Sentences with phrase «religious voices on»

period) DO listen to religious voices on social, political and economic issues (don't shout down Christians especially) allow people to justify their views (justify..

Not exact matches

Where debate on the subject of religion versus secularism is concerned, it's always easy to find voices shrieking over the banishment of religion and Christianity from American life, and claims the nation is morally bankrupt because of the success progressives have had with marginalizing or outlawing religious practices.

In fact, the oppression of some Christian governments against rival sects of Christians is the entire reason our founding fathers built our government to be secular, with no authority on religious matters, with no voice over the religion of its citizens, and guaranteed to all the freedom to worship, or not, as their conscious dictates.

Just look at the role it has played in organizing and reporting on the Ferguson and Baltimore protests, in challenging the teachings and behaviors of authoritarian religious leaders, and in amplifying voices that have traditionally been sidelined (like those of women and LGBT Christians).

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.»

Voices on all sides of the religious and political spectrum have begun to recognize — not least because of the increased presence of Islam in Western societies — that a purely secular, liberal approach to public discourse is not sustainable in a world increasingly shaped by religions.

I look forward to Judge Gorsuch's voice on the court for decades to come and pray that he will be an articulate and stalwart advocate for religious liberty and human dignity at all its stages.

DO listen to your own voice or the Church on social, political and economic issues, and allow people to justify their views on explicitly religious grounds if they want, as long as it's your religion with a monotheistic male deity.

Third, the Christian church has little access to or influence on the major policy making institutions of our society, in spite of the noisy presence of reactionary church voices and political campaign allusions to religious values.

«The vast majority of religious voices are clear that there is no justification for making the provision of aid or assistance conditional on expressing religious beliefs.

In a thousand cases across America, in incidents as far - ranging as Boy Scout meetings, public prayers on the Fourth of July, and the display of religious symbols on public buildings, Americans are losing the same privileges by whispering rather than giving voice to their protests.

Especially in these times, we desperately need voices — religious voices — to speak on behalf of respect, pluralism, civility and nonviolence.

Halsell adds that 1,400 religious stations carry this voice and that of the 80,000 evangelical pastors who broadcast on 400 radio stations, a very large majority are dispensationalists.

Just because we aren't talking about debate questions or party platforms on Facebook doesn't mean we stop standing up for the unborn, raising our voices for religious liberty, caring for refugees, pursuing racial reconciliation, and more.

The problems of teen - age sexuality and the fact that conservative political and religious groups have put these problems on their agendas suggest that it is urgent for mainline denominations and liberal churches to recover a credible voice in matters of human sexuality — both the ethical and the practical.

If you believe that religion lives on the right, and you are booking a television program, then when you look for an authentic «religious voice» you're probably going to find a conservative one.

Now figure out when we hear that voice from the new world messiah who would be speaking from space to all of the sane people of the earth who might give instructions to zealots and religious fanatics, we would see hysteria and social mayhem on a scale never witnessed before on this planet.

The White House seems to have assuaged the concerns of liberal and moderate religious voices, particularly Catholics, who complained that the U.S. Health and Human Services mandate on contraceptive coverage violated religious freedom of conscience.

We would want to know, for example, whether the use of the word abortion in a religious broadcast occurred only within narratives or in a wider variety of discursive forms, whether it was spoken by more than one narrator, whether it was spoken in the same «voice,» whether it occurred consistently in a particular kind of sentence structure, and so on.

The passive voice enables him to finesse the awkward fact that the Turkish government laid stringent restrictions on expression of religious faith, including the forms of church architecture.

A political silence on issues like payday lending has led to a desperate need for other voices in the public debate - and it's religious ones who are, increasingly, filling the gap.

Stakeholders, particularly Parliamentarians, religious leaders and the media have been asked to add their voice on Amnesty International's call on the abolition of death penalty in Ghana.

As a former head of a church, I objected to this idea during Prof. Mills» tenure, and I am adding my voice now to the people who are objecting to this idea by telling government to stop it... Lets allow religious groups to do whatever they want to do, but government should concentrate on its mandate by providing jobs and putting up infrastructural developments with such monies,» he admonished.

According to one source familiar with the effort to pass the bill, despite the unambiguous limits on it, Senate Republican leaders pointed to concerns some religious communities voiced about their freedom to counsel young people unfettered by the state.

If anyone is struggling with the legalities of the ruling, I highly encourage them to check out this post, which is one of the most eloquent statements I've read on exactly why constitutional rights aren't (and shouldn't be) up for the popular voice or religious institutions to determine.

«Our story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg resonates with me on so many levels — from the inspiring partnership she found in her marriage, to overcoming adversity as a woman and discovering the strength of her own voice, to her empathetic commitment to those in need of a voice no matter their gender, race, status or religious beliefs,» says the director.

«Our story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg resonates with me on so many levels — from the inspiring partnership she found in her marriage, to overcoming adversity as a woman and discovering the strength of her own voice, to her empathetic commitment to those in need of a voice no matter their gender, race, status, or religious beliefs,» Leder said.

Translated as «great exhaustion», it consists of a 13 - minute video in which a rap voice attempts to tell the story of the universe, combining mythical, religious, historic and scientific narratives, while a flow of images flash by simultaneously on a desktop computer.

«American democracy relies on a plurality of voices representing economic, scientific, and religious perspectives to arrive at balanced public policy,» he maintains.