Sentences with phrase «various national church»

Before she was a lawyer, Lorraine worked for various national church and Aboriginal organizations on Aboriginal rights and environmental issues.

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C. J. Mahaney, president of Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM), a national network of nearly 100 church plants, cited «various expressions of pride, unentreatability, deceit, sinful judgment and hypocrisy» in a July 6 statement explaining his indefinite leave.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

Paradoxically, the church must diminish the particularism of its various local, regional and national histories, but at the same time include them in the stories it tells, reinforcing its own authority as it does so.

«Representative of these various types were men like Roger L. Shinn, who succeeded Niebuhr at Union in the chair of Applied Christianity; George William Webber, founder of the East Harlem Protestant Parish and later president of New York Biblical Seminary; Truman Douglass, leading spirit in the affairs of the National Council of Churches and pioneer in church involvement in human issues; and Martin Luther King, Jr. «73 Niebuhr was at the apex of his influence in the early 1950s and was to remain there for over a decade longer.

Ecumenically, Pentecostals have slowly become involved over the course of the last generation in bilateral dialogues — for example, with the Roman Catholic Church and with the World Alliance of Reformed Churches — and have participated in various discussions organized by the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches.

Under the combined efforts of the various groups mentioned, plus the activity of the National Council of Churches, these students flocked to summer training sessions to prepare themselves to participate in teaching programs, in health programs, and in demonstration programs wherever they were needed.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

Without necessarily reaching unanimity at every point, this consensus has been reached and stated again and again in pronouncements of the World Council of Churches, the Federal and National councils, and the various denominational bodies.

The national headquarters, however, could deploy functional specialists for various mission projects, such as building new churches, or organizing a local «war of the churches against poverty.»

Whether we work in the universities, in the churches, or in the trenches, whether we are physicists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, gurus, or spiritual questers of various sorts, and regardless of our gender, race, or sexual, national or ethnic identity, is there an invariable or common pattern to the processes at work in spiritual quests?

The World Council of Churches, the National Council of Churches, and various interdenominational dialogues represent the future of Christianity.

The building of the Church as a community with complex organizational structure, with manifold functions and leaders, with various responsibilities to the society around it, can easily degenerate into the building of religious clubs, of sororities and fraternities and of national associations for the promotion of good causes, if the understanding of the Church's purpose, of its responsibility to God, of the nature and action of God, of man and his history, of the meaning of the Church's work in all the complex of human activity and of the interrelation of the various aspects of its work are lost to view.

Recognized as a national expert, her contribution to the Greenhaven Prison Program at Vassar College, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Vera Institute of Justice, Kings County District Attorney»s Office, Interfaith Justice Project at The Riverside Church, Open Society Institute» «s After Prison Initiative, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, Boston University»s Prison Education Program, Department of Justice» «s Norval Morris Project, and Truth Commission on Conscience in War has facilitated work with numerous schools and prisons in various states for the last 25 years.

The exhibition — a collaboration between Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG), the country's premier public museum and host venue for this show, and The New Church Museum, a private collection with a contemporary focus — juxtaposes historical and contemporary works by 27 artists (20 men and seven women) to offer various critical insights about patriarchy and gendered tropes within figurative painting.

The icons are dispersed throughout various public and private collections, including the Dia Art Foundation, the Judd Foundation (Donald Judd was one of the artist's closest friends), and the National Gallery of Canada, but since April five of the eight have been on view at the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton, a former firehouse and Baptist church renovated under Flavin's direction in the early 1980s and housing a permanent installation of his fluorescent light - tube sculptures.

• Modeled for the sculptor George Carr while he worked on an installation for the The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception church, in Northeast Washington, D.C. • Demonstrate the ability to «hold» a pose for whatever length of time is required to complete various art or photo projects.