Sentences with phrase «other christian organizations»

Many churches and other Christian organizations hold marriage retreats as a way for couples to get away for a weekend and work on strengthening their marriage.
The civil disobedience was only one part of a larger protest event, Appalachia Rising, which had the support and involvement of other Christian organizations, like Restoring Eden, and even more Christian individuals, like myself.
What happens when young, Christian students aren't supported in their pro-life views from other Christian organizations, ones that supposedly follow Christ - like teachings of love and compassion and the calling to protect those who can not speak for themselves?
Yet no concern for the fact that World Vision and other Christian organizations likely hire people who are divorced and remarried (that is in the Bible) or may have had pre-marital sex (regardless of any clauses do we really know).

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Actually, I believe that most atheists would have no problem climbing some hierarchy or other within a christian organization..
Theoretically, a Christian organization would have to elect an atheist if he really was the best man for the job in all ways other than his religious views.
In doing so, we have joined the company of many other Christian nonprofit parachurch organizations... who have done likewise.
• The website of the impressive British based organization Christians in Science, which among other things rejects the main thrust of Intelligent Design thought, has recently reached 6,500 hits per day.
«Whether as individuals or multi-million dollar Christian development organizations, we need to be accountable for how we speak about each other — particularly about those who have less power than we do.
It is quite obvious that bigots like gibb would not take any organization other than christian church as a moral authority.
So, in honor of the new addition to Team Evans, I'm joining Melinda Gates, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kay Warren, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and host of other Christian advocates in their support of an organization called Hope Through Healing Hands, and in particular the Faith Based Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the world.
The ruling signals that «there are ways to accommodate the religious convictions of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Baptist organizations, and other Christian groups without sacrificing their consciences,» said Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, in a short video.
The Christian Legal Society (CLS) chapter at the University of California school, Ginsburg wrote, «seeks not parity with other organizations, but a preferential exemption from Hastings» policy.»
The problem with your statement is you are confusing Christians with other Christian like organizations.
Considering that this is a league for private and PAROCHIAL schools, and a Jewish Day School is as much a parochial school as a Christian school of any denomination (or any other recognized organized religion, for that matter), it's a shame that TAPPS and other similar organizations not support a decision of faith as, at a minimum, an expression of tolerance.
Christian sects exhibit attitudes which, if contrasted to those of other religious organizations, offer striking parallels.
Some of these organizations are apparently out for power at any cost, and they're making victims of Chik - fil - A and apparently any other openly Christian group, which will now have to be more hesitant about being openly Christian for fear of letter - writing smear campaigns and being demonized.
It was Christian and other religious organizations organizations that were out there doing all the work.
With the support of the American Center for Law and Justice, as well as other Christian watchdog organizations, efforts to ensure Christians are legally able to practice their faith in Russia continue.
Yesterday's decision to officially label Boko Haram as a «foreign terrorist organization» drew strong praise from Christian Solidarity Worldwide and other observers of religious freedom in Nigeria.
This bill board is designed to offend and is transparent in this organization's hostility towards the Christian faith becuase this organization rarely if ever offends other religions.
I have not been to church (other than when visiting a Christian friend, in another town when they go) for 15 years, since I was spiritually abused in a «Christian» organization for 12 years.
Where the situation becomes sinister is when one group attempts to police the activities of another, or where one Christian organization or leader uses their personal power or share of the market to prevent others, with whom they are not formally connected, from speaking freely and asking the hard questions.
How long will it take for distinctive Christian perspectives, other than those provided by voluntary campus organizations, to disappear entirely from America's leading universities?
When the writings of Wallis and other evangelicals long associated with the Christian left (yes, there was an organization called «Evangelicals for McGovern») are offered up as a «radical biblical way that transcends the highly politicized agendas» of the Christian right and the PC left, one can't help but think that the whole thing is more than a little disingenuous.
Bread for the World, a collective Christian voice against hunger, is working with a coalition of Christian church bodies and other organizations to mobilize people of faith to push for farm bill reform.
They were killed because they supported the liberating theology and dignity of the base Christian communities; they named social injustice, not communism or outside subversive influence, as the root cause of the crisis (revolution in their view was inevitable unless issues of poverty and social inequality were adequately addressed); they promoted a negotiated settlement to Salvador's civil war, including a significant role for the FMLN and other popular organizations; and, they named U.S. policy as a fundamental obstacle to peace in El Salvador.
«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.
All the more misplaced... are the efforts by some supposedly Jewish organizations to arouse, through their battles against Christmas symbols in public places, the ill will and resentment of Christians» at the very time when the Christian religion, more than at other times of the year, inspires its followers with irenic and philanthropic sentiments.»
But we'd do well to define what «cult» actually means, both inside the Christian church - i.e., Christians use the term largely to differentiate other religions which deviate from orthodox, historical and Biblical Christianity - and outside, where it's thrown around to describe everything from followers of Kevin Smith films to any organization that's secretive and raises boat loads of money.
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.»»
What are the characteristic patterns of Christian television organizations» counseling activities, and how do these relate to other counseling opportunities available to viewers?
Many of us in ministry or working for Christian organizations feel we need to continually give ourselves in service to Christ and others.
In other words, the church as an organization should stay out of politics, but Christians individually should participate in government.
So those who are posting and saying they belong to Christian organizations and volunteer to help others REALLY are better people than all the smugly «reasonable» posters whose venomous diatribes against having any religious belief make them sound like a logically mirrored reflection of a religious extremist.
The fact remains that at the present time a fundamental inner impulse, newly born in our hearts, is tending to find a dual, and divergent, expression in two apparently incompatible spiritual forms; on the one hand, the spirit (let us call it «Christian») of sacrifice and of union centered in the expectation of an Apotheosis in the future; and on the other hand the Promethean or Faustian spirit of self - worship based on the material organization of the earth.
This organization collaborates with other local Christian organizations and churches whom all share the same desire to reach college students and athletes to renew, discuss and flourish in their faith.
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Although GFI makes no attempt to obfuscate its own agenda as an activist evangelical Christian organization in its other, openly religious materials, parents who buy or are given the seemingly mainstream «Babywise» books have no way of knowing that the books» advice is based largely on GFI's own unique biblical interpretations.
So she was forced to rely on other local support systems: Christian organizations, other minority science graduate students, and the Association for Women in Science (AWIS).
WHO and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have dispatched an investigation team but for now are dependent on secondhand information from nongovernmental organizations and other partners in northern Syria, says WHO's Christian Lindmeier.
The Catholic Church, evangelical Christians, and concerned civic action groups who view embryo research as immoral are not likely to turn to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, the American Society for Human Genetics, the Hinxton Group, the Nuffield Council on Bioetics, or other scientific and medical organizations for their primary counsel.
For instance, Christian Crush donates 10 % of all profits to local ministries and other charitable organizations.
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But in the past year, parents in two other counties, Carter and Claiborne, have brought federal suits against the school districts and a fundamentalist Christian organization, contending that such classes are unconstitutional.
We also collaborate with other religious organizations, particularly Christian organizations.
If there is a ground zero for the religious right in this country, it is Colorado Springs, home to Focus on the Family and dozens of other conservative Christian organizations.
His non-denominational Christian organization works with other mission agencies to achieve its goal - ministry through veterinary medicine.
API Legal Outreach partners with community - based organizations such as the Pilipino Bayanihan Resource Center, Bayanihan Community Center, Chinatown Community Development, Cannon Kip, Vet Equity Center, Filipinos for Justice, 1st Mongolian Christian Church and other service providers to provide legal clinics that target specific underserved populations, in particular, the elderly and newer API immigrant populations.
She is active with numerous other faith - based and secular community organizations, including CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), the Commission on Christian - Jewish Relations (Former Chairperson), the Center for Dispute Settlement, and Rochester Global Connections through which she is a friendship volunteer for International students.
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