Sentences with phrase «religious leader of the churches»

With this kind of reasoning, the expression that «God is dead» or that he has no interest in us, leaving all the woes and troubles to ourselves to deal with or solve, takes root and this from a man that is a religious leader of the churches of Christendom.

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And Pence's request to visit Bethlehem and tour the Church of the Nativity has also been denied by religious leaders.

Thomas Spencer Monson (born August 21, 1927) is an American religious leader and author, and the 16th and current President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints (LDS Church).

Rev. Moon, founder of the Unification Church, was «the last surviving charismatic leader of the wave of religious movements that spread throughout California and the rest of the West in the 1970s and»80s.»

CNN: Rev. Moon, religious and political leader, dies in South Korea at 92 The Rev. Sun Myung Moon — founder of the Unification Church, which gained fame worldwide decades ago for its mass weddings, as well as the Washington Times — died early Monday in South Korea, the churchChurch, which gained fame worldwide decades ago for its mass weddings, as well as the Washington Times — died early Monday in South Korea, the churchchurch said.

A. W. Tozer, in his concern for the lack of the right kind of leadership in the church, wrote: Another kind of religious leader must arise among us.

After a back - and - forth with a variety of Christian leaders, most notably the Catholic Church, the rule was amended and some religious organizations were given an exemption.

I have a fundamental issue with many religious leaders, and it has actually drawn me far from churches of all kinds.

Drucker may be too generous in his estimate of the role that the churches and synagogues of America are playing in this «management revolution,» but religious leaders have reason to pay attention to his call for the upgrading of voluntarism.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

Supporters of the law say it is ludicrous to imagine that a religious leader or church member would be arrested for giving a hand to those in the country illegally.

«[Religious leaders] essentially decided during the past twenty years that people could fend for themselves on matters of personal morality while the churches joined the «struggle» to establish social «rights» whose imprimatur comes from the courts, America's unique bishopric.»

The public letter released on Friday (Jan. 18) notes that leaders of 15 religious groups, including Lutherans, Presbyterians and Methodists, asked Congress to take that step last October, and that the «voice of the Episcopal Church is woefully missing.»

CNN: 2 communities linked to polygamous sect sued for alleged religious discrimination Two communities dominated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints and its jailed leader Warren Jeffs have been sued by the federal government for alleged religious discrimination against citizens who don't belong to the polygamous sect.

That the «brethren» or leaders of the church do nt just speak for God, but speak plenty of their own rubbish that is for our «salvation and stuff»... I removed the religious blinders and found a wonderful world that is not plagued by guilt, remorse, doubt or fear that I may not be doing what God wants me to do.

While defense contractors say that there is no moral or religious dilemma for their employees, church leaders say that there is a problem, but one that can be solved by refusing to participate in the development or production of nuclear weapons and technology.

It is because of the dark ages again settling in on speaking and teaching the Word of God, that church and religious leaders have turned from the truths of Jesus to the desires of man.

[1] The state was committed to the destruction of religion, [2][3] and destroyed churches, mosques and temples, ridiculed, hara ssed and executed religious leaders, flooded the schools and media with atheistic propaganda, and generally promoted «scientific atheism» as the truth that society should accept.

[1] The state was committed to the destruction of religion, [2][3] and destroyed churches, mosques and temples, ridiculed, harassed and executed religious leaders, flooded the schools and media with atheistic propaganda, and generally promoted «scientific atheism» as the truth that society should accept.

But even broader contributions await release in the priests, pastors, rabbis, lay leaders, and grass - roots members of religious communities (i.e., congregations) Approximately 124 million members of 320,000 churches and temples are served by 246,000 clergymen and rabbis.

At a time when their colleagues who spoke for the church were conspicuously incapable of giving the faith a good account in the eyes of the learned, the Vanderbilt academics preferred to dissociate themselves from their religious leaders rather than take up their cause as allies and persuade them that sound scholarship was God's good servant too.

The range of religious experience, religious resources and potential mission partners on which church leaders can draw is mind - boggling.

Any church leader who questions the validity of a religious presence on college campuses should read this book and reassess that notion.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

Church leaders became the religious counterpart of the leaders of secular society.

Winthrop was, unlike Augustine, the leader of a total society in which church and state, though different, were closely connected and in which Christianity informed the political as well as the religious structure.

The hope and dream of every church school leader should be that his learners will push on beyond knowledge about religious truth to the pulsating reality of religious experience, and that many, as the years pass, will catch a vision of the depth dimension of the inner life — spiritual wisdom.

A survey that William McKinney and I recently conducted invited 1,500 conservative and mainline Protestant denominational leaders to choose from a list of 63 contemporary religious leaders and authors the ten who have had «the greatest impact on your thinking about the church's life and mission today.»

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

Just as the prophets condemned the false prophets in scathing diatribes, just as Jesus condemned the hypocritical religious leaders of his people in unsparing language, so the early church condemned false teachers that arose in its midst.

The more liberal Krishna Kanth, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, in his address to the Assembly of the National Council of Churches in 1991 and following it in a press interview with Neerge Choudhury (Indian Express 21 Oct. 1991) «called for an end to religious conversion in the country, not by law but by a voluntary consensus of religious leaders», because in his opinion, communal strife is closely linked to conversion.

Pope Benedict's purpose and tone as he spoke to both religious and secular leaders - overwhelmingly positive and collaborative - was the direct fruit of the landmark event that remains the most significant moment of the history of the Church in our time, the Second Vatican Council.

What is clear is that this compelling and provocative book has much to say to religious leaders concerned about the integrity of democracy in America and about the integrity of the church in its public commitments

The violence has spilled over into Ukraine, where leaders of the Evangelical Protestant Churches of Ukraine said that pro-Russian Orthodox militants had subjected their members to «abduction, beating, torture, murder threats, and damage to houses of worship, seizure of religious buildings, and damage to health and private property of the clergy,» the Free Beacon reported.

The Catholic church is as Jesus gave in an illustration of «Lazarus and the Rich man», whereby Lazarus pictured the common people or am - haarets (Hebrew meaning «people of the land») and the rich man pictured the Jewish religious leaders who fed the Lazarus class spiritual «crumbs».

To which almost every religious leader said that those types of discussions might make their church attendees feel «uncomfortable» and a few admitted because it would drive people away who they count on for larger donations.

Having been a part of a church that went through the painful resignation of a lead pastor, and having been the daughter of a religious leader who resigned due to moral failure, I know how incredibly difficult this transition will be for everyone involved.

Moreover, some evangelical groups have the audacity, in the words of the religious left's Crisis News, to criticize «prophetic church leaders such as Desmond Tutu, Allan Boesak, and Frank Chikane, as well as the World Council of Churches.»

As for the Christians, ya okay your bible might have somehow predicted all of this 2000 + years in advanced, and maybe you were right all along, but you guys still better get cautious because you have too many enemies in this world and your own churches / religious leaders are so spiritually dead and corrupt that they would not survive a muslim takeover.

In these settings a small corps of priests or other functionaries, or perhaps a single religious leader, provides ceremonial proficiency and continuity for a larger lay populace whose participation, while not casual, tends to be more occasional and informal than the ordered activity of church attendance.

Despite formal separation of church and state, the effect of this arrangement over time has been to covertly control religious leaders by making it appear that the institutions they lead are the bulwark of democracy.

Meanwhile, church leaders in the central Cuban city of Camagüey and the eastern city of Santiago denounced a series of religious freedom violations this week.

Considering there is the small matter «separation of church and state» I think those religious leaders are looking for a pay raise from their sheep, and not staying tax free is what they seem to thumb their noses at.

Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church and other religious leaders claim the compulsory lesson is an attempt to convert secondary pupils to Islam.

Sergei Ryakhovsky, head of the Protestant Churches of Russia, and several other evangelical leaders called the law a violation of religious freedom and personal conscience in a letter to Putin posted on the Russian site Portal - Credo.

And many of the leaders of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious do not embrace the doctrine of the Catholic Church as truth.

Nevertheless, some religious leaders would agree with John Steinbruck, pastor of Luther Place Memorial Church in Washington, D.C., who charges that «the churches have not done enough.

In much the same way that denominations can no longer assume that people will take on the religious loyalties of their parents, they can no longer assume that today's church leaders will continue the funding patterns of previous generations.

This is most evident in Matthew 21:43, where, following the crucifixion, the kingdom of God will be taken away from «you» (= the Jewish religious leaders) and given to «a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom» (= the church).

From civic faith to the practice of transformation: With their churches no longer part of the religious establishment, and with the country increasingly diverse culturally and pluralistic religiously, mainline leaders have had to ask bottom - line questions — questions about purpose, not profit.