Sentences with phrase «public witness»

The collective will for accommodating the disabled depends on the subtly public witness of those who care for them.

I'm convinced of the critical role leadership must play if we are to be successful in scaling up to reach a tipping point of a powerful public witness.

The contrast with their critics is a lesson in what does, and does not, constitute responsible public witness.

The first withdraws from the world» and thus from public witness of the faith altogether» not in quest of personal sanctification, but to escape a culture it fears and rejects.

And in a culture that tells us religion is a private matter, the very public witness of martyrdom can be somewhat embarrassing.

Bearing public witness isn't Jewish custom.

I'm an egalitarian female preacher who believes Tim Keller has been treated terribly Princeton Theological Seminary have decided not to give Tim Keller their award in Reformed theology and public witness after students complained about Keller's complementarian views.

Synagogue and ecclesia can become places where the rehearsal of covenant - making and public witness prepares us to confront a world of secrecy, lies and coercion.

Catholics must make use of their freedom to give public witness to their faith: suggestions that there should not be Christmas carols sung in public or Christian symbols displayed in public places are absurd and in no way reflected in our country's laws or traditions.

This holiday marks the end of the Easter cycle and the beginning of public witness of the Christian church.

That means there will be more chances to give a very public witness to the sacredness of life and to present the prolife message in a good light.

It should be needless to say that there can be» there inevitably will be» legitimate disagreements about which questions are appropriate and imperative for the Church's public witness.

Will the public witness of Christians be harmed by the way we speak about the very serious issue of violence against women?

In trying to determine what is proper or appropriate in the Church's public witness.

Contributions to the 25 Fund are being used to enhance the public witness of First Things.

Is that really the public witness Christians need to be projecting?

What I have yet to see demonstrated by the Body of Christ is the scaling up of these examples in such a way that it shifts our public witness in this post-Christian age in which we live.

According to that analysis, it has been characteristic of John Paul II's diplomacy that his dramatic acts of public witness to the importance of freedom» in Poland, before the United Nations, in Cuba, and so on» have stood in tension with the continuing, more traditional, diplomacy of the Vatican, even to the point of contradiction.

In general, churches choose to associate with the SBC (or any of the other Baptist bodies) because it allows them to cooperate with other autonomous congregations to accomplish shared goals: mission efforts, public witness, theological education, etc..

No matter the obstacles, he said, Evangelicals and Catholics must stand side by side in their public witness to biblical truth.

Too often, we Evangelical Protestants have harmed our public witness and failed in fidelity by proclaiming the sanctity and permanence of marriage in one sentence before highlighting the «biblical» justifications for divorce in the next.

They concluded that if a common and public witness was to thrive and bear lasting fruit, it needed to be founded on a joint commitment to theological and spiritual unity, a unity for which Christ himself prayed (John 17).

The late Cardinal Bernardin had an inestimable influence in shaping the public witness of the U.S. bishops conference, and this book brings together fifteen of his notable interventions from the 1980s until his death in 1996.

Ultimately, it was the efforts of the people who wrote to their MPs and urged them to turn up and oppose the Marris Bill, and the public witness of groups like Not Dead Yet UK, that led the House of Commons to recognise the need to safeguard the rights and dignity of vulnerable people.

While I don't know that Scripture exactly says that the primary purpose of baptism is public declaration or public witness of our faith in Jesus / desire to follow Jesus, it does appear from early accounts of baptisms that they definitely functioned in that way.

Those of us who believe, as did King, that America would be elevated by a greater adherence to Judeo - Christian principles, can draw strength from his public witness.

Leith Anderson, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Leith Anderson is the President of the National Association of Evangelicals, an organization formed to facilitate Christian unity, public witness and cooperative ministry among evangelical denominations, congregations, educational institutions and service agencies in the United States.

It was really about our public witness as evangelicals.

There are times and places where the very act of coming together to celebrate the Eucharist can be a public witness.

Richard John Neuhaus, Charles Colson, and their fellow travelers have engaged in an fruitful ecumenism of the trenches, discovering as they went along that they had more in common than they knew, particularly with respect to Christian ethics and the church's public witness.

Finally, within communities like the First Things family, committed to the public witness of the Church, we ought to try and map the contours and boundaries of an authentic pluralism.

To give a public witness to my marriage, I shall give a party next Tuesday and my parents will be there.

First, as I argued at some length in Evangelical Catholicism, the Church must discipline its public witness by resisting the temptation to comment on virtually every contested issue of public policy and by focusing primary attention on two key issues: the life issues and religious freedom.

This kind of public witness is really what the New Testament means by «preaching.»

A New Testament image of the church's public witness is that of «ambassadors of reconciliation» (2 Cor.

WASHINGTON, DC — Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) Interim President Karen Pearl will testify next week as a public witness at the Senate hearings for Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, PPFA announced today.