Sentences with phrase «symbols of any faith on»

However, after intense public media and backlash, BA changed their policy to allow employees to wear a symbol of faith «openly» on a lapel pin, «with some flexibility... to wear a symbol of faith on a chain».

Not exact matches

It may be overstating a significant truth to notice that, in part because of the emphasis on faith, the generations after the Reformation were devoted to the clarification of the faith and they left us the legacy of great creeds and doctrinal symbols.

A faith that is uninformed or uninspired by the images, metaphors, symbols, and stories of God's Word is in danger of becoming unimaginative and unanchored, weakened by an overreliance on reason, adrift on a shallow sea of facts and propositions.

Clinging to the vanishing symbols of a now fallen Christendom, they stand on the «knife - edge» between Angst and faith.

On the one hand, his symbols are overtly biblical, and carry with them all the implications of Judeo - Christian faith.

Now, having said all that, why does ANYONE feel so compelled to stamp their religious symbol on a site where people of many faiths (or non-faith) died, knowing full well that it's going to upset the families of these individuals?

If the museum is to capture a piece of history, then it would be correct to showpiece what many people hold as a symbol of their faith and resolve to carry on.

The Catholic Church is big on symbols and, sometimes, puts too much focus on those symbols and practices than on the core tents of its faith.

Faith, in the end, rests not on the authority of a pristine set of signs but on a community that offers in its symbols a distinctive identity, an overarching story, a collective self - image.

Why would religion focus on the death and not the rebirth as the symbol of their faith?

«Toward New Symbols» expands on a call to resymbolize the message of faith in God which he had issued in a CHRISTIAN CENTURY article, «Reformation: Continuing Imperative.»

On the one hand, this all too modern symbol of Yes - saying unveils the impotent passivity and the inhuman detachment of Christian faith in God, of Christian dependence upon and submission to God, the demonic consequences of which are so passionately portrayed in Ivan Karamazov.

So it is here on the historical Jesus, as he is presented to me by the texts and encounters me as a person through historical reconstruction, that the decision of faith is made, not on the risen Christ as I would have liked him to be, or as, for example, he is accessible archetypally to all human beings as a symbol of the self.

Whether they fed on him by faith in their hearts with thanksgiving by eating the bread and drinking the wine with «him at meal, or whether they gratefully permitted him to wash and dry their feet before the meal in anticipation of being cleansed by his blood on the cross, the meaning of both symbols was the same: We are saved from sin and transformed into new creatures in Christ Jesus only as we freely and gladly receive from him the benefits of his passion and death on the cross for our redemption.

NYPD Det. Steven McDonald, who became an iconic symbol of courage, faith and forgiveness after getting paralyzed 30 years ago on the job, has died at the age of 59.

Based on this, it is natural to question the reason why a large amount of people in the western world consider the «veil» a symbol of oppression when it is worn by Muslim women, but a symbol of religion and faith when it is worn by a nun.

The court ultimately held that schools must not proselytize on behalf of a particular religious doctrine and that the display of crosses in the classroom exceeded the constitutionally established limits on freedom of religion, as the crucifix is a core symbol of the Christian faith and was being displayed in a public school where attendance is mandatory.