Sentences with phrase «as social activists»

As social activists rally for an improved healthcare system to offset rising demand for quality healthcare, individuals need to be better aware of the impending health risks that can affect them.

This artistic model of the relationship between Christianity and culture is just as important as the social activist model.

In some churches today, it has become popular to think of Christ as a social activist, or a political revolutionary.

As a social activist, Bob campaigns to keep art taught in schools and is a Tate Trustee.

«Artist as Social Activist: A Conversation with Theaster Gates,» FOG Design + Art, Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, CA, January 12, 2018

By the same token, Purifoy's work as a social activist and an artist points to 21st century concerns and is evident of a stance taken by younger artists such as Theaster Gates and Andrea Zittel.»

Her work as a social activist allowed Bearden to be exposed to artists of the Harlem Renaissance at an early age.

As a social activist, the artist's work reflects the history and challenges of China in the 21st Century, placed alongside his own reflection and perception of his home country.

Not exact matches

And I'd been guilty of perpetuating this sort of prejudice by perpetuating stereotypes of psychics as shifty, exotic people or as being unreal, unable to be found as mothers or neighbors or activists like Emily, who's active in social justice - based causes, particularly the fight for transgender equal rights.

To see both sides, Theroux meets with both the Milwaukee Police Department's homicide division as they patrol District 5 - where the homicide average is over 12 times the national average - and with families and local social activists in the area.

Tarr says she and other Parkland activists are taking as many opportunities as possible to talk to politicians and the public through social media.

Shel Horowitz combines four decades as a socially conscious marketer and environmental / social justice activist.

Si2 provides overview reports on the main environmental, social and governance issues raised by activist shareholders in their proposals to companies, as well as impartial breakout reports on the proposals awaiting votes at companies.

There's often an assumption today that young African Americans involved in that «other» realm, as social justice activists, are not orthodox in their Christianity.

It offers such metaphors of the Christian life as «ambassador for Christ» — a favorite of evangelicals — and «citizen of God's commonwealth,» a favorite of social activists.

«Their kidnapping took place», continued the BBC report, «during a period of massive state repression of left - wing activists, union leaders and social activists which became known as the «Dirty War».

The truth is the social gospel has become its own gospel... leaving out Jesus and salvation and becoming a cynical secular movement who believes the end justifies the means... including Obama's work as «community activist».

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

The mountaintop experience, in the lives of great social activists such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., motivates them to descend from the mountain and work for the transformation of the world.

Reconciliation as transformation calls for ministerial leadership with a vision that transcends the conflict between evangelicals and social activists.

At the same time, it provides grounds for a sympathetic critique of the charismatic movement's foibles, as well as of the foibles of evangelicals and social activists.

We forget that just as our most heated discussions on social media emerge from the context of a cultural conversation, so too did the treatises of theologians and activists past.

As Christian social activist D.L. Mayfield wrote, «we should all be engaged in the brokenness of our communities.

Since these activists believe the most crucially needed transformation is individual, they have argued for religious transformation as a legitimate means of doing government - funded social work.

Adenauer may have been Catholic, but as Langner remarks, «the Catholic Adenauer can not simply be equated with the Catholic social activists in the party and their practical - political demands of the time.»

The social activist movements of those years also contributed to the seminaries» guilty conscience, so that they made at least token attempts to become sources of societal change as well as exemplifications of equity and justice.

From the outset, German Catholic social theorists and activists played a prominent role in addressing the social question, shaping what we now know as the Catholic social thought tradition.

But the activists, such as the biblical prophets, claim that the life of social concern is thoroughly religious, and they make «doing justice» the very heart of any authentic religious relation to the sacred mystery of God.

Today, that is largely forgotten, as all three recognize his greatness: progressives, as an activist for peace and social justice; conservatives, as a defender of the Natural Law and Biblical truth; and the U.S. government, as a symbol of national unity and American principles.

Granted, He wasn't a judgmental a-hole about it, but still, I think reducing Jesus to a social activist is kind of missing the point as well.

As study after study began to report that religious nones in America were growing, many atheist, agnostic and humanist activists began to stress the need for these relative non-believers to come together and turn their numbers into political and social influence.

As a result, there has been a secular shift in our judiciary away from the rule of law toward the rule of activist, policy - making, social - engineering judges.

This fight clearly aims at the current model of the family, which is experienced as a form of social conditioning and as an obstacle to the expression of the activists» «deep self,» that is, their gender.

Because of this, some may regard this as a book on «prophetic preaching» designed for «social activists.»

Such projects are typically of a social activist mode that was accurately described as «left over from the sixties.»

Certainly here, I am going beyond our common commitment as fellowship of secular social activists.

, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Kevin has a long and distinguished career as an educator, a social justice activist, a teacher, and an author.

My doula practice is an extension of my political beliefs and work as an organizer and activist around issues of social justice.

One evening, while chastising myself for slacking off on this important parenting / birth activist / blogger task, I got to wondering about birth stories as a social phenomenon: Why do (some) women write their birth stories?

And, her mentions on activists» social media outstripped her mentions in the mainstream media (as did Ted Cruz's, but not the other Republican candidates).

But as it becomes normal rather than exceptional for campaigns to have a presence on Facebook and other social media channels, politicians will have to endure many more attempts by activists to take over their pages to get attention for their issues or their demands.

Again, social media didn't cause the Tunisian Revolution, but they enabled it — without the ability of a small number of activists to pass along shocking news and imagery from the first wave of protests, they might have fizzled out as so many street demonstrations in so many countries have in the past.

As plenty of activists in the nonprofit and political advocacy worlds have found, though, actually using online social networks for political outreach can be extremely time - consuming.

With the Ashanti Regional activists campaigning for the reinstatement of Kwabena Agyepong following up press conferences in Kumasi with latest ones in Accra, a spillover of the campaign on to social media has seen Kwabena Agyepong being touted as an Ashanti who is being demonized by the Akyem President, Akufo - Addo.

Also, this is a good example of how what we do as on social media as individual activists can be as important as what a campaign does itself.

A coalition of social justice and community activists Thursday demanded that Buffalo lawmakers override Mayor Byron W. Brown's plans to increase the city's police department budget by $ 500,000, arguing that such an increase is unjustifiable given what they characterized as the department's poor record on solving homicides and making residents feel safe.

As rights activist Hossam Bahgat recalled, by condemning the authorities» violation of political, civic, social, and economic rights together, Egyptians had «completely surpassed» the artificial sequencing of rights debate.

Woodstock as an artist's colony started way before 1969; every town had its artists, musicians, social activists.