Sentences with phrase «on national churches»

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Welcoming her comments, Stewardship's chair of conferences, Rev David Senior, said: «The Minister has also invited responses from churches and charities and is keen to hear from those who might feel that are facing difficulties in their relationships with national or local Government, or government agencies on the ground of their faith.

Efforts ranged from family ministries in individual churches to «parachurch» pastoral groups such as James Dobson's Focus on the Family to national political organizations such as Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority.

Equal Rights under the law would ensure that no one religion's values get enshrined in our national laws, otherwise there would be no reason to not make a law forcing everyone to attend church on Sundays.

The shift at New Life Community Church in Chicago is a reflection of a national trend, according to Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

CNN: Convention's Mormon speakers expected to shed light on Romney's faith life Mitt Romney is famously quiet about his Mormon faith, but his campaign has said that some of Thursday's speakers at the Republican National Convention will shed light on the candidate's role in the church — and that Romney may open about his faith, too.

For the first time on this national holiday, Ebenezer church visitors will be enjoying the newly renovated landmark.

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No doubt the recently released Declaration on the Way document will similarly become a matter for discussion between ILC churches and their Roman Catholic counterparts, both on the national and international level.

Pastor at United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas — speaking at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday, January 22, 2013.

The Rev. David L. Norgard, who is openly gay and is chairman of the national church's Standing Commission on Evangelism, says, «I'm thoroughly convinced, and hold it as a point of faith, that in the long run people are turned off by a church that excludes.»

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred, by George F. Will (Crown Archetype): America's premier political columnist begins his latest reflection on the National Pastime with some charming, autobiographically - derived advice for Catholicism: after recalling that he became a Chicago Cub fan at age seven, «when I was still not as discerning as one should be when making life - shaping decisions,» the elegant Dr. Will notes that «The Catholic Church thinks seven - year olds have reached an age of reasoning» and remarks, «The Church might want to rethink that.»

«Most of the baptized have an image of the church that, on the one hand, is family friendly in its attitude, whilst at the same time considering her sexual morality to be unrealistic,» the German bishops said, according to National Catholic Reporter.

They are willing to engage in joint evangelization efforts with the indigenous churches in reaching their own people, or to focus through cross-cultural evangelism on areas not yet reached by the national churches.

He has been a teaching fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary, an international consultant to the Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations, National Board of Missions, of the United Presbyterian Church (USA), and is founder and Director of the Christian Center for Asian Studies, and Director of the Doctor of Ministries Studies, a joint program with San Francisco Theological Seminary.

Jerry Johnson, president of the National Religious Broadcasters, said on Twitter that Trump's plan was «sound,» advocating that the goverment limit immigration as a protective measure while the church continue to minister to refugees.

The large divergence of episcopal opinion revealed (concerning the modern relevance of church teaching, for instance on contraception) is never reflected in the directives of our national Conference of Bishops.

World Relief, the humanitarian arm of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), took on about 11,000 cases last year — a record high since 1999 — and had almost 1,200 churches volunteer to help.

On the other hand, churches really don't want equal footing, they want totally subsidized municipal services (trash, police, fire protection, civil and national defense) AND they want to dictate to the governments that provide them the terms under which they operate.

In short, in order to impose their views on the church as a whole they have insisted on centralizing authority in the national church and using that authority to demand that many — bishops, clergy, and lay people — act contrary to their consciences.

The necessity of dealing with international institutions, with lawmakers who defend total national sovereignty, with an American public that is often fixated on its own context, and with churches preoccupied by their own confessions demands new steps toward a Christian public theology.

Even people in our churches are often more inclined to form opinions on international matters on the basis of national identity rather than Christian identity, which can never be confined to the boundaries of a nation - state.

Kyle Haselden, the late editor of the journal, explains that at a conference on Church and Society, convened by the National Council of Churches, one of the so - called «work groups» declared that American society is guilty of overt violence against the poor and maintains an unacceptable order of injustice, and that the church supports this exploitation by its own «systemic» vioChurch and Society, convened by the National Council of Churches, one of the so - called «work groups» declared that American society is guilty of overt violence against the poor and maintains an unacceptable order of injustice, and that the church supports this exploitation by its own «systemic» viochurch supports this exploitation by its own «systemic» violence.

An autonomous group of teachers in many fields, affiliated with the Department of Campus Christian Life which is a part of the Commission on Christian Higher Education of the National Council of Churches.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

He seemed to know everybody, from Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King Jr. to leaders at Union Theological Seminary (still basking in the glow of being Reinhold Niebuhr's longtime home) and the National Council of Churches up on Riverside Drive.

These councils, affiliates of the National Council on Alcoholism, operate Alcoholism Information Centers which disseminate knowledge about» the problem to anyone who is interested, including schools, churches, industry, the news media, and individual information - seekers.

«If the Church does not regard Israel from a Christian point of view,» he remarked, «if it does not recognize the theological significance of this people, having a national destiny that can be cultivated only in Zion, the Church has no right to pass judgment on Israel.»

Prominent Vatican reporter John Allen has published a piece in the National Catholic Reporter following the papal visit to Cuba entitled «Benedict XVI and the Lament of the Hawks,» about a supposed lack of conservative confidence in Benedict, which cites my recent piece for First Things, «Has the Church Gone Soft on Communism?»

It has not taken long for Dolan's role as spokesman for the Catholic Church on the national stage to draw him into a prominent debate that was occasioned by a controversial action of President Obama regardingthe definition of marriage.

According to a national study conducted by Pure Desire Ministries, 68 percent of church - going men view pornography on a regular basis.

Burden said churches within the denomination govern themselves autonomously and the national denomination can not impose rules or sanctions on the church, but can only remove a church from the national group.

«We will be working with the church if they accept our help,» Keith Burden, the executive secretary of the National Association of Free Will Baptists, told CNN on Monday.

The document states, «The Church seeks to assert Christian values in the process of decision - making on the most important public issues both on national and international levels.»

CNN: Philadelphia abuse trial has taken toll on very Catholic city A Philadelphia sex abuse trial in which a jury reached a mixed verdict on a church higher - up accused of protecting sexually abusive priests was closely watched for its national implications.

Together with Pastor Martin Niemöller, Barth drafted the Barmen declaration (May 1934), which was the basis on which the Confessing Church opposed National Socialism and those Christians who colluded with it.

Butler shows how in the early national period, as the line of distinction between religion and the civil authorities («separation of church and state») developed and the citizenry relied ever less on the government for things spiritual or ecclesiastical, church life prospered.

In England there is the National Marriage Guidance Council, a secular organization, in which the church and church workers are playing an important role; this means that the work is in fact on an ecumenical basis.

However legitimate from the standpoint of the gospel itself, such a movement was a denial of the church's location in suburban retreat, at cross-purposes with the national definition of Sunday, and a repudiation of the member's participation on the basis of the church's ability to provide yet another route out of the world.

Even the Catholic Church uses this anthropology in a few of its official statements like the Second Vatican Council's Gaudium et Spes, and statements by national bishops conferences in Peru and the Netherlands, as well as the Vatican's 1986 Instruction on Liberation Theology.

The initiative is called the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management, and the moving spirit here is Geoffrey Boisi, a major player in New York financial circles and former chairman of the board of Boston College.

On the WCC and Communist - controlled churches, National Christian Reporter, December 21, 1990.

(Examples, in addition to the statements on abortion cited above, include a 1970 LCA statement on ecology, a 1979 UCC statement on human rights and at least two statements by the National Council of Churches — a 1979 statement on energy and a 1986 statement on genetic science.)

Adds the former president of a national environmental organization, who has looked in vain for support from religious groups in efforts to protect wilderness and wildlife: «The Unitarians occasionally let us meet in their buildings; that's been our primary contact with churches on this issue.»

A South Carolina judge on Wednesday (Jan. 23) issued a temporary restraining order that prevents the national church from using the name or seal of the diocese, which espouses a more traditional theology and disapproves of the national church's acceptance of same - sex marriage and gay bishops.

He wrote in a statement: «Particularly in areas where community resources have been stretched to the limit, the activities and services run by churches provide a lifeline to those in need, so it is important that we continue to champion the work our nation's churches continue to deliver locally on a national scale.»

David Frum on the churches in Canada, National Post, August 19, 2000.

Jesus would do the following (in the U.S.A.): medicare for all, legalize all drugs, legalize gay marriage, destroy the wall between the U.S.A. and Mexico and consequently give the U.S. border patrol agents something useful and productive to do, end U.S. military aggression around the world, direct election of U.S. presidents, the national initiative for democracy, urge Christians to be more productive on Sundays instead of seeing who can wear the nicest clothes to church.

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In Poland, the Church relied on its traditional role as bearer of national identity.

She has been active in the national life of the Church of England, serving for many years on General Synod's Standing Committee, including sitting on the panel of chairmen.