Sentences with phrase «religious education of their children»

The continuing stress on the religious education of children makes sense: most of the members are new to this church, and to some extent they want their children to have what they, as children, did not have.

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I giggle whenever I hear a religious person worry about the education of their child.

The «double taxation» of parents who choose a religious education for their children unjustly burdens the free exercise of religion, and that is clearly a matter that engages the propria of the Church.

Though she dedicates the book to her parents and in the end praises them for their adoption of two Haitian children, her account of her religious and academic education comes off as pretty nutty.

Parents were put to a cruel choice: either give up their plans for a religious education or forfeit their child's right to the kind of remedial education program Congress provides for all other children.

Today this overlaps with debates about the actual content of religious education and about the freedom to offer children what the Church really teaches.

Modern education seems to have had little effect in breaking down sectarian barriers between Shi'as and Sunnis since, as with all minority religions, the Shi'as take special interest in the religious training of their children.

Alison Gray, in a recent doctoral study on the empirical use of material relating to The Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, in relation to the teaching of Key Stage Three religious education in a Catholic school in England, has shown the inherent capacity of children to reach belief by a proper use and understanding of the illative sense.

Education based upon religious convictions is accused of everything from dividing society into warring camps to indoctrinating children in a way that prevents them from achieving autonomy and critical consciousness.

Providing special religious education resources for the physically handicapped, the retarded, and the brilliant child is a responsibility which a growing number of churches are undertaking to meet.

Direct involvement of parents in religious education occurs through home assignments, teacher - parent and teacher - parent - child workshops, and through the use of parents as rotating «helpers» in classes.

Experiences which give our children an awareness of the values in other religions are no longer «elective» items in sound religious education.

Agreed; we spend too much time and effort worrying about obsessive compulsive religious activities than we do the education of our children.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Their lauded sponsor - a-child program works in cooperation with local churches to provide holistic health and education to children of all religious backgrounds.

Especially when there are people acting on religious dogma to withhold medical treatment from their children, kill doctors, sabotage the education system, fill kid's minds with imagery of gratuitous torture, fly planes into buildings, stone women to death for driving alone... etc...

Much more promising is the appearance here and there of day - care centers at the parents» workplace, and day care provided by parishes and temples where it serves the triple purpose of providing meaningful work for members of the community (especially older people), meeting a pressing need of the community's young couples, and beginning the religious education of the community's children.

Like most children of my era who got a religious education, I grew up on Bible stories.

The primary responsibility for transmitting the religious and ethical dimension of this heritage rests with the parents of these children and with the education programs of churches and synagogues.

Each week some three million teachers function in church programs of religious education for children, youth, and adults.

Don S. Browning, The Moral Context of Pastoral Care (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976); Thomas Downs, The Parish as Learning Community: Modeling for Parish and Adult Growth (New York: Paulist Press, 1979); Thomas H. Groome, Christian Religious Education: Sharing Our Story and Our Vision (New York: Harper & Row, 1980); C. Ellis Nelson, Where Faith Begins (Richmond: John Knox Press, 1967); John H. Westerhoff, Will Our Children Have Faith?

Both Protestants and Roman Catholics have taken steps to purge their religious - education materials of passages that might encourage Christian children to grow up with the warped notion that Jews are «Christ - killers» who deserve to suffer.

[5] Pius XI made clear in his encyclical on education, «when the faithful demand Catholic schools for their children, they are not raising a question of party politics, but simply performing a religious duty which their conscience rigidly imposes upon them.»

People who demand religion in schools are either a) too lazy to provide religious educations to the kids themselves or b) trying to indoctrinate the children of others.

On top of this they do not brainwash children, and provide truly comprehensive religious EDUCATION for children and young adults.

I am (a) a delusional schizophrenic; (b) a naïve child, too young to know that that is silly (c) an ignorant farmer from Sudan who never had the benefit of even a fifth grade education; or (d) your average Christian Millions and millions of Catholics believe that bread and wine turns into the actual flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because: (a) there are obvious visible changes in the condiments after the Catholic priest does his hocus pocus; (b) tests have confirmed a divine presence in the bread and wine; (c) now and then their god shows up and confirms this story; or (d) their religious convictions tell them to blindly accept this completely fvcking absurd nonsense.

(See Ronald Goldman, Religious Thinking from Childhood to Adolescence (New York: Seabury Press, 1968; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963); Violet Madge, Children in Search of Meaning [London: SCM Press, 1965]; Edwin Cox, Sixth Form Religion [London: SCM Press, 1966]; Harold Loukes, Teenage Religion [London: SCM Press, 1963]; J. W. D. Smith, Religious Education in a Secular Setting (London: SCM Press, 1969], pp. 71 - 81.)

A family court's award of joint custody will determine where the child will physically live and when, and the court will also make a determination regarding how major decisions regarding his health, education, and religious needs will be made.

Rights and responsibilities of legal custody include making decisions about the child's legal status, medical care, education, safety, extracurricular activities, religious instruction, and other major life decisions.

One particular area of children's rights that the BHA has brought to the attention of the Committee is the issue of parental opt outs in Religious Education (RE), Collective Worship and sex eEducation (RE), Collective Worship and sex educationeducation.

A number of religious - based private schools in the Hudson Valley are facing state scrutiny over accusations that they're failing to provide children with basic education.

What we don't want to see, of course, is any kind of dilution in how thoroughly children are taught about the beliefs, religious or otherwise, of others, since such education plays a vital role in contributing to community cohesion and to literary, historical and cultural education.

In his «100 - day action plan to Make America Great Again,» Trump announced the School Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of theiEducation Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of theieducation dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice.

Professor Donaldson rightly identifies education about religions as a crucial part of a child's development, and we believe this would be best delivered through a nationally - set syllabus which is fully - inclusive of both religious and non-religious worldviews.

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.

Raised in a religious cult as a child, Isadora endured years of sexual trauma that eventually ignited her passion to teach sexual empowerment and modern sexual education.

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Families are in the best position to provide specific religious education and guidance of and for their children either in the home or through special after school activities or in their own church, synagogue, mosque or temple.

Many of the controversies explored in this book involve education, and Viteritti makes a strong case for resisting the urge to drive religion from the public (school) square, for allowing religious institutions to perform some public functions, and for granting deeply religious parents greater accommodations when their children attend public schools.

In a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.»

The parent decides where to spend that money for the child's education and may choose from a variety of participating entities, including religious and non-religious schools.

This idea would probably sound odd to parents who send their children to any religious school — whether Catholic, Jewish, or evangelical — since character building is one of the foundations of the education excellence these institutions pride themselves on.

In addition, diverse cultural and religious backgrounds inform this type of education so it's imperative that parents share personal values, attitudes and expectations with their children to help shape and enrich discussions that have been had at school.

The New York City Board of Education «effectively robs from public - school children» to provide Chapter 1 remedial services to students from religious schools, an advocacy group for public education hasEducation «effectively robs from public - school children» to provide Chapter 1 remedial services to students from religious schools, an advocacy group for public education haseducation has charged.

Education Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Hill touted DeVos» visits to 12 public, charter, private, religious and military schools — «an average of one per week» — as evidence that «the Secretary is engaging with students, parents, teachers and leaders to deliver the President's vision of ensuring every child in America has the equal opportunity to receive a world - class educatioEducation Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Hill touted DeVos» visits to 12 public, charter, private, religious and military schools — «an average of one per week» — as evidence that «the Secretary is engaging with students, parents, teachers and leaders to deliver the President's vision of ensuring every child in America has the equal opportunity to receive a world - class educationeducation.»

But the people who consider faith formation to be one of the most important parts of a child's education would surely want to see some restoration of the religious elements they cherished in their Catholic schools.

Nevertheless, his expansive view of civic toleration would authorize governmental intolerance of traditionalist religious educations that protect children from in - depth exposure to other ways of life until their own faith has taken root.

Some of these reasons are based on religious beliefs, others are for medical reasons, and some just want complete control of their child's education.