Not exact matches
Like was drilled into my brain when I was
in the
conservative church, Lauren and Yen have been taught, among many
other things, that masturbation and being gay (one which is a sexual act and one which is an identity) is wrong.
Despite these features of
conservative Methodism,
others still fear it as a source of division
in the
church, and perhaps understandably so.
In our own case, however, we do not want a more «
conservative» political platform from the Catholic
Church or any other c
Church or any
other churchchurch.
My question is this: what would it take for the American
church at large (American
church in this case meaning mainline denominations,
other individual sects like the Mennonites with their huge variety of
conservative to liberal congregations, nondenominational
churches of all sizes mega and not, etc.) to make a concerted effort to call out abuse demonstrated by clergy
in both
church, public, and private settings?
It matters not whether we be
conservative or liberal, traditionalist or modernist;
in whatever category we may be placed, or place ourselves, the fact remains that insofar as we are Christian ministers, ordained by Christ
in his
Church to be his ministering agents, our preaching can be nothing
other than the proclamation of God's Word for the wholeness of men.
Recent debates
in the pages of First Thingsand
other conservative journals over Darwin's theory of evolution and creationism reveal the degree to which Catholics seem stuck
in the trees for want of seeing the forest, the lopsided degree to which the
Church gives assent to philosophy without deeply exploring the particular science it considers a threat, (this journal, it goes without saying, excepted).
The question, however, is whether despite the growth of
conservative churches both
in Europe and North America and
in other parts of the world, and the likelihood that they will remain strong, they offer the key to the future
in a world that is changing very quickly.
I believe
in the power of the blood of Jesus but now this leaves me afraid to admit it, for I'm already pegged as superstitious and into magic — seems no different than the boogyman stories my once
conservative church tried to lay on me, that my protection is
in their oversight, that if I leave them my life would be destroyed, and more — we must be careful
in our ernest seeking after truth that we don't become what we have despised and that we don't put on
others our perspectives and understandings.
But all men, including the
conservatives as well as the progressives
in the
Church, are always tempted to recommend the decision of their own choice by proclaiming it to be the only right and sensible one, and by completely denigrating the
other alternative.
But Juhnke also points out that even though Mennonites are becoming increasingly engaged with the broader
church, they remain connected
in a very real sense with the Amish and
other conservative cousins.
Wayland and the
other reformers saw the
church as a principal source of the
conservative resistance they met
in their efforts to open higher education to intellectually capable students.
I have discovered that the
conservative evangelical
church's viewpoint
in the 1950's did not necessarily represent the viewpoint of
other churches, nor the viewpoint held by the
church over the previous two millennia.
In ten years the
church emptied from a few hundred to only a handful of members, as people left and found
other conservative churches.
On the
other hand, ordained women
in ACNA and
in other evangelical
churches may well decide that their own vocations are better pursued back within
Church of England - related Anglican
churches, and one may see a strengthening of
conservative female leadership there.
While Morelos's Constitution of Apatzingán was never put into practice, the plan of Iguala (1821), drawn up by Iturbide after independence, also confirmed the official status of Catholicism as the state religion and denied toleration to all
other religions.32 The war for independence,
in other words, was reasonably
conservative in purpose, especially with respect to the
church.
Therefore, after our imaginative interpretations are made with vigor
in dispute with
others in the
church, we must regularly, gracefully and with modesty fall back from our best extrapolations to the sure apostolic claims that lie behind our extremities of imagination, liberal or
conservative.
I railed against institutions and organizations, wouldn't darken the door of a «real»
church, became fluent
in fault - finding and cynicism, the word «orthodoxy» made my left eye twitch, while you tacked hard the
other way, steering towards seminary,
conservative denominations, structures, authorities, you longed for accountability.
We see it
in the Jesus movement, the charismatic revival with its speaking
in tongues, the growth
in conservative churches while
others decline
in numbers and influence, the turn toward Eastern meditative cults, the upsurge once more of belief
in an imminent second coming of Christ to put an end to the distresses of our time.
This conflict has emerged between the liberal and militant activist pastors and denominational leaders, on the one hand, and a large body of more
conservative laymen, on the
other hand, who think the
church should stick to spiritual matters and stop meddling
in politics and «social» issues.
If the
conservative churches are producing more personal religious vitality than the
others, the explanation is not likely to be found
in one quarter only.
Here he differs from
other conservative Christians, including some Catholics, who think the reestablishment of responsible male headship
in church and home is necessary for the reformation of
church and society.
What I have to say may apply to some
other churches in some respects, but I emphatically do not have the Korean
churches or the Black
churches or the
conservative evangelical
churches or the charismatic
churches in mind as I write.
Compared to some
other recent projects of Protestant ressourcement — such as the «Lutheran Catholicism» of Carl Braaten and Robert Jenson, Hans Boersma's Reformed reception of the nouvelle théologie, and Sarah Coakley's Anglican, feminist retrieval of the
Church Fathers — this is a project with a
conservative profile (although the essays are diverse
in this respect, too).
I am a
conservative and at my
church the Pastor reads something Jesus said every Sunday as the whole Bible is His word read that
in the very first chapter of John and many
other places.
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious
conservatives with a considerable involvement
in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes
in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham
in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in his relationships with presidents and
other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and
other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat
in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in 1964; a battle over sex education
in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in Anaheim, California,
in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks
in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in West Virginia
in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently
in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in community after community all over the country; the thrill
conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency
in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had
in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between
church and state.
Schools belonging to
conservative churches, on the
other hand, are often very conscious of their Christian grounds, but they typically express this
in terms of
conservative mores, an emphasis on pious practices, and the teaching of Christian doctrine
in the curriculum.
In Evangelical
churches, people can stay during hours to discuss and are (generally) very kind to each
others but their theology is way too
conservative for me.
it's an example of some of the more
conservative churches that actually do lean politically
in one direction and teach against the
other direction (ie: liberal).
Ir it's an example of some of the more
conservative churches that actually do lean politically
in one direction and teach against the
other direction (ie: liberal).
If the porn mobile gets this kind of reaction at Mosaic, could you imagine the response it will get at a
conservative church in the Bible Belt, or at
other churches around that area?
Because of a traditional Dutch rationalism (which can be
conservative as well as liberal), it has never made the headway
in the Reformed
churches that it has
in some
others, though there are some RCA congregations
in which the charismatic movement has proved to be divisive.