Sentences with phrase «owned by a church»

No seminary buildings, or their parking lots are on school or public property, they are all privately owned by the Church.
It's not every day a top Democrat speaks from a pulpit owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.
By l925 some 63 stations were owned by church institutions.
Then don't go to work for a company owned by a church that opposes birth control.
The churches can offer the health plans they want, but when they have a business outside the church, such as a school, or hospital, they must go by the laws of the land and not be granted any special treatment because they are owned by a church.
Almost all favor tax exemption for religiously used church property and oppose it for property owned by churches but not used for religious purposes.
Two of the largest media outlets in the state, the Deseret News and KSL (not to mention BYU - TV), are owned by the church.
Under the terms of an agreement reached recently by the Park District, the Corporation of OpenLands (CorLands) and the Joyful Spirit Church in Bolingbrook, the park in the Heritage Heights subdivision will consist of roughly 2 acres of open land owned by the church and an acre the Park District has acquired from CorLands.
Another concern was that the league has a year - to - year lease for two of those fields owned by a church group, and league officials say that agreement could end at any time.
(3) Social classes exist in the Roman Catholic hierarchy and Vatican City whose functional members are sworn to poverty, and all wealth is corporately owned by the church entity.
The exchange has the Cache County School District swap an acre of land by the new, as - yet - unnamed high school location in North Logan for an acre of land that is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints adjacent to Bridgerland Applied Technology College.
Of course, as we all know, the great irony in More's life is that his master, King Henry VIII, raised in the Catholic faith, known as the Defender of the Faith for his writings against Luther (ghost written by More), breaks with Rome in order to expedite his marriage to Anne Boleyn and seize the massive tracts of English land owned by the church - thus pitting More against both the King and the new Protestant court.
Is enforcing religious neutrality in a housing complex owned by a church a «compelling governmental interest»?

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Renewal of the old hospital site includes construction of a 60 - bed privately built nursing home owned by the Anglican Church.
@ BRC: yes, he failed — even by his own Church's standards.
however, * by * his own Church's standards, it would have ultimately been dehumanizing for her if she received communion on false pretenses.
Far from seeking his own advancement, each move up the echelons of the episcopal ladder has been met with surprise by Justin Welby, perhaps influenced by the fact he was told there wasn't «place for him in the modern Church of England» when he first applied for ordination.
Kierra... complete non sequitur, the school is owned by the public whereas churches are privately owned.
The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...
The church is not authorized to represent the reign of God, his justice and peace, in any other way than that in which Jesus represented it, namely by being partners with him in challenging the powers of evil and bearing in its own life the cost of the challenge.
We have a large mega style church here in Lexington where the lead Pastor succumbed to his own Ego fanned by rapid growth in numbers and peer recognition of his amazing «success».
And don't forget all the victims of Christianity's own Jim Jones... I'm certain you and all you Christian Extremists are in your churches, always trying to find ways to brainwash everyone into committing suicide like Jim Jones and have plans to blow up buildings like Timothy McVeigh and think about as well as act upon your perverted thoughts by molesting young boys... don't you?
I have also been hurt by the church in the past and it scarred me for a number of years but in due time God's grace is what got me through, not my own doing.
The Catholic Church in Spain allowed the dictator Franco to forbid the common people to own a bible because there was so much fear (not unfounded, as proven by fundamentalism) that apart from ecclesiastical it would be misinterpreted.
BUT... if the Church is going to claim and treat sexual deviance (if in fact that is what they believe it is) with such force over and against all other indiscretions, how do they justify that... and how isn't it hypocritical of them when they simply wink at other things that are clearly outlined by Jesus» own words as grievous.
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«In my own constituency, Richmond Park and North Kingston, all the most valuable, all the most important and meaningful work that I'm involved in, relating to the homeless for example, relating to addiction, is conducted by people associated with the Christian church.
You are dishonest to yourself if you do not acknowledge that this is possible: You where by your own acount in a stressfull state and you had been raised in a christian family, associated with a fundamentalist church, attended bible college, proffesing christianity for years and looking for answers in your church and faith.
(order of operations) bible - and - church divded by love equaling war doesn't make sense on it's own.
Yet Christians are commanded to be «prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you» (1 Peter 3:15), and unless one is determined to do no more than mutely wave people towards the nearest church, this can only be achieved by giving some account of the coherence (not perfection) and development (not fulfillment) one discerns in one's own life.
Luke tells us that as a boy he «grew in his wisdom» (Lk 2:52), but the Church has taught that this means «his human nature was instructed by his own divinity» (Jerome) or that while remaining divine «he made his own the progress of humans in wisdom and grace» (John of Damascus).
European religion was traditionally fraught with divisions among different churches, each defined by its own distinctive doctrine.
We all know the protestants broke off only because Henry the eight wanted to get a divorce and by starting his own church, he could do so.
But they are leading lives of such spiritual incoherence that their own integrity should compel them to seek reconciliation through the sacrament of penance, and to do so before affirming a fuller communion with the Church than they in fact enjoy by receiving Holy Communion during Mass..
♦ Eye of the Tiber, Catholicism's answer to The Onion, has its own interpretation of the Clintonista interest in «facilitating» the development of Catholic doctrine: «A new series of emails released yesterday by WikiLeaks connected to its dump of John Podesta's server show that ancestors of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton attempted to sabotage the Catholic Church by creating the Society of Jesus hundreds of years prior to her nomination.»
The bibles are thought to be up to 200 years old and were lent to the church by the Hopetoun family, who own the Hopetoun House stately home and 6,500 acre estate in West Lothian.
And churches are intimidated, to the point of gagging themselves, by their own lawyers who fret about the loss of tax exemption.
The gospel can not be preached in any other language than its own: a language deeply shaped by the Sacred Scriptures, a language that has been revealed and received and is not to be recast when the culture suggests that the Church do so.
I think the Catholic church would best be served by removing these things and standing on their own two feet by doing a better job.
Schickel's work» represented here by 175 full - color photographs» brings us face - to - face with the concerns of our own culture war, especially as it is manifested in clashes between traditionalists and liberals in the Church over the past three decades.
Released time to allow public school students to attend religious education at a church - owned building was specifically confirmed by the US Supreme Court as consistent with the First Amendment decades ago.
LDS seminaries ARE NOT on school grounds as the building and the grounds that they are on are owned completely by the LDS church.
It took over a century of deft Vatican diplomacy, disentangling the appointment of bishops from various political imbroglios, to make that canon possible, and the twenty - first - century Church now has the capacity to choose its leadership by its own criteria.
But I guarantee you and will bet you a years pay that the building and the ground it's on is owned by the LDS Church.
The reasoning, as was explained to me was that it was thought a good shepherd could not lead if distracted by his own familial flock [this aside from the fact that a youngest son in a family would typically not inherit enough to support a family and was therefore sent to join a church].
You idiots give Obama a pass on his racist, anti American cult church and god forbid you say anything about Islam, which by definition is out to destroy the west, read their own writing.
Courts ruled that this was the church that succeeded the church started by Joseph Smith and all original properties are owned by the Community of Christ.
Most of the art «owned» by the catholic church was donated by the artist or commissioner for display.
It may be safe to say the churches made by men's own hands is not the religious churches truisms for the real churches are of life's embodiments.
The mission of the church is now understood by most mainliners to include not only everything the church is «sent out» to do — its outreach — but everything it does, including all its own internal maintenance and nurture activities.
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