Sentences with phrase «when communities of faith»

To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.

Muslims should be prepared to defend Islam, including military defense, when the community of faith is under attack.

Not exact matches

The moral challenge that faces many faith communities is how to accept and love people when you disapprove of their behavior.

In the Ft. Worth case, it seems that faith based adverts were ok, but when a differenct opinion was expressed, some community «movers & shakers» caused a «stink» that also stiffled their «freedom of speech».

You didn't have to come down to the site and yet you did — to speak on behalf of your Jewish heritage and faith — and I have to say «kudo's» to you — it isn't easy to be Jewish in our Christian communities (even on - line)-- when some of this language can be so offensive in nature to your beliefs.

From Agnostic to Islam and I have seen examples in the past... so my humble request to you is not to stop... keep learning or studying the new stuffs... an advice to you when you decide to study or learn about Islam — do not point to the people who does wrong things as wrong doing people are there in everywhere regardless of faith, but look into the scripture and go to someone who has knowledge if you have any question that bothers you but make sure that person is well educated to his community... i ask The Almighty God to open your heart...

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

Rauf, the founder of the Cordoba Initiative, an organization dedicated to improving understanding among people of all cultures and faiths, fell under intense scrutiny when plans to build an Islamic community center adjacent to Ground Zero were unveiled.

When we release our grip of unforgiveness on those who have failed us, we are free to let God meet those needs in new and healthy ways — through our relationship with Him, through friendships and through our own communities of faith.

Rachel Murr was passionate about her faith and active in her church when «after nine years of trying not to be gay,» she finally came out to her community.

As members of a community of faith, we miss the point when we refuse to offer guidance in ways that are concrete but not intrusive.

But in a pluralist society of general education and at a time when the community Church of faith is bound to come, we should surely consider whether the spiritual tactics of the people's Church are still viable, and if the «shortage of priests» does not partly stem from this.

The fact is, when your community, identity, and sense of purpose and security are all tightly intertwined with your faith, challenges and changes to that faith can wreak havoc on your relationships and spiritual and emotional health.

When one thinks of the great Christian community, in its long history and its wide reach, in all its variety and inclusiveness, one is filled with reverence and a sense of the mystery of corporate faith, worship, and life.

I know that Jesus is my Advocate, and even when nothing seems fair, and there's not any community, and no one to help, He's still working for me, and He's not going to allow a bunch of show pony, religiously confused people to break my faith, or my heart.

When I mention base - type communities of faith I am referring to congregations in which reading and interpreting the Bible and developing all the gifts of the Spirit given to the community are central.

At a time when political developments in Washington are generally discouraging to advocates for economic justice, faith - based organizing shows the enormous potentials found in grass - roots America and particularly in the rich web of religious communities.

The elemental notion of god - bearing individuals may be spoken of in an ontological sense when one perceives a sense in which the individual's personality appears to alter or fuse in those «abnormal» «eccentric» phases to effect specific outcomes for «the individual in a community of faith» or for the community of faith extraneous to the individual.15 When the fusion of the individual's personality with the alleged divine being is complete and permanent, such an individual may be said to have actualized the ideal state of union with the divine, which may be reversible or irreversible state of bewhen one perceives a sense in which the individual's personality appears to alter or fuse in those «abnormal» «eccentric» phases to effect specific outcomes for «the individual in a community of faith» or for the community of faith extraneous to the individual.15 When the fusion of the individual's personality with the alleged divine being is complete and permanent, such an individual may be said to have actualized the ideal state of union with the divine, which may be reversible or irreversible state of beWhen the fusion of the individual's personality with the alleged divine being is complete and permanent, such an individual may be said to have actualized the ideal state of union with the divine, which may be reversible or irreversible state of being.

Church for me has been hospital when I was spiritually weak and aching, a refuge during storms, a place to celebrate victories, and a community of people I can depend on for relationship, accountability, and partnership in my faith journey.

It seems to have been precisely later when many colleges, unmoored from their sponsoring communities of faith, began to drift out into ever swifter currents of learned disdain for faith, that their officers began to assert volubly as never before that they were Christian.

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...!

When a group of parents in a community of faith work together to educate their children in the life of faith, this gives members of each family something in common with other families.

The community of believers in whom the Judeo - Christian faith has manifested itself in successive generations, has been most full of vigor and vitality when it has been looking forward in hope.

The Amsterdam Declaration affirms, «The salvation Jesus brings and the community of faith he calls forth are signs of his kingdom's presence here and now, though we wait for its complete fulfillment when he comes again in glory.

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?

If the survival of the Christian faith were dependent on the earth sitting still, Christianity would have most certainly perished sometime in the 18th century when the existence of a sun - centered solar system became widely accepted by the scientific community and the public.

Rousseau says, more or less, that the genuinely unfashionable or thoughtful professor today takes the side of the Republicans, the home - schoolers, orthodox communities of faith, and the honorable, violent, and deeply Christian and charitable Southerner who tears up when he hears Lee Greenwood sing.

I mean no moral judgment here when I say that, sociologically speaking, these are oddball faith communities: small, distinctive minorities, with decidedly out - of - the - mainstream religious beliefs.

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.

When the Christians of the world can do this, then perhaps in that larger community of faith, worshipers and believers will include the Jews, the Muslims, the Buddhists, the Hindus.

These can be talked about best when, as in the case of the «Faith Church» community, the process of preaching is a corporate act and its prophetic dimension is in the life of the church (Wardlaw).

When Brian was in seminary, we were introduced to the phrase «theology of place» — meaning that our faith, our Christianity, our life on The Way, is embodied in the neighbourhood and the community where we live.

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.&raWhen they are vomited out, then the body finds relief; likewise, when the wicked leave, then the Church finds relief.&rawhen the wicked leave, then the Church finds relief.»

Now, before this turns into a self - righteous rant, I should note that I too am guilty of defaulting to «God's mysterious ways» when backed into a corner, and there is a degree to which this should be expected within a faith community.

I debated whether to engage a post that is just as disturbing as the title suggests, but after speaking with an editor and several writers at The Gospel Coalition, as well as some of my gay and lesbian friends, I've decided it's important to offer an alternative to the attitude presented in this post and, perhaps more importantly, to explore / discuss how Christians ought to respond when we encounter homophobia in our own faith communities.

Faith communities make one kind of contribution when they do good as organizations; they make a different, and even more important, contribution when they nurture virtuous, committed people who live out their values in many different kinds of organizations.

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.

Christian theologians explore their faith within a particular community and tradition, though «keeping faith with tradition... is not at all being bound by the letter of the law; it is more a matter of the company you keep — or the books you reach for first — when you want to do your best thinking.»

«When Americans are able to live by their convictions, to speak openly of their faith, and to teach their children what is right, our families thrive, our communities flourish, and our nation can achieve anything at all.»

Christianity is most redemptive as a force in the world when Christian churches focus their energies on building formative Christian communities that are rooted in the idioms and practices of biblical faith.

One study of Catholic values on Catholic campuses disclosed that when administrators, faculty, students, and alumni were asked to identify core Catholic values in the culture of their institutions, «high academic standards,» «academic freedom,» and «respect for the individual» regularly ranked at or near the top, while «community of faith» trailed far behind.

In sum, the Muslim community surely does not respect and be sensitive to other groups» belief / faith, yet they demand other to respect them by the mean of threatening in an evil act of violate, when they do not get their way.

When a true community of faith arises (fill in the blank with the name of a community that you know), startling things happen.

When Luke argued for the true Israel as the eschatological community of the Spirit, he declared in effect that discipleship was a preliminary and incomplete expression of faith.

We have already noted earlier that when compared with the commonly accepted religious practices of the day, the Christian community of faith took on an everyday, almost secular appearance, not unlike such a contemporary movement as the Rotarians.

To be orthodox is to join with a community of faith in adoration of God's dora (glory), which already casts light on the day when God will finally make everything right.

The dilemma becomes unbearable when you realize that doing Christian theology is an act of confessing Christian faith, an engagement with the life outside the church as well as inside it, and interactions with the people of God not only in the Christian community but in the wider human community.

This was the community's act of assent, and when Christians stood and said or sang the Creed, they were saying that they wished to be, they were intensely anxious to be, of the company of Christian faith.

After a recent spate of children dying in an Idaho religious community opposed to medical interventions (the Followers of Christ), state legislators proposed opening parents up to prosecution for relying on faith - based healing as the only treatment when a child's condition could kill or permanently injure them.

Some members of the faith - based community in western Massachusetts are starting to talk about ways to help people whom they believe will be harmed when a casino opens.