, talking snakes etc.) and no longer buy into the core morality of the evangelicals on important issues like gay rights and $ exual mores.

My original article on civil religion was written in 1965 and published in 1967 in an issue of Daedalus on «Religion in America.»

As an expert on various religious cultures, and with a knowledge of the role of religion in personality structure and function, the specialist is in a position to offer relevant insight for psychodynamic diagnosis, for evaluation of the manner in which religious issues should be dealt with in treatment, and the means by which religious resources may be used in rehabilitation.

as a christian, i agree that i'm tired of the anti-gay anti-choice rhetoric that ties together religion and politics and paints us «religious» folk with one colour... it's time we start moving on to issues we can solve politically, like providing for the poor and reducing corporate corruption

«Three out of five scientists do not believe in God, but two out of five do, said John Donvan, opening a debate on the issue of science and religion yesterday (Dec. 5) in New York.

inotherwards why can't our president be a agnostic or a buddist or even a good muslim or a hindi or admit he's not comfortable with organized religion???? Who really give a sh @@ t??? let's concentrate on the important issues, like the inability of this countries middle class to make ends meet!!!

Why not form an opinion totally based on how you «feel» or your «emotions» and justify your argument on why you feel that way, rather than saying «for the bible tells me so»... That's why we can't move forward on issues in this country; people feel they can't express themselves without the safety of a group's opinion... Let's listen to ourselves for once instead of having your daddy's politics and religion handed down to you like a family asset.

«Why would someone try and talk about today's issues in the context of religion all while on a belief blog?»

I really hope that the GOP catches up on domestic issues and realizes that religion needs to stay out of politics, because I and many others believe that Small government where the majority of power is left to the states is the superior form of government, and there is nothing wrong with that.

While western theologians tried to cope with religious pluralism and struggled to introduce theology of religions seriously only since the late 1980s, theologians in multi-religious situations like India had been working on the issue for decades under several other nomenclatures.

We misunderstand even the practical / pastoral thrust of the Bible whenever we compare or equate it with the pastoral concerns of an established religion - with the maintenance of the life of parish and clan in a society where there are no longer any challenges being addressed to the powers that be, no longer any new believers coming in across the boundaries of nation and culture, and no longer any new threatening issues needing to be wrestled with on the missionary frontier.

For me to accuse the courts of being state - centered on religion issues, the reader might argue, smacks of sophistry.

On issues such as women in church leadership, and other religions, we are free to come to a «developed, or even different, view» from what we find in the canon, just like William Wilberforce did with slavery; but that is ok, because the word of God is «ultimately a person, not a manuscript».

Besides being illegal, it is also one of the most divisive issues of our time, when one religion attempts to force a belief system on others who have a differing view.

There was, for example, in the eighties an Interfaith Colloquium against Apartheid and there were various interfaith gatherings on ecological issues as well as interfaith prayer and work for peace, but the Parliament for a moment captured the attention of the world and sought to show, at a time of intense conflict in former Yugoslavia and of communal troubles in India, that religions need not be a cause of division but could unite on certain basic ethical teachings.

Since 1993, UNESCO has held several conferences addressing the role of religion in conflict situations and at the 1994 conference in Barcelona issued a «Declaration on the Role of Religion in the Promotion of a Culture of Peace».

On one side would be all evidences of the war: conscientious chronicling of its main events — especially where religion had a bearing — coupled with articles and editorials on issues of war and peacOn one side would be all evidences of the war: conscientious chronicling of its main events — especially where religion had a bearing — coupled with articles and editorials on issues of war and peacon issues of war and peace.

Esther has hit on one of the two major issues as I see them; Christianity is not a religion and what the world has had enough of and is now looking elsewhere for answers is the institutional church, not Christianity.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

I find it interesting that Romney himself hasn't made religion the issue — it's the media, people speaking on behalf of other candidates, etc..

Our group's understanding of the relationship of Deng Xiaoping's government to religion began before we left the U.S., with our study of a fairly recent position paper on religion issued by China's Communist Party.

This issue of wearing religion on your sleeve is wrong and thinking it makes you better than the rest or draw attention to yourself for publicity and self promotion, that ends up in big dollar contracts is akin to the religious cult and religous business that is the Tammy and Jim Baker.

Many will take issue with the ODF's reading of the scriptures, but is it really arrogance toward other world religions to make a faith claim on the basis of 1 Timothy 2:5: «There is one God; there is also one mediator between God and humankind»?

Much modern intellectual debate, particularly within the popular arena, centers on disputes between religion and science over such seminal issues as creationism versus evolutionary theory, or theological explanations of the origin of the universe versus the «big - bang theory» of the new cosmology.

only the Abrahamic religions answer both of the foundational issues on creation ------ They don't «answer» anything.