Sentences with phrase «religious leaders came»

American Federation of Teachers union President Randi Weingarten came to support the walkers, and even Pastors For Oklahoma Kids and other religious leaders came out to bless the efforts.

Asked which figures had influence in their lives, religious leaders came bottom, with only 12 % saying they were influenced by them.

At most of the conflicts Jesus had with the religious leaders comes not from His claim to be God, but from His challenges to their authority.

Rochester area religious leaders come together to address the challenges of our time.

Not exact matches

Just this week, justices weighed the religious values of company leaders, as the Hobby Lobby case came before the Supreme Court.

Either way, the severe Twitter backlash to Lakewood's closure suggests that, when it comes to our religious leaders, thoughts and prayers are no longer enough.

I will no longer be respectful of the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who seems to believe that rude behavior, intolerance and even killing prejudice is somehow acceptable, so long as it comes from third - world religious leaders, who more than anything else reveal in themselves the price that colonial oppression has required of the minds and hearts of so many of our world's population.

Messages of fidelity, monogamy, and delay of first sexual experience can be transmitted in a secular manner» for example, through life - skills programs at schools» and / or these messages can come through religious leaders and organizations.

I have heard deeply thoughtful religious leaders acknowledge that they came late to an appreciation of the pandemic, that preconceptions influenced their initial reactions, that some leaders have taken harsh stances (for example, refusing to bury people whose families acknowledge that they died of AIDS), and that their focus on ideal behaviors can obscure what is real and live.

But there will probably come a point when red lines get crossed and Catholic and other religious leaders declare: Contempt for immigrants, even illegal immigrants, is not a moral option.

In early 2000, followers of the religious movement perished in a devastating fire and a series of poisonings and killings that were either a group suicide or an orchestrated mass murder by group leaders after their predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about.

Folk wisdom has it that such converts come to the priest on Sunday and to the traditional African religious leader on Monday.

Despite their political, religious and ethnic differences, leaders from around the world are coming together for today's National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.

If anyone else wants to come here and «apologize» please don't embarrass yourself, or insult the emotional intelligence of the very bright and empathic people here, many who have faced real abuse at the hands of religious leaders.

His only judgments came against the religious leaders who were judged not for their sins but, because they lived in continual judgment of any who did not act just like they did and because they failed to extend grace and love to those who needed it the most.

Once, when he came upon a drunken scene, probably in connection with the temple sacrifices, where priests and prophets, as he says, reeled with wine and staggered with strong drink until the tables were full of «vomit and filthiness,» he was greeted with the intoxicated jeers of the people's religious leaders: «Whom will he teach knowledge?

«[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.»

Religious leaders and pastors also come in for some gentle chiding from Wuthnow, who thinks they hold views about human action and social change that are simplistic and individualistic.

Islam found its way into the African continent through three channels: through the merchants who came from Egypt, the Maghrib, and Zanzibar in the east; through followers of Sufi orders and graduates of the Islamic schools of Fez, Zaitouna, and Cairo; and through the intermarriage of Muslim merchants and religious leaders with African women.

And the problem with Stalin and Mao is that they, like the religious leaders they decried, demanded doctrinal purity and came down hard on those who strayed from the official «truth».

And about the thief who comes to steal, kill and destroy... we do realize that is speaking of the false religious leaders of the day and not satan, right?

The religious leaders of the day had developed a list of signs which would accompany the coming of the Messiah.

So now these religious leaders are coming to hear Him for themselves in order to determine whether they should accept and encourage Him, or accuse and condemn Him.

You are right though, the flat world did come for folks who did not know any better, including priest, prophets and religious leaders.

In these verses, Luke reveals that God's solutions to life's questions and problems did not come from rulers or religious leaders or those with power, prominence, money, and authority.

The money is coming from religious leaders, who many believe are paid from Saudi Arabia.»

I simply mean that following the teachings of all the religious leaders do not end up being the same thing do not lead to the same implications for life on the planet in the years to come.

The possible reasons for his coming at night include: the merit attributed to studying the law at night; the symbolic significance of darkness in this gospel, and the fear of the hostility of some religious leaders toward those who confess faith in Jesus (cf. 12:41; 9:22).

But even then, there is no record that anyone else, including the religious leaders of the day, came to see Jesus.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

A lot of things happened in that service that would make some of the leaders in my evangelical religious community very angry: a woman serving the bread and the wine, a lesbian couple partaking of the elements with their baby daughter in tow, a gay man embracing me in a big bear hug and telling me that it was the first time in twenty years he felt worthy to come to the Table.

«I am heartened by the clear, unequivocal condemnation of this disrespectful, disgraceful act that has come from American religious leaders of all faiths... as well as secular U.S. leaders and opinion makers,» she said.

«We call upon the world's religious and political leaders to unite in their efforts to come up with an effective response to extremism.»

Once a Gandhian leader came to Kohima and we had fellowship with him As I was sitting by him, he started conversing with me about religious matters: «There are some extreme Christians who say that human being can be saved through Christianity only and thee is no other way.

After all, if the religious leaders of the day had seen the coming of Israel's Messiah in the birth, life and teachings of Jesus, there would have been no gospel to the gentiles.

The decision came a day after Parker met with Houston pastors (including Chris Seay, who wrote about the subpoenas for Leadership Journal), as well as clergy leaders from across the country who have defended the subpoenaed pastors» religious freedom.

If our political leaders come to accept Ignatieff's narrowly individualistic view, then the traditional North American understanding of religious liberty can not easily coexist with human rights conceived in so expansive a sense.

The partial concession to calls for conscience votes comes as religious leaders are warned not to inflame or distort the debate surrounding the use of hybrid embryos and other updates to fertility and embryology legislation.

Even though New York isn't high on the priority list here at the convention, (it isn't likely to matter, come November), religious leaders from the state will both open (Rabbi Meir Y. Soloveichik) and close (Cardinal Timothy Dolan) the proceedings.

Over 50 religious leaders, have already come out in support of Comrie and he recently picked up the endorsement of District Council 37 (DC37), New York City's Largest Public Employee Union and the Organization of Staff Analysts (OSA) Union.

The meeting came as de Blasio announced that he had asked Cardinal Timothy Dolan to host an interfaith meeting of senior religious leaders later this month «focused on healing and deepening the relationship between police and community,» read an announcement of the event.

«Admittedly, we came under intense persuasive pressure from genuinely concerned national, political, traditional, religious and cultural leaders prominent among which were; a section of the Northern Governors Forum under its Chairman, Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno state, northern traditional rulers and the Department of State Services DSS.

«The leader we want is a detribalised one, and not the one who would come and divide the country along ethnicity and religious lines.

«There may come a time when religious leaders and faith - based organizations generate more interest in protecting the environment and more willingness to demand action, but we haven't seen it yet.»

As well as being a superhero, Black Panther, played by Chadwick Boseman, is a religious figurehead and a political leader whose strength comes from his intellect, the superior technology in his suit, a herb that only he can eat without being poisoned, and the knowledge of his ancestors.

The religious leaders, in turn, would point out that when it came time to participating in public life, it was a public relationship and public dialogue — and when it came time to a personal issue, it was a private relationship and a private dialogue.

Religious leaders feared that regular people who read the Bible for themselves might come up with their own interpretations of the Bible, producing a whole host of heretics.

A slighter younger compatriot of the Young British Artists of the early»90s, Saville came to popular attention in the U.S. when her work was included in the controversial 1997 «Sensation» show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, which provoked the ire of conservative political and religious leaders.

Together, they wrote Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions in 2009 (it's being reissued this year), a book, in which, just as importantly, Hayhoe, an active and well - published leader in her field, came out to the scientific community as religious.

I linked this result to how religious organizations» leaders came to think about using bankruptcy to deal with their organizations» financial problems.