Sentences with phrase «religious leaders of today»

Did Jesus not exceed any known demand from religious leaders of today?

Not exact matches

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair reached further back in history today to claim for his own party a link to the defence of religious freedoms in Quebec.

Among those surprised by all of conservative TV host Glenn Beck's recent religious talk - including at Saturday's Washington rally, where Beck said that «America today begins to turn back to God,» - is the Rev. Richard Land, a Southern Baptist leader.

Given that only 18 percent of American adults say they're more active in organized religion today than they were ten years ago, while 32 percent said they're less active, perhaps religious leaders should take some comfort in the data here.

What Jesus said about the evil shepherds and other individuals, who were using the flock for their own selfish gratification, could also be said today of many of our religious leaders and our political leaders.

If you have been burned by religion, have suffered from the manipulation of religious leaders, or feel that God has lied to you, left you hanging, and can not be trusted, begin the path toward understanding God's heart for you, and gaining the true freedom He wants for you today.

Because of the tendency of the illiterate to want religion presented to him in a way which suits his imagination, we find that educated Muslims today disapprove of the innovations invented by the Sufi orders, such as veneration of saints, seeking blessings from tombs, seeking the mediation of religious leaders, and excessive asceticism.

Whereas the first generation of Latin American liberation theologians was made up primarily of Roman Catholic priests and other male religious leaders, today there are many voices speaking from the perspective of gender or incorporating the rich symbols inherited from a pre-Columbian or an African heritage.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

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.»

Today, we still see our share of religious violence and inconsistent or abusive behavior by prominent religious leaders, which rightly makes us shudder, if not roil with anger.

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.

The «faith of your fathers» was the product of the religious leaders of * their * days - clueless men, just like today.

Religious leaders today have the awesome task of helping to lead people through what may well become the most deadly epidemic in human history.

It is a tragedy that so many of our leaders today (and all of those ignorant fools who elect them on the basis of their religious beliefs) are guided by their brainwashed, dogmatic belief in what amounts to no more than a very elaborate story of Santa Claus.

And we do not know exactly who wrote all the books of the Bible including the ones which were discarded by religious leaders as not being included in what the Bible is today.

I had a fascinating day today, starting with members of Congress and then meeting national religious leaders.

If there is a proper application of this text today, it would be better to direct it to the religious leaders in our churches, rather than to the people in the pews.

We need something that can fire contemplatives and other religious, priests, preachers, teachers, catechists, theologians, parents, youth leaders, «the men and women in the pew» and the youth of today's Church as they all do their bit to learn from God's Word and announce the Good News revealed by Jesus Christ in His words, miracles, Passion and Resurrection.

Continuing to play the role of a pragmatic, bipartisan religious leader, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said today that he's looking forward to giving the closing prayer at both the GOP national convention tonight and the Democratic convention in Charlotte, NC next week.

«There is no bigger threat to the peace and unity of our country today than religion - coated incendiary messages, which are being carelessly sent out by some religious, political and opinion leaders.

Ghana prides itself in the peaceful co-existence of persons of diverse, ethnic, religious and political persuasions and we can not allow that reputation to be compromised.Distinguished Traditional leaders and all gathered here today; Ghana needs us to stand up for what is right, just and positive for our growth and development.

It's not pretty, but here's the language of the religious exemptions to the same - sex marriage bill agreed to by the legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier today.

Today, scientists around the world, including those at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research that Schellnhuber founded in 1992, are successfully investigating the nonlinear dynamics of the complex climate system, and religious leaders like Pope Francis - whose green Encyclical Schellnhuber had the honor to present to the world in 2015 - joined in the call for avoiding dangerous climate change.

More than 70 percent of North Carolina's private schools identify as religious today, and as those numbers grew in the 1970s, Christian school leaders became frustrated with state mandates that conflicted with their religious beliefs and instructional methodologies.