Sentences with phrase «religious communities in»

For nearly two decades, the CRE ® Consulting Corps has assisted municipalities, schools, non-profit organizations, and religious communities in solving a wide variety of real estate problems.

«While the Nova Scotia decision is now under appeal, it has set an important precedent in protection of freedoms for all religious communities in Canada,» it said.

Open and nondiscriminatory in their acceptance of all students, American public schools are a unifying factor among the diverse range of ethnic and religious communities in our society.

Open and non-discriminatory in their acceptance of all students, American public schools are the unifying factor among the diverse range of ethnic and religious communities in our society.

And that is why you have people elected like Ed Day because people outside of Ramapo who have not seen the growth of the religious communities in their neighborhoods yet, they still understand what's happening in East Ramapo and they know that it's fundamentally wrong that people would take over a school district who don't send their children there and then deny minority students a fair education.

It's not so much that Communism itself is evil (a form of it was practiced on a small scale by religious communities in North America in the 19th century), but that Communist states tended to wind up as authoritarian and repressive dictatorships.

Does it make sense to cooperate with other religious communities in serving the people?

Several prominent writers, including Michael Gerson of the Washington Post, rightfully challenged this recent legal decision by a local German court in Cologne, which would effectively criminalize ritual circumcision for infant males as an exercise of religious freedom for minority religious communities in the country.

She serves the Jewish and broader religious communities in a number of capacities including as a member of the Global Initiative for Faith, Health and Development of the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty, as a member of the Summit on Religious Leadership in Response to HIV and as a board member of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

This does not mean that the widespread abandonment of traditional religious communities in favor of secular culture benefits the world.

Let me continue this deliberation on the theological import of mission and liturgy in the service of working toward a pluralistic nationhood by indulging in more imaginative theological play.61 What if we consider pluralistic living among various religious communities in terms of a large, traditional, rural Indian house?

Ms. Harvey does raise important questions about those in a PVS, but I suspect that such questions ultimately can be answered only by the patient's family in a context of care and support provided by the medical and religious communities in a counter-balancing role for one another, thus preventing hasty or self - serving decisions.

We welcome «this bipartisan resolution as a way to focus attention on the situation of the vulnerable religious communities in Iraq,» the bishops said in a letter to the congressional group.

Christianity is now but one of many religious communities in America, and its churches no longer enjoy the social status and power that society once bestowed on them.

The move coincided with a white paper circulated by Chinese authorities that said religious communities in the country should «adhere to the direction of localizing the religion, practice the core values of socialism, develop and expand the fine Chinese tradition and actively explore the religious thought which accords with China's national circumstances.»

The key, however, was bridging the gap between atheist and religious communities in the name of charity.

Greenawalt proposes that we include religious communities in public discourse.

Father Paul, currently serving for a second time as provincial in Great Britain, mentions attempts by religious communities in recent years to live in smaller houses without religious dress.

As one who has written so poignantly about the horrors of exclusion in religious communities in our own day, Volf is surely not maintaining that local congregations can somehow become hermetically sealed off from their immediate cultural influences or ideological contexts.

Again, what happens in other religious communities in no way excuses what has happened in the Catholic Church.

In 1965 there were more than 180,000 Catholic sisters in religious communities in America.

The growing interaction between religious communities in the post-Enlightenment world requires all of them to engage in self - critical reflection, which in order to be fully theologically informed must extend beyond theology proper into the areas of philosophy and history.

In Italy, Trump will meet with Pope Francis, where the two will discuss «cooperation between the United States and religious communities in areas of joint concern,» the statement reads.

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.

To complicate the picture, we have to acknowledge that the Catholic Church today represents the largest single religious community in the United States, while American Catholics have absorbed the free - church traditions on the relation between the Church and politics, believing that a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a whole.

To me more important is the fact that so long as the church remains a religious community in competition with other religious communities, the church can never say that in Christ it sacramentally represents the destiny of all peoples in the country.

They make for differentiation within the practice, tradition, and organization of a religious community in certain periods, locally and otherwise, particularly if combined with the second factor.

From the Christian side, the thinking has gone on the line that the Christian church as fellowship of faith in Christ should cease to be a religious community in the common communal sense.

Martin E. Marty says of Niebuhr that it «is possible to trace almost every eventually developed view of the religious community in action back to his root experience in the Detroit parish.»

All this would mean that in order to understand a religious movement or institution integrally, we would have to make a careful study of the sources, its origin and its development, of the movement in itself and in interaction with the culture and society, and possibly with the religious community in which it is found.

This inventory still does not include an examination of the internal consistency of the features that make up the theoretical, the practical, and the sociological expression of the experience of the religious community in question, nor does it include an inquiry into the rational arguments set forth in support of its tenets.

Notably, although Dignitatis Humanae does recommend religious freedom even in instances when «special civil recognition is given to one religious community in the constitutional order of society,» it does not suggest that the two are incompatible (s. 6).

They try to see a religious community in the organic wholeness of its life, action and thought before generalizing about similarities between different traditions.

Such a program will be of mutual benefit to the local churches and the mental health center in a local community, for it will mobilize the clergy and the resources of the religious community in a creative partnership of community service and improved health.

I grew up in a very predominately white religious community in the mountains of central California (Oakhurst / Coarsegold to be exact) and have managed to separate myself from almost everyone I went to high school with / knew growing up through religious happenings on facebook.

The only Israeli formula company, M *, with the pseudo-scientific Latin sounding name, has been running a successful public relations campaign within the religious community in Israel for eight years now.

Chief among them is real - life Irish communist Jimmy Gralton (Barry Ward), who challenged the religious community in the provincial country town he grew up by creating a gathering place for locals to dance and engage in intellectual discussion.

Such is the display of fair - weathered faith in Joshua Marston's fourth feature film, Come Sunday, which relates the true trials and travails of evangelical Bishop Carlton Pearson, who in the late 1990s caused waves amongst his religious community in Tulsa, Oklahoma when he announced God spoke to him and confirmed all souls are eligible to be received in heaven, whether they accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior or not (which also negates the threat of hell, a punishment which has kept communities frozen in antiquated fear - based decision making for centuries).

During the 1970s, Paul's father was head of the Lee Abbey religious community in north Devon.

According to the Huffpost, Kunkle's recent exhibition in Bushwich titled «The Passion of Kim Kardashian» caused some controversy amongst the religious community in New York.

She supports Earth Ministry's members through our Greening Congregations and Colleague Connection programs, and engages the religious community in advocacy campaigns on chemical safety, fossil fuels, public lands, and more.

Not exact matches

Recent research shows that participating in a community — specifically a religious fellowship of any sort — reduces the mortality rate of middle age individuals by half and reduces stress compared to non-adherents.

To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.

«The Department of Justice is committed to protecting the civil rights of all Americans, and we will not tolerate the targeting of any community in the country on the basis of their religious beliefs.

Now, in addition to raising money for things like vet bills, personal emergencies and whatnot, people can also raise money for travel (community trips or for medical needs), family - related causes (adoption, etc), religious events and volunteer supplies.

«I don't want the IRS looming over our faith leaders in the community as they express their religious freedom,» said Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, the highest - ranking Republican working on the bill, told reporters when the bill was introduced.

Lichtenfeld covers all the basics: stay active and healthy, exercise, play sports, eat right, socialize a lot with family and friends, meet new friends, keep learning, do volunteer work, be involved in your community, run for office, attend church or other religious / spiritual activities, read books and newspapers, check your email and text your friends.

In addition to making policy recommendations on administration policies affecting faith - based and community programs, the newly - formed office will also inform the administration of «any failures of the executive branch to comply with religious liberty protections under law.»

Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

It makes a comparison with youth paricipation in their community vs religious youth particiation and I don't see the point.