According to Dan Krutz, former president of CUIC, " Overcoming racism has been a focal point of CUIC since its beginning ... Racism may be the biggest sin that divides churches.

According to their website, one of the reasons for transitioning from COCU to CUIC is so that member churches " stop ' consulting ' and start living their unity in Christ more fully.

According to oral tradition, they fought against the Abyssinians and uprooted Christian communities in Galgala, a town that used to have churches and temples.

According to Matthew Paris, the 13th century chronicler of St Albans Abbey, Abbot Ulsinus ( Wulsin ) founded three churches in 948, reputedly to tend to the physical and spiritual needs of the growing number of pilgrims to Alban's shrine: St Peter's, St Stephen's and St Michael's.

According to early Muslim historians, towns that surrendered without resistance and made treaties with the Muslims gave the Muslims permission to take their churches and synagogues.

According to one hypothesis, an Italian architect called Petrok Maly may have been an author of the Ascension Church in Kolomenskoye, one of the earliest and most prominent tented roof churches.

According the German chronicler Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg, the decades long forced Germanization and Christianization of the Slavs associated with these two churches was the reason for their destruction.

According to the historian Adhemar, ' As Rollo's death drew near, he went mad and had a hundred Christian prisoners beheaded in front of him in honour of the gods whom he had worshipped, and in the end distributed a hundred pounds of gold around the churches in honour of the true God in whose name he had accepted baptism.

According to Robert Nisbet Bain, “ No other Russian sovereign ever erected so many churches .”

According to the Ministry of Education ( 1963 ), there were 2, 350, 000 members and 15, 000 churches.

According to another theory, it is believed that the pointed arch evolved naturally in Western Europe as a structural solution to a purely technical problem, concurrent with its introduction and early use as a stylistic feature in French and English churches.

According to Adémar de Chabannes, just before his death in 932 or 933 Rollo ( founder and first ruler of the Viking principality of Normandy ) practised human sacrifices to appease the pagan gods, and at the same time made gifts to the churches in Normandy.

According to Terri McLean, author of New Harmonies, old-guard churches ( United Methodist is given as an example ) of the late 1990s were experiencing a rapid decline in membership and were under threat of disbandment within the next decade, a trend that has been going on since the 1980s.

According to the official census of 1801, fewer than 45, 000 guaraníes remained ; cattle, sheep, and horses had disappeared ; the fields and orchards were overgrown or cut down and the churches were in ruins.

According to the recent 2004 LCMS synodical resolution 2-08A " To commend preaching and teaching Creation ," all LCMS churches and educational institutions — including preschool through 12th grade, universities, and seminaries — are " to teach creation from the Biblical perspective.

" According to Weldon McDougal, Burke " turned theatres like the Apollo and the Uptown into churches, he had folk running down the aisles to be saved by his music.

According to local folklore, the churches were built by two sisters.

According to Canon C. 24, " Every priest having a cure of souls shall provide that, in the absence of reasonable hindrance, Morning and Evening Prayer daily and on appointed days the Litany shall be said in the church, or one of the churches, of which he is the minister.

According to Joanna's biographer Nancy Goldstone, shortly after her coronation, the Queen continued the Angevin tradition of constructing churches and other public edifices including hospitals, employing the use of celebrated artisans.

According to Eusebius ' Church History, quoting Polycrates of Ephesus, churches in the Roman Province of Asia " always observed the day when the people put away the leaven ", the 14th of the lunar month of Nisan.

According to a late 13th century legend, Erik undertook the so-called First Swedish Crusade to Finland together with the equally legendary Bishop Henry of Uppsala, conquering the country and building many churches there.

According to the UPCI, in the United States and Canada it has grown from 521 member churches in 1946 to 4, 305 churches in 2011, with 9, 193 ministers.

According to tradition, it is one of the seven churches founded by Thomas the Apostle in 52 AD

According to one story, during the Middle Ages the Devil became so irritated by all the churches being built in Sussex that he decided to dig a channel from the English Channel, through the South Downs, and flood the area.

According to some ancient Greek collections, canons 29 and 30 are attributed to the council: canon 29, which states that an unworthy bishop cannot be demoted but can be removed, is an extract from the minutes of the 19th session ; canon 30, which grants the Egyptians time to consider their rejection of Leo's Tome, is an extract from the minutes of the fourth session.

According to Avogadro ’ s law this volume is same for all ideal gases and if we consider ‘ n ’ moles of an ideal gas at STP, then the equation becomes

According to the majority viewpoint for most of the 20th century, Jesus ' teaching in John is largely irreconcilable with that found in the Synoptics, and scholars consider the Synoptics to be more accurate representations of the teaching of the historical Jesus.

According to Robert E. Van Voorst the overwhelming majority of scholars consider both the reference to " the brother of Jesus called Christ " and the entire passage that includes it as authentic.

* According to Alberti himself, in a short autobiography written c. 1438 in Latin and in the third person, ( many but not all scholars consider this work to be an autobiography ) he was capable of " standing with his feet together, and springing over a man's head.

According to Cheong Seong-chang of Sejong Institute, speaking on June 25, 2012, there is some possibility that the new leader Kim Jong-un, who has greater visible interest in the welfare of his people and engages in greater interaction with them than his father did, will consider economic reforms and regularization of international relations.

According to SB 1070, law-enforcement officials may not consider “ race, color, or national origin ” in the enforcement of the law, except under the circumstances allowed under the United States and Arizona constitutions.

According to psychologist Menachem Brayer, although many " mammals, birds, and insects exchange caresses " which appear to be kisses of affection ( e. g. lovebirds ), they are not kisses as humans consider them.

According to his memoirs, Haussmann's use of the title baron was based on his elevation to the Senate and to an 1857 decree of the emperor's that gave Senate members the title of baron ; his memoirs further stated that he joked that he might consider the title aqueduc, ( a pun on the French words for ' duke ' and ' aqueduct ') but that no such title existed.

According to chief astronaut Deke Slayton's autobiography, Slayton did not assign See to Gemini 8 because he did not consider him physically capable of performing an extra-vehicular activity.

According to The Washington Monthlys 2012 national universities rankings, which consider research, community service, and social mobility, Louisiana Tech ranks 198th nationally.

According to the corporation ’ s research, 92 % of Canadians consider the CBC an essential service.

According to legend, when Duke William II of Normandy ( later known as William the Conqueror ) sent his representative to ask for Matilda's hand in marriage, she told the representative that she was far too high-born to consider marrying a bastard.

According to The God that Failed by Arthur Koestler, a former member of the Communist Party of Germany, the largest communist party in Western Europe in the Interwar period, communists, aligned with the Soviet Union, continued to consider the " social fascist " Social Democratic Party of Germany to be the real enemy in Germany, even after the Nazi Party had gotten into power.

According to R. J. Rummel, " Just consider the Grand Custom in Dahomey: When a ruler died, hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of prisoners would be slain.

According to Zawahiri, the EIJ was " different from the Takfir wal Hijra group as we do not consider people infidels because of their sins.

The term generally includes people born during all or part of the 1960s: According to Strauss-Howe generational theory, 1961 is the starting point, though other sources, including the U. S. Census Bureau, consider it to have started in the mid-1960s.

According to the Office of National Statistics figures, the majority of the Borough ’ s residents ( 89. 6 %) consider themselves to be ‘ White ’.

According to Kramer, he subsequently received letters from more than 100 institutions of higher learning " begging me to consider them.

According to Edwin Reischauer, and Marius Jansen, some 70 – 80 % of the Japanese regularly tell pollsters they do not consider themselves believers in any religion.

According to Villespin, the king's average approval rating of over 70 % through the years consistently out-performs those of elected political leaders, and a similar percentage of respondents consider that the king plays an important role in maintaining Spanish democracy.

According to Vasari, Andrea resolved never to touch the brush again because Leonardo, his pupil, had far surpassed him, but later critics consider this story apocryphal.

According to the system of scientific management developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor, a worker's motivation is solely determined by pay, and therefore management need not consider psychological or social aspects of work.

According to Coldwell, in the ensuing conversation Brownlee indicated that he would be prepared to consider running federally as a CCF candidate.

According to the Kyodo News, in March 2010 PRC officials told US officials that they consider the South China Sea a " core interest " on par with Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang In July 2010 the Communist Party-controlled Global Times stated that " China will never waive its right to protect its core interest with military means " and a Ministry of Defense spokesman said that " China has indisputable sovereignty of the South Sea and China has sufficient historical and legal backing " to underpin its claims.