Journal articles: 'Church activity'

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Pfeiffer, Karin, Natalie Colabianchi, Marsha Dowda, Dwayne Porter, James Hibbert, and Russell R. Pate. "Examining the Role of Churches in Adolescent Girls’ Physical Activity." Journal of Physical Activity and Health 8, no. 2 (February 2011): 227–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jpah.8.2.227.

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Background:In adults, associations between church attendance and positive health behaviors exist; however, similar evidence among children and youth is lacking. The purposes of this investigation were to examine the associations between physical activity (PA) and church attendance, PA and use of church as a PA facility, and PA and proximity to churches among those who use church as a PA facility (while addressing racial and geographical differences).Methods:High school girls (N = 915, age = 17.7 ± 0.6 years, 56% African American) completed the 3-Day Physical Activity Recall and surveys including demographics and use of PA facilities. Geographic Information Systems data were used to spatially examine the number of churches within a 0.75-mile street network buffer around girls’ homes. Associations were examined using mixed model analyses controlling for demographic factors.Results:For the overall sample, total METs (56 versus 52) and proportion of girls meeting PA guidelines (62% vs. 52%) were significantly higher in church attendees versus nonattendees. Among participants who used facilities, having more churches close to home was associated with more PA.Conclusions:Church attendance and use are correlates of physical activity that should be further explored and addressed in future intervention research with adolescent girls.

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Verbytskyi, Volodymyr. "Main Vectors of International Activity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church." Roczniki Kulturoznawcze 12, no. 2 (June 17, 2021): 71–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rkult21122-4.

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During the 1950s and 1980s, the Eastern Catholic Church (sharing the Byzantine tradition) was maintained in countries with a Ukrainian migrant diaspora. In the 1960s, this branched and organized church was formed in the Ukrainian diaspora. It was named the Ukrainian Catholic Church (UCC). The Galician Metropolitan Department was headed by Andriy Sheptytskyi until 1944, and after that Sheptytskyi was preceded by Yosyp Slipiy, who headed it until 1984. In addition to the Major Archbishop and Metropolitan Yosyp, this church included two dioceses (in the United States and Canada), a total of 18 bishops. It had about 1 million believers and 900 priests. The largest groups of followers of the union lived in France, Yugoslavia, Great Britain, Brazil, Argentina, and Australia. Today, the number of Greek Catholics in the world is more than 7 million. The international cooperation of denominations in the field of resolving historical traumas of the past seems to be quite productive. An illustrative example was shared on June 28, 2013. Preliminary commemorations of the victims of the 70th anniversary of the Volyn massacres, representatives of the UGCC and the Roman Catholic Church of Poland signed a joint declaration. The documents condemned the violence and called on Poles and Ukrainians to apologize and spread information about the violence. This is certainly a significant step towards reconciliation between the nations. The most obvious fact is that the churches of the Kyiv tradition—ОCU and UGCC, as well as Protestant churches (All-Ukrainian Union of Evangelical Churches—Pentecostals, Ukrainian Lutheran Church, German People’s Church)—are in favor of deepening the relations between Ukraine and the European Union. A transformation of Ukrainian community to a united Europe, namely in the European Union, which, in their view, is a guarantee of strengthening state sovereignty and ensuring the democratic development of countries and Ukrainian society.

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Wende, Marilyn E., Andrew T. Kaczynski, John A. Bernhart, Caroline G. Dunn, and Sara Wilcox. "Objective Church Environment Audits and Attendee Perceptions of Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Supports within the Church Setting." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 10 (May 20, 2020): 3598. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103598.

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Interventions in faith-based settings are increasingly popular, due to their effectiveness for improving attendee health outcomes and behaviors. Little past research has examined the important role of the church environment in individual-level outcomes using objective environmental audits. This study examined associations between the objectively measured physical church environment and attendees’ perceptions of physical activity (PA) and healthy eating (HE) supports within the church environment, self-efficacy for PA and HE, and self-reported PA and HE behaviors. Data were collected via church audits and church attendee surveys in 54 churches in a rural, medically underserved county in South Carolina. Multi-level regression was used to analyze associations between the church environment and outcomes. Physical elements of churches were positively related to attendees’ perceptions of church environment supports for PA (B = 0.03, 95% CI = 0.01, 0.05) and HE (B = 0.05, 95% CI = 0.01, 0.09) and there was a significant interaction between perceptions of HE supports and HE church environment. Self-efficacy and behaviors for PA and HE did not show an association with the church environment. Future research should establish a temporal relationship between the church environment and these important constructs for improving health. Future faith-based interventions should apply infrastructure changes to the church environment to influence important mediating constructs to health behavior.

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Kegler, Michelle C., Deanne W. Swan, Iris Alcantara, Louise Wrensford, and Karen Glanz. "Environmental Influences on Physical Activity in Rural Adults: The Relative Contributions of Home, Church, and Work Settings." Journal of Physical Activity and Health 9, no. 7 (September 2012): 996–1003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jpah.9.7.996.

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Background:This study examines the relative contribution of social (eg, social support) and physical (eg, programs and facilities) aspects of worksite, church, and home settings to physical activity levels among adults in rural communities.Methods:Data are from a cross-sectional survey of 268 African American and Caucasian adults, ages 40–70, living in southwest Georgia. Separate regression models were developed for walking, moderate, vigorous, and total physical activity as measured in METs-minutes-per-week.Results:Social support for physical activity was modest in all 3 settings (mean scores 1.5–1.9 on a 4-point scale). Participants reported limited (<1) programs and facilities for physical activity at their worksites and churches. An interaction of physical and social aspects of the home setting was observed for vigorous and moderate physical activity and total METs. There were also interactions between gender and social support at church for vigorous activity among women, and between race and the physical environment at church for moderate physical activity. A cross-over interaction was found between home and church settings for vigorous physical activity. Social support at church was associated with walking and total METs.Conclusions:Homes and churches may be important behavioral settings for physical activity among adults in rural communities.

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HUNGERMAN, DANIEL M. "RACE AND CHARITABLE CHURCH ACTIVITY." Economic Inquiry 46, no. 3 (July 2008): 380–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2007.00104.x.

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Buyukli, Darya. "Historical memory preservation of the Russian Orthodox Church contribution to the victory in the Great Patriotic War." Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities, no. 180 (2019): 179–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2019-24-180-179-185.

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We present the key directions in the activity of the Russian Orthodox Church in preserving and restoring the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War. We consider the main stages and aspects of the church's activity in this direction. The construction of the Great Patriotic War historical memory now occupies a large place in patriotic and civic education. The issues of historical memory and its differences from the actual history in Russia began to work with recent-ly. We also consider various ways of preserving historical memory of the Russian Orthodox Church contribution to the victory in the Great Patriotic War in connection with the peculiarities of the source base. Also, in the conditions of limited actions of the Russian Orthodox Church as a full-fledged subject of law, in different periods of time certain types of historical memory preser-vation came to the fore. The main areas of activity in terms of preserving historical memory of the Russian Orthodox Church contribution to victory are identified. Among them we highlight the coverage of church activities in the official publication of the Russian Orthodox Church “Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate”, the construction of churches in memory of the war, the biography restoration of repressed priests and believers during the war, co-operative work on museums and museum exhibitions, etc. We also reveal the correspondence of the work content with historical memory to basic Russian values.

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Saunders, Ruth P., Sara Wilcox, Danielle E. Jake-Schoffman, Deborah Kinnard, Brent Hutto, Melinda Forthofer, and Andrew T. Kaczynski. "The Faith, Activity, and Nutrition (FAN) Dissemination and Implementation Study, Phase 1: Implementation Monitoring Methods and Results." Health Education & Behavior 46, no. 3 (December 21, 2018): 388–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1090198118818235.

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Faith-based settings offer opportunities for reaching populations at risk for chronic conditions and are optimal settings for dissemination and implementation (D&I) research. Faith, Activity, and Nutrition (FAN) is an evidence-based program designed to promote physical activity (PA) and healthy eating (HE) through church policy, systems, and environmental change. We report implementation fidelity for Phase 1 of the FAN D&I project, a countywide effort. The group randomized study included pre- and postintervention assessments of core PA and HE components. We compared implementation in early intervention ( n = 35) versus delayed intervention (control, n = 19) churches; assessed individual church implementation; and examined the effects of level of implementation on church member outcomes. Implementation assessments were conducted with the FAN coordinator via telephone survey. Study outcomes were assessed with church members 8 to 12 months following baseline assessment via self-administered surveys. We found significantly higher levels of implementation for PA opportunities, PA and HE guidelines, PA and HE messages, and PA and HE pastor support in intervention versus control churches and showed church-level variation in PA and HE implementation. PA self-efficacy varied by level of implementation; high and low implementers did not differ in proportion of church members physically inactive, although low implementers had fewer members inactive than controls. The high level of implementation in intervention churches shows promise for broader dissemination of FAN.

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Pereveziy, Vitaliy. "Educational activity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the 20-30th years of the twentieth century." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 6 (December 5, 1997): 26–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/1997.6.113.

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The main purpose of the educational activities of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the 20-30th years of the twentieth century. was the upbringing of the younger generation. The Church's Church created a holistic system of its activities, which was intended to broaden the Christian upbringing.

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Arriola, Kimberly R. Jacob, April Hermstad, Shauna St Clair Flemming, Sally Honeycutt, Michelle L. Carvalho, Sabrina T. Cherry, Tamara Davis, Sheritta Frazier, Cam Escoffery, and Michelle C. Kegler. "Promoting Policy and Environmental Change in Faith-Based Organizations: Description and Findings From a Mini-Grants Program." American Journal of Health Promotion 31, no. 3 (November 17, 2016): 192–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.4278/ajhp.150212-quan-724.

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Purpose. The Emory Prevention Research Center’s Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network mini-grant program funded faith-based organizations to implement policy and environmental change to promote healthy eating and physical activity in rural South Georgia. This study describes the existing health promotion environment and its relationship to church member behavior. Design. Cross-sectional. Setting. Data were obtained from parishioners of six churches in predominantly rural South Georgia. Subjects. Participants were 319 church members with average age of 48 years, of whom 80% were female and 84% were black/African-American. Measures. Questionnaires assessed perceptions of the existing church health promotion environment relative to nutrition and physical activity, eating behavior and intention to use physical activity facilities at church, and eating and physical activity behaviors outside of church. Analysis. Multiple regression and ordinal logistic regression using generalized estimating equations were used to account for clustered data. Results. Results indicate that delivering messages via sermons and church bulletins, having healthy eating programs, and serving healthy foods are associated with participants’ self-reported consumption of healthy foods at church (all p values ≤ .001). Serving more healthy food and less unhealthy food was associated with healthier eating in general but not to physical activity in general (p values ≤ .001). Conclusion. The church environment may play an important role in supporting healthy eating in this setting and more generally.

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Hermstad, April, Sally Honeycutt, Shauna StClair Flemming, Michelle L. Carvalho, Tarccara Hodge, Cam Escoffery, Michelle C. Kegler, and Kimberly R. Jacob Arriola. "Social Environmental Correlates of Health Behaviors in a Faith-Based Policy and Environmental Change Intervention." Health Education & Behavior 45, no. 5 (March 4, 2018): 672–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1090198118757826.

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Diet and physical activity are behavioral risk factors for many chronic diseases, which are among the most common health conditions in the United States. Yet most Americans fall short of meeting established dietary and physical activity guidelines. Faith-based organizations as settings for health promotion interventions can affect members at multiple levels of the social ecological model. The present study investigated whether change in the church social environment was associated with healthier behavior at church and in general at 1-year follow-up. Six churches received mini-grants and technical assistance for 1 year to support policy and environmental changes for healthy eating (HE) and physical activity (PA). Socioenvironmental (social support and social norms) and behavioral (HE and PA at church and in general) outcomes were derived from baseline and 1-year follow-up church member surveys ( n = 258). Three of six churches demonstrated significant improvements in all three socioenvironmental aspects of HE. Two of five churches exhibited significant socioenvironmental improvements for PA at follow-up. Church social environmental changes were related to health behaviors at church and in general ( p < .05). Change in social support for HE, social support for PA, and social norms for PA were each associated with three church-based and general behavioral outcomes. Social norms for healthy eating were related to two general behavior outcomes and social norms for unhealthy eating to one general behavioral outcome. Study findings demonstrate that socioenvironmental characteristics are essential to multilevel interventions and merit consideration in designing policy and environmental change interventions.

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Baruth, Meghan, Sara Wilcox, Ruth P. Saunders, Steven P. Hooker, James R. Hussey, and Steven N. Blair. "Perceived Environmental Church Support and Physical Activity Among Black Church Members." Health Education & Behavior 40, no. 6 (March 5, 2013): 712–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1090198113477110.

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Danylets, Yurii Vasylovych. "Religious activity of Mikhail Popov in Transcarpathia in 1938-1944." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 43 (June 19, 2007): 99–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2007.43.1874.

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End period 30 - beginning. 40's of the twentieth century. in Transcarpathia it was extremely difficult. After the overthrow of the government of the independent Carpathian Ukraine by the Hungarian troops, a military administration was established in the territory of Transcarpathia. The Orthodox Church has been held hostage to international events and has become the epicenter of the struggle between Hungary and Yugoslavia. It should be noted that the religious situation in Transcarpathia during this period was tense. About 61.9% of the population belonged to the Greek Catholic Church, 17.2% to the Orthodox Church, less believers were Jewish, Roman Catholic, Reformed, Evangelical and other churches. Among the Orthodox, since the 20's of the twentieth century. Two ecclesiastical jurisdictions dominated - the Serbian and Constantinople, whose representatives fought each other. The recognition and support of the Czech state before the Hungarian occupation had Serbian jurisdiction, which was represented by the vast majority of the clergy.

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Boldon, Dean A. "Formal Church Polity and Ecumenical Activity." Sociological Analysis 49, no. 3 (1988): 293. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3711591.

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Wilcox, Sara, Marilyn Laken, Melissa Bopp, Octavia Gethers, Peng Huang, Lottie McClorin, Allen W. Parrott, Rosetta Swinton, and Antronette Yancey. "Increasing Physical Activity Among Church Members." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 32, no. 2 (February 2007): 131–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2006.10.009.

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Lunkin, Roman N. "Social and Political Consequences of the Pandemic for the Russian Orthodox Church." RUDN Journal of Political Science 22, no. 4 (December 15, 2020): 547–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-1438-2020-22-4-547-558.

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In the article analyzed the social and political consequences of pandemic of coronavirus for the Russian Orthodox Church in the context of the reaction of different European churches on the quarantine rules and critics towards the church inside Russia. The author used the structural-functional and institutional approaches for the evaluation of the activity of the Russian Orthodox Church, was analyzed the sources of mass-media and the public claims of the clergy. In the article was made a conclusion that Orthodox Church expressed itself during the struggle with coronavirus as national civic institute where could be represented various even polar views. Also the parish activity leads to the formation of the democratic society affiliated with the Church and the role of that phenomenon have to be explored in a future. The coronacrisis makes open the inner potential of the civic activity and different forms of the social service in Russian Church. In the same time pandemic provoked the development of the volunteer activity in the around-church environment and also in the non-church circles among the young people and the generation of 40th age where the idea of the social responsibility for themselves and people around and the significance of the civil rights was one of the popular ideas till 2019. The conditions of the self-isolation also forced the clergy to struggle for their parishioners and once again renovate the role of the church in the society and in the cyber space.

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Davie, Martin. "The Church of Jesus Christ: An Anglican Response." Ecclesiology 1, no. 3 (2005): 59–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1744136605052781.

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AbstractFollowing an initial exploration of the teaching of The Church of Jesus Christ, this paper argues that a comparison of The Church of Jesus Christ with the Thirty Nine Articles and recent Anglican ecumenical statements and agreements shows a significant degree of agreement between The Church of Jesus Christ and Anglican theology and ecclesiology. This agreement reflects the fact that both the Anglican tradition and the traditions of the churches in the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe have been shaped by the Reformation. It also shows the influence of a growing ecumenical consensus on ecclesiological issues. However, alongside this agreement there also remain significant points of difference about the relation between divine and human activity in the Church, the importance of tradition, the holiness of the Church and the nature of the Church’s unity. These points of difference need to be explored and debated by Anglicans and members of the Churches of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE).

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Fylypovych, Liudmyla O. "Traditional Churches of Ukraine in the System of International Interreligious Dialogue." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 50 (March 10, 2009): 117–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2009.50.2040.

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International inter-religious dialogue is one of the directions of modern foreign policy of any church. Until recently, the latter was determined by narrow church interests. Due to the changes taking place in the religious sphere, in particular its globalization, which itself responds to the challenges of today, the field of external interests of the church extends to single-religious (say, the danger of non-religious proselytism) or even all-religious (for example, shared threat) clean water or planetary warming). Therefore, the list of tasks defined as elements of the church's international activity includes not only spiritual guardianship and protection of their believers abroad, missionary work among unbelievers and non-believers, pastoral visits to the diaspora, but also friendly communication with the brotherly churches, contacts with theologians spiritual leaders of other religions, consultations with prominent statesmen and public figures, scholars, politicians, representation in international interreligious associations, etc.

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BEGLOV, A. L. "International Activity of the Russian Orthodox Church during the “New Deal” Between the State and the Church. Periodization and the Elements of Crisis." Outlines of global transformations: politics, economics, law 11, no. 4 (October 16, 2018): 104–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.23932/2542-0240-2018-11-4-104-129.

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The article describes the international activities of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate during the “new deal” in the state-church relations (late 1930s – first half of the 1950s). Depending on the direction of the international activities of the Russian Church, which the Soviet leadership considered to be the priority of the moment, the author outlines five main stages of the “new deal”. The first stage dated to the late 1930s – 1943, when the “new policy” remained a secret policy of the Stalinist leadership aimed at including Orthodox religious structures in the new territories, included into the USSR in 1939–1940, into the management system of the Moscow Patriarchate, and then to establish contacts with allies on religious channels through the anti-Hitler coalition. The second stage occurred in 1943–1948, when the main efforts of church diplomacy were aimed at including the Orthodox Churches of Eastern Europe in the orbit the influence of the Moscow Patriarchate and (after 1945) an unsuccessful attempt was made to achieve the leading role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the world Orthodoxy. The third stage occurred in 1948– 1949, when the crisis of the “new deal” took shape. Finally, the fourth stage began after 1949 with the inclusion of the Russian Orthodox Church in the international movement for peace and overcoming the crisis of state-church relations. The author pays special attention to the Moscow meeting of the heads and representatives of the Orthodox Churches of 1948, which revealed a divergence in the interests of the state and the Church and launched a crisis of the “new deal”. In addition, the article makes an excursion into the history of foreign policy activity of representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church in the period before the 1917 revolution, as well as its international relations in the interwar period�

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Hofmann, Mary Ann. "The Church and the Tax Law: Keeping Church and State Separate." ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research 13, no. 1 (February 1, 2015): 36–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/jltr-51086.

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ABSTRACT In a democracy characterized by the separation of church and state, what role does the federal government play in regulating the activities and the financial transactions of churches and other religious nonprofit organizations? What are the current federal requirements regarding tax exemption for churches, tax deductibility of donations to churches, and political activity by churches, and are these requirements justified? Rather than interfering with the free exercise of religion, does the federal government actually come closer to violating the establishment clause of the First Amendment by providing inappropriate tax benefits to churches and clergy? This paper discusses tax laws and federal court decisions relating to these and other issues.

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Codone, Susan. "Megachurch Pastor Twitter Activity: An Analysis of Rick Warren and Andy Stanley, Two of America’s Social Pastors." Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 3, no. 2 (December 6, 2014): 1–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21659214-90000050.

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Mainstream church leaders have taken to Twitter as a platform for spreading their message and promoting their churches. This study examines two American mega-church pastors, Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, and Andy Stanley of North Point Community Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The main objectives of this study are to analyse the Twitter activity of both pastors in an attempt to categorize their tweets according to research-based guidelines and to suggest new categories for ministry leaders who use social media. The study also tracks the Twitter activity over the life of the @rickwarren and @andystanley accounts. The study shows intriguing applications of Twitter by these two pastors and makes recommendations for those in ministry leadership who wish to use Twitter as a broadcast platform for their personal and ministry messages. Because research in ministerial use of social media is young, future studies are needed to determine if these recommendations can apply to the social media activity of other ministry leaders and to explore how ministry leaders across the religious spectrum are using social media.

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Jilyuk, S. I. "Approval and development of the Church of the Renewal in Ukraine in the 1920s." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 27-28 (November 11, 2003): 76–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2003.27-28.1466.

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Given the current division of modern Orthodox in Ukraine, the study of the history of the church movement of the 1920s, a significant component of which was the activity of the updated clergy, has not only scientific and cognitive but also practical significance, since it helps to clarify the causes and trends of inter-church confrontation in the conditions of existence of several Orthodox churches and to define conceptual approaches to the formation in the state of a single independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

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Phillips, Rick. "Religious Market Share and Mormon Church Activity." Sociology of Religion 59, no. 2 (1998): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3712076.

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Merrill, Ray M., and Alton L. Thygerson. "Religious Preference, Church Activity, and Physical Exercise." Preventive Medicine 33, no. 1 (July 2001): 38–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/pmed.2001.0851.

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Baruth, Meghan, and Sara Wilcox. "Psychosocial mediators of physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption in the Faith, Activity, and Nutrition programme." Public Health Nutrition 18, no. 12 (December 8, 2014): 2242–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980014002808.

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AbstractObjectivePerforming and publishing mediator analyses, whether significant or null, provides insight into where research efforts should focus and will assist in developing effective and powerful behaviour change interventions. The present study examined whether self-efficacy, social support and church support mediated changes in leisure-time physical activity (PA) and fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption in a faith-based intervention.DesignA 15-month PA and F&V intervention, guided by the structural ecological model, targeted the social, cultural and policy influences within the church. Outcomes and mediators were measured at baseline and follow-up. Data were collected from 2007 to 2011. MacKinnon’s product of coefficients tested for mediation.SettingSixty-eight African Methodist Episcopal churches in South Carolina, USA.SubjectsFive hundred and eighty-two (PA) and 588 (F&V) church members.ResultsDespite the significant increases in PA and F&V consumption, none of the hypothesized mediators were significant mediators of change in PA or F&V consumption. When examining each path of the mediation model, the intervention did not change any of the hypothesized mediators. However, changes in some mediators were associated with changes in outcomes.ConclusionsAlthough there was no significant mediation, the association between changes in mediators and changes in PA and/or F&V consumption suggest that these variables likely play some role in changing these behaviours. Future studies should consider mediation analyses a priori, putting careful thought into the types of measures used and the timing of those measures, while also being cognizant of participant and staff burden. Finding a balance will be fundamental in successfully understanding how interventions exert their effects.

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Robnett, Belinda, and James A. Bany. "Gender, Church Involvement, and African-American Political Participation." Sociological Perspectives 54, no. 4 (December 2011): 689–712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sop.2011.54.4.689.

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While numerous studies discuss the political implications of class divisions among African-Americans, few analyze gender differences in political participation. This study assesses the extent to which church activity similarly facilitates men's and women's political participation. Employing data from a national cross-sectional survey of 1,205 adult African-American respondents from the 1993 National Black Politics Study, the authors conclude that black church involvement more highly facilitates the political participation of black men than black women. Increasing levels of individual black church involvement and political activity on the part of black churches increases the gender gap in political participation and creates a gender participation gap for some political activities. These findings suggest that while institutional engagement increases political participation, the gendered nature of the institutional context also influences political engagement outcomes.

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Petrík, Ľubomír. "Presentation of the Preaching Activity in the Greek-Catholic Church in Slovakia." E-Theologos. Theological revue of Greek Catholic Theological Faculty 2, no. 1 (April 1, 2011): 67–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10154-011-0007-0.

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Presentation of the Preaching Activity in the Greek-Catholic Church in Slovakia The author of the article Presentation of the Preaching Activity in the Greek-Catholic Church in Slovakia offers the view on the current preaching activity of the Greek-Catholic clergy in Slovakia. He states, it is in complete union with the Documents of the Catholic Church of which the Greek-Catholic Church is an integral part. The most used form of preaching among the Greek-Catholic priests is the homily. The author also focuses on some specifics of the preaching activity in the Greek-Catholic Church.

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Makarova, Kseniya, and Michael Kazakov. "Russian Orthodox Church in Armenia: General Points of Activity." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Political, Sociological and Economic sciences 2020, no. 1 (April 24, 2020): 9–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2500-3372-2020-5-1-9-15.

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The present research featured the public diplomacy of Russia in Armenia. The paper focuses on the activity of the Russian Orthodox Church as an institute of civil society in the context of Russian public diplomacy. It describes mechanisms and instruments used by religious organizations in Armenia. The research objective was to analyze the presence of the Russian Orthodox Church in Armenia as a special part of Russian public diplomacy mechanism. The authors employed analysis and synthesis to get a complex presentation of the subject, as well as induction and deduction to interpret facts. The historical method was used to study the phenomenon in its development. The network approach was used to study the current state of the phenomenon. The activity of the Russian Orthodox Church in Armenia is represented as part of Russian public diplomacy, which creates favorable conditions for achieving Russian foreign diplomacy goals. The results of the research can be used for studying principles and mechanisms of Russian public diplomacy. In conclusion, the authors claim that involvement of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russian public diplomacy can decrease the tension in Armenian public sphere. The tension is caused by various pseudo-religious movements that interfere with the restructuring of the local confessional space. Therefore, there is a growing need in a closer interaction between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Armenian apostolic church.

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Whitley, Margaret D., Denise D. Payán, Karen R. Flórez, Malcolm V. Williams, Eunice C. Wong, Cheryl A. Branch, and Kathryn P. Derose. "Feasibility and acceptability of a mobile messaging program within a church-based healthy living intervention for African Americans and Latinos." Health Informatics Journal 26, no. 2 (June 15, 2019): 880–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1460458219853408.

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Church-based programs can act on multiple levels to improve dietary and physical activity behaviors among African Americans and Latinos. However, the effectiveness of these interventions may be limited due to challenges in reaching all congregants or influencing behavior outside of the church setting. To increase intervention impact, we sent mobile messages (text and email) in English or Spanish to congregants (n = 131) from predominantly African American or Latino churches participating in a multi-level, church-based program. To assess feasibility and acceptability, we collected feedback throughout the 4-month messaging intervention and conducted a process evaluation using the messaging platform. We found that the intervention was feasible to implement and acceptable to a racially ethnically diverse study sample with high obesity and overweight rates. While the process evaluation had some limitations (e.g. low response rate), we conclude that mobile messaging is a promising, feasible addition to church-based programs aiming to improve dietary and physical activity behaviors.

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Karas, Ganna. "Musicology activity of Miron Fedoriv on the field of reformation of church singing in the context of decrees of the Second Vatican Council." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 66 (February 26, 2013): 372–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2013.66.285.

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The Second Vatican Council, taking into account the modern needs of mankind, called for the mutual tolerance of denominations, reforms and compromise in church traditions and practices. This was a response to the practical life of the Ukrainian church in the diaspora. For the Eastern Churches (including the Ukrainian Catholic Church), the Council adopted a separate Decree "The Constitution for the Eastern Churches" 1, on the basis of which a conference of the UCP bishopric, led by the Supreme Archbishop Joseph Slipy, was convened on December 14, 1966 in Rome. It discussed a number of issues, including the case of Divine Liturgy, the liturgical language, the introduction of the Ukrainian spoken language, some reductions in the Service of God, and the reformation of church singing. It was for this purpose that the dioceses established Liturgical Commissions, in particular at the Chicago Department in the United States, which included the musicologist, composer, and musical culture activist of the Diaspora Myron Fedorov (1907-1993). One of the tasks of the commission was to preserve the traditional self-made singing, so that he "did not disappear, but he lived and developed under different kinds: single-handed, double-voiced or in choral works, which most would be out of the richness and beauty of our rite"

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Jackson, RS. "The liturgy and order of the mid-sixteenth century English Church in Geneva." STJ | Stellenbosch Theological Journal 1, no. 1 (July 31, 2015): 167. http://dx.doi.org/10.17570/stj.2015.v1n1.a8.

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The mid-sixteenth century English church in Geneva is one of the few refugee churches at this period to have been free of dispute and discord. While its origins in Frankfurt, the absence of Lutheran hostility and the protection provided by Calvin and the local Reformed church may all be counted as reasons for its peaceable nature, it is suggested here that this also has much to do with the Order and Liturgy of the church which emphasised practicality, participation and community. The church was also one where many of its members had work to do: both as artisans and merchants as well as work of a literary nature, the greatest achievement of which was the production of the Geneva bible. Activity was undoubtedly also a factor in protecting the church from internal disputation.

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John, Stanley. "Are Migrant Churches Missional? A Case for Expanding Our Geography of Missions." International Bulletin of Mission Research 41, no. 1 (October 26, 2016): 8–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2396939316669640.

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Many church leaders conclude that immigrant churches are not engaged in missions, based on a limited view of the geographic scope of missions. The “going principle” assumes that mission activity involves cross-cultural engagement, while the “staying principle” refers to embracing the local neighborhood where the church is located. While useful, both principles limit our vision of missional engagement. It is helpful to employ the theory of transnationalism to expand the notion of place and geography, allowing us to capture the full scope of missional engagement by many immigrant churches. The article concludes with a case study of Kerala Pentecostal churches.

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Chibueze, Odoemenam Temple, Rosemary Chinyere Ordu, and Ikphemhosimhe Aslem Omoghie. "Lexico-Semantic Interpretation of Pentecostal Church Posters." English Linguistics Research 6, no. 4 (December 11, 2017): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v6n4p69.

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This paper examines the lexico-semantic choices in the Pentecostal church posters. The researcher attempts to approach the interpretation of the Christian posters from the stylistic view point. Its meaning was made explicit using the tool of linguistics. It is a known fact, that stylistics is beneficial to both the teachers and students. Using M.A.K Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar, as the analytical framework, this paper, examines the lexical semantic choices in the Pentecostal church posters.Pentecostal church posters happen to be one of the several media of advertisement employed by the churches to disseminate information about the churches’ events to the audience/passers-by. Previous studies on the language of advertisements are concerned with the themes of commercial and political posters while the others looked at the elements of pragmatics such as speech acts and implicature etc. This paper reveals that the construction of posters (texts) is a linguistically conscious activity.

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Polak, Mieczysław Kazimierz. "Shaping the Spirituality of Communion in Church Communities." Verbum Vitae 37, no. 2 (June 26, 2020): 285–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/vv.5447.

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The activity of the Church results from its identity, and one constitutive element of this identity is the dimension of community. It is expressed, above all, by shaping the spirituality of communion in church communities. This spirituality has its foundations in the communion character of the presbyter's pastoral ministry and refers to the gospel commandment of love. It is shaped by Christian prayer centered on the Eucharist. The spirituality of communion built upon such foundations should permeate church community structures, which are made up, first and foremost, by parishes. On their own, parishes are not able to pass on the experience of church communion. Only by being infused with the spirituality of communion can they become spaces for experiencing the community dimension of the Church's life.

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Gorkusha, Oksana. "The World Outlook function of religion and church identity: challenges in the contempopary coordinates of Ukrainian reality." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 80 (December 13, 2016): 31–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2016.80.719.

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Oksana Horkusha’s article «The World Outlook function of religion and church identity: challenges in the contempopary coordinates of Ukrainian reality» analyzes the world outlook functioning of churches in the events of modern Ukraine. The rhetoric and the activity of church institutions are explored, on the basis of which the 3 levels of perception of reality are distinguished: 1) global 2) "Russko-mirovsky" (Russian-world) 3) Ukrainian. Given the characteristic of each of them.

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Haight, Roger. "Where We Dwell in Common." Horizons 32, no. 02 (2005): 332–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900002577.

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The great surge of Christian missionary activity during the course of the nineteenth century elicited a new concern for church unity. Was this missionary activity, after all, spreading division? In 1910 representatives of Protestant churches came together to respond to that question in Edinburgh at The World Missionary Conference. The conference in its turn channeled the concern to the sending churches. Although somewhat slowed down by World War I, the ecumenical movement grew and was punctuated by landmark events in The Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work (Stockholm, 1925) and The World Conference of Faith and Order (Lausanne, 1927). The report of this second conference included a description of what the churches assembled in their representatives shared in common and the many things that distinguished and sometimes divided them. When the World Council of Churches came into existence in August of 1948, the Faith and Order movement was integrated into it as a distinct agency whose concern was the doctrinal unity of the churches. Its signal achievement thus far has been the document entitled Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry, frequently referred to as the Lima document, which sketches a proposal for a common understanding of these three aspects of the church across the churches. This document is the best example of what I will call “transdenominational ecclesiology,” and the fact that it has received so much attention from the churches indicates that it plays some important role in the whole church.

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Grzywacz, Małgorzata. "The Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) in Western Pomerania in Light of the Activity of St. Mary’s Parish in Koszalin (Köslin) and the Rev. Friedrich Onnasch (1881–1945)." Studia Religiologica 53, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 303–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20844077sr.20.021.13039.

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The article deals with issues related to the history of the relations between churches as institutions, and their individual clergymen, and the Nazi state. The source referred to in this article is the intimate journal of Minister Friedrich Onnasch (1881–1945), the superintendent of the Koszalin Church District and parish priest of Saint Mary’s Church in Koszalin, murdered by Soviet troops in Barlinek in February 1945. A document written on a regular basis, never published, is a detailed account (though coded, due to censorship), showing the experience of the clerical office in a time of totalitarian oppression. It shows the situation in the Evangelical Church after 1933 and the commitment of Minister Friedrich Onnasch and others, among them Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), associated with Pomerania, in the movement of the Confessing Church. It explores the areas of Christian religion in its Evangelical topography, limited to the space of the former Prussian province of Pommern (Provinz Pommern) and Western Pomerania after 1945.

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Kilpeläinen, Aino-Elina, and Marie Vejrup Nielsen. "Teaching Rituals: New Church Activities and Religious Education." International Journal of Practical Theology 22, no. 1 (May 30, 2018): 23–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2016-0035.

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AbstractToday, a series of new initiatives are appearing within the established churches, many of them directed towards families with young children. The research presented in this article examines one specific new activity, “Babysalmesang” – baby hymn singing – within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark. This study rests firmly on the results of a national study and provides a qualitative perspective on what takes place in babysalmesang from the perspective of ritual education. The analysis of the data showed that babysalmesang is a ritualized activity that, at the same time, teaches about a ritual: baptism.

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Rooms, Nigel. "Understanding Local Churches as Porous Living Systems: Insights from the Tavistock Tradition." Ecclesial Practices 6, no. 2 (November 26, 2019): 182–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22144471-00602005.

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Systems thinking, organizational psychodynamics along with group relations and complexity / chaos theories have rarely been placed in dialogue with the dilemmas facing contemporary UK local churches and the systems that support them in the face of decline. In this article the author attempts such a project from his experience both as a consultant to, mainly Anglican Church systems through the Partnership for Missional Church process (pmc) with the Church Mission Society, and his 2017–18 training with the Tavistock Institute. Relevant parts of this ‘Tavistock’ tradition are explicated and thickened with narrative anecdote and research evidence from the pmc process. The article recommends moving from closed to open systems under conditions of porosity. Thus, treating churches less as mechanical objects to be manipulated, rather as non-linear living systems that need to be contained, discerned and disrupted. All of which allows for a fresh (but unfinished and incomplete) approach to the ecclesiology of local churches in relation to the activity of God, the missio Dei.

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Gous, A. G. S. "Plaaslike ekumene en die einddoel van die eenheidstrewe." Verbum et Ecclesia 14, no. 1 (September 9, 1993): 47–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v14i1.1275.

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Local ecumenism and the goal of the ecumenical endeavourAccording to the author the need for local ecumenism arises from the fact that nowadays there is not only the one universal church in many localities as in the early church but a new reality of many churches in one locality - a situation unknown to the Mew Testament. The quest for unity should therefore primarily originate from the local congregation. Gous clarifies the concept “local” and defines the ecumenical activity as such. He describes and evaluates five models for church unity: (i) organic unity, (ii) conciliar fellowship, (iii) reconciled diversity, (iv) communion of communions, and (v) unity as solidarity. He closes his article by listing reasons why churches remain caught in a situation of mutual exclusiveness, instead of full communion. A distorted relationship between unity and truth is one of the primary reasons.

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Campbell, Marci Kramish, Brenda McAdams Motsinger, Allyson Ingram, David Jewell, Christina Makarushka, Brenda Beatty, Janice Dodds, Jacquelyn McClelland, Seleshi Demissie, and Wendy Demark-Wahnefried. "The North Carolina Black Churches United for Better Health Project: Intervention and Process Evaluation." Health Education & Behavior 27, no. 2 (April 2000): 241–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/109019810002700210.

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The North Carolina Black Churches United for Better Health project was a 4-year intervention trial that successfully increased fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption among rural African American adults, for cancer and chronic disease prevention. The multicomponent intervention was based on an ecological model of change. A process evaluation that included participant surveys, church reports, and qualitative interviews was conducted to assess exposure to, and relative impact of, interventions. Participants were 1,198 members of 24 intervention churches who responded to the 2-year follow-up survey. In addition, reports and interviews were obtained from 23 and 22 churches, respectively. Serving more F&V at church functions was the most frequently reported activity and had the highest perceived impact, followed by the personalized tailored bulletins, pastor sermons, and printed materials. Women, older individuals, and members of smaller churches reported higher impact of certain activities. Exposure to interventions was associated with greater F&V intake. A major limitation was reliance on church volunteers to collect process data.

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Yefremova, Natalia, Oksana Horiaha, and Dmytro Piven. "A scientific educational activity of the Doctor of church law Alexander Ivanovych Pokrovskiy." Revista Amazonia Investiga 9, no. 28 (April 21, 2020): 225–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.34069/ai/2020.28.04.25.

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Аmong the different branches of law, the Church Law of the Eastern Orthodox Church is a holistic law system and a comprehensive branch of knowledge, which unites the judicial, historical and theological studies elements. Unfortunately, in Soviet times Church Law as a science and as a subject had been deleted from the programs of the law faculties. Even at the renewed seminaries it showed up only at the end of the XX century. However, the Church Law has close ties with a law culture, spiritual heritage and national traditions of the Ukrainian people, because it is an important source of the national law system. The resumption of research interest, therefore, in the history of the Church Law teaching has shown by the most modern Ukrainian researchers as one of the relevant targets of the national law science development. In this article, the history of appearance and development of Church Law Faculty at the Imperial Novorossiysk University is investigated. The article focuses on the activity of Professor A. I. Pokrovskiy, who was the last specialist of this subject at the University. Once in Odesa in 1917, he worked productively at the improvement of the church law teaching, but with the beginning of the Bolshevik terror, he was forced to survive in the conditions of implementation of the destructive reforms in the education sector in USSR. The collected materials will promote renewing the pages of his scientific-educational activity and allow us to know about the important stages of his life and his scientific achievements.

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Trost, Stewart G., Rebecca Tang, and Paul D. Loprinzi. "Feasibility and Efficacy of a Church-Based Intervention to Promote Physical Activity in Children." Journal of Physical Activity and Health 6, no. 6 (November 2009): 741–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jpah.6.6.741.

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Background:This study evaluated the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a church-based intervention to promote physical activity (PA) in children.Methods:The study was conducted in 4 churches located in 2 large metropolitan areas and 2 regional towns in Kansas. Churches in the intervention condition implemented the “Shining Like Stars” physical activity curriculum module during their regularly scheduled Sunday school classes. Churches in the control condition delivered the same content without integrating physical activity into the lessons. In addition to the curriculum, the intervention churches completed a series of weekly family devotional activities designed to promote parental support for PA and increase PA outside of Sunday school.Results:Children completing the Shining Like Stars curriculum exhibited significantly greater amounts of MVPA than those in the control condition (20 steps/min vs. 7 steps/min). No intervention effects were observed for PA levels outside of Sunday school or parental support for PA; however, relative to controls, children in the intervention churches did exhibit a significant reduction in screen time.Conclusion:The findings confirm that the integration of physical activity into Sunday school is feasible and a potentially effective strategy for promoting PA in young children.

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Brown, Stewart J. "Providential Empire? The Established Church of England and the Nineteenth-Century British Empire in India." Studies in Church History 54 (May 14, 2018): 225–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/stc.2017.19.

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In the early nineteenth century, many in Britain believed that their conquests in India had a providential purpose, and that imperial Britain had been called by God to Christianize India through an alliance of Church and empire. In 1813, parliament not only opened India to missionary activity, but also provided India with an established Church, which was largely supported by Indian taxation and formed part of the established Church of England. Many hoped that this union of Church and empire would communicate to India the benefits of England's diocesan and parochial structures, with a settled pastorate, parish churches and schools, and a Christian gentry. As the century progressed, the established Church was steadily enlarged, with a growing number of bishoprics, churches, schools, colleges, missionaries and clergy. But it had only limited success in gaining converts, and many Indians viewed it as a form of colonization. From the 1870s, it was increasingly clear that imperial India would not become Christian. Some began reconceptualizing the providential purpose behind the Indian empire, suggesting that the purpose might be to promote dialogue and understanding between the religions of the East and West, or, through the selfless service of missionaries, to promote moral reform movements in Hinduism and Islam.

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Walker, David. "Marks of Mission and ways of belonging: shaping the Anglican agenda for occasional churchgoers in the countryside." Journal of Anglican Studies 9, no. 1 (August 13, 2010): 100–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1740355310000082.

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AbstractThis paper uses quantitative methods in conjunction with the five Marks of Mission of the Anglican Communion to identify opportunities and give direction to mission. It applies the model of belonging through activity, events, people and place developed in an earlier paper2 to data provided by 326 occasional and 775 frequent churchgoers in a survey conducted in 27 rural parish churches. For occasional churchgoers a distinctive pattern of belonging, as predicted by the model, is observed and a simple characterisation made. The application of the Five Marks of Mission to this group is discussed and practical suggestions made to help churches engage effectively with them as both agents and recipients of mission activity. The paper concludes that perceived limitations in the faith of occasional church attendees may derive from a failure by the church to value their mode of belonging and to engage with them on their own territory.

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Borza, Peter. "Activity of the Communist Government Appointed in the Greek-Catholic Episcopal Office in Prešov." E-Theologos. Theological revue of Greek Catholic Theological Faculty 2, no. 1 (April 1, 2011): 93–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10154-011-0009-y.

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Activity of the Communist Government Appointed in the Greek-Catholic Episcopal Office in Prešov The paper deals with the activities of the government appointee in the Greek Catholic Episcopal office in Presov before the violent destruction of the Greek Catholic Church in 1950. The government appointee was used by the communists in the Episcopal office to limit the freedom of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Slovakia. This was an unprecedented intrusion into the jurisdiction of bishops, which contravened the church, but also democratic principles. Government appointees were part of the planned fight against the Church, which was at that time, the last real force, capable of contradicting the emerging totalitarian regime.

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Tyshchenko, Andriy. "Influence of charismatic movements on the social and spiritual sphere of society (on the example of the "New Generation")." Religious Freedom 1, no. 19 (August 30, 2016): 167–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/rs.2016.19.1.961.

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In our article we seek to analyze the specifics and directions of the social and evangelical activity of charismatic churches on the example of the Church "New Generation", consider some of the peculiarities of deepening the integration of charisma in Ukrainian society.

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Kadnichanskyy, D., and A. Manko. "Problems of use of architectural heritage of Sambir district in tourist activity." Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series Geography 1, no. 43 (October 19, 2013): 45–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vgg.2013.43.1539.

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Architectural heritage of the town of Sambir and Sambir district is described. The problems of use of the monuments of architecture of Sambir district in tourism are discussed. Key words: architectural heritage, tourist activity, monument of architecture monument of architecture, castle, church, Roman-catholic church.

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Ukraintceva, Alina Viktorovna. "Modern architecture of the Russian Orthodox Church: problems of scientific research." Урбанистика, no. 2 (February 2021): 44–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2310-8673.2021.2.31821.

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The process of revival of the Russian Orthodox Church in the late XX – early XXI centuries is accompanied by significant changes in its sociopolitical status. The Church regained high public authority by reestablishing and strengthening relations with the government, which granted the right to such types of activity as educational, missionary, social, and charitable. The church construction, which was discontinued for over 70 years, led to the loss of succession in engineering design and absence of systematic scientific and engineering developments that are intended to meet the modern needs and demands in the area of design of churches. These factors determine the heightened scientific interest to this topic. The goal of this research consists in determination of trends and problems in the scientific studies dedicated to the modern architecture of the Orthodox Church. The authors set the task to analyze, systematize and characterize the range of scientific publications written by the Russian scholars on the modern architecture of the Orthodox Church. This article considers the results of national scientific research (dissertations, scientific articles) on the modern architecture of the Orthodox Church that were published over the period from 1990 to the present.

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Slack, Stephen. "General Synod of the Church of England." Ecclesiastical Law Journal 21, no. 2 (April 12, 2019): 221–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956618x19000097.

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This report covers the groups of sessions held in February 2018 and July 2018. Both meetings again saw significant amounts of legislative business, with a number of items giving effect to proposals emerging from the simplification strand of the Archbishops’ Council's ‘Renewal and Reform’ programme or directed in other respects at simplifying or streamlining the Church's substantial body of statute law. Indeed, such has been the level of legislative activity over the last two years that in the course of 2018 no fewer than nine Measures have been enacted – the highest number in a single year since the Church acquired the ability to make Measures having the force and effect of an Act of Parliament under the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919.

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Dixon, Nicholas. "The Political Dimension of the Education of the Poor in the National Society's Church of England Schools, 1811–37." Studies in Church History 55 (June 2019): 290–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/stc.2018.33.

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One of the most important spheres of activity in the early nineteenth-century Church of England was the establishment and support of schools for the poor. The primary agent of such activity was the National Society. Founded in 1811 by clergymen and philanthropists, this organization aimed to maintain Anglicanism as the ‘National Religion’ by instructing as many poor children as possible in church doctrine under clerical supervision. By 1837, almost a million children across England were being educated in Anglican charitable institutions. This remarkable effort has largely been the province of educational historians. Yet it was also a political enterprise. The creation of a national system of education along exclusively Anglican lines represented an assertive intervention in the contemporary debate about the relationship between church and nation-state. Using a wide range of neglected sources, this article discusses how such political concerns were manifested at a local level in National Society schools’ teaching, rituals and use as venues for political activism. It is argued that these aspects of the society's work afforded the church a powerful political platform. This analysis informs our broader understanding of the ways in which churches’ involvement in mass education has sustained religiously inflected conceptions of nationhood.

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