Sentences with phrase «own religious community»

In Italy, Trump will meet with Pope Francis, where the two will discuss «cooperation between the United States and religious communities in areas of joint concern,» the statement reads.
Using the found - footage style, Ti West evokes the horrors of the Jonestown massacre to create a thrilling story that follows Vice reporters as they go to a religious community and find it isn't the sanctuary its residents have made it out to be.
The accommodations that some seek for religious communities that have a radically different understanding of human flourishing are, she believes, incompatible with pluralism.
But he does not forget (except for the Seventh - day Adventists) the churches and temples of smaller and more marginal religious communities, buildings typically overlooked in standard surveys of American architecture.
It's so sad that so many North American churches are still acting in hostility towards the «other» being a part of their religious community.
The constitution of the relation between God's revealed law and universal moral law is an intellectual operation that will be conducted differently not only by the respective religious communities themselves, but by adherents of particular theological and philosophical tendencies within those communities.
The group has also prided itself on trying to reach into religious communities and bring people out of the closet.
He seems to argue for maintaining Christian orthodoxy, but he says, «What leaves me dissatisfied with the beliefs said to be necessary for the creation of «strong religious communities» is that they are relatively peripheral doctrines.»
To help in building a world in which people can live and work together across religious and cultural divides, we strive to be a primary resource in religious and theological studies for the academy, for religious communities, and in the public sphere.
The very existence of the Jewish people as a religious community separate from Christianity was regarded as a fundamental affront to the new religious community with whom Cod had now made his permanent covenant.
When we see religious communities spending most of their time trying to convince people not to sin, we are seeing a community that has missed the point.
Religious communities seeking to coexist have every reason to discuss their grievances.
Religious communities remain powerful sources for moral formation and communal renewal.
«No other religious community is faced with such hatred, violence and aggression as is the Christian community.»
Although the religious communities of Judaism and Christianity can not legislate this minimal human morality (indeed, when they attempt to do so they most often retard its social impact, especially in a democratic setting), they can provide it with an overall ontological context, a continuing vision of its original grounds and its ultimate horizon.
I remember watching his science videos in elementary school but now whenever I see him on the news talking about science it seems like he is politicizing science (when it comes to climate change) and promoting evolution as the only option to the creation of the world to try and discredit the religious community.
Within the vastly varied religious communities that are in some fashion engaged by the HIV / AIDS issues, there is a plethora of reactions.
Marriage, abortion, «moral» rights... all should stay separate from the religious community.
It was a religious community and a bunch of loving people who helped Lucas deal with his CP and find meaning and joy in his life, and also helped a man who lost his son get through life in this cold and uncaring universe.
It was the form of Catholicism that withstood the onslaught of the French Revolution, giving birth to new religious communities and new missionary energies.
The growing interaction between religious communities in the post-Enlightenment world requires all of them to engage in self - critical reflection, which in order to be fully theologically informed must extend beyond theology proper into the areas of philosophy and history.
But at least he knows — if I read him correctly — that religious communities must stop using utilitarian arguments to buttress their public appeals.
Facing that kind of hate from the religious community, it's no wonder atheists can't be quiet and just take it.
Ultimately, much of this is a result of the modern «competitive» paradigm of religious communities: being right, having the truth, drawing people into the light from the dark, etc. all becomes about feeling good about ones own membership and being part of those who are «right».
Certain media elements are trying to deprive him of votes that come from religious communities.
look at the pain caused to g.ays by the religious community.
In such a fashion the city persisted as a religious community under an Arab Muslim domination more welcome and more tolerant than that of Byzantium.»
It's not that I disagree with you about keeping religion out of schools (public schools, ones not set up specifically by a religious community for their community and paid for by that community), but dogma is what you also both adhere to and propagate, so you might want to rephrase.
Our tradition of diversity has been largely of diverse religious communities.
Also, gnosticism is not unique to Christianity - the idea of «hidden knowledge», founded in Greek mystery - cult, attached itself to many religious communities of the time.
Any group or religious community that is too deliberate about external form sows in itself the seeds of decadence.
That said, religious communities are as good a place as any to attempt to gauge the impact of the financial crisis.
This is not surprising in itself, of course; what Roof and McKinney regard as significant is the fact that religious communities are increasingly distinguished not by theological beliefs but by «contrasting ethical styles and moral views.»
It features a running update on the latest preacher scandals to hit the religious community.
Orthodox Jews have been expelled from the military for wearing yarmulkes; a religious community in which all members worked for the church and believed that acceptance of wages would be an affront to God has been forced to yield to the minimum wage; religious colleges have been denied tax exemptions for enforcing what they regard to be religiously compelled moral regulations; Amish farmers who refuse Social Security benefits have been forced to pay Social Security taxes; and Muslim prisoners have been denied the right to challenge prison regulations that conflict with their worship schedule.
Also, if your religious community is more racially isolated than your local area, encourage it to form faith partnerships with racially different faith groups.
In fact, that sickness creeps into all religious communities of which I know, and leaves a trail of v - ictims in its wake every time.
Your theory presents a mental picture that I may be able to use in my own struggles to mesh my intellectual integrity with my religious community (not to imply that the two are of any necessity mutually exclusive).
Divorce problems were before this experiment, and it sounds like the religious community was concerned and reaching out to him, even it it was to convince him this wasn't a good idea.
Battered women also seek solutions through the legal field or their religious community, but discover that others either do not detect the touch of a bleeding woman, or offer them only contempt, misunderstanding, indifference or blame.
From which kind of religious communities were they?
Especially the religious community life.
And unless they belong to a religious community, they have as much right as anyone else to use their personal income as they see fit, including the purchase of property.
Just get rid of the tax breaks for religious affiliates and funding of religious community groups, and they will all go away.
I once asked Israel's director of religious communities if he was aware of the implications of the alliance with fundamentalist Christians, particularly in light of their history of anti-Semitism, their dedication to the Christianizing of America, and the «convert or fry» Armageddon scenarios.
His successors welcomed Jews expelled by Spain in 1492, and for the next four - and - a-half centuries three religious communities» Christian Greeks, Muslim Turks, and Sephardic Jews» shared the city.
Maybe you can manipulate and B.S. your local religious community, but it doesn't work here.
It is this false claim made by so many, particularly in more fundamental religious communities, that is being challenged by this simple illustration of the logical fallacy of such a view.
I started this blog called nakedpastor in 2006, and initiated my public undressing of religion, religious community and spirituality through my writings, art and cartoons.
Now that we know something of these other religious communities and their quality of the lives they engender, we can not suppose that a gracious God would punish their saints for failure to join the Christian church.
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