Sentences with phrase «thrown out of church»

I haven't been a boy, or lost part of my leg to diabetes, or had a vision of God as a woman and gotten thrown out of church for saying so.

Yes, most here know I was thrown out of a church too for having my own views and questioning other long held tradititons.

When you see friends die from drugs or thrown out of church because they were different we tend to blame god.

We were thrown out of a church for standing up to it, but that's one of the best things that ever happened to us.

Dorothy Sayers writes: We can not blink at the fact that gentle Jesus meek and mild was so stiff in his opinions and so inflammatory in his language that he was thrown out of church, stoned, hunted from place to place, and finally gibbeted as a firebrand and a public danger.

Had your mom wanted to become a priest she would have been thrown out of the church just for trying, I'm not sure how that could be viewed as anything other than oppression.

It was Calvinists who condemned me as a heretic and threw me out of the church but I did not and will condemn them.

Not exact matches

When he got older he may have been thrown out of the house because they weren't going to have a faggot son or else he may have been denounced at church.

When sex / gender is thrown out of the power equation, then the church becomes living, listening, and not demeaning along the lines of sex or gender.

Given the convictions of many contemporary theologians, churches, like some Indian tribes in America that threw out anthropologists because they felt that the scholars» interpretative frameworks distorted their experience, might also have reason to throw theologians out.

There is absolutely no spirituality in the modern Catholic church; worship of God has been all but thrown out.

Should we throw Augustine out because he held a different view of Creation then some in the contemporary evangelical church?

When I look in the daily newspaper I see many examples of the church being thrown out and trampled by men.

Unlike in the cultic churches, where people who step out of line with the leader's vision and dare to tell the truth are destroyed — or «thrown under the bus in driscollspeak — here, they are impotent, they try to shame, impugn, backhandedly discredit, all while appearing above it all, and yet, they are paper dragons.

you always got a few bad apples in atheism... etc etc.... almost lke youre throwing the baby out with the bathwater... besides... most complaints of this comes from atheists who yell separation of church and state...

Finally, there are those who experience pain and hardship in church, and often feel like throwing in the towel, but choose to stick it out with their current fellowship of believers to help encourage and change their church from the inside.

Both sayings have a canonical function in the church, shaping part of our identity and purpose, and we won't throw out either one, even if scholarship moves us to think Jesus more likely said the one and not the other.

Heck, I bet that even if the Vatican would take every accused priest out of the church and throw them to the courts, the haters will still whine about it in some form.

Of course many will say that we shouldn't comdemn the entire Catholic church just because a few priest and lay persons are pedophiles; I meam you don't throw out an entire bushel of apples just becuase most of them are rotten do yoOf course many will say that we shouldn't comdemn the entire Catholic church just because a few priest and lay persons are pedophiles; I meam you don't throw out an entire bushel of apples just becuase most of them are rotten do yoof apples just becuase most of them are rotten do yoof them are rotten do you?

at the council of nicea, the catholic church threw out at least 40 other gospels that many people of the time who also considered themselves «christians «revered.

Matthew 5:30 means, if a member of the church refuses to stop their sinful ways, the elders of the church have the right to throw the sinner out of the congregation.

The Church and Christians generally still smart from accusations levelled against our slow acceptance of Darwinian theory; one of the first toys that baby science threw out of the cot for us to pick up and since become one of the key tenets of the modern scientific «belief system».

From throwing money defaced with words such as «love» away on Wall Street, to helping nuns pour blood on battleships, or handing out food to the homeless in a park (an illegal act in his city, Philadelphia), Claiborne's Christianity is not for the squeamish, but it has inspired many outside of the Church to take another look at the faith.

In the late 20th century, as America grew more pluralistic and continually more secular, the majority of the Western church either retreated into their sanctuaries, throwing stones out at those...

In «Scandal Time III,» Richard John Neuhaus expresses in several places his concern for a now — elderly priest who is «repentant» and has «rendered decades of faithful service without a hint of suspicion» that he «pose [s] a threat to children or anyone else,» because such a priest may now «be thrown out as an abuser,» not «welcomed as a forgiven sinner to the company of forgiven sinners that is the Church.»

I don't know that I can articulate clearly where I disagree with the concept of a «no - vision» church, but it does seem to be «throwing out the baby with the bathwater».

Then, sometime after Vatican II, it was as if we (Lutherans at least) stood outside the opened windows of Roman churches, caught whatever they threw out, and carried it home with us.

One must, surely, chuckle with delight at the wonderfully ironic thought of the physical overlap of all those deliberately liturgically impoverished South coast dioceses with all those currently Anglo - Catholic parishes, soon to be safely in the Catholic Church but barricaded against the local Catholic bishop within their ordinariate, South coast parishes so renowned for reverent, sumptuous and utterly numinous liturgy, often with wonderful music sung by professional choirs, and glorious antique vestments, saved from the scrap heap as they were thrown out ofCatholic churches by the Spirit - of - Vatican - ll.

Yet the Reformers, critical though they were of the Pope and of the mediaeval church, were anxious not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I actually think that is a failing of the church to throw out the ones that are having a hard time conforming rather than showing the true love of Jesus to them.

But I will not give license to the lifestyle and equate it with what is naturally better for society, and I will not allow it's moral equivelancy claims in the church door because that is throwning out the law of God.

Please check out «THROWING HAMMERS: Separation of Church and Self.»

There was more that contradicted the bible and was thus left out of it that was considered actual religious writings but did not support the catholic church so they threw it out.

I'd hate to summarize anything as beautiful as what you've written by throwing out cliches like true church vs. false church, or buildings vs. community of faith, so I'll just say this.

You point out a single instance of rage by Christians throwing rocks at a Mosque and balance it out with the bombing of a Church and the murder of 23 innocent men, women and children, not to mentions the hundreds injured.

For almost 400 years the Catholic Church thrived and grew without the Bible; then the Holy Spirit prompted the Church to gather all the inspired - by - God - Books of the Old Testament and New Testament but the Holy Spirit did not say to throw out anything that He had already told them thus far through His Apostles and Successors... no!

For example, the Church does not know whether the planet is getting warmer, whether such change would be good or bad, or whether human activity is the cause; nor does she know whether minimum - wage laws do more good to the poor by increasing the income of those who work, or more harm to the poor by throwing those with marginal skills out of work.

The liturgical churches, with their drama of the church year and their abundance of symbolic rites and festivals, have a great deal to teach the symbol - poor Protestant groups who, in their zeal for pure religion have thrown out the baby with the bathwater.

A Church of England school has been told by the government that it's acting illegally in throwing out under performing pupils half way through their A-levels.

Opponents, which included an odd coalition of the Catholic Church and women's advocacy groups, argued no - fault divorce debases marriage, making it too easy for couples who should be working out their problems to throw in the towel (the church) and suggested it will now be too easy for the wealthier spouse — usually the man — to leave their partners without adequate resources (NOW - NYS President Marica Pappas blasted what she dubbed «divorce on demand&raChurch and women's advocacy groups, argued no - fault divorce debases marriage, making it too easy for couples who should be working out their problems to throw in the towel (the church) and suggested it will now be too easy for the wealthier spouse — usually the man — to leave their partners without adequate resources (NOW - NYS President Marica Pappas blasted what she dubbed «divorce on demand&rachurch) and suggested it will now be too easy for the wealthier spouse — usually the man — to leave their partners without adequate resources (NOW - NYS President Marica Pappas blasted what she dubbed «divorce on demand»).

Seen at the rally were Jonathan Geballe and Ellen Peterson - Lewis, pictured with rally organizer Assemblymember Deborah Glick, on the steps of Judson Church, along with: Nat Johnson and Anne Heaney, Sharon Woolums, Mary Petretti, Katharine Wolpe, Laura Morrison, Jo Hamilton and our District Leader / CB2 Chair Brad Hoylman who energized the rally - goers with an electrifying speech and threw in a shout out to VID (thanks, Brad).