Sentences with phrase «religious leadership»

We have 200 + years of a separation of religious leadership from civil leadership.

It's always best if women don't involve at all in religious leadership positions except for certain emergencies.

Yet much, if not most, of our intellectual, social and even religious leadership has begun to doubt whether anything theological is of fundamental and universal importance.

I also work with couples who are in some form of religious leadership since I have a background of 30 years working in religious institutions.

Men continue to dominate religious institutions, and use them to judge whether women can be in religious leadership or change faiths.

Or, if in a position of religious leadership, they fear that those who ask questions will raise doubt in the minds of their followers.

I read a lot about religion, theology, and philosophy, and I've come to a conclusion on what may be the most serious problem with religious leadership today: Entitlement!

I read a lot about religion, theology, and philosophy, and I've come to a conclusion on what may be the most serious problem with religious leadership today:

Theological education must prepare persons for religious leadership in those circumstances.

It was Bible - reading Christians alone that were massively executed by the wrong religious leaderships and others.

Much of the creative religious leadership at the time, however, came from the Pharisees.

If anything, the early Church was extraordinarily supportive of female religious leadership: Paul refers to Junia as «an apostle equal to myself,» sent his letter to Rome in the care of Phoebe, the diakonos (leader / priest equivalent) of the church at Cenchraea, and praised Prisca, Lydia, and others for their hard work, leadership, preaching, and teaching.

The Jewish religious leadership of the day was also compromised in their alliance with the Roman rulers of the colonized Jewish people.

Last year the National Council of Churches (NCC) got a broad array of religious leadership types to sign on with a «Campaign to Take Commercialism Out of Christmas.»

Responsible religious leadership — such as the recent meetings of the International Missionary Council, to which Radhakrishnan himself refers, 31 represent — is well aware that there are pressing tasks which require the wholehearted cooperation of the faithful of all religions.

I see Pope Francis respected because he reminds us of Jesus, which unfortunately is a bit of a surprise when seen in public religious leadership.

Another prospective attorney general, Michael D. Diederich, Jr., a Hudson Valley lawyer, promised «to take on the Hasidic religious leadership.»

The reason you say: «It's always best if women don't involve at all in religious leadership positions..»

And yet today, many people are silencing and shaming others for addressing systemic issues or individual behavioral concerns with religious leadership, calling for grace — as if grace and accountability are mutually exclusive.

We have learned that religious traditions, including Christianity, have supported male dominance in many ways, including depicting God as male and denying women a place in religious leadership.

The early fourth century CE saw a tectonic shift in the fortunes of the oppressed but ever growing Christian community: The emperor Constantine handed over the reins of religious leadership in his empire to the church.

He also spoke several times of the religious leadership and bravery of Pope John Paul II.

They must be ordained in their religious faith and be released by their religious leadership to serve in the military.

In all of these areas we are treated as if we are not to trust our own wisdom and must submit to the mind control of the religious leadership.

However, under the growing menace of Hindu communalism a not inconsiderable section of the religious leadership came forward to support the Pakistan movement.

Unless the religious leadership gives up its medieval ways of thinking, its rigidity and conservatism, it is difficult to see how the modern educated class will accept its conception of Islam.

This is because the religious leadership of the Muslims has passed into the hands of people whose knowledge even of the purely religious sciences is highly inadequate.

It's an imposition of a civil religion (democratic process) on a religious leadership selection issue.

Jeremiah confronted the political, and religious leadership, as well as the common man, and they ignored him, persecuted him, thew him in jail, all because he told them God's judgement was coming.

Jesus in his conduct never advocated for a different religion his condemnation of the religious leadership not withstanding.

The problem is the religious leadership of Islam (the Imams, Ayatollahs, etc of Shi'a Islam, for instance) and the relative lack of education (especially self - education) in many muslim countries.

It would be unfaithful to both the best in the world of scientific learning and the wisest kind of religious leadership to offer more than these broad clear strokes in the portrayal of what it means in our day to undertake the work of a scientist as a Christian calling.

As a religious professional, I've come to see more clearly over the years why Jesus had to assault the religious leadership as he did.

Those in religious leadership are just as venal as any in the world.

Those of us in religious leadership are just as venal as any in the world.

But in Luke 7:30, the lawyers and Pharisees, just like the religious leadership in Luther's day, could not admit that their system of works righteousness they had worked so hard to build and maintain was actually a pile of filthy rags (Isa.

Time, lack of religious leadership, isolation from the Chinese mainland, and Japanese control have reduced this group to apathy.

Religious leadership has been painfully aware of both the fundamental shift to the technological era and of the new information techniques which communicate its worldview, but their responses have been largely inadequate.

They are written explain the world by ability with no clue as to how science works and to scare other people into obeying the religious leadership, including supporting that same leadership.

We often can't even unseat sexual predators from the midst of religious leadership.

Jesus had enough negative things to say about the religious leadership that they killed Him, these pedos aren't the first blind guides and they won't be the last.

In the last analysis, Lubavitch's menorah campaign is an expression of that organization's impatient mode of Jewish messianism and its triumphalist agenda and goal of seizing the mantle of religious leadership in the Jewish world today.

«All these are members of various churches in the country and we should know that we have a lot of work to do as religious leadership.

Instead they were part of what we now describe as «middle» or «lower» classes — groups not devoted to political, military or religious leadership.