Sentences with phrase «whose religious convictions»

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«The schools have reasonably concluded that they are quite likely to become the next target of OCR if they follow their religious convictions on these matters,» said Baylor, whose Christian legal advocacy group has advised some colleges on how to seek the exemptions.

When I read it, I thought of Peter Rollins» parable about the preacher whose «gift» was that anyone he prayed for immediately lost their religious convictions.

These are people of conviction, people whose faith is important to them and who long for the approval of their religious leaders and the favor of God.

In the 1986 Cooley Lectures at the University of Michigan Law School, Greenawalt defends a limited role for religious convictions in a jurisprudential culture whose ruling paradigm, called «liberalism,» is roughly identical to what I have been calling modernism.

The people who built liberal Protestant institutions such as national mission agencies, local churches, colleges, universities, social reform agencies and public libraries in the rural heartland were people secure in their social position who assumed a leadership role in society and whose sense of social responsibility was born of religious conviction.

Carter believes that the naked public square is a dangerous place, that the convictions of the people, including those whose convictions are grounded in religious commitment, should be given freer play in our public life.

Reinhardt warns, «They are not free, however, to force their views, their religious convictions, or their philosophies on all the other members of a democratic society, and to compel those whose values differ with theirs to die painful, protracted, and agonizing deaths.»

They wanted to know how they could address this dismissal of their moral and religious convictions — with their son's friends, and with their own, grownup friends, whose cocktail party polemic was often far more aggressive than any sleepover dispute.