Sentences with phrase «culture wars what»

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What cracked the surface here, then, was the culture war being waged over same - sex marriage — not commitment to theological robustness and the essentials of the faith.

Such divergent responses to the crisis are unintelligible unless one sees them as part of the deeper issue of what might be called American Catholicism's «culture wars.»

What will it mean for both sides in this debate — at least as it takes place among believers, in and for the church — to move beyond political ideologies and culture wars and stand together under God's word of law and gospel?

The editors may well be right in their political analysis of what is happening in Miami, and the paper is legally entitled to applaud the antireligious ravings of unrepentant Stalinists, but it would become the editors to refrain from lecturing others about the incivility of speaking about the culture war which their paper is so aggressively waging.

Despite what you've heard, Christians are not at war with our culture.

The distinguished sociologist of the University of Virginia and author of the acclaimed Culture Wars here undertakes a close examination of what, in theory and practice, «moral education» means in most American schools.

What does it look like to really imitate Christ in this culture, during these wars, amidst all of this wealth and privilege, despite all of our past failures?

So what is at stake here is not just money but the contested intersection of religion, morality and sexual politics that has been going in recent years by the tagline of «the culture wars.»

To what extent is this a church - universal struggle to handle certain Scripture texts faithfully, and to what extent is it just a theological repackaging of modern American culture wars?

It should be noted that the book was essentially written before September 11, and some last minute stitchings about what the war on terrorism might mean for the world and American culture do not sit well with the burden of his argument.

Isn't what you are describing a culture war?

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

culture wars are definetly on... but even the Government is too stupid to see what's really happening.

There are actually two versions of the «culture wars» idea — what I will call the «broad» and the «narrow» versions.

What if we were just as much against colonization, imperialism, and war, as you are, and that when we told people about Jesus and His love for them, we let them maintain their culture, their identity, and who they were as people?

Historian Rick Perlstein observed that the culture war amounted to the fact that «what one side saw as liberation the other side saw as apocalypse: and what the other saw as apocalypse, the first saw as liberation.»

Still, if we keep our focus on the typically underexplored question of why the Great War continued, it seems to me that one has to take account of the nihilism, racism, and will - to - power that warped European high culture in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, making what now appear to be acts of civilizational suicide both rational and unavoidable.

What is often identified as evidence for a culture war has more to do with the requirements of» activist rhetoric than the attitudes or actions of the body politic generally.

So what is the «broad» version, of the notion of a culture war?

That is what Hunter and others discovered in their narrow version of «culture wars» — the rhetoric of movement partisans trying to break through to the nonactive and prod them to action.

In an earlier book, What Went Wrong, published shortly after September 11, 2001, Bernard Lewis outlined the gradual triumph of Western science, technology, ways of making war, learning, and culture over Islam since the naval battle of Lepanto in 1571, when the Christian league decisively defeated the Turks.

Talk about women mutlitation... talk about wherever islam goes it destroys the host culture, look at Persia, Egypt, or Turkey once the center of christianity... most islamic states where delivered by war... look around you today... what you see all over the world is exactly what islam has been from DAY ONE.

Although I am not too sure what the difference between the serbs and croats were in the Bosinan wars if it was not orthodox v Catholicism as I am not sure how else a divide between the people could be formed (the official croatian language is almost identical to the Serbian language (with a few exceptions) and the culture seems quite similar).

By calling a truce on wars over «culture,» and start fighting to save relationships with neighbors, no matter what they believe.

The talk of the culture war issues might have been secondary to the lines about the economy, but when you look at what they have actually done, little of the work has been related to the economy and most has been items important to social conservatives.

The culture war mentality that has made certain segments of the population «enemies» of Christianity (labeled with words like «liberal,» «secular,» or «worldly»), not only lacks nuance to understand why others believe what they believe, but it also makes neighbors into combatants.

This from his review of James Davison Hunter's Culture Wars: «What I find so remarkable about the history of American Protestantism in the twentieth century is that, despite all of the institutional contortions and the ebb and flow of ideology, the center has held.

No matter what you believe about the role of Christians in society and culture, especially in regard to social issues like hunger, poverty, and war, Shane's book will challenge you to think and act differently.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

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But after World War II, the Court began to insert itself into what James Madison called the «internal» objects of state governments, particularly the culture - forming institutions, including education, religion, marriage, and government's domestic control over matters of life and death.

This disillusionment with the culture war, coupled with what might be thought of as an attendant «neo-Anabaptist turn,» has provoked in younger evangelicals an exploding interest in more communitarian aspects of church life and the integration of the gospel with what might be labeled «progressive» social justice concerns.

Most gay Christians have been deeply scarred by the culture war, and most of us barely held onto our faith (many barely remained alive), so we're pretty understanding of one another's need for a lot of space and grace as we grow in our understanding of what it means to honor the Lord with the whole of our lives (including our sexuality).

While sharing many common moral concerns in what were then called the «culture wars,» the framers of ECT determined to address these issues precisely as believers in Jesus Christ.

And when we see what God is doing, we can join with culture in standing against war, hunger, and other forms of inhumanity, but infusing such stands with the principles of the Gospel and the example of Jesus Christ (Resident Aliens, 46 - 47).

But mostly it reinforces a war against people Western culture deems it appropriate to knock down: people not doing what «everyone» is doing.

Of course, the idea of a «War on Christmas» is terminally silly in a culture saturated with Christmas messaging (as I write this, the radio at the coffeeshop I'm in is tuned to a channel that'll play nothing BUT Christmas songs for the next couple of weeks), but what the heck — martial metaphors work quite well when you want to get folks fired up.

What's being revealed at trial of how the pay - to - play culture works in New York, which has resulted in a $ 30 million political war chest for the governor, is a case in point.

In the culture wars we all know the tribal stereotypes of what liberals think of conservatives: Conservatives are a bunch of Hummer - driving, meat - eating, gun - toting, hard - drinking, Bible - thumping, black - and - white - thinking, fist - pounding, shoe - stomping, morally hypocritical blowhards.

This is what the «Star Wars» prequels could have been, if George Lucas were a purveyor of hip, ultra-smart pop culture, rather than... well, choose the epithets yourself.

The book recounts Barker's arrival in Kabul, what it was like being a woman in wartime Iraq and Pakistan, and dealing with spurts of boredom and violence in a «promiscuous war - correspondent culture.»

«While the themes are deep, Black Panther is at the same time a visual joy to behold, with confident quirkiness (those aforementioned war rhinos), insane action sequences and special effects, and the glorious reveal of Wakanda, whose culture is steeped in African influences but which also offers a jaw - dropping look at what a city of the future could be... Let's not wait too long for a return trip.»

What Moby - Dick, my favorite work of art in any medium, meant to the scornful audiences who ignored it in 1851 is not the same as what it meant a full century later, in the midst of the Cold War, which is when that novel finally started to make sense to the culture at laWhat Moby - Dick, my favorite work of art in any medium, meant to the scornful audiences who ignored it in 1851 is not the same as what it meant a full century later, in the midst of the Cold War, which is when that novel finally started to make sense to the culture at lawhat it meant a full century later, in the midst of the Cold War, which is when that novel finally started to make sense to the culture at large.

And it gives you an opportunity to learn about Irish culture and what America was like just after World War II, which is when it is set.

Professor of American Politics at Boston College, is the author of a new post on the EdNext blog entitled «How civil rights enforcement got swept into the culture wars, and what a new administration can do about it.»

National standards also risk unleashing negative forces in American education — including further curricular narrowing, harmful effects on states that got standards right in the first place, and the possible rekindling of culture wars over what knowledge and which skills matter most (and who gets to decide).

Earlier this month, Education Next published «How Civil Rights Enforcement Got Swept into the Culture Wars and What a New Administration Can Do About It,» by Shep Melnick.

Today, Trieste is a charming Italian city bordering Slovenia (formerly Yugoslavia) on the Adriatic Sea, home to a wide mix of cultures (map of Trieste), but in 1954 it was at the center of a Cold War quandary - what to do with this little city - state caught in the power struggle between East and West?

«Delivering [with Ultimate Edition] the first 60 fps multiplayer experience in franchise history really taught us a lot about what it means to have a 60 fps culture on the team and we're leveraging that experience for Gears of War 4,» he said.

«Delivering [with Ultimate Edition] the first 60 fps multiplayer experience in franchise history really taught us a lot about what it means to have a 60 fps culture on the team and we're leveraging that experience for Gears of War 4.»