Sentences with phrase «religious conversations in»

But the participants share one important conviction: they believe that the resolution of religiously rooted political tensions will be attained not by avoiding religion in public, but by initiating more and better religious conversations in public.

Scriptural Reasoning is a movement that holds that the resolution of religiously rooted political tensions will be attained not by avoiding religion in public, but by initiating more and better religious conversations in public.

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I may even use it as an excuse to strike up a conversation with them, as honestly I have never had an in depth religious discussion with a Satanist and think it might be an interesting way to pass the time on a plane.

You are absolutely right that they don't belong in the same conversation, but many religious people (Rick Perry, for example) suggest that evolution is an unproven concept and Intelligent Design is an alternative.

«O'Connor is not only a fanatic, in the sense that any religious zealot unquestioningly committed to a rigid set of beliefs is a fanatic; he is the most effective and therefore the most dangerous kind of fanatic — warm, personable, humorous, eminently reasonable in conversation, and extremely skillful at manipulating the media.»

@Laughing: Atheists, at least in conversations like those that surround «intelligent design,» to — much like their religious counterparts — tend to paint intelligence in a way - too - anthropomorphic light.

If you pay attention to what I wrote, I accuse both the atheist and the religious person in that «intelligent design» conversation of anthropomorphizing intelligence and debating the point from the wrong perspective in the first place.

Whether the masses are innocent is, of course, not a matter that can be documented, but I have observed in conversation with many spectators tenacious conviction that the Passion Play is (a) a great work of religious art or (b) the work of sincere peasant folk bent only on fulfilling an ancient vow.

I was continuously impressed by the skill with which Drew managed to call out all the b.s. that tends to surface in well - meaning religious conversations around race («stop being divisive; we should focus on unity!»

Yet such theological thinking must be undertaken in full awareness that theologians and thinkers of other traditions not only «listen in» on our conversations, but also are engaged in interpreting religious plurality in the context of their own traditions of faith.

They are older now and we have great conversations about their friends who anguish in rigid religious families.

When white conservative Christians obsess over their own perceived oppression, it becomes incredibly difficult to engage in important conversations about religious, racial, and gender privilege that are necessary for creating a more just society.

After closed - door conversations with the White House going back to November, the cardinal - in - waiting challenged the White House over an insurance mandate from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that forced religious institutions, except for houses of worship, to provide insurance plans that included coverage for contraceptives.

I certainly have not done any sort of scientific research into this segment of the population, but I work in an environment where I get to interact with a lot of religious and non-religious people, and I have had countless conversations with people who probably count as one of the 35 million people who used to attend church and identify as Christian, but no longer do.

«Tufts» decision demonstrates that universities willing to engage in a conversation will recognize that any religious group must have freedom to choose leaders who affirm those standards,» said InterVarsity Christian Fellowship national field director Greg Jao.

These questions churned for months in his heart and mind and brought Jordan to seek spiritual direction and religious conversation.

But religious voices (conservative and liberal, Christian and non-Christian) must be included in the curricular conversation, not to save religion, but to be consistent with our educational, political and constitutional principles.

On the other hand, Christians (or religious people in general) shouldn't be excluded from the political conversation either, as they would be if only agnostic opinions could count.

Baker, Jr., who was very familiar with caste Hindu religious categories and queries during conversation, particularly recognised the distinct tribal theological concepts appearing in the Malayarayan questions which they asked.

Effects of individual religious sacred acts — e.g. confession and penance, conversation, communion in times of crisis, etc..

Behind the scenes — making possible the very situations in which conversation about religion can happen — are massive ecclesiastical bureaucracies, hours and hours of administrative labor, vast fund - raising efforts, complex bookkeeping schemes, training programs, and patronage and other distribution agencies, all of which play their part in maintaining religious realities.

For Berger, then, the theological enterprise is best understood as a process of «induction,» in which one mediates and interprets personal experience in conversation with one's religious tradition.

Paul Knitter in his One Earth, Many Religions emphasizes the priority of «the dialogue of action» in response «to the widespread human and ecological suffering and injustice that are threatening our species and our planet» but he recognizes that «unless the voices of the mystic and the scholar are also heard, the conversation will lose its religious content or it will be turned into a tool for purposes that can only discredit all the participants.»

CNN: Photo of woman with facial hair leads to conversation, understanding A picture of a woman with facial hair wearing a turban posted to the social media site Reddit has garnered a firestorm of Internet reaction and has taught at least two Ohio college students lessons in graciousness, humanities and religious studies.

So people liked to come and see what the rich and powerful did, and in the cases where two or more religious authorities were having dinner, the people like to listen in on their conversation.

Also, given the prominent place religion occupies in Africa, I was baffled by the apparent determination of my church superiors to keep religious subjects from all «decent» and «cultured» conversation.

For this tradition nourished over the centuries the slow emergence of the ideal of a civilized politics, a politics of civil conversation, of noncoercion, of the consent of the governed, of pluralism, of religious liberty, of respect for the inalienable dignity of every human person, of voluntary cooperation in pursuit of the common good, and of checks and balances against the wayward tendencies of sinful men and women.

There are unwritten rules about what can and can not be discussed in church.6 Dualistic attitudes about what is and is not spiritual or religious are operative if sexuality is not considered a polite topic of conversation among church members.

Christians can legitimately disagree with one another on many issues of political and religious policy, and we do engage in ongoing conversation about these issues.

You lie aboout prayer, you lie about having proven things, you lie about atheists, you call on person here a Nazi racist because she posted Hitler's quotes on his religious beliefs in a conversation about what Hitler believed, it just goes on and on.

Both in conversation and in the poems themselves Cairns seems a bit apologetic for their religious and rhetorical intensity.

As U.S. Sen. Obama's adviser on faith issues on Capitol Hill, as candidate Obama's religious affairs director on his 2008 campaign, and as President Obama's director of the White House faith - based initiative, I have had the honor of seeing firsthand the life and heart of a president who cares deeply about his country, his family and his God, in times of prayer, conversation and diligent work.

Finding himself at Rome in his twenty - ninth year, he fell in with a French gentleman who tried to make a proselyte of him, but who succeeded no farther after two or three conversations than to get him to hang (half jocosely) a religious medal round his neck, and to accept and read a copy of a short prayer to the Virgin.

As had happened many times in my three years of teaching these same monks, their cultural and religious experiences - so far removed and foreign to mine - had enriched a seemingly mundane conversation on science.

The ease with which many disconnect their individual faiths from institutional belonging is revealed in a study of the unchurched in Appalachia: 80 per cent engaged in religious activities every week — activities ranging from prayer to reading, from watching religious television programs to conversations with others or visits to ministers (David H. Smith et al., Participation in Social and Political Activities [Jossey - Bass, 1980], p. 222).

The greatest fear you sense in the corridors, apart from the fear of not landing a job, is that a professor might be suspected of harboring a genuine religious commitment in the midst of all that intellectual conversation.

During the spirited dinner conversation that preceded the event a group of us got to talking about the important role that high - profile public figures can play in breaking down religious stereotypes.

A friend of mine in Germany, a broadcaster of religious programs, once commented rather plaintively: «Is it asking too much when one asks the parson just for once, just once, to talk as a normal man to normal men, brief and to the point, without mincing matters, in a natural tone of voice, almost as in a friendly conversation?»

Those internal conversations, however, were made painfully public by the 2016 presidential campaign and the scandalous role the institutional religious right played in it.

Why do atheists get fired from jobs for their atheism?Why do their children get bullied and ostracized at school?Why are atheists the least trusted group in the US?Is this reasonable behaviour?Christian groups show NO tolerance for dissent when their numbers are strong.But, when the conversation is more intimate, they play the victim.This has been the practice of religious groups since god was invented.

I attended a June 2016 event called «A Conversation with Donald Trump» in New York, with more than 1,000 other religious leaders.

Despite the faith's demographic popularity — 78 percent of all American adults identify as Christians — it can still be surprising to encounter conversations about Christianity in the media, outside of religious outlets.

A conversation about humanitarian intervention in which religious leaders and scholars are active participants is a crucial next step.

A conversation with Andrew Lloyd Webber, the prolific and popular British composer who frequently employs religious themes in his work.

What Sehat misses is that what he calls the moral establishment, which roughly corresponds to the mainline Protestant cultural hegemony that existed through the early 1960s, was common to all sides of the debate and made the conversation over religious liberty possible in the first place.

I NEVER, NEVER, engage anyone in a religious conversation unless they ask me first.

Does it make sense to affirm that Jesus Christ is the one Savior of the world in conversation with those who are finding religious meaning in Buddhism?

Long, delicate and sometimes difficult conversations were held before it was decided that a new initiative in Ph.D. education in religious practices and practical theology would benefit all without upsetting the interfaith balance.

If we're truly seeking solutions to the increasing inequality in our society, then community, religious or not, is an essential part of the conversation.

What we then did was to set up a committee of senior people in the states to hold conversations with all stakeholders including community leaders, religious leaders and all other interest groups.