Sentences with phrase «with faith groups»

Chaplain LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF NJ — Florham Park, NJ Jan 2001 — Mar 2005 • Managed ministry bulletins and communication channels • Preached and taught the congregation in the fulfillment of its vision • Helped individuals and groups develop their spiritual insight • Planned and lead festivals and special occasion services such as Christmas, Lent and Easter • Developed and maintained positive relations with all faith groups in the community

He said: «Sadiq has worked with faith groups, trade unions, local organisation and people of every kind to challenge injustice, fight all forms of discrimination, resolutely promote understanding and co-operation.

We urge the Government to take steps to meet its Coalition Agreement commitment to «work with faith groups to... facilitate inclusive admissions policies in as many [faith] schools as possible.

Last December he went to Birmingham to launch a new «faith covenant» to encourage councils «to recognise the potential of working with faith groups».

Whilst I profoundly disagree with faith groups who hold these views, it remains perfectly legal for them to hold and preach them.

Equally, the criticism which can be levelled at all the parties in their dealings with faith groups is their tendency to instrumentalise them.

Some atheist activists are trying to seize the holidays as a time to build bridges with faith groups, while other active unbelievers increasingly see Christmas as a central front in the war on religious faith.

In general, women are more religious than men: 83.4 percent of women worldwide identify with a faith group, compared to 80 percent of men.

Not exact matches

«We partner with charitable and faith - based groups in the communities,» Mills said about FEMA's recovery efforts.

The Red Cross is working very closely with the entire response community - government agencies, other non-profit groups, faith - based organizations, area businesses and others - to get help to people as quickly as possible.

He supports his argument with numerous persuasive anecdotes about individuals who have walked out of the underclass with the help of faith - based, grassroots groups that practice «hard - headed, soft - hearted» compassion.

But you can trust that other have seen him, you can trust what was written about him, thus it take really takes faith (evident demonstrations) to believe that Abraham existed because you honestly can't say you met the guy in person, but you believe right along with millions of other people who have met him either, as a group we are convinced that he was real.

As Olasky notes, some governmental officials are more open today to the proposition that faith - based groups secure better results than do state agencies working with the poor.

«You have to ask why the bishops can't take yes for an answer,» wrote Gehring, who works with the progressive group Faith in Public Life.

Ashcroft's bill allows faith - based groups to compete on an equal footing with secular nonprofit organizations for governmental grants to support social - welfare activities, and it explicitly ensures these groups the right to conduct their outreach without compromising their spiritual character.

I am happy that the writer had the choices that she did... She is also free to decide whether or not she is a Catholic... She however, took an available medication for a health problem... most Catholic facilities recognize such health problems and allow for that treatment... I am completly puzzled, though, that she would not want other Catholics to be able to choose differently than she did... for those people who wish to use contraceptive services and medication, options are open to them... I am not Catholic, did not grow up in a faith based family, and don't know whether a God exists or not... However, to leave a relgious group with no option but to contradict its own tenets is an attempt by those who don't believe in those tenents to mock them, certainly, but more to erode them... this seems the aim of many and when those folks operate from inside the government... that intrusion is an overreach of the govenrment...

2) Who is / will be in hell: Nobody, just Satan and his angels, everybody, people who don't have faith in Jesus, people who aren't trying to be generally good, people who don't agree with doctrines X Y and Z, just the really bad people, the people I don't like, people who don't take a «final chance» at death, some other grouping?

Many groups, faith - based and not, governmental and not, are trying to deal with world hunger.

Mormonism is a restorationist belief and is not normally associated or grouped with the commonly recognized protestant faiths.

Also, if your religious community is more racially isolated than your local area, encourage it to form faith partnerships with racially different faith groups.

Rogers, who worked with the Obama administration during the planning of his first inauguration in 2009, will become Director of the Office of Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, a job that includes working with outside religious groups and acting as the top White House official on religious issues.

At all Faith groups and events we welcome non-Catholics who are sincerely seeking a deeper vision of Christ and encourage respectful and informed dialogue with all men and women of good will.

With her own children grown up and left home, she became «Auntie Faith» to several generations of boys from the John Fisher School, attending the weekly meetings of the Faith group and providing toast and tea after the talks.

After news broke of the Satanists» proposal, the state was flooded with requests from religious groups seeking to erect monuments to their own faith, including Hindus and Pastafarians, a satirical religion that «worships» the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Critics of such faiths as Christian Science and Mormonism can not but be impressed with the beneficent effect that the reality of group life has on many young people.

These would be such things as the fact that Jesus was baptized by John, kept company with sinners, called disciples and chose twelve as a special group, performed some «faith healings», reached out to outcasts, entered Jerusalem in triumph, defied the authorities, was arrested and crucified, and was experienced afterwards by his disciples.

In a 5 - 4 decision this morning, the Supreme Court said that a California law school can require a Christian group to open its leadership positions to all students, including those who disagree with the group's statement of faith.

Evangelicals are also slightly more likely to report reading Scripture at least weekly (63 % in 2014 vs. 60 % in 2007), participating in a weekly prayer or Bible study group (44 % vs. 41 %), and sharing their faith with others at least weekly (35 % vs. 34 %).

Meanwhile, a surprising number of evangelicals disagree with faith requirements at public universities, though they also don't want groups like InterVarsity punished.

«Faith - based groups reacted to the terrorist leader's death with renewed sympathy for victims» families, scriptural citations justifying the demise of evil, and hopeful prayers for peace among the nations,» stated the RNA release.

(The 5 - 4 decision affirmed Hastings's policy that all student groups open all leadership positions to all students, regardless of whether the students agree with the group's statement of faith.)

This means I help oversee the work of the IJM Institute — which is where our group grapples with the issues raised by our work in the field, and asks the questions, «How does our faith inform our response?»

As he sees it, Paul's concern is not with the individual but with the social group, not with faith / works but with Jew / gentile.

President Barack Obama signed an executive order Wednesday clarifying the ground rules for religious groups partnering with the federal government through the White House's controversial faith office.

In an effort to divert attention from all the money that wasn't being given to faith - based groups, we had come up with the idea of highlighting the amount of money now «available» to faith - based organizations...

All important theology is the same and it is only man made choices and emphases that spun off all the denominations so in an ideal world they would all be united with each group continuing to practice their faith in the manner they choose.

In more specific ways the spiritual influence of group involvement was also apparent: of the people currently involved, 90 percent claimed they were better able to forgive others, 79 percent said they had been enabled to share their faith with others outside the group, 78 percent felt closer to God and 66 percent had experienced answers to prayer.

Groups like the Family Research Council continue to characterize religious liberty and equality for LGBT Americans as an either / or proposition, willfully misrepresenting our nation's historical experience and ignoring the realities of a nation of many faiths and beliefs that has dealt with such questions for centuries.

There are a further 1,800 Faith and Light support groups, for people with special needs and their families and friends, across 80 nations.

The problem with blaming all this on faith or religion is that it hides the true culprits: fear, hatred, and selfishness — which culprits are leveraged by evil leaders of groups like ISIS.

This issue is an extremely common topic at meetings and it is always stressed that believe in a Higher Power can be anything of your choosing and many AAs simply believe in the power of the group as a whole as their Higher Power (I have also know many people who started with this belief and later found faith in God).

Letty Russell has described the importance of «kitchen table» theology, which begins with the faith stories of ordinary women grouped around kitchen tables or in other everyday settings.

It was a strong and caring group of people, even though the leadership of the church circumscribed the Christian faith with a relatively strong dose of moral legalism.

I won't argue with you about «religion» if by that you mean the organization of groups of individuals who share a common faith and manner of worship and study about that faith.

«They were raised in a faith and have made a decision to identify themselves with groups that tend to be fairly unpopular,» atheists and agnostics, he says.

But in the past fifty years, Christianity has been blamed, with some justification, for the Holocaust, for participating in colonial oppression, for arrogance in dealing with other communities of faith, for ecological destruction, for cruelty to animals, for oppression of women, for repression of the body and its sexuality, for suppressing the voices of minority groups and thus participating in their oppression, for the persecution of gays and Lesbians, and many other crimes.

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 first of these is made up of the evolutionary biologists themselves; the second consists of those who believe that evolution requires a materialist, and hence atheistic, interpretation (evolutionary materialism); the third group comprises the proponents of Intelligent Design Theory (IDT); and the fourth is the evolutionary theists, those who consider Darwinian evolution not only compatible with biblical faith, but an illuminating framework for arriving at a deeper understanding of God than is implied in the notion of a designer.

Caring groups can meet regularly to share, to create community with one another, to discuss how members are doing in their own struggles to be faithful, to make sure that each one takes the questions of faith seriously.

Gregory Arthur Weiler is just one of the first of your terrorist extremist wing and with folks such as Tramma's post down below, and the soon coming attacks on the Faithful from Atheist, I predict that in my life time Atheist will join the rest of the Faith groups with its list of current atrocities.