Sentences with phrase «with religious communities»

«Hopefully millions of people taking a stance on this issue through their involvement with religious communities will resonate with politicians.»

When scientists share vital information with religious communities that are motivated by beliefs and values to uphold the environment, the results are powerful and effective.

Where appropriate, these are paired with formal research symposia highlighting effective, dialogue - driven engagement strategies and projects with religious communities and other publics that are already taking place within that discipline.

In consultation with the AAAS Center for Public Engagement, the AAAS DoSER «Engaging Scientists» project supports scientists in becoming more effective ambassadors for their research interests, their disciplines, and for science as a whole with a broad and diverse spectrum of publics, and particularly with religious communities.

Representatives of CSW met with religious communities and civil society in Jakarta, West Java, Central Java and North Sumatra, including representatives from the Ahmadiyya and Christian communities, and Parmalim traditional religion.

If we pursue these eccesiological motives, the church will not be an organized closed community marked by rigid boundaries as at present, and competing with religious communities but a congregation of believers meeting for spiritual fellowship around the Word and the Sacraments, meant to equip them for Christian living, struggles of justicefor the people and evangelistic mission in religiously pluralistic or secular social economic and political institutions.

Your theory presents a mental picture that I may be able to use in my own struggles to mesh my intellectual integrity with my religious community (not to imply that the two are of any necessity mutually exclusive).

Here the pastoral specialist will function in a role which capitalizes upon his clerical identity, religious knowledge, and contact and identification with the religious community.

It is wise to avoid affiliation with any religious community that emphasizes the Decalogue rather than the Beatitudes and if you are pressured for sex or money, run as if escaping hell, because you are!

All this would mean that in order to understand a religious movement or institution integrally, we would have to make a careful study of the sources, its origin and its development, of the movement in itself and in interaction with the culture and society, and possibly with the religious community in which it is found.

We are moving toward the close of the 20th century with a religious community largely adjusted to the status quo — taillight behind other community agencies rather than a head light leading men to higher levels of justice...

Without a connection with the religious community and the theological corrective it brings, parachurch activities tend to become either self serving and cynical, or else short cited and naive in their expectations of bringing about permanent social reform in our time.

It is typically understood as the external activities and practices of a person who identifies with a religious community.

If you are affiliated with a religious community, you can ask your minister, pastor, rabbi or the like for suggestions.

Some people prefer to seek help for mental health problems from their pastor, rabbi, or priest, rather than from therapists who are not affiliated with a religious community.

Not exact matches

In Italy, Trump will meet with Pope Francis, where the two will discuss «cooperation between the United States and religious communities in areas of joint concern,» the statement reads.

We've seen the clout corporations can have when they successfully work with LGBT communities from North Carolina to Indiana and states to defeat and derail so - called religious freedom laws.

Lichtenfeld covers all the basics: stay active and healthy, exercise, play sports, eat right, socialize a lot with family and friends, meet new friends, keep learning, do volunteer work, be involved in your community, run for office, attend church or other religious / spiritual activities, read books and newspapers, check your email and text your friends.

«I could not be more proud to stand with President Trump as he continues to stand shoulder to shoulder with communities of faith,» she told Religious News Service, which first reported on the initiative.

In addition to making policy recommendations on administration policies affecting faith - based and community programs, the newly - formed office will also inform the administration of «any failures of the executive branch to comply with religious liberty protections under law.»

Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

It makes a comparison with youth paricipation in their community vs religious youth particiation and I don't see the point.

The accommodations that some seek for religious communities that have a radically different understanding of human flourishing are, she believes, incompatible with pluralism.

It can, however, be used to protect religious freedom as serious Christians go about the business of building communities of virtue, beginning with the family.

He seems to argue for maintaining Christian orthodoxy, but he says, «What leaves me dissatisfied with the beliefs said to be necessary for the creation of «strong religious communities» is that they are relatively peripheral doctrines.»

The very existence of the Jewish people as a religious community separate from Christianity was regarded as a fundamental affront to the new religious community with whom Cod had now made his permanent covenant.

Community of the kind Christ desires can only occur with another when He is shared as more necessary than breath amidst all persons present, whether they be the person «giving» or the one receiving — Christ must not be fore - fitted to some other monstrous conceit that is paraded as «communion» and «fellowship» — the common bane of our religious activity.

«No other religious community is faced with such hatred, violence and aggression as is the Christian community.»

Although the religious communities of Judaism and Christianity can not legislate this minimal human morality (indeed, when they attempt to do so they most often retard its social impact, especially in a democratic setting), they can provide it with an overall ontological context, a continuing vision of its original grounds and its ultimate horizon.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of aReligious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of areligious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of areligious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

It was a religious community and a bunch of loving people who helped Lucas deal with his CP and find meaning and joy in his life, and also helped a man who lost his son get through life in this cold and uncaring universe.

My community is so religious that when they tell me I am going to hell, I reply with, «I'm already there.»

Francis» enigmatic comments came during a meeting Sunday with CLAR, the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious Men and Women, who head Catholic communities of priests, sisters and monks.

It's not that I disagree with you about keeping religion out of schools (public schools, ones not set up specifically by a religious community for their community and paid for by that community), but dogma is what you also both adhere to and propagate, so you might want to rephrase.

Orthodox Jews have been expelled from the military for wearing yarmulkes; a religious community in which all members worked for the church and believed that acceptance of wages would be an affront to God has been forced to yield to the minimum wage; religious colleges have been denied tax exemptions for enforcing what they regard to be religiously compelled moral regulations; Amish farmers who refuse Social Security benefits have been forced to pay Social Security taxes; and Muslim prisoners have been denied the right to challenge prison regulations that conflict with their worship schedule.

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

I once asked Israel's director of religious communities if he was aware of the implications of the alliance with fundamentalist Christians, particularly in light of their history of anti-Semitism, their dedication to the Christianizing of America, and the «convert or fry» Armageddon scenarios.

Although I believe this is true on many fronts, the most direct and obvious one is with regard to the Christian stance toward other religious communities.

Gay marriage has divided the black community, with many religious leaders opposing it.

The IRF office carries out its mission by issuing reports on persecution, meeting with foreign government officials, partnering with NGOs, and reaching out to religious communities.

«I strongly believe that we must be vigilant in protecting our citizens from crime and terrorism, but to put large segments of a religious community under surveillance with no legitimate cause or provocation clearly crosses a line,» he said.

Its understanding of salvation is not identical with that of other religious communities.

The 16 per cent who say they are religiously «unaffiliated» includes a large majority who say they believe in God, pray, and are more or less like their mainly Christian neighbours, except they don't identify themselves with a specific religious tradition or community.

First Things is uniquely positioned to build an international community of religious intellectuals, writers, and activists to contest with secular elites for the future of global culture.

Therefore, in practice, religious liberty now frequently describes the freedom of a community to live in accordance with a moral vision shared among its members.

It also underestimates the degree to which various religious communities can themselves function as subcultures, complete with expectations, economies, peer pressure, blacklists, marginalization, and spoken and unspoken rules.

Worship through the giving of the religious tax is the best means of promoting the welfare of society, linking the classes of the community with reciprocal sympathy and compassion, and spreading throughout the people a sentiment of love and cooperation.

The code of laws provides the regulations which create the proper relations between man and God, such as saying prayers, fasting, and other religious duties; they guide man in his relations with his brother in Islam or the non-Muslim community, in organizing the structure of the family and encouraging reciprocal affection; they lead man to an understanding of his place in the universe, encouraging research into the nature of man and animals and guiding man in the use of the benefits of the natural world.

Distinguished men of letters, essayists, novelists, and poets, have recently asserted their conviction that the only thing which can save our sagging culture is a revival of religious faith, but many of these men make no contact whatever with the particular organizations in their own communities which are dedicated to the nourishment of the very faith they declare necessary for our salvation.

Although religious pressure groups are able to influence policy makers to act in ways that are in harmony with the values of particular religious communities, this plays a secondary role in relation to most public issues.