Sentences with phrase «violence is in our churches»

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But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

The head of the Catholic Church in Iraq is warning EU leaders the violence in the country is forcing most Christians to flee.

In the UK, where calls for equality are admittedly met with less resistance, in general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and churcIn the UK, where calls for equality are admittedly met with less resistance, in general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and churcin general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and churcin the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and churcin 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and churcin family life, work, and church.

BLACK «CULTURE» is VIOLENCE, ABSENCE of A FATHER, RAP BULLCRAP and they GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY?????? I'll continue to work my ass off, better myself and they can ROT IN HELL.

In his account, the Church's attempts to tame violence through preaching humility and peace had a negligible effect on the ancient traditions of manliness until its efforts were joined with the state's in the early modern perioIn his account, the Church's attempts to tame violence through preaching humility and peace had a negligible effect on the ancient traditions of manliness until its efforts were joined with the state's in the early modern perioin the early modern period.

The most recent rash of attacks began on October 31, when gunmen stormed the Sayidat al - Nejat (Our Lady of Salvation) church in Baghdad; in the ensuing violence at least 50 died and 75 were wounded.

In a world where power has become almost synonymous with violence and greed, the power of prayer is one of the church's best - kept open secrets.

«We are deeply concerned by religious violence in Nigeria, including the burning of churches and the killing and persecution of Christians,» Trump said in a joint press conference with Buhari.

The violence in Gojra, a town of 150,000 that has long been a headquarters of the Anglican Church of Pakistan, was one of the worst attacks ever against the religious minority.

The Church should be so invested in the lives of others, especially the «least of these» in society, that when someone exhibits unstable behavior or are threatened by violence, they are surrounded with biblical love and ensured the help they need.

To suggest to the churches, which, Negro as well as white, are already deeply involved in covert violence in this country and overt violence abroad, that they should violently take up arms against violence — that is, against themselves — is the height of political naïveté.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

Even apart from the Papacy, although in practice that separation was not made, the Church in the West remained the most stable institution in an age of disorder when civil authorities came and went and violence was rampant.

The Methodist Church in UK has said it's horrified by violence on the Gaza - Israel border and has called... More

American society has still not adequately addressed the issue of domestic violence and abuse to protect persons from harm under church membership, as we saw with the Texas judge that beat his daughter, claiming that it was a part of his faith to discipline her in this manner; 4.

I think that there are many ways to introduce the issue of sexual violence in a church environment that is not very receptive to it.

The Marxists believe that the church rejects Marxism not primarily because it is atheistic, but because it is revolutionary and because violence has a place in this revolution.

Violence seems to be the great temptation in the church and among Christians, and this acceptance of violence has become the central problem facing Christian attitudeViolence seems to be the great temptation in the church and among Christians, and this acceptance of violence has become the central problem facing Christian attitudeviolence has become the central problem facing Christian attitudes today.

Common sense is anything but common in a land where some churches teach you to hate people who are different than you, where the media blasts you with unfettered violence and when our schools have been gutted by the greed of those who don't wish to pay to educate the next generation.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a chilIn Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a chilin history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a chilin judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

But woe are we, dearly beloved, we are undone, we are lost, if the church is silent, if no powerful, corporate, prophetic protest is made when in this Jezreel palace of ours there is violence instead of justice, a vast cry (increasingly bitter and militant) from the world's dispossessed instead of righteousness, and the practice of the right of force instead of the force of right.

For example, in the case of the Action for Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual program.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Nobody would care if they would just stay in their churches, mosques and synogogues and stop FORCING their religion on people through violence or ignorance — I gues that's the only way to sell a fairy tale.

... I can not say it any better than John Piper «True Christianity — which is radically different from Western culture, and may not be found in many «Christian» churches — renounces the advance of religion by means of violence.

Thus the annual Human Rights Report of the U.S. State Department, mute the previous decade on discrimination and the occasional acts of violence against Christians, included in its January 1990 report the observation that «Christians have had difficulty in getting permission to build new churches» and that «Christians complain that there are barriers to Christians rising to high positions in public service, public corporations, universities and the military.»

Their sense of what the problems were was based on a very crude analysis of the problems in Northern Ireland, which were blamed on the churches there, although they repeatedly and monotonously condemned violence over and over again.

Unfortunately, as women, we have found it difficult to persuade the churches and the ecumenical movement that the issue of violence against women is as much an issue of ecclesiology as is complicity in political conflicts, because women have been silent for too long and the churches too have been complicit by their often silence, but also by their sometimes legitimization of the violence theologically.

In all the situations cited, a section of the Church was in itself directly involved in provoking and participating in the violence — often giving theological legitimization for the conflicts or for the oppression of «the other.&raquIn all the situations cited, a section of the Church was in itself directly involved in provoking and participating in the violence — often giving theological legitimization for the conflicts or for the oppression of «the other.&raquin itself directly involved in provoking and participating in the violence — often giving theological legitimization for the conflicts or for the oppression of «the other.&raquin provoking and participating in the violence — often giving theological legitimization for the conflicts or for the oppression of «the other.&raquin the violence — often giving theological legitimization for the conflicts or for the oppression of «the other.»

In service the church is committed to the care for the victims of society, but the church has the responsibility of creating just structures that are necessary to reduce many forms of suffering — especially the suffering that is caused by deprivation, inhumanity and violence.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

Bishop Munib Younan from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land told Premier's News Hour the violence is forcing Christians out of the region: «They are emigrating in order to secure a future for their children.

While the two historic halves of the church disagree on many matters, such as the Russian handling of Christians in the Ukraine and Catholic attempts to evangelize Orthodox members, the violence against Christians in the Middle East was compelling enough to persuade Kirill to consent to a meeting that Francis has pursued.

Buhari, whose vice president is a former attorney general turned church pastor from southern Nigeria, could help end religious violence in Nigeria, said David Curry, president and CEO of Open Doors USA, which works with a large network of Christians in the country.

The Division for Parish Resources of the Lutheran Church in America has included several brochures on family violence in its family - resource series; these resources are valuable for families affected by abuse as well as for congregational study.

For the most part, the complicity of the churches and their theologians in sexual violence is a complicity of silence.

These violent events are in the Bible, and we do a great disservice to ourselves, to the church, to our witness in the world, and to future generations when we try to ignore such violence in Bible as if it never happened.

Having grown up in the disproportionately Christian state of Kerala in southern India and studied at a church - run school, Narayanan condemned the Hindu nationalists thought to be responsible for violence against Muslims and resisted efforts to shift the secular education system.

There is an earthquake going on right now in theology surrounding the issues of justification, the violence of God, the nature of the Kingdom of Heaven, and what it means to be the church — the people of God in this world.

As Arthur McGill has noted, «In an age of anxiety and violence, glory is out of fashion, even in Churches» (Arthur McGill, The Celebration of the Flesh, Association Press, 1964, p. 184In an age of anxiety and violence, glory is out of fashion, even in Churches» (Arthur McGill, The Celebration of the Flesh, Association Press, 1964, p. 184in Churches» (Arthur McGill, The Celebration of the Flesh, Association Press, 1964, p. 184).

Church leaders are accused of fostering psychological violence against homosexual people by repeating certain myths or ignoring the important issues responsible for many problems that gay and lesbian people experience, both in churches and the wider society.

Societally alienated persons are far too often rejected by the local congregation and responded to, if at all, primarily in terms of a «mission» on the part of the church to these groups — to alcoholics, the mentally retarded, the physically disabled, returnees from mental hospitals, the violence - prone, former prisoners, and the aging.

Just read my post «Why I Wouldn't Attend Pastor Steepek's Church» and you will see from the 190 + comments that the overwhelming majority of people are in favor of the application of emotional violence to achieve a good end.

With varying degrees of intensity, the revolution's violence against the Church would be repeated again and again in Europe over the next two hundred years.

The group found an uptick in persecution: Churches faced threats of violence, and non-Muslim students with exemptions to religion classes were urged to convert to Islam instead.

Green was allowed to make the unopposed penultimate point suggesting that just as religious dictatorial fundamentalism and theocracy are causing «enormous violence» around the world hierarchical Churches believing in «one fundamental and absolute truth» are places where child abuse flourishes.

Some time after his connexion [sic] with the Seminary he [Coit] became deeply anxious for the salvation of his soul, and after having given most pleasing evidence of a change of heart, was admitted to the church... He has not dared to visit his father's house since his profession of Christianity, as his life might be in danger from his father's violence.15

In that regard we have been very successful and are seeing increasing success in preventing State encroachment into the doors of the churches or using that power and threat of violence (which is inherent in all State actions) from mandating you act according to their religious beliefIn that regard we have been very successful and are seeing increasing success in preventing State encroachment into the doors of the churches or using that power and threat of violence (which is inherent in all State actions) from mandating you act according to their religious beliefin preventing State encroachment into the doors of the churches or using that power and threat of violence (which is inherent in all State actions) from mandating you act according to their religious beliefin all State actions) from mandating you act according to their religious beliefs.

Archbishop Tomasi said: «In this tragic context of violence, the Church «s job is difficult but continuous.

Five churches in a predominantly Christian area in the Southern Borno state were completely destroyed on Friday in the latest wave of violence carried out by the extremists who were responsible for abducting over 200 schoolgirls from a Christian village earlier this year.