Sentences with phrase «other public worship»

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Scripture does do something to us in worship, which is why it is a scandal that Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and other traditions have more public reading of Scripture in their services than we Bible - oriented evangelical Protestants.

After all, they have their own houses of worship where no other religion is allowed (public schools), where people teach the religion with no regard for anyone else's thoughts (teachers).

The Declaration affirms: «Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance» (Article 18).

One after another the state constitutions had declared that, as North Carolina's put it, «all men have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences» (V: 71) The state constitutions indicated that the right of «free exercise» was meant to be absolute, at least to the point of not «disturb [ing] the public peace or obstruct [ing] others in their religious worship» (Massachusetts, 1780, V: 77) Equally straightforward was the opposition to «an establishment of religion.»

That a congregation is constituted by publicly enacting a more universally practiced worship that generates a distinctive social form implies study of that public form: What are the social, cultural, and political locations of congregations of Christians and how do those locations shape congregations» social form today (synchronic inquiry); what have been the characteristic social, cultural, and political locations of congregations historically and how have those locations shaped congregations» social forms (diachronic study); in what ways do congregations engage in the public arena as one type of institutionalized center of power among others?

But in a secular age in which visions of human flourishing are no longer limited to religious belief, other practices — even those that are seemingly private but ultimately public — compete with those of worship in shaping the desires we follow in pursuit of the good.

Although this has been disputed, we can all agree Jesus has been worshipped on our shores for a very long time and that Christianity has influenced society and public life more than any other factor (including the weather!).

Whatever fault we may find with that document in other respects — and Anglicans may be grateful that it is no longer commonly said, as ancient prayer books required, at public worship on certain great festivals of the Christian year — it gives us the right understanding of this triunitarian conception of God when it affirms «This is the Catholic faith: that we worship Godhead in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.»

Associated with this sacrament are the other rites and ceremonies, the public worship and occasional services, of the church.

Hence their worship services and other «religious» activities have frequently been transformed as if they were means of upholding the morale of a group in society whose special interest is the maintenance of the ideal and program of the good life in the public affairs of the day.

If you want to put a shout - out to your religious beliefs in public in hopes of attracting believers (or non-believers), fine — churches & other houses of worship do it all the time.

Finally, some FM stations make available their subcarrier to public groups, for broadcast tapes of the worship service or other program especially designed for the shut - in.

In public worship (there was, after all, no other legal option) he prayed with a congregation that used Cranmer's superbly crafted Book of Common Prayer and heard at these same services the Bishop's Bible (the immediate predecessor to the King James Authorized Version), echoes of both of which can be detected in the plays, and of course he was buried in Stratford's Trinity Church; while privately he probably held to the Old Religion throughout his life, as recent research is making increasingly evident.

Public prayer or church worship is the way in which we unite with others in expressing dependence on this Love, opening ourselves to it, and willing cooperation with it as «fellow - workers with God.»

Churches that pray for the specific needs of churches from other denominations in public worship and know the specific needs of other churches.

Members of one church in Florida not only led the fight to exclude three hemophiliac boys with AIDS from public school but also decided not to admit persons carrying the AIDS virus into Sunday school, worship or other church activities (Florida Baptist Witness, September 17, 1987).

What is being shaped is the life of a community of bodied persons who are agents in a public realm shared with many others, most of whom do not engage in this practice of worship.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Worship pleasing toGod can never be a purely private matter, without consequences for our relationships with others: it demands a public witness to our faith.»

His opposition to the war reached its public climax in his famous trial, along with several other defendants, for turning in draft cards at a worship service at Arlington Street Church in Boston.

Separating children for the sake of prayer or worship could prove extremely divisive in public schools already divided by race and other factors.

The freedom of assembly is another right guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States which Christians have used to defend their right to gather in church buildings and other public areas for the purpose of worship and fellowship.

Public presentations can be formal or informal, and can take place in museums, zoos, schools, places of worship, Rotary Clubs, or in many other venues.

Any other duties to institutions, colleagues, journals, or to public policy debates effectively diminish the credibility of the scientists and are the equivalent of worshiping a false idol.

According to the directive, the concept of religion should in particular include the holding of theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs, the participation in, or abstention from, formal worship in private or in public, either alone or in community with others, other religious acts or expressions of view, or forms of personal or communal conduct based on or mandated by any religious belief (art. 10).

The location of the incident, e.g., online, at a place of worship, at a private resident, at work, at school, on public transportation, on the street, or other.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Schools, such as known and licensed daycares, pre-schools and other early learning programs; primary schools; secondary schools; post-secondary schools up to and including colleges and universities; as well as scholastic or education - related activities or events, and school bus stops that are marked and / or known to the officer, during periods when school children are present at the stop; Medical treatment and health care facilities, such as hospitals, doctors» offices, accredited health clinics, and emergent or urgent care facilities; Places of worship, such as churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples; Religious or civil ceremonies or observances, such as funerals and weddings; and During public demonstration, such as a march, rally, or parade.

The American tradition, enshrined in the constitutions of 36 states including Florida for 140 years, is that tax dollars are to be used for public education, while churches and other houses of worship, provide religious education funded by tuition from parents and the generous donations of parishioners.

This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice, and freedom, either individually or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching.