Sentences with phrase «on religion in public life»

Another difficulty in achieving a consensus on religion in public life is the fact that Will Herberg's tripartite description of American religious life as Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish no longer fits American religious reality.

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Steven Miller's «Confessions of a Rootless Cosmopolitan Jew» would be more appropriate on a psychiatrist's couch than in a serious journal of religion in public life.

Specifically, the Commission on Religion and Public Life called for the number of bishops to be cut from 26 to 16, to allow clerics from other major religions in Britain to be represented, as well as other strands of the Church currently which are excluded, such as the Roman Catholic Church and Black - majority churches.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themeIn between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themein public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themein the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themein Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

CNN: My Take: The 5 key American statements on war Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» explores five texts that have served as «scripture» of sorts in American public life, each of which contemplate the meaning and ends of war

Eight stories of religion in public life, three of them sad: On the suffering of Christians in Egypt, Silent Night, from Foreign Policy.On Pentecostalism in Malawi, Angels and Demons, also from Foreign Policy.On Charismatics in England, Pentecostalism Invades Lambeth Palace, from Peter....

In the matter of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and the Washington Post, we stipulate that compassion be shown to Joan Biskupic, a Post writer who reported on Scalia's April 9 speech in Mississippi on religion and public lifIn the matter of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and the Washington Post, we stipulate that compassion be shown to Joan Biskupic, a Post writer who reported on Scalia's April 9 speech in Mississippi on religion and public lifin Mississippi on religion and public life.

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.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

The religious are always looking to put religion front and center in public life: displays and signs on public property, laws based upon their religious beliefs, their beliefs taught as science in schools, bells on Sunday, etc..

A few paragraphs later Cardinal Dulles laments that «the greatest threat to religion, in my estimation, is the kind of secularism that would exclude religion from the public forum and that treats churches as purely private institutions that have no rightful influence on legislation, public policy, and other dimensions of public life.»

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!

He spoke from just a few notes, and sometimes none at all, pulling together effortlessly all the threads he had so carefully spun out in his decades of work on religion and public life.

Franky Schaeffer decries neutrality as a «myth» which results in a freedom from religion and the exclusion of all those who operate on the basis of religious convictions from involvement in public life (Time for Anger, pp. 19 - 20).

In fact, although the United States is one of the most religious developed countries in the world, most Americans scored 50 percent or less on a quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions and what the Constitution says about religion in public lifIn fact, although the United States is one of the most religious developed countries in the world, most Americans scored 50 percent or less on a quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions and what the Constitution says about religion in public lifin the world, most Americans scored 50 percent or less on a quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions and what the Constitution says about religion in public lifin public life.

Another headline from the study, conducted by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: For the first time since 2007, neither the Roman Catholic Church nor religion's role in U.S. politics were the No. 1 topic of faith coverage among major news media.

This study contrasts with headlines from previous studies on religious «nones,» including a 2012 study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life that found the group was the fastest growing «religious» group in America and that one in five Americans now identify with no religion.

Keeping religion OUT of the public debate would be most helpful, keeping religion out of schools, out of government, out of my bedroom, and out of the lives of those who don't fit in the «mold» of what the religious approve of — NOW we can begin to agree on something.

On a number of specific policies, notably parental choice in education, and, more important, on principles regarding the right ordering of religion and public life, JCS is usually and sometimes harshly opposed to the position of the Catholic ChurcOn a number of specific policies, notably parental choice in education, and, more important, on principles regarding the right ordering of religion and public life, JCS is usually and sometimes harshly opposed to the position of the Catholic Churcon principles regarding the right ordering of religion and public life, JCS is usually and sometimes harshly opposed to the position of the Catholic Church.

Judge Graham expresses in his decision thoughts that by now should be quite familiar to our readers: «The Justices of the Supreme Court disagree among themselves on the proper role of religion in public life and the extent of the Court's authority to decide these issues under the Establishment Clause.

Richard John Neuhaus, a young associate, went on to devote his life to defending the role of religion in «the public square,» as he called it.

Spend some time on the Pew Center for Religion in Public Life website (religions (dot) pewforum (dot) org for a very detailed look at the relationships between religion and many factors in American life, including educational attainment and degree of religiosLife website (religions (dot) pewforum (dot) org for a very detailed look at the relationships between religion and many factors in American life, including educational attainment and degree of religioslife, including educational attainment and degree of religiosity.

And while he is a highly visible Jew who speaks in public about how his religion informs his politics, in private he is reluctant to give details on how he came to Judaism relatively late in life.

When religion has a role in public life, it enables us to look at our economy and refer to the Christian principles on which our markets were founded.

An award - winning journalist, Christine has specialized in reporting on intersections of religion and public life for a variety of national and local media outlets including The Huffington Post, Jersey Shore Patch, Slate, Christianity Today, Urban Faith, The High Calling, and On Faiton intersections of religion and public life for a variety of national and local media outlets including The Huffington Post, Jersey Shore Patch, Slate, Christianity Today, Urban Faith, The High Calling, and On FaitOn Faith.

Whatever the outcome — which is perhaps predictable — the Court's ruling will have a significant influence on the place of religion in public life and on how the relationship between religion and the state should be structured to reflect the aims of fairness and mutual respect envisaged in the Convention.

His research centers on several main issues: (1) the implications of religion and spirituality for mental and physical health and mortality risk; (2) religious variations in family life, with particular attention to intimate relationships and childrearing; (3) the role of religious institutions, practices, and values among racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States; (4) the influence of religious factors on political attitudes and policy preferences; and (5) public opinion surrounding issues of race, ethnicity, and immigration in the contemporary United States.