Sentences with phrase «time religious organization»

It is unlikely that paid - time religious organizations will change that focus of commitment as long as the church remains satisfying to its active members» needs.

Not exact matches

If you are employed by a not - for - profit organization, any time you spend on religious instruction, worship services, or any form of proselytizing may not be counted toward meeting the full - time employment requirement.

Furthermore, your post speaks as if a few posts on a blog can equate all the hate and division that billboards and churches and presidential candidates and religious organizations have been «spewing» since time immemorial which you continue with your post.

I'm atheist and part of me thinks the organization's time could be better spent countering the religious hellbent on forcing their beliefs on instead of trying to prevent them from practicing peacefully.

Though the organization is still in its early stages, the fact that Digital Formation was so quickly embraced shows how religious organizations not only desire more exposure to Twitter, but are willing to throw out what Chapman describes as a «behind the times» attitude to get that exposure.

The proportional use of time which the networks maintained with the various major religious groups was not totally satisfactory for some of the larger individual denominations and the individual fundamentalist and evangelical organizations and they turned to alternative methods of broadcasting as well.

It is time that Religious organizations are taxed as what they are, corporations.

Of course, the influence of religious ideas, practices, and institutions upon society had always intrigued the historians, but it could be assessed better from the time that the organizations of society, to use Dilthey's terminology, were more clearly distinguished from the systems of cultural objectification (law, art, science).

Two days after the Obergefell decision, New York Times columnist Mark Oppenheimer suggested that it is now time to rethink the idea of tax - exempt status for religious institutions: «Rather than try to rescue tax - exempt status for organizations that dissent from settled public policy on matters of....

What it more of concern is entire religious organizations that have murdered and disenfranchised people at various times throughout history, because that seems to recur within and between these dangerous organizations.

About time people realized you don't need to belong to a «church» or religious organization to be «good».

Though they spend a part of each program soliciting funds for their organizations, the FCC has ruled that paid - time religious programs are not commercial - length programs.

«They understand the importance of religious organizations and nonprofits, but religious organizations in particular, which is what the Johnson Amendment affects, to have the ability to speak freely, and that they should not live in fear of the IRS,» Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and a member of the GOP platform committee, told Time.

Today's American Jewish denominations are very much the products of their time and place and of the specific circumstances of American religious life as a whole, heavily shaped as that life has been by essentially Protestant nomenclature and modes of organization.

Just because you SERVE some religious organization, or even just the idea of some deity, doesn't mean that everyone has something similar in their lives leeching away much of their time and resources.

Two days after the Obergefell decision, New York Times columnist Mark Oppenheimer suggested that it is now time to rethink the idea of tax - exempt status for religious institutions: «Rather than try to rescue tax - exempt status for organizations that dissent from settled public policy on matters of race or sexuality, we need to take a more radical step.

April 2011 — For the first time in American history, Obama urges passage of a non-discrimination law, that does not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates, without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiring.

Thus, during times of instability from economic downturns or other environmental strains, schisms are likely to become producers of further schisms, causing more turbulence in religious organizations than might be predicted otherwise.

The second task, that of penetrating existing media with religious images and vocabulary, requires considerable organization, time and money, making national efforts more feasible than local ones.

At the same time interfaith organizations, often initially viewed with suspicion by religious leaders, have encouraged people of different religions to meet and get to know each other, in the hope that they can work together for peace and to uphold moral values.

This fact in itself has been one of the criticisms levelled at the paid - time broadcast organizations: that the development of religious television in recent years has been the result of opportunism and cut - throat free enterprise rather than soundly based theological strategy.

The CBN's research agency, in a study of partners and their giving, reported that as a result of their support of CBN and other religious organizations, partners found that «the volume of Christian mail coming into their homes is at times overwhelming... including what is described as a «redundant theme of financial crisis.»»

One of the major areas of conflict that has occurred as a result of the rapid growth of paid - time religious broadcasting has been the threat it has posed to the established church, particularly in relation to its traditional local organizations.

Of the four large paid - time religious broadcast organizations that responded to the author's search for research, three indicated that they had conducted private research but that they did not make it available to «outsiders.»

As a consequence of the displacement of these other types of religious programs, the growth of paid - time religious programming in the 1960s and 1970s has resulted in a marked movement in religious television away from representating a range of U.S. cultures and traditions toward representing mainly the Protestant evangelical and fundamentalist traditions, particularly the independent broadcast organizations.

The paid - time religious broadcasters in general have not yet been able to perceive or acknowledge the use that has been made of them, or the power of the television industry to shape their message and their organizations.

It is possible, therefore, that some of the paid - time religious broadcasters may show signs of becoming more «established,» consolidating basic identities and service functions in order to maintain their audiences similar to an extended congregation, withdrawing their programs from areas that are no longer profitable, and developing as extended independent church organizations in line with their particular theological emphases.

Evangelicals in general, who comprise the majority of the audience of the paid - time religious programs, are more generous givers to religious organizations than other church members.

Table 11.2 lists the incomes of several of the major paid - time religious broadcasters for 1979, as drawn from their organization's public financial statements.

No Jewish organization supported the Equal Access Act, which wrote the equal time principle into law and allowed religious students a platform from which to inject religion into the public high school environment.

Leonard Bacon, long - time pastor of Center Church in New Haven and perhaps more to be remembered for substance than for wit, noted in May, 1852, that «parochial and self - governed churches... is the distinctively American method of religious organization.

Sunder: religious organizations, acting as employers, have had certain exemptions from anti-discrimination law for some time, and I think I'm right in saying that the Anglican bishops acted to secure some version of these in the recent debates over the Equality Bill...?

But each time, the bill, which has been opposed by a number of groups, including religious organizations like the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Jewish community, died in the Republican - dominated Senate.

The blatant hypocrisy of these religious and quasi-religious organizations, that want to impose rules and laws on other industries they don't often want applied to themselves and who benefit from a number of labor law and tax «exclusions» is fully detailed in the excellent 5 part series «In God's Name» by Diana B. Henriques that ran in October of 2006 in the New York Times:

The non-profit organization is committed to providing the best long - term, quality care, while at the same time, supporting the religious beliefs of its residents and helping them to remain independent and able.

«There may come a time when religious leaders and faith - based organizations generate more interest in protecting the environment and more willingness to demand action, but we haven't seen it yet.»

Most churches and religious organizations do bible studies or other group classes at least once a week and have activities going on several times a month.

An organization of any sorts (even religious ones) do not have the right to dictate who we should spend time with and who we should not.

Over time, ethnic distinctiveness has subsided, and some conservative Protestant religious traditions in schooling have diffused throughout the movement — partly through the growth and consolidation of Christian - schooling organizations and of publishers of Christian school materials.

Here is another example: I have spent time over the years working with many organizations, including religious congregations, organizing for community improvements.

Upon the dissolution of the association known as the New Jersey Association of School Librarians, Inc., the Board of Trustees will, after paying or making provision for the payment of all of the liabilities of the Association, distribute the remaining assets to such organization or organizations organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, religious, or scientific purposes as will at the time qualify as an exempt organization or organizations under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or the corresponding provisions of any future United States Internal Revenue Law), as the Board of Trustees will determine, or to a state, federal or local government for a public purpose.

For those who work in religious organizations, time spent on providing religious instruction or worship may not be counted among these hours.

Many religious or culturally based learning programs are conducted during the weekend, if you are able to teach for your religious or cultural organization, you could be on your way to earning some nice cash at the same time as doing something good for the community.

I'm employed full - time by a qualifying not - for - profit organization, but my job duties include religious activities.

For purposes of the full - time requirement, your qualifying employment at a not - for - profit organization does not include time spent participating in religious instruction, worship services, or any form of proselytizing.

If you are employed by a not - for - profit organization, any time you spend on religious instruction, worship services, or any form of proselytizing may not be counted toward meeting the full - time employment requirement.

Volunteers wishing to complete service hours for school, civic groups, religious organizations, or corporate volunteer - time - off programs offer invaluable support to our shelter.

Since we have agreed that I accept (at least provisionally, as far as the powerfully augmented eye can see) an expanding Universe and am therefore clearly religious about physics and mathematics and reason if nothing else, can you explain to me how God isn't something and yet is capable of things like sentience, action, choice, design, starting off Big Bangs out of nothingness — all things that seem to involve a remarkably high degree of material complexity and organization (not to mention time, and space and energy)-- not to mention various Amazing Powers to make an entire Universe poof into existence out of nowhere with just the right rules to work out to become (in very small part) me some 14 billion years later.

Taking part in the organization's goals has led me to some amazing experiences, from meeting fellow ally The Honorable Kirby J and at the time or writing this, helping compile submissions to the Commonwealth Review of Religious Freedoms.

In «Bowling Alone,» (Simon & Schuster, 2000), Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam researched statistics on membership in parent - teacher organizations, fraternal associations, religious groups and unions, as well as surveys of voting patterns, philanthropic contributions and time spent visiting neighbors and reading, to support his thesis.