Sentences with phrase «surrounded by christian»

In Symbols (Doll and Apple), c 1933 (pictured above right), another doll - child sits slumped and twisted - limbed, surrounded by Christian imagery.

Often atheists HAVE to celebrate since they are normally surrounded by christians.

And then I went to a tiny Christian college and that's where I lost my faith, surrounded by Christians, with no influence of pop culture and not so much as one atheist in my circle of acquaintances.

Not exact matches

Surrounded by Muslims and their religious practices — including the daily prayers, announced across the centers — Christians stick out as the exception, becoming easy targets for mockery and worse offenses.

Similarly, people born into any given religious faith — Christian, Muslim, Hindu, etc, etc, etc — and who are immersed in that faith, and surrounded by people of that faith, all of their lives — and especially their childhood — can't be expected to suddenly cast off such total indoctrination when an atheist such as myself presents them with certain facts which conflict with their world view.

As a Christian church, we are being addressed on these issues by our surrounding culture.

Emergent Church 2000's: has become utterly cynical, displaced, and incoherent; surrounded by thousands of competing denominations and cults has watched the degeneration of the Christian West building speed; knows the ship is sinking.

By «Christ,» Kaufman means (and claims that at least parts of the New Testament mean) not just Jesus but «that larger, more complex reality surrounding and including and following upon the man Jesus: the new Christian community with its spirit of love and freedom, of mutual sharing and forgiveness of one another.»

The environment of a Christian college can be a wonderful place to find answers to your life questions because you are surrounded by people who are listening to the voice of God along with you.

Perhaps this is why prisons are full of christians, why television evangelists are surrounded by scandal, why the catholic church is under fire for protecting pedophile priests.

In these surroundings and especially at this festive season i am surrounded by images from the Christian tradition.

International Christian Concern says the group of extremist Hindus surrounded their vehicle and claimed the Christians were attempting to forcefully convert people to Christianity by singing Christmas carols.

I'm just so surrounded by «pop» christians endorsing Sanders and trashing (deservedly) Trump, like if their biggest difference wasnt just the hair style.

American Atheists aren't surrounded by delusional Muslims hence why it is directed at Christians.

All the while, he was never an isolated individual but a catholic Christian, devoted to the sacraments, surrounded and supported by other Christians.

Faith is our treasure, which makes us Christians, and gives us a role as believers surrounded by our brothers and sisters who long to know God and to know what it is to be authentically human.

When Francis of Assisi orchestrated the first crèche in Greccio on Christmas Eve in 1223 with its scene of infant child surrounded by living animals, the intention was to humanize the birth of the messiah and so remind medieval Christians how near this God was.

«We are surrounded by two plus months of religiously themed music, advertisements, decorations and TV shows and yet we still have complaints from the Christian right about a «War on Christmas».».

Israel, surrounded by Arab nations that interpret Scripture in quite a different fashion from Jews or Christians, would lean on the weakest possible support if its claim to its 1967 border were to rest even partially on Scripture.

It is for the Christian community to receive the testimony of blood and to give glory because it is living, surrounded by such a great host of witnesses.

I'd be curious how you would have changed if you were a Christian missionary in India who gave up your ideology but were surrounded by Hindus and safer to morph very differently.

Would he give speeches at the christian book sellers convention that more resembles the money changers of the temple, or would he have a television show sitting on a golden throne surrounded by a shimmering gold set?

Essentially, the church was formed by Rome thanks to the salesmanship and editorial skills of Paul, who by his writings and interpretations of the various fables and stories surrounding the Jewish rabbi known as Jesus, was able to «de-Jew» those earliest Christian beliefs, thereby making them into something more palatable to the masses, and ultimately to the Roman Emperor Constantine, whose mother converted to the new religion before her death.

It's so easy for Christians to get fired up for God when we are surrounded by other Christians or when things are going well.

She expressed the Christian hope that we are surrounded by God's care, and that fact holds us in faith when that conviction is most threatened.

The cross, the main Christian symbol, is central, we are told What we are not told is how those Christians who come to the Center meditate on the cross surrounded by Buddhist images and symbols.

It is the same Christian conviction that we live under grace, gifted, and abundantly surrounded by God's care and concern.

Christians are surrounded by consumerism.

Ball is swept out to Christian Atsu in the left channel, surrounded by Saints shirts.

In fact, says Helliker, infrared imaging of trees has already shown that their leaves can be warmer than the surrounding air by several degrees, as was reported last year by Christian Körner, a plant ecologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland.

The bull's - eye pattern will surround the shadow cast by your head — giving you the appearance of a saint in Christian iconography.

I am a honest and good Christian who loves being surrounded by family, friends and holidays.I am ready for a serious relationship and I really look forward to starting that with the right person.

I am an honest and good christian who loves being surrounded by family, friends and holidays.I am ready for a serious relationship and I really look forward to starting that with the right person.

I am an honest and good christian who loves being surrounded by family, friends and holidays.

Why join a generic Christian dating site when you can join a site where you are surrounded by fellow Baptists?

Am 29 years of age from U.S.A but doing my service as a Teacher to help the orphanages in Ghana, am single looking without no children, 5 - 5ft tall, 143 lbs., brown hair... I am an honest and good Christian who loves being surrounded by family, friends and holidays.

I am an honest and good christian who loves being surrounded by family and friends.

But while Saulnier has scored grim chuckles from the hapless maneuvers of amateur law - breakers, Blair — who also wrote the screenplay — cranks the dumbfuck - pratfall levels to wacky extremes: Lynskey, recognizably human in a role that puts her expert comedic timing to good use, is quickly surrounded by a rogues» gallery of cartoons, including Elijah Wood, channeling Dwight Schrute as an oddball Christian neighbor turned sidekick.

The Crusades were wars proclaimed by the ruling Pope against the «infidel» Muslims in the Middle East with the intent to restore Christian access to holy sites in Jerusalem and surrounding lands.

Viewers then passed through a door surrounded by Ian Hamilton Finlay's Four Guillotine Blades, 1987, to encounter Malcolm Morley's long horizontal work New York City Postcard, 1971, an enormous installation by Christian Boltanski, and a political painting by the late Dick Bengtsson (one of the few Swedes in this ambitious survey show).

In some pieces, the artist takes certain religious objects as his starting point for transformation: like a Menorah whose candle - holders are pistols fixed to the barrel of a machine gun, or a reliquary of Christian inspiration surrounded by four heavy - calibre revolvers.

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If you do not talk about these issues, your teenagers knowledge about sexuality will be more influenced by the surrounding culture than by you and your Christian values, ideals, and expectations.