Sentences with phrase «resources for their faith»

Any group interested in developing a faith - based legal project may contact the Pro Bono Coordinator for help in developing a plan and resources for their faith communities.
Beliefnet is a lifestyle site that serves as your number one resource for faith, belief and spirituality.
Beliefnet is a lifestyle site that serves as your number one resource for faith, belief and spirituality.

Not exact matches

You have to be creative in your use of limited resources, have the ability to catch a potential investor's eye - especially if you're looking further than their circle of friends and family for funding - and see things that other people can't, including having faith in your own vision when others may not.
If they're concerned about resources... they should just increase the price for faith based ads.
The senior members of the church are amazing people and a rich resource for the continued growth and development of the Catholic faith.
This book will serve as an invaluable resource for any parent whose greatest longing is to shepherd their children into a vibrant faith in God.
Although the Church has preserved a tradition as a patron of the arts for more than a millennium, and the great mediaeval cathedrals in particular have portrayed Christianity through their paintings, sculptures, and perhaps especially their windows, Catholic teachers are now refocusing on literary, cultural and artistic beauty as a conscious resource for the transmission of the faith.
The passage's concluding paragraph asserts that «in theological reflection, the resources of tradition, experience, and reason are integral to our study of Scripture without displacing its primacy for faith and practice.»
There are now many voices championing orthodoxy in matters of faith, and new resources for communicating Catholic doctrine at a popular level, using all the creativity and power of the modern media.
If you have already embraced evolution as a credible explanation for why life on earth is the way it is, I hope you will find the resources below useful in helping to harmonize this view with your faith.
A theory of the Christian life that provides a reference for understanding one's own faith journey, adapting the means of grace to resource it, and to aid others in entering and negotiating that same journey.
And with no imagery available, other than that of supernaturalism, to suggest such nuances or sensitive ground for pointing toward dimensions of grace or spirit, Christian faith could mean for the modern consciousness only confidence in the resources of man's moral idealism.
Multitudes would bear witness that in the established habit of public worship they have found clarification and confirmation of their faith, the reorienting of their lives, the deepening of their spiritual resources, comfort in trouble, and rekindled zest for living.
But as they emerge as leaders of our society, they can find in the now somewhat despised and ignored liberal theology important resources for relating the legitimate concerns of Christian faith to the pressing problems of our time.
In public education, then, the initial aim of instruction in the religious heritage is to help adherents of each tradition — Christians, Jews, Muslims, Ethical Culturists, Religious Naturalists, and all the others — to realize to the full the resources for the embodiment of religious faith available in their tradition at its best.
If one can recognise the vital role which the mass media are playing in this regard and understand some of its major mythologies, exploration of the process and media mythologies offers a rich resource for theological reflection and the cultural contextualization of faith.
The Language of Science and Faith is a readable and comprehensive resource for the thoughtful Christian who refuses to choose.
In the churches and congregations we find fresh energy and intelligence being devoted to the production of new hymns, music, artistic and liturgical materials, to the creation of fresh categories for doing theology, to the retrieval of threatened cultural resources, to the application of faith to public issues, and to the promotion of ecumenical sharing and partnership.
Much as the Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formulation.
Our task as readers is to remember and serve the intentions of those communities of faith who preserved these documents, to nourish the conviction that they are authoritative in our lives today, and most important, to communicate their worth as resources for our lives.
During this Year of Faith, this book could be read in sections as part of a more meditative approach to understanding the Creed or as a resource for use as part of a study group.
I only recently discovered Austen's work but he's since become my go - to for resourcing Christians who are new to the topic of transgender identity and faith because this guy is SUCH a Bible nerd!
The Faith Alive group in Southampton has in the past decade initiated Alpha courses, an ecumenical programme sharing ideas about leadership, formation and outreach methods with other denominations, a city guildhall event with a Catholic inspirational speaker and prayer teams, a city mission, an introductory programme for «new seekers», that is people interested in the Church and who might wish to continue with the RCIA, displays outside a church on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary target.
In his foreword, the Rt Rev Peter Doyle, Chair of the Bishops» Committee for Marriage and Family Life, described the 4th edition as «a resource to assist all those in our communities whose marriages have failed, and those accompanying them; and restore to them, with the mercy of God, hope and confidence on the journey of faith in the light of the Gospel.»
Strider, who helped spearhead Democratic faith outreach in 2006 and 2008 - when he directed that work for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign - said the party put substantially fewer resources and effort into faith - based strategy work this year than in any election since 2004.
However, H. Richard believes that Christian faith provides invaluable resources for helping people face the tragic sense engendered by this frustrating inactivity.
There are some great resources out there for helping people harmonize faith and science: The Language of God by Francis Collins (one of my favorite books on the topic), Coming to Peace With Science by Darrel Falk (which several professors told me has been especially helpful for students), Saving Darwin by Karl Giberson (which I am currently loving), and The Lost World of Genesis One (which we will discuss next week).
Although the strategy taxed its resources, the immigrants came to look upon the church as a legally protected repository of national or ethnic identity, and upon the faith as a taken - for - granted — even a necessary — part of life.
For example, although David Ford's work is much respected among academic theologians, and he is one of the most important public theologians in the UK, his name is probably unknown to most Christians in the U.S. Educated in Ireland, Germany and the U.S. (as well as in the UK), Ford brings a wide range of intellectual resources to bear on his interpretation of the faith.
Over the years, believers have dipped into this deep well of resources for experiencing and expressing Christian faith, adding to it their insights and inspiration, so that the tradition has only become richer and more abundant.
For him the avenue to religious truth lay in present experience and, at least during the earlier years, «he dismissed historical study of the faith as having no resources for the present task&raquFor him the avenue to religious truth lay in present experience and, at least during the earlier years, «he dismissed historical study of the faith as having no resources for the present task&raqufor the present task».
«We have seen how important the Internet is, especially young people questioning their faith, and this provides them with another resource with a different focus,» said Jesse Galef, communications director for the Secular Student Alliance.
It is not uncommon, however, for these same alcoholics to begin, at a later point in their rehabilitation process, to seek the answers and resources of their faith.
They may continue as resources for the fresh formulation of the one faith of the one church, which is an ongoing task.
I am convinced that it is a task whose time has come and that Christian faith offers us unique motivation and unique resources for the task.
Resources: ««Humanae Vitae» Author Pope Paul VI Moves Toward Sainthood,» Catholic News Agency, December 20, 2012 Evangelii Nuntiandi, Apostolic Exhortation of Paul VI (1975) Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (on priestly celibacy), Encyclical Letter of Paul VI (1967) Populorom Progressio, Encyclical Letter of Paul VI, 1967 Humanae Vitae, Encyclical Letter of Paul VI (1968) Declaration on Procured Abortion, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved by Paul VI, 1974 Persona Humana, Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved by Paul VI, 1975 Inter Insigniores, Declaration on the Question of Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved by Paul VI, 1976 Become a fan of First Things on Facebook, subscribe to First Things via RSS, and follow First Things on Twitter.
Several resources exist that explicitly follow this pedagogy: the Echoes parish - based programme for handing on faith by CTS; Adult formation on the Lord's prayer by CTS and ACM materials for RCIA also distributed by CTS.
What I propose to do here is to set down the working faith which the Christian tradition has about health and community; to list some of the pioneer areas where church - related community mental health programs are operating; to outline one such project in order to illustrate the design and plan of such training; and finally to suggest action steps and resources for those interested in going further.
This group of people has their head up their ventral orifice and they are not, it seems to me, acting in good faith as regards how they are using the resources of the association as I very much doubt they could prevail in court and indeed might make the association liable for damages.
It serves as a resource to all types of people, providing ideas for bringing the Bible to life, and helping kids grow a passion for praying and living out the Christian faith in a powerful and authentic way.
Together with Jeremy Lee, Burns has produced an amazing resource for parents who wish to pass on a legacy of faith to their children.
Group programs for kids of divorce run by schools or faith - based organizations are an excellent resource for kids and families who need some help to get through these early stages.
We must come together in a new partnership with our faith - based institutions, civil society, businesses and government to create a powerful locomotive for transformation so that our President's coordinated program of economic and social development policies will create «an optimistic, self - confident and prosperous nation through the creative exploitation of our human and natural resources and operating within a democratic, open and fair society in which mutual trust and economic opportunities exist for all.»
My instinct would be that the best (and pretty weak) case for good faith, reasonable proportionality, etc would relate not at all to the group of protestors who were contained, but either to some argument relating to the resource pressures of policing adjacent events, fears of the risks of issues involved in one becoming mixed up in the other, etc, etc which (at its very best) would be a highly pre-emptive and precautionary approach to a situation where there was no existing problem to be contained.
Proposals for a second term included a «minority job voucher program» and a «faith based office in the state government... to provide resources» to» faith based organizations.»
President Akufo - Addo had on January 12, 2016 in Kumasi at an even dubbed «Save Ghana Now» Fundraising for Election» declared «as I always say, and keep on saying, I didn't come into politics to spend Ghana's cash; all I need is for Ghanaians to have faith in me and put me in charge of the resources.
Non-state representatives included housing developers, nonprofits, and faith - based organizations, and together the group focused on a variety of issues that included the application process for housing development opportunities, solutions for zombie properties, adaptive reuse, ways to expand community services and resources, and ways to increase overall homeownership.
In 2013, the Department for Education (DfE) published advice stating that» There are many different actions that schools can take to meet this part of the standard, such as:... Use teaching resources from a wide variety of sources to help pupils understand a range of faiths, and beliefs such as atheism and humanism.»
Start phoning the faith communities to see if they are sponsoring such an event and what other resources do they know of for this special evening.
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