Sentences with phrase «response by the churches»

CNN: Response by the Church of Scientology to «Going Clear» In response to CNN's request for comment on its story about Lawrence Wright's book «Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief,» the network received several letters from the Church of Scientology and its attorneys.

On one Sunday when the majority if not all the congregation is expected to be there have an unannounced special pastor deliver the sermon... say Al Sharpton... and make it a long sermon... See who walks out... Nothing in the article or the responses by the church says that they would allow African American couples to wed in the church.

There are some encouraging signs of the beginnings of a response by the churches.

The Reichskonkordat was a treaty signed on 20 July 1933 between the Holy See (Catholic Church) and Nazi Germany, guaranteeing the rights of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, giving moral legitimacy to the Nazi regime soon after Hitler had acquired dictatorial powers, and placing constraints on Catholic critics of the regime, leading to a muted response by the Church to Nazi policies.

Not exact matches

Following Sunday's tragedy and the unsurprising response out of Washington, Twitter users were quick to point out the cruel irony of the tired statement: the victims of this latest act of domestic terrorism were in church, literally engaged in prayer, when they were viciously attacked by a white man wielding a legal gun.

In response to Pope Francis» message on the evils of love of money, Wasilla Barbie (aka sarah palin) stated she was «taken aback by the pope's liberal statements», rush limbaugh has called the pope a «Marxist» and stuart varney publicly rejected the Pope outright, saying he simply has to «go to church to save my soul».

Ripatrazone wrote The Fine Delight in part as a response to my article, he says, but he is less concerned with highlighting the artistry of contemporary Catholic writers than with proving that their intention is to critique the preconciliar Catholic Church as epitomized by the Tridentine Mass and the use of Latin.

Unless of course, you agree with the RCC's response (from your link): «Indeed, the Vatican's early response to the 2002 revelations of widespread Church cover - ups of se -LSB--RSB- xual abuse by priests was to declare that gay men should not be ordained.»

Is it possible that the message of comfort for those devastated by the faltering world economy will be nothing more than trite and meaningless words if not accompanied by a biblical response where we, the church, become the Good News, the economic expression of God in flesh?

We were just going to press with an issue that included an outstanding article by Father Paul Mankowski, S.J., on the second draft of «One in Christ Jesus: A Pastoral Response to the Concerns of Women for Church and Society.»

IT wasn't Christians, but rather the Catholic Church that murdered thousands of people and this was largely in response to the Muslim movement which was converting people by the sword and killing people, so it became a religious war, but this was far from what Christ taught or envisioned.

All of this work is motivated by one church's response to the question, «What does it mean to love our neighbors?»

This has been the most helpful response I've encountered since being attacked by the ugly side of Calvinism a few years ago (and being kicked out of church for refusing to repent of «my pride in believing that I accepted Jesus as my Savior»).

Convoked by Pope John XXIII, the council engaged in a twofold movement of ressourcement (a return to the often - neglected sources of the Christian tradition) and aggiornamento (an updating of the church's life and doctrine in response to the times).

But allegations of sexual abuse related to BJU and the school's response have been ongoing at least since 2010, when former board member and former Trinity Baptist Church pastor Chuck Phelps was accused of helping to «cover up repeated instances of sexual abuse committed more than a decade earlier by an older male parishioner against his step - daughter.»

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

A deeply rooted human condition characterized by stable same - sex attraction exists and demands a reasoned, truthful, and compassionate response, the type of response of which at times the Christian Church has been in short supply.

Predictably, the secular media has responded by reporting on the disparity in the responses between what the Church teaches and what people believe.

In 2012, several churches in the country's second - largest city, Zinder, were vandalized by mobs in response to a provocative video, The Innocence of Muslims.

In my response to Eric, I explore how patriarchy (not complementarity) was the dominant view held by the church until the 1800s.

For Bell, moving on from the church after 13 years at the helm was simply a response to being called by God into other forms of ministry.

A word to the wise: When someone tells you they've been hurt by the Church, the proper response is «I'm so sorry; tell me what happened,» not «suck it up, kid.»

Church pronouncements and responses to this issue have projected the message of a self - interested, defensive, and suspect institution, messages that are read and understood very accurately by the general public.

In every vibrant period of the Church's life, it has been understood that her message and mission are based on public events, are advanced by public argument, and invite public response.

In response to terrific outside pressure, the practice was banned by the church in 1890, but continued to be officially condoned until 1907, when it was banned absolutely and made a cause for excommunication.

By and large, this has been the response of the Korean churches.

Since I was a little girl, I have been saddened by the Church's response to those less fortunate.

Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops» Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children by Nicholas P. Cafardi Paulist, 255 pages, $ 27.95 In a 1979 allocution, John Paul II declared that «the task of the Church and her historic merit, which is to proclaim and defend in every place and in....

How many innocents have been murdered by the church in response to a past Pope's «infallibility»?

A healthy response by the oldline churches would not do this.

These queries demand answers, for my self - understanding, my sense of worth, my identity and my community have been wrapped up with fulfilling what I have believed to be an appropriate and vital response to God's calling, to serve God by serving the church, and more precisely to do so in the field of theological education.

The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.

But even if the adjectives gleaned from the responses to the Fackre survey do not represent every church, they are too descriptive of the overall situation to be ignored by any of us.

In broader terms, I can call it the swan song of modernist theology in the United States, understanding by modernist theology the church's intellectual response to the issues raised by the Enlightenment.

More to the point... if a community were to do everything right, and discovered the church building burnt to the ground by lightning one Sunday morning, I wd hope the response wd be,» Look at all the room we have for parking.»

The phrase «Separation of Church and State» was Jefferson's response to the Danbury Baptists who feared persecution by Connecticut's majority sect, a fear based in the use of State powers by dominant religious sects in virtually every colony to oppress minority religious views.

The Church's doctrinal boundaries began to take on a more definite shape when, in response to the need to determine what falls within and what without the pale of authentic faith, it authorized a canon of Holy Books which it holds to be inspired by the Spirit of Jesus and his God.

In response to a call to prayer issued by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), churches worldwide prayed for the release of Leah Sharibu on Sunday.

In response to the Nazi evils, Barth led the Confessing Church to develop the Barmen Declaration, a document wherein every credimus [we believe] is followed by its corollary damnamus [we reject].

This response is indeed already the work of grace, but this is the grace achieved and communicated to the Church by the Lord's redemptive work.

If you've been around Christian subculture for a while, you can start to feel worn out by the responses, especially if you're in a church where an RSVP is extended every Sunday.

Jeremy i agree with what you have written many of the traditions in the church have come from pagan beliefs.I thought some of the comments were judgemental of others especially towards those who are pagan.There response was respectful we can learn alot about having a good attitude towards others and responding to others kindly.I think using scripture in a legalistic way is no different than what the pharisees did to Jesus in his day and he disarmed them by rebuking them saying you without sin cast the first stone.regards brentnz

The Church's «faith story» is more than just a graced subjectivity: it is the response by the redeemed Brideof Christ, of which we are all members by Baptism (note, by Baptism, not by some a-sacramental graced subjectivity), to the Lord who lived, died and rose again in history and whom she awaits to complete all things in His Second Coming.

Theissen's work illumines the complex world inhabited and confronted by the early church, and can stimulate important insights on our modem social dilemmas and inform appropriate Christian responses.

In a response to the policy update announced last week by the Department of Health and Human Services, the church leaders said the policy offers «second - class status to our first - class institutions in Catholic health care, Catholic education and Catholic charities.»

The Church of England was always in danger of being co-opted by the state — witness Keble's Assize Sermon, which launched the Oxford Movement in response to state interference in the structure of the Anglican Church.

The illusion of the conviction of the Holy Spirit... which is really an emotional response to something being very wrong and the turmoil experienced when these feelings contradict all you've been taught by the church and its Pastor, who has set him / herself up as the supreme anointed authority under God and is due utmost and unquestionable respect.

The protestant responses to the «Declaration on the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church» recently issued by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's Office for the Doctrine of the Faith (ODF) have been mostly pained surprise, sometimes anger.

Protestant responses to the «Declaration on the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church» recently issued by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's Office for the Doctrine of the Faith have been mostly pained surprise, sometimes anger.

I see by your response that you have rightly observed the hypocrisy that is prevalent in our churches.