There was, at the time, a widening gap in the Western Church between two fundamentally different views of the Christian faith, one oriented to a judgmental God and the promise of redemption, the other seeing God's will at work in the pursuit of social justice.
It's a real shame that so many of us weren't raised to celebrate these holidays, because a Yom-Kippur-only Jewish life reinforces the perception that so many have of Judaism as a sin and guilt oriented faith, and leaves no room for practice out of love.
In a series of gay marriage debates with socially conservative organizations, we used faith-based, family oriented, conservative arguments for why gay marriage advanced conservative values.
Thus the primitive Christian confession of faith, "Jesus is Lord," expressed the Disciples' perception of Jesus as the one through whom God was transformingly present to them and to whom their lives were accordingly oriented in complete trust and commitment.
Fox Entertainment says the site will help it distribute content from its several faith-oriented publishing brands and channels, such as HarperCollins Zondervan and HarperOne imprints, and notes that the market for religious and spiritually oriented media is larger than $8 billion.
In an effort to strengthen partnership with faith-based organizations to promote an uptake of health services, the meeting oriented the religious leaders on the continuum of care using the life cycle approach to address health issues.
Faith-oriented products are a $3 billion industry encompassing children's videos, toys, clothing, music and books.
With Christian motifs pervading the consumer marketplace, it may have been just a matter of time before faith-oriented products would strike some as ripe for tweaking.
Nations with critical religious sites, like Scotland, home to some of the fathers of the Reformation, have begun to brand themselves to faith-oriented tourists.
