Sentences with phrase «wounded by the church»

I spend a lot of time ministering to people who have been deeply wounded by churches and traditional Christian organizations.

There are over 300 moms in the group and many of them have been very wounded by the church and left the church because they don't think it is a safe place for them and their families — some have found affirming churches and now attend there but many don't even want to attend an affirming church as church in general is related to too much negativity for them at this point.

And I have hundreds of emails of the hard stories of women wounded by the church as part of my research for my book, and then someone was mean to me.

Some are gay or have stories of someone gay they know who have been deeply wounded by the church, but mostly, we're just folks who know that our faith is significant.

Some have been wounded by church life as they know it among «low» church folks and perhaps most wonder if Sunday morning is mostly about a 45 minute sermon.

I went to the Gay Christian Network's «Live It Out» conference in Chicago a little unsure of what to expect, a little perplexed that someone like me would be invited, and a little freaked out about what to say as a straight woman to a group of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Christians — many of whom have been severely wounded by the Church.

Not exact matches

trouble with mega churches now they use Greek logic to prove God... need to just stick to faith with the unseen... Holy Spirit... great counselor... no minister needed for His presence... will reveal by a rushing wind in your heart if you so desire...

But if, as the doctrine of the Catholic Church has it, human nature is wounded but not totally corrupt, then these human realities of reason, affection and sexuality, while they are affected by the wound in our nature and so must be redeemed, remain essentially good.

(Jesus said we would be noted by the way WE loved EACH OTHER not non Christians - though that would flow from that) I have seen more believers WOUNDED by their own churches - particularly those with problems they have had since before they were Christians.

Your disillusionment with the Church may seem like a petty wound to nurse right now, with Latino children getting taunted by their classmates, Muslim communities facing religious persecution, and black families grappling with a world in which white nationalism has been validated and emboldened, but grief is grief.

In words that laid bare his simmering anger, Francis said they must now work together to «re-establish confidence in the church, confidence that was broken by our errors and sins, and heal the wounds that continue to bleed in Chilean society».

Seriously it's imperative to keep State and Church totally separate issues or you'll wind up with a country dictated by brainwashed evangelicals who think their way is the only way... and the rest of us are just misguided.

In addition, the Catholic Church's handling of priest pedophilia was hindered by its long - standing labor shortage, a self - inflicted wound resulting from an unwillingness to ordain married and female clergy.

Each church is grievously wounded by its separation from the other, and only those who have allowed pride and infantile anger to displace love in their hearts are blind to this.

Among the Orthodox, according to Catholic doctrine, there are not just ecclesial communities but «particular churches,» although they are, in the language of CDF, «wounded» by the lack of full communion with the ministry of Peter exercised by the bishop of Rome.)

Once the shock wore off though, I realized that money abuses and issues, while endemic within churches, still only account for a portion of the many ways in which churches have wounded people and thus there is undoubtedly plenty of people in search of a safe place who do not have any of the same issues that I have with linking money and spirituality, so really you were only excluding a certain portion of people from safety by attaching a price tag to it, those for whom money issues are a sticking point and of course those who simply don't have the extra funds to commit.

Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades — by the abuse scandals, by the ongoing horror stories of mid-twentieth century Catholic life in Ireland, by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it by the Lord, by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life — is a matter of self - imposed wounds, which Church authorities have an obligation to address.

Jesus is further scarred and wounded by this and so is the church.

Perhaps the clarification Neuhaus needs is provided by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in its declaration, Dominus Iesus (2000): «The lack of unity among Christians is certainly a wound for the Church; not in the sense that she is deprived of her unity, but «in that it hinders the complete fulfillment of her universality in history.

Gregory said he will meet later this month with church councils to ask for «candid guidance» on whether to sell the abode, which was built on land donated by Joseph Mitchell, the nephew of «Gone With the Wind Novelist» Margaret Mitchell.

In the last 15 years, psychologist Mark Laaser, author of Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction, has seen «an escalating crisis in the church» so that «rarely a day goes by that I don't get a call about a «fallen» pastor.»

A Catholic school might be prepared to sail close to the legal wind by contextualising these facts through Church teaching.

In the last few pages of the book he speaks frankly about the «serious crisis» suffered by concept of «Traditio», the «deep wound which the Church is experiencing after Vatican II», owing to the refashioning of the understanding of Revelation from the conceptual, propositional approach of Vatican I and scholastic theology to the notion of Revelation as experience and encounter, leading to «a displacement of the dynamic aspect of revelation to the detriment of the noetic», «a gap between truth and love» and a «strong subjectivism».

You can have the most «perfect» situation you can imagine (like the growing church at the end of Acts 2), but the reality is that the «ravening wolves» are already within and without, and only the «sword of the spirit» is going to sharp and keen enough to both protect us and lance the wounds inflicted by such.

We read of a church and the material of which it is built; of a way of life characterized by «sickness,» «poverty» and «centuries of hard work and patience»; thoughts and attitudes, religious practice and desire; and of the wind and the sea.

Evidence suggests Mr Kelley died of a self - inflicted gunshot wound after he was chased from the church by armed bystanders and later crashed her car.

A more proper perspective, embraced by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox, and many Protestants, is that man is wounded by sin, but is still capable of good.

If you are feeling lost, disillusioned or hurt as a result of a shift in your faith or by a negative church (or other faith community) experience, Walking Wounded just might be the class for you.

Similarly, before he became pope, Joseph Ratzinger argued that the Church's emphasis on beauty needed to be counterbalanced by a coherent analysis of what beauty means in a wounded world.

But whereas Alpha offers a somewhat systematic introduction to basic issues — God, Jesus» life and death, the Holy Spirit — from the perspective of a theologically conservative believer (Nicky Gumbel), LTQ offers a collage of persons, stories and arguments which seems to assume an audience of people involved enough in church to have been wounded by its fundamentalist versions.

I have referred in other postings to have been wounded by a female family member which was then treated in a church as me having been the one who have acted inappropriately with the presupposition of men having been in power and God dealing with men in the first instance.

A clergyman of the American Lutheran Church has been ordered confined in jail for contempt of court because he refused to answer questions before a grand jury investigating the «occupation» of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, for two months last year by militant Indians.

When Francis was a bishop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he received letters from gays and lesbians who said they were «socially wounded» by the church, he said.

The international sex abuse crisis has involved revelations of the deep wounding of innocent children and their families by the sinful actions of individual priests and religious, sometimes enabled by the, at best, incompetence and, at worst, callous dereliction of duty of some members of the Church's hierarchy.

A powerful storyteller, Evans captures transformative moments, such as leaving a church full «of kind, generous people»; investing wholeheartedly in a new church that «collapsed slowly, one week at a time»; and witnessing healing at the Gay Christian Network's conference, feeling «simultaneously furious at Christianity's enormous capacity to wound and awed by its miraculous capacity to heal.»

At least 44 people have been killed and dozens wounded after bomb attacks on two Egyptian churches claimed by the Islamic State group.

However, I'm throwing all caution to the wind this weekend for the Long Beach Grecian Festival by the Sea, to be held at Assumption Greek Orthodox Church.

Christians worshippers at Methodist and other churches in the area and Muslims faithful under the aegis of Quareeb Muslim Society that were having their new year eve at one of the Secondary school at Taiwo were seriously attacked by the youths during which three persons were wounded and properties destroyed.

Even today, we received a reliable report that innocent and defenseless worshippers in a church were sprayed with bullets by herdsmen, killing 4 and seriously wounding scores!

Today this event is commemorated by the stunning monument consisting of 35 steel tubes, based on the church organ concept placed on the mountain top making an eerie sound as the wind constantly whistles through it, in the midst of the wreckage of the plane reminding those present of the sad loss of life.

We can hear the church bells playing songs every hour, our neighbors walk by with dogs and babies and kids on bikes, and you can hear live music on the weekends drifting from the restaurant downtown if the wind blows just right.