Christian congregations and denominations are increasingly struggling with questions of LGBTQ+ inclusion. The hiring ministers who persons, including persons in leadership, conducting marriages just a few the discernment discussions that considering. This article reports on findings 97 interviews 21 reporting their own conversations. Researchers identified commonalities differences groups proce...

Training students in the discernment ability is an important task in distance education. To improve the training results, this chapter makes the following contributions: (1) suggests Web courseware on controversial social issues with different viewpoints for discernment training; (2) constructs the courseware for Discernment Ability using a method called DRPA. This method is presented with five...

In this paper we extend a methodology for constructing a frame of discernment from belief functions for one problem, into a methodology for constructing multiple frames of discernment for several different subproblems. The most appropriate frames of discernment are those that let our evidence interact in an interesting way without exhibit too much internal conflict. A function measuring overall...

Dr Macgillivray thanked the Council for the honour they had done him, in asking him to open this discussion on the important subject of syphilis in relation to marriage. It had been his intention to review the subject exhaustively in a paper, but he had been informed by the Council that he must confine himself to viva voce remarks. He must therefore beg the Society to excuse him, if, with the s...

This article examines whether the empowerment of the European Union's (EU) supranational institutions has had an impact on the development of EU asylum. By systematically investigating EU asylum law before and after 'communitarization', it argues that its 'policy core' has maintained a high degree of continuity. An advocacy coalition under the leadership of the interior ministers managed to co-...

possessing three positions including issuing fatwas, ruling and judgment, all mojtaheds (highest rank in islamic clergymen hierarchy) take different authority and power. by the first position he can issue fatwas in religious affairs and problems through a methodological approach in islamic sharia. based on the position of ruling and accumbency of velayat (socio- political position of mojtahed) ...