Sentences with phrase «prisoners are in church»

But the observant will notice that the prisoners are in church pews singing a Christian...

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I'd love to hear more from you about this as just now I'm wrestling with the whole issue of how to bridge the gap for our Christian prisoners from «church» in jail to church on release.

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.

Different though their status was — Protestantism as the historical religion of state in Prussia and elsewhere, Catholicism as anxious protector of its endangered milieu — both churches were prisoners of the desire, above all, to preserve a threatened status quo.

These churches, and para-ministries, will focus on the things that are the highest priority to Christ — believing in Christ for eternal life, and helping the hungry, thirsty, prisoner, sick, homeless, and unclothed.

Societally alienated persons are far too often rejected by the local congregation and responded to, if at all, primarily in terms of a «mission» on the part of the church to these groups — to alcoholics, the mentally retarded, the physically disabled, returnees from mental hospitals, the violence - prone, former prisoners, and the aging.

Among the prisoners gathered in the Church of Our Father were fifteen mothers with their children.

But because I believe that the entire Church, including the hierarchy, benefits from honest challenge and critique, I have not avoided what might be deemed «controversial» when I thought it important: during political campaigns, when grave moral issues were at stake; during the Long Lent of 2002; in the aftermath of 9/11 and the run - up to the Iraq War; in response to challenges to religious freedom in America that couldn't have been imagined in 1978, when «work for religious freedom» meant «work for prisoners of conscience behind the iron curtain.»

If Christians were more confident in the moral ends of punishment, then perhaps churches could do a better job of providing support for prisoners after their release.

In May, 1521, the Emperor adjudged Luther to be «cut off from the Church of God» and commanded his subjects to refuse the «obstinate schismatic and manifest heretic» hospitality, food, or drink, to take him prisoner and turn him over to the Emperor, and to deal similarly with all Luther's friends and adherents.

Albany Bishop Howard Hubbard, who accompanied Dolan into the Cuomo meeting, said a number of other topics came up, including farmworkers rights — a new one for the church, which is formally taking a position in support this year — and prisoners rights as well as low - income housing — all issues for which Cuomo was an outspoken advocate before he won the 2006 AG's race.

The First Amendment has not been held to prevent certain other special privileges to churches (such as tax - exempt status); and in fact, the First Amendment is sometimes the very basis of special religious privileges (for example, prisons have sometimes been required to make minor accommodations for the religious beliefs of individual prisoners).