Sentences with phrase «other church institutions»

Methodism came into being to meet individual and societal needs that were not being dealt with by other church institutions, first in England and then elsewhere, especially on this continent.

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Challenger already has a commitment of $ 5 million from a church organisation for the SRI wholesale fund and is currently talking with other institutions that have expressed interest in the wholesale fund.

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Peter Carr, 10 August 1787): «All natural institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.»

Some will be justified; like other patriarchal institutions, Orthodox Churches are not....

One could add to the authors» list, the capitulation of schools, churches, and other mediating institutions of society to these trends and fads.

For more than a millennium the Catholic Church has been intertwined with other establishment institutions in the West.

Nativists and other theological liberals allowed their fear of ecclesiastical institutions to lead them into theological warfare against the Catholic Church and sometimes against all ecclesiastical bodies, and the legal results are ugly.

As the media can and must move on to other things, so it is conceivable that in time institutions such as universities and churches too will put this behind them.

Others worry that the Church has become just another institution scrambling for social privileges in the post-Soviet system, thus turning people off to its message.

These Blaine Amendments discriminate against the Catholic Church and against other relatively orthodox churches, whose attachment to their own distinctive authority and doctrine limits their ability to form institutions in concert with other religious groups.

In His own words: «blessed are those who hunger and thirst» I don't feel that one can disregard «all images, all philosophies, all religions, all theologies, all spiritualities, all institutions and organizations» Jesus showed us the way though His church and through communion with others.

Obama's accommodation proposes that Church authorities who run hospitals, schools, and other facilities will be entitled to tell their employees that the health care insurance provided by the Church does not cover contraceptives, the «morning after pill,» or sterilization, but that the health insurance company that covers the Catholic institution will be free to contact the employees of that institution and inform them that they are entitled to «free» coverage of these things from the insurance company in question.

In that sense, the church institution may still succeed if they change their emphasis from attendance and building projects, being «in the spot light» and hating other people's «sins», and avoidance of the locally wounded, downtown poor, the widows among us, the children of single mothers, and so forth.

The Bevilacqua proposal is just that, a proposal, and it is open to other expressions of «communion with the Church» that provide protection to institutions and individuals.

Today up - to - date information is readily available on the Web pages of the Middle East Council of Churches, the Evangelical Lutheran Church Jerusalem, Sabeel, Bir Zeit University and a host of other institutions.

Because the church has been intimately connected with the old patterns of certitude, privilege and domination, it shares a common jeopardy with other old institutions.

She convincingly argues, among other things, that «where repression is especially severe, where institutions (schools, trade unions, churches, professional associations) have been purged and subject to constant governmental vigilance,» little discussion of human rights occurs («Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 ff.).

Since so little of this occurs in other institutions, the church is called to take the lead.

A church that successfully embodies new technology in this respect will encourage other institutions to do so as well.

This might be from family structures (which these days are increasingly unlikely to resemble the traditional nuclear family), community groups, church, political organisations and other institutions.

Writing on the subject of Arminianism, Piper asks, «But how should we regard these errors in relationship to the teaching office of the church and other institutions?»

The Royal Commission has been investigating since 2013 how churches and other institutions responded to the sexual abuse of children in Australia over the last several decades.

All other institutions in the Catholic Church began at grassroots, whether it's a diocese or a religious community.

But the church as we know it... the structure, the organization, the institution... in other words, the manifestation of the church... that is undergoing a...

And I think this must be even more intensive within the church and its leadership because the church, like any other human institution, is prime culture for deception, abuse, bondage and slavery.

But the church as we know it... the structure, the organization, the institution... in other words, the manifestation of the church... that is undergoing a massive shift.

Australia's longest - running royal commission - which is the country» highest form of inquiry - has been investigating since 2012 how the Catholic Church and other institutions responded to sexual abuse of children in Australia over 90 years.

I do not expect that many who hold authority in the church or other dominant institutions of our lives will be converted, en masse or as individuals, to the serious work of justice - making with compassion and good humor as their top priority.

In addition to those who disliked the Legion's firm adherence to Church authority, there were those who accused it of being elitist, secretive, and excessively interested in cultivating the rich in order to fund its ambitious program of building educational and other institutions.

By many accounts the rise to prominence of institutions other than the church or the state marks the transition from the medieval to the modern era.

-- Some of the groups are «church institutions» (often corporations in the USA); other groups are much more self - forming, and self - performing (for a time), and then quietly disband.

I believe that the church as an organization is a part of creation and is just as susceptible to the principalities and powers as any other human institution.

The danger of the Bob Jones decision is that if the university can be forced to comply with public policy in order to retain its tax status, then all other nonprofit institutions — with churches listed first in the tax regulation — can be forced to do likewise.

The church is also being regarded as an important community of memory because the other sources of a rich narrative tradition — families, ethnic groups, residential communities — are also subject to the growing pressures of change, while more recent institutions, such as business firms and the mass media, are believed to have only shallow ties to the past.

Mainstream churches and educational institutions have had in the past a disproportionate share of leaders who were reared in Holiness and Pentecostal contexts but whose theological development led them into other ecclesiastical fields of service.

As to special speakings, sermons, large group discussions, and so on, my general observation is that these are successful according to the degree: (1) that they are competently planned; (2) that they fit both fore and aft into the ongoing life of the organization, be it local church, college, hospital, or some other institution.

A major new report from the National Crime Agency (NCA) warns that children within churches and other institutions are prone to abuse, and more needs to... More

It has evolved into a complex structure of its own, intimately interlaced with other institutions of great antiquity, from churches to governments, and in some measure has actually altered these greater, but dependent, institutions.

Christian churches, seminaries, schools and other institutions were sprinkled throughout the land.

This new life in the Churches resulted in the establishment of a number of colleges and other institutions.

To help them, the support and loving discipline of families is essential, and more especially of groups of families with similar standards, and of churches, schools, and other institutions with well - developed programs for more worthy modes of mutual association.

Demanding respect for these freedoms and blocking the possibility of abuses by the Catholic Church and other powerful institutions are the motivations behind recently increased political participation by Mexican evangelicals.

Apparently, church - related schools have lagged behind other institutions in the effort to create pluralistic religious environments for their student bodies.

The churches have face - to - face relationships with over 120,000,000 adults and youth — more than any other institution in our society.

«Church» and «state» refer to institutions, of course, whereas «religion» refers more broadly to the habits and actions of individuals, sometimes acting singly, sometimes acting together with others.

It was true both of the religious sects like the local church and the pale thin - armed bespectacled atheists of the Larouchies, Randians, and other groups I ran into when I did editing work at certain noted institutions of higher learning.

The church, like all other institutions of our society, has for 2000 years built its house of relationships between the sexes on a shaky foundation.

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.»

Kevin Dougherty, a sociology professor at Baylor University in Texas, and a co-author of the article, says churches haven't kept pace with other institutions.

They learned this from their families and schools and their long history with the church and other institutions.