Sentences with phrase «questions about your faith»

Catholics will have to make up their own minds — but I'll admit I have questions about the faith of Pope Francis, which seems, if not weak, at least different from that of the Catholic tradition.

As David Kinnaman explains in his enlightening book, You Lost Me, one of the top six responses among young adults is that they left the church because they didn't feel like their pastors, mentors, and friends took their questions about faith seriously.

While questions, experiences, and struggles related to sex can most certainly generate questions about faith... (we are holistic, integrated creatures after all)... we have to be careful of generalizing or oversimplifying here.

A good place to start in creating such a community is to treat young adults like the complex human beings they are, and to take their questions about faith seriously.

What started as a feeling of betrayal by certain authorities within the church, spiralled into deeper and more enduring questions about faith itself.

Pastors and mentors will of course feel compelled to offer guidance and prayer as young adults navigate the tricky terrain of sexuality, but they should not be deceived into thinking that the all the questions about faith, science, technology, religious pluralism, politics, justice, equality, and ethics emerging from the Millennial generation are related to sex and can be solved by abstaining from it.

To commemorate the event and to help get the word out about Kent Annan's terrific book After Shock, I've shared some reflections with the Patheos Book Club about how disasters like these raise troubling questions about faith:

The soap opera section of the show opened up questions about faith, food, poverty, celebration, feast and deeper questions on indulgence and waste.

Keller should have stopped a couple of weeks early, before he wrote the disaster titled, «Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith.»

When I first started asking questions about my faith, I was terrified.

Yours was one of the first blogs I found back in 2007 when I started searching the blogosphere for others who might be asking the same questions about faith that I was asking.

I guess I just thought to myself, «Okay, I'm a grownup now, and grownups aren't supposed to have doubts or fears or questions about their faith.

I know I am not answering the question about faith directly, but my take is that God is revealed in Jesus on the cross.

He hosted dinner with a table of non-Christians full of questions about faith.

I have a friend working toward a Ph.D. in English, and her coursework has raised quite a few questions about her faith.

Schaeffer is like many theists with questions about their faith.

Which includes asking the tough questions about faith / God that I used to stuff.

I think critically, challenge authority, and ask tough questions about my faith.

But he has faced questions about his faith since first getting into politics in 1994, when he ran for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts against Democratic stalwart Ted Kennedy.

Her most recent trip to the Middle East has sparked an even greater passion for sharing stories and asking hard questions about faith.

The classes give students an opportunity to ask tricky questions about faith

After some playful banter with senior pastor Joe Champion - who asked the former Florida Gator to don a football helmet from his alma mater, Louisiana State University - Tebow began answering questions about his faith and how his openness about it has become a frequently dissected topic in sports and society at large.

Keller's column, «Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith,» argues that the crop of candidates competing for the White House next year should be grilled on their religious beliefs and on how those beliefs inform their political views.

Not only is Fr Tolhurst encouraging the faithful to use the Catechism as a living document, something that is integral to maturation of faith, but he is also attempting to equip us to answer questions about our faith that others may ask of us:

As Niebuhr observed in a manuscript posthumously published as Faith on Earth: An Inquiry into the Structure of Human Faith, «questions about faith arise in every area of life.»

I have been trying to answer my son's questions about my faith for some years now and in trying to do so have had to seriously look at what I believe.

And while it's true that every branch of Christianity has been racked with scandal over the years, films like the Oscar - winning Spotlight and Netflix true crime series The Keepers do a much better job of creating compelling art that raises questions about faith and morality.

Ultimately, is criticism from Christians more directed toward his vulgarity, profanity and outrageousness or toward the fact that he is mixing questions about faith with them?

We asked questions about his faith, about how it «felt» to be Sikh in Canada (he laughed), about their history, about family dynamics, the differences between Sikhism and Christianity, what they believed and practiced and what was with the little knives.

The point of the post was to address the common assumption that doubt is typically a result of sin or a guilty conscience and that we should treat people with thoughtful questions about their faith with suspicion.

It's always encouraging to be in conversation with other people who wrestle with tough questions about their faith.

Many of us who have wrestled with tough questions about our faith share a favorite quote from Rainer Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet:

I understand his having questions about his faith and spiritual journey.

We had questions about the faith, but there was no one to answer them.

(He had many more, and more intelligent, questions about the faith than I did, for one thing.)

It has taken a long time for me to accept the fact that some people have questions about their faith and others don't.

I am not sure of your exposure to Christianity, but if it has been anything like what I have experienced, it probably kept people from questions about the faith, yet the Bible allows it and Christ is big enough to handle any questions you throw at him.

[If you've read Evolving in Monkey Town, you know these are the very questions I struggled with when I first began asking tough questions about my faith.]

Frankly, my initial reaction to both of these questions frightened me a little, for it involved asking harder questions about faith, confronting deeper insecurities within myself, and creeping farther down the dark rabbit holes of doubt that lie in wait in all the scary corners of my mind... which made me wonder, «Is hope really the thing that keeps me from disbelief?

She tackles complex questions about faith, suffering, and God's will with sensitivity and clarity, devoid of religious clichés or pat answers.

Tim Farron's powerful resignation speech left a lot of people asking questions about his faith, and about how religion mixes with politics more generally.

«Religious and spiritual struggles — conflicts with God or religious people, tough questions about faith, morality, and the meaning of life — these are often taboo topics, and the temptation to push them away is strong,» said Julie Exline, professor of psychological sciences at Case Western Reserve and co-author of the research.

Christian Mingle also includes some short answer questions about faith.

I answered basic questions about myself, a few questions about my faith (what church I was raised in, how often I attend church), and what I'm looking for in a match.

During their sign - up questions, they ask a bunch of great questions about your faith and what is and what is not important to you.

Christian Answers to Teen Questions about Faith, Life, Sex, Dating, Relationships, Fun

Singles have the option to answer pre-made questions about their faith and beliefs on the profile page, thus adding a special flavor to dating.

When we wrote each other we asked questions from simple things like favorite color to detailed questions about our faith and beliefs.

When you do decide to start a profile, the site takes you through a range of questions about your faith and beliefs.

«Menashe» also gently raises a few questions about faith, change and conformity.