Sentences with phrase «scandalous in»

There's nothing necessarily scandalous in the book, but it does focus on the relationships Obama had before he met Michelle.

Everybody has gotten used to Emily Ratajkowski sharing racy shots on Instagram on an almost daily basis, but her latest post is scandalous in more ways than one.

@G: Converting currency on US dollar buys and sells is just scandalous in my opinion.

It is unfortunate — scandalous in fact — that it takes litigation to convince our state leaders to invest in education, to invest in children — all children, to invest in the future of Texas.

Fortunes come, and fortunes go, and what looks like a sure thing for all involved also catches the eye of the F.B.I., things going from uncomfortably tenuous to inconceivably awesome to horrifyingly scandalous in what seems like the blink of an eye.

And Grahame was eccentric, even by Hollywood standards, obstinate and scandalous in a singular way.

The way NMT Medical behaved was scandalous in my view.

When men act so scandalous in such a public way, whether hiring a bunch of hookers as the Secret Service agents did or just one — at thousands a pop as former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer did — it makes guys look bad.

It was not just that he felt it all to be unseemly or even scandalous in the way that Erasmus and so many people of all classes did; he certainly felt that, but he was more deeply scandalised and hurt in his own inner being; his own nature was in some sort under attack.

Might Day and the Berrigans and Will Campbell prove scandalous in their attempted multipartisan, enemy - loving witness?

His love was scandalous in that he allowed a former prostitute to wash his feet.

At first glance, this answer is scandalous in a liberal culture, which promises freedom for freedom's sake, limited only by external considerations of public utility and to prevent harm to others.

If we make this assumption, we can still say that they seem to have acted with a naiveté that is scandalous in people with such broad responsibilities, because in their mercy they took too few precautions that the abusers would not strike again with other victims.

So the community I pastor continues to grow more and more diverse and as a result scandalous in many ways.

Most, perhaps all, cultures and religious traditions have some version of the problem of evil, but as C. S. Lewis wrote in The Problem of Pain, this problem becomes scandalous in Christianity, which traditionally has held that the universe is governed by a loving and omnipotent God.

Not exact matches

In his book, Comey recounts Trump's many vociferous denials of a scandalous rumor from a largely unverified dossier that surfaced after the 2016 election.

Meaning that he likely reeled in more than $ 20 million total from the scandalous domain.

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In the 27 years since films like Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door nudged pornography toward the mainstream, sexual content has gone from scandalous to stale.

But just because Republicans in Congress appear willing to enable this kind of self - serving tax legislation doesn't make it any less scandalous.

Having come a long way from its humble beginnings in 2011, Snapchat has transformed into a tool that's no longer proprietary just to smartphone - savvy teens sending scandalous photos — it's now a way for innovative and forward - thinking marketers who want a creative way to reach their audience to do just that.

Ironically, JT is probably facing more heat for this now, in light of his return to the Halftime Show, than he did as Scandalous JT 14 years ago.

Scandalous Justin was scrumming around in bad movies and Black Eyed Peas (yeesh, what's with the Black Eyed Peas affiliation, JT?)

But he continued to believe that the great religious upheaval in the Christian West at the dawn of the modern era had involved both the necessity of reform and a division at once scandalous and tragic.

It's a scandalous problem because reading and knowing the Bible is the basis of living a life rooted in its principles.

It was a moral failure, scandalous; but they didn't think of it in terms of legal things.»

Does anybody really believe that this scandalous behavior within churches is lost on society in general?

It is in the life of Jesus where you see most clearly what shocking, scandalous, outrageous grace looks like.

All the big towns around the Sea of Galilee where Jesus worked are more scandalous and reprehensible than was Sodom in Abraham's time, and they will be brought down to hell because of their recalcitrance (Matt.

To some, such permission to useChurch property may seem only just and charitable; but in reality it is contradictory to the purpose for which these institutions were founded, it is misleading and often scandalous.»

In previous generations, the divorced person was almost nonexistent, so scandalous was divorce in that era, and the widowed person was thus the only remaining single adulIn previous generations, the divorced person was almost nonexistent, so scandalous was divorce in that era, and the widowed person was thus the only remaining single adulin that era, and the widowed person was thus the only remaining single adult.

And it was there in the warm South Seas — the other side of the world from the city where men like Fly were «pent up in lath and plaster, tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks» — that at age twenty - three he found Nature's own paradise on an island in the Marquesas and in the arms of a woman he fictionalized as «Fayaway» in Typee (1846), the scandalous first novel he wrote upon his return.

In answer to the scandalous question of the woman, to her ignoble and yet desperate situation, the prophet gave God's answer — a positive answer.

The earliest of the three (St. Mark) is clearly the work of a writer almost obsessed by the apologetic necessity of somehow making intelligible to his readers the scandalous outcome in rejection and death of the ministry of one whom he clearly believed to be the expected Messiah.

It was there in Manhattan he was unhappily schooled, first at the Male School on Crosby Street and then at the Columbia Grammar School, and there he returned thirty years later to spend the bitter, dark end of his life — a misemployed customs inspector turned drunkard, possibly a wife - beater, and the forgotten man of American letters: a minor author who'd written a scandalous sea - tale or two early in life and hadn't had the sense to quit writing.

As a college student, Charles Wesley remarked, «Christ Church is certainly the worst place in the world to begin a reformation; a man stands a very fair chance of being laughed out of his religion at his first setting out, in a place where» t is scandalous to have any at all.»

Irregular and scandalous ways of celebrating the Lord's supper have developed in the church at Corinth, and Paul feels it necessary to appeal to the tradition to correct them.

The Gospel, as seen in the words attributed to Jesus, is scandalous!

No, the one thing that separates what Jesus revealed to the world and what we see in all religious groups is one thing: indiscriminate, scandalous, shocking, outrageous, senseless, irrational, unfair, irreligious, ridiculous, absurd, offensive, infinite grace.

I see in Jesus a God of scandalous grace, who loves evildoers so much he died for them — for us.

In the eyes of the Pharisee, however it was scandalous for a woman of questionable reputation to,,) me into his home uninvited.

David Primrose, Director of Transforming Communities in the Diocese of Litchfield described the situation as «scandalous».

Christianity has become a genuinely multicultural world religion, thriving profusely in the idioms of other languages and cultures, marked by a lively cross-cultural and interreligious sensibility, unburdened by the heavy artillery of doctors and councils, and otherwise undaunted by the scandalous paucity of money, trained leadership, infrastructure and resources.

Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler, by Mark Riebling (Basic Books): It's scandalous that this deeply - researched study of Pius XII's involvement in plots to depose Adolf Hitler has been largely ignored by the mainstream press, but the reason why isn't hard to guess — Church of Spies confounds the «Hitler's Pope» rubbish that Catholic - bashers find useful.

We entangle ourselves in such questions whenever we seek to avoid the offense of the gospel, its scandalous particularity and finality, its thorny refusal to be made one faith among others.

Some of us recall in Rome itself during the Youth Week for the Jubilee 2000 the scandalous answers given by a Bishop from anotherEnglish speaking continent to thousands of young people.

But at the heart of our Christian faith is a more radical, even scandalous, trust that God — in God's self — also suffers with us.

If someone was born in Saudi Arabia, they would be Muslim and if they were born in the US, they would be Christian... It's up to them to figure out that religion is a crock before they waste their whole life worshiping a non-existent friend in the sky and believing in a book full of fairy tales... My favorite fairy tale is about the guy who was told not to look behind and was turned into a block of salt when he disobeyed the command and took a peak... lol... I was raised christian but I had too many doubts and questions especially after our scandalous pastor took the money that was raised to build a new church building and disappeared into thin air with the loot... lol... After I ditched religion, I had a peace of mind and I am still at peace...

As my friend Ray says, grace is scandalous, and to view relationships in a Christlike lens, we have to look at others with scandalous grace.

This status would be scandalous if one had not previously established the status of practical reason itself in its dialectical part.