Sentences with phrase «public confession of»

Esther Naorʼs work freezes the cycle of our unstable age, distilling our anxieties into a public confession of the worldʼs afflicted, lonely, redemptive common ground.

In the image that C. Kavin Rowe uses for the title of his brilliant explication of Acts, the public confession of the lordship of the risen Christ creates what the world thinks of as a «world upside down,» but what Christians understand to be the world seen truly.

In a new twist on the «drag your wife out to your public confession of adultery» meme, televangelist Marcus Lamb has his wife confess his adultery for him: The confession was apparently prompted to preempt extortionists who were threatening to break the news unless Lamb coughed up $ 7.5....

This is commonly expressed by the use of special «Christian «names, which are frequently viewed positively as a public confession of one's faith.

Ok, on to Christian Baptism: Baptism is the public confession of one's faith, and is a symbolic gesture of putting to death your old sinful way of life (as in, living for yourself), and be raised a new creation in Christ (and now your focus is on His Will, not your own).

I wonder if the belief does refer to the public confession of belief.

She makes a public confession of sin, saying she has «idolized relationships above all.»

They even went so far as to say that a believer need not be a professed Muslim, for faith is a confession of the heart while Islam is an outward or public confession of the tongue.

The Free Churches assume baptism would be a mere symbolic act, which follows conversion and a public confession of the new faith, aslo an act of obedience.

What must be avoided is public confession of sin that runs into exhibitionism.

We confess «I believe» with the baptismal (Apostles») Creed, because the focus is on the individual's public confession of faith.

They believe that baptism is merely an act of obedience or of public confession of the personal faith, after someone has become a believer.

Then they would have been paraded (once the bruises had faded) to make a public confession of their error, before being sent to live on a remote pig farm or perhaps executed.

The Commonwealth Bank admitted last night that it lost the financial statements of nearly 20 million accounts in 2016, the first public confession of the data breach.

«Consequent upon the public confessions of these vicious and notorious killer squad to the killings in cold blood of more than Eleven (11) innocent people in Kwara State and other States of the Federation, the statutory procedure and practice in the Force is that such a heinous crime and capital offence is transferred to the Force Headquarters for further investigation.

Not exact matches

Steven Miller's «Confessions of a Rootless Cosmopolitan Jew» would be more appropriate on a psychiatrist's couch than in a serious journal of religion in public life.

The monks of the abbey host regular services and confessions for the public alongside their personal and group devotions.

The necessity of dealing with international institutions, with lawmakers who defend total national sovereignty, with an American public that is often fixated on its own context, and with churches preoccupied by their own confessions demands new steps toward a Christian public theology.

She practiced what she preached in a separate thread, in which she used Twitter for a little public confession and repentance (there's a novel use of social media), asking God for forgiveness for «ways I've been complicit in & contributed to misogyny & sexism in the church by my cowardly and inordinate deference to male leaders in order to survive.»

He should make public confession to God and man of past wrongdoing and be willing to ask God for guidance in the future.

Moreover, the poignancy of the sense of public guilt was reflected in private self - accusation, and the issue is seen in such prayers as the psalmist's confession of deep - seated sinfulness,

This is not to deny the rightness of either corporate confession of guilt in public worship or individual witness to the redeeming power of God.

Some of these women make a public confession, but others are ashamed to do this, and in silence, as if withdrawing from themselves the hope of the life of God, they either apostatize entirely or hesitate between the two courses» (Against Heresies 1:22 [A.D. 189]-RRB-.

Not sure what's funnier — the fact that people might actually believe this app can cleanse them of their «sins»... or the fact that people might actually believe that a public confession can cleanse them of their «sins»!

Sunday school rooms all around spilled into a sanctuary where pews were arranged on either side of a central aisle that led to a pulpit and an altar — for to us education led to worship, and worship to public confession and commitment.

«I'm a believer in public confession if we know what we're confessing,» says Adrian Reynolds, director of ministry at the Proclamation Trust.

To this public, we can make a case for our faith, beyond merely the confession of it.

Luther dispensed with closed confession for Protestants; the Catholics continued it, but are now discussing open or public confession, while some Protestants are considering the reintroduction of closed confession!

It must clearly be noted that this was in essence far more a demonstration of political loyalty than of religious worship; and it must still more clearly be noted that Rome was the reverse of intolerant, and, if a man made this confession of political faith, he could then go away and worship any god he liked, so long as that worship did not conflict with public decency and order.

Indeed, judging by the reporting on the presidential campaign, it seems that in the absence of any substantive public debate on morality among religious leaders, media representatives have emerged as the new priesthood in our culture: they demand confessions of misconduct from public figures and then determine the seriousness of the sin and the degree of penance required for the sin to be forgiven.

The state's systematic confession of its incompetence opens public space for the democratic politics of persuasion and consent rather than the politics of coercion.

So while it's understandable to respect a would - be «public servant» who comes clean, is it too much to ask or to hold out for a candidate who has lived a life of integrity to best of his / her ability, so that public confession becomes unnecessary?

The ritual of public confession is so formulaic in American culture that it's hard to imagine that someone as media savvy as Rush Limbaugh doesn't know how to do it.

These public «confessions» are often frank and detailed accounts of spiritual and moral waywardness in the past, going on to indicate how wonderful things have been since «finding the Lord.»

For others, those convinced that morality is private, and that only they themselves can judge the rightness of their own actions, healing means accepting ambivalence, and perhaps offering comfort to others through public confession.

For instance, how does one treat disclosures made in churches that practice public confession in front of the congregation?

Most of our worship services include public confession and forgiveness.

It is not surprising that this self - confession has been received with massive vitriolic responses from the general public who appear to now be utterly fed up with the self - righteous intensification of Mr. Rawlings.

If Labour MPs want to avoid the fate of their European counterparts they should save their doubts about Miliband for Sunday confession and wait until after May 7 to plot about leaders in public.

Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, said on Saturday the state police command has been working on the confessions of those suspects arrested who have made useful statements.

Fortunately for Chopra, although ignorance of the law is famously no excuse in court, ignorance of the laws of nature is, and would almost certainly trump his public confession.

The play's power lies in its insight into the thrill of public confession — and the complex intersection of politics and psychology in the media.

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Spira, author of The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online and host of «Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show,» has been a featured author?and presenter at the New York Public Library and panelist at the 140 Characters Twitter Conference.

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They all get together for a long weekend where not much happens, aside from pratfalls in the woods, plenty of public urination, and an eventual moment of confession which is nothing short of cringeworthy.

Allen's story has the makings of melodrama, the kind found in a True Confessions magazine that no woman would have been reading in public on on that beach in the Fifties.

More Spielberg's self - mocking Catch Me If You Can than Julie Taymor's impressionistic Frida, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind examines the creation of a personal cult of personality on a public stage and its attendant guilt / exultation.

Cartel Land is keen to show how information and rumors travel through the militia and the towns they come to control: photos of beheaded citizens pop up on smartphones; at impromptu public forums held in town squares, citizens both praise and condemn Mireles's usurping of federal authority; his soldiers, meanwhile, pick up suspected criminals on hunches, and won't relent without a confession.

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