Sentences with phrase «than faith communities»

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Every family and faith community has unspoken rules which are more powerful than any spoken ones.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

No matter our faith community we can tend to «reduce» the Bible to much less than what it really is, God's revealed Word to mankind.

Stop the Traffik is a global coalition which already numbers more than 350 organisations including churches, community groups, other faith groups, businesses and NGOs (including Oasis Trust, Salvation Army, Tearfund, World Vision, JFCI, Christian Aid, Bible Society and Spring Harvest).

There is hardly a better example of the desperate state of the drug problem in the UK than the stories of the young recovering addicts at Betel of Britain, a Christian therapeutic community that helps people to find healing from addiction through faith in Jesus.

Also, if your religious community is more racially isolated than your local area, encourage it to form faith partnerships with racially different faith groups.

I talk about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list of rules, and how millennials long for faith communities in which they are safe asking tough questions and wrestling with doubt.

But we're doing more than meeting needs: we're equipping and empowering the persecuted church to be the church, reaching out in love and compassion within their communities — whether those communities are comprised of other Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Yazidis, or those belonging to another faith or no faith at all.

It is worth noticing that different communities of faith have different understandings of the authority of scripture «To most Hindus», writes Stanley Samartha, «the primary authority lies in that which is heard rather than in what is remembered and written down.

I have come to the conclusion that it's okay for me to have different convictions or beliefs than other people in my faith community.

However, if the subjects of study are concrete networks of human practices by which communities of faith attempt to respond to God faithfully, and if they are practices which mediate an understanding of God, then the movement of theological schooling is more like an engaged meditative gaze than it is like problem solving.

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith - community, we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.»

In a sense one might say that the corporate faith of the fellowship is more important than that of any individual in it, yet that is not quite true, for each of those individuals — or, better, persons — makes his or her own contribution to the total community of faith, while the community's faith deepens, enriches, develops, and corrects the faith of the believer.

For some reason people of faith raised in the eccliastical sub-culture are less threatened by non-conforming non-members than they are by non-conforming members of their faith community.

Surely their faith community has greater faith than a grain of mustard seed.

Would the vision of the leaders assembled at the Summit affirming their faith in globalization becoming benevolent in which economic and technological progress distributed to unite rather than divide the community is a reality or just plain rhetoric?

People tend to be connected with subgroups rather than with the whole faith community.

Some Catholics insist that both men are heretics, to be suffered within the community only if they mute their voices; others say that they represent more authentic versions of the faith than the various beliefs and practices they are challenging, and that it is the institution rather than the individual that is heretical.

This, of course, was an account of moral character which saw it as a substitute for Christian faith and community, rather than its outcome.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

As individuals discuss their beliefs with like - minded individuals, these beliefs become more believable, more compelling than they might otherwise seem, especially someone outside the community of faith.

Churches, synagogues, mosques or other faith communities will find more fertile ground on college campuses than in the suburban neighborhoods where they routinely sow mass mailings.

A year ago this week, more than 80 faith - based, civil rights, community and labor organizations came together under the title Coalition for Muslim School Holidays.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

Now the hope is to bring together those who possess expertise in technical issues and faith communities which stand closer than any others to the world's poorest people.

The book argues that American Christians face declining political influence, while their churches are in disarray: therefore they must focus on creating strong, faith - filled grass roots communities that love people on the ground, rather than interfere with politics.

The politicians claimed «Catholic schools are also more likely to be oversubscribed from people outside their faith community than Islamic and Hindu Schools, to which non-Muslims and non-Hindus rarely apply».

A new study from the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding found 30 percent of Muslims agreed with the statement «I believe my faith community is more prone to negative behavior than other faith communities.»

Even the language of faith needs something to build on, for confidence is more than words and must arise from the relationships of home, church, school, and community.

«For me I fundamentally believe that faith is the basis of good work and faith communities can be used to be part of the solution rather than to be painted as part of the problem which we tragically see too often.»

Modern evangelicals do need to «bridge the gap» and speak more plainly about their faith in terms that everyone can understand rather than assume that what they understand among themselves will be automatically understood by those who are not of their community when they speak to others about their faith.

He maintained that there was no other remedy than exclusion to preserve the faith of the community, «When they are vomited out, then the body finds relief; likewise, when the wicked leave, then the Church finds relief.»

Further, faith must be understood more fully in a framework of community than is the case in Dr. Altizer's work (for him the outsider is the model of faith).

I doubt that Orthodox faith communities are any easier to abide in than Catholic or Protestant communities when it comes to the mundane experiences of life; but at least those of us with mystical tendencies would not be attacked for being «pietistic» as we so often are in most Protestant, even many Catholic, excesssively rationalistic and legalistic Latin / Western Churches.

He fears that «coming generations of community leaders» may be less committed to congregations» unique role in civil society; consequently, faith communities will have to be «even truer to their mission than they have been in the past.»

As they worked through this change, Jason and Alise discovered that there was much more holding their marriage together than pulling it apart, and they began to work in their faith communities to bring about a greater understanding of what the others actually believe and to bring about a better dialog between atheists and Christians.

Today they will often be a voice for the various faith communities but their position is certainly anomalous — but perhaps no more archaic than the House of Lords itself.

Perry's ties to Texas» black and Hispanic communities are largely built around faith - related issues such as abortion and gay marriage, on which polls show minorities tend to be more conservative than whites.

For over a decade in North Philly, my faith community has been actively teaching kids nonviolence rooted in the truth that it is more courageous to love our enemies than to kill them (a truth I have learned from Jesus).

In the setting of the Indian legal system in which each religious community is recognized as having its own personal law of civil relations, change from one community to another is a legal act, and baptism is a transfer from one legal community to another rather than a sacramental act expressing personal faith.

Citing a mountain of statistical data that shows women are more inclined than men to remain faithful to their religious affiliation and participate regularly in communities of faith, some folks — like controversial West Coast pastor Mark Driscoll — have declared the situation a «crisis,» concluding that the Church has failed men by projecting a «Richard Simmons, hippie, queer Christ» instead of the true, «Ultimate Fighting Jesus.»

This is an enormous encouragement for us modern Christians, perhaps more for us than for our ancestors in faith since today Christian profession is not simply taken for granted in the community and we can feel very much alone in making that profession.

The way you supporters of the nation's community organizer are whining and name calling about a minor side story concerning one woman's faith and views says more about you than anything else.

«This requires us to be responsible in submitting to and watching for the continuing leading of the Holy Spirit in how God is developing faith in the community rather than perceive that our own faithfulness - in - action is directing change.»

They see more clearly than the liberal humanists that human devotion is shaped in communities of faith and life.

It is even more dependent than the scientific community on the direct relation of the knowers to theological reality — the God of faith and believing men, the subjects and objects of ultimate love, the commander and the commanded, the forgiver and sinner.

Nowhere are preachers more a part of their faith community than at the time they are preaching in those communities.

Faith communities, Lindbeck charges, have become purveyors of this kind of religious commodity rather than intentional communities that socialize their members into comprehensive forms of life.

MDHS sent a letter, signed by more than 100 nonprofit, faith - based, and community - based organizations across the state, to the Maryland Congressional Delegation urging support of the vital federal nutrition programs in the upcoming Farm Bill.

A child misbehaving (acting foolishly) = (perception) that parents aren't correcting child and A child misbehaving (acting foolishly) = judgment not from God (the only One equipped to judge) but from others in faith community and Judgment from others = not good feeling then not good feeling = fear of other's assessment of parenting choices and then fear of opinions of others = parenting from a place of fear of man rather than leadership from God through His Word and the movement of His Spirit within