Sentences with phrase «for leaders of our society»

For leaders of our society to focus upon, even to blame, parents, whilst missing the undermining of their role by relativism involves a tragic hypocrisy.

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As business leaders answer that question, they are redefining the role of business in society and reassessing the notion that the primary purpose of a company is to deliver profits for its shareholders.

Our society's trend towards narcissism presents a challenge for leaders to fight the cult of self at all costs.

Dan Greenleaf has been a professional freelance Santa for 10 years and is the co-founder and leader of the New England Santa Society.

While it is clear that as a society, there is still a lot of work to do to advance respectful, open dialogues, the events over the weekend serve as a reminder of why we — as leaders — rallied behind the CEO Action for Diversity & InclusionTM in the first place, and how important it is to create candid, safe, and trusting environments for our employees and communities.

Sanchez is a member of the Asia Society's Global Talent and Diversity Council and a founding member of the Institute for Corporate Productivity's Talent Acquisition Leaders Board.

Leaders who prioritize volunteering and a connection to social causes are finding success in attracting and retaining Gen Yers, many of whom stress their desire to work for a business that has a positive impact on society.

Elissa's significant role in merging the Institute of Certified Financial Planners (ICFP) and the International Association for Financial Planning (IAFP) to form the Financial Planning Association, her contributions as a thought leader to the advancement of the profession through her writing, presenting, and teaching, and her contributions to society and the profession through her work at the Foundation for Financial Planning were highlighted as she received the award.

Never mind that a cheap currency makes it more expensive for Chinese households and businesses to buy things from the outside world, depressing standards of living and hampering the transition to a consumer society that China's leaders ostensibly want.

It ignores the leadership of civil society, including religious leaders; the political value of religious ideas (real theology) in creating a functional future for these nations; and practices like forgiveness that allegedly prevent the just application of punishment.

Leaders of the Christian community saw this as an extremely grave threat to the faith; and, for this reason they fled the comforts of society and chose to live in solitude and want in remote parts of the world (such as Syria and northern Africa).

Noting that two generations of Catholic leaders, including popes, have regarded human rights as important for the building of humane societies and have employed rights discourse themselves as a «bridge language» supporting the protection of human dignity, Reno declares that it is time for the Catholic Church «to rethink its enthusiasm for human rights.»

He fights with every religious leader of his day (they are representives of God), hangs out with some of the lowest people in society (drunks, prostitutes, tax collectors), healed people on the sabbath (they see this as against the law), healed lepers (also against the law), accepts some Gentiles and heals them (outside his actual mission), died for all of «humanity», etc..

More and more, society mistrusts leaders whose chief interests are their own agendas and authority; more and more, people are looking for leaders whose first interest is the good of others.

Top of the agenda for an October conference in Hungary for Catholic, Protestant and Muslim leaders in Europe will be «the role of religions in secular society» and relations between Christians and Muslims.

The Need To Develop It remains strange that so many of the Church's leaders seem incurious to the opportunity of science for the Faith, as the potential impact of science on society (for good and ill) becomes ever more important with each passing year.

Formerly, when the liberal arts college was the major form of higher education, and when it understood its mission as the prepartion of leaders for society, there was some chance of such health.

In an exclusive interview ahead of May's general election, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg explains why he's not the atheist many assume him to be, and outlines his vision for church and society.

Mainline Protestant leaders appeared to take an important step toward joining this movement in November when Robert Edgar, general secretary of the Nation Council of Churches, signed a statement calling on churches to do a better job of articulating God's purposes for marriage, supporting married couples, and proclaiming the good news about marriage to the wider society.

But as they emerge as leaders of our society, they can find in the now somewhat despised and ignored liberal theology important resources for relating the legitimate concerns of Christian faith to the pressing problems of our time.

In Florence, where the greatest «Magdalena was carved, prostitutes were in plentiful supply to fascinate the leaders of society and mildly threaten ecclesiastical discipline, and a saint who was thought to have been a prostitute was bound to get attention from every group with money for the arts.

The Jews never thought of the laws of their society as created by that society or by its leaders for purposes of order and convenience.

To help evangelicals grapple with the problems of implicit racial bias, Christian leaders must come to realize how deeply and personally experienced these problems are for so many in society and in the church.

We need leaders who are willing to develop the expertise and accept the responsibility for working with a group of persons in the local church to cultivate patterns of decision - making that lead to a greater acceptance of the church's mission in society.

It is clear that our Personage could not have known the vulgar class of immigrants for he lived either alone, in complete solitude, or as a shepherd, or as a big merchant in a caravan, or in the high society with the leaders of the community.

Church leaders are accused of fostering psychological violence against homosexual people by repeating certain myths or ignoring the important issues responsible for many problems that gay and lesbian people experience, both in churches and the wider society.

For this reason, teaching about television becomes a high priority for the church — teaching pastors how to function in an informational rather than an industrial society, teaching denominational leaders how to deal with the new kinds of ethical situations that have resulted from the dominance of this new institution, with its new kind of power, and, above all, teaching parishioners how to cope with the enormous wave of excitiFor this reason, teaching about television becomes a high priority for the church — teaching pastors how to function in an informational rather than an industrial society, teaching denominational leaders how to deal with the new kinds of ethical situations that have resulted from the dominance of this new institution, with its new kind of power, and, above all, teaching parishioners how to cope with the enormous wave of excitifor the church — teaching pastors how to function in an informational rather than an industrial society, teaching denominational leaders how to deal with the new kinds of ethical situations that have resulted from the dominance of this new institution, with its new kind of power, and, above all, teaching parishioners how to cope with the enormous wave of exciting.

«Humans serve their highest and best interest by serving God, which is characterized by building their own lives,» says Abdul Mallek Mohammad, a spokesman for the leader of the Muslim American Society, W. Deen Muhammad.

The historian of non-violence, William Robert Miller, says that the first explicit reference to non-violence in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott came from a white librarian, Juliette Morgan, who compared the boycott to Gandhi's salt march in a letter to the Montgomery Advertiser on December 12, 1955.35 The development of non-violent strategies in the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's arose partly from belief in pacifism as an expression of love in the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Society of Friends from whom many leaders of the movement for racial justice came.

Some Christian leaders have even rejoiced in the dissolution of a Christendom that allowed, or perhaps encouraged, an excessive degree of nominal Christian allegiance: the impact of modem secular society has challenged people to make a conscious choice about whether they are either for or against Christianity.

’25 Moral concern can not be separated from inner transformation, but, as twentieth - century religious leaders of several traditions have insisted, such inner transformation also embraces a concern for the well - being of the whole society.

The leaders of the Islamic Society of Southern California address the issue of young people in unequivocal terms in a book they have prepared for American Muslim communities, In Fraternity:

My involvement with the tribal peoples of India began in the sixties when as Director of the Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society (CISRS), I participated in consultations of Christian tribal leaders and researchers on the manifestations of their self - awakening.

Thus a New York Times story described Washington Mayor Barry's alliance with Farrakhan in the following terms: «[Barry] has shown up at rallies with the Rev. Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who has gained nationwide attention for his criticism of white society, particularly Jews.»

Francis Campbell sees Benedict XVI's message — especially as delivered to a gathering of MPs and leaders of civic society in Westminster Hall, a highlight of the State Visit — as central for today's Catholics, striving to make a positive contribution to national and community life in the 21st century.

Led by a leader beleived to be infallible, it is a closed society, seeking to spread its influence throughout the world for the greater glory of itself.

But the evidence to date suggests that more than a few Ukrainian Orthodox leaders and believers have chosen to stand with civil society, rejecting the Patriarchate of Moscow's support for Putin's Great Russian nationalism.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Civic leaders emphasize the same habit of personal giving for the betterment of civil society, and as a necessary precondition of the common good.

The building of the Church as a community with complex organizational structure, with manifold functions and leaders, with various responsibilities to the society around it, can easily degenerate into the building of religious clubs, of sororities and fraternities and of national associations for the promotion of good causes, if the understanding of the Church's purpose, of its responsibility to God, of the nature and action of God, of man and his history, of the meaning of the Church's work in all the complex of human activity and of the interrelation of the various aspects of its work are lost to view.

The report, aptly named The Business Case for Reducing Food Loss and Waste, was released on behalf of Champions 12.3, a coalition of nearly 40 leaders across business, government and civil society who are dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals» Target 12.3 to halve food waste and cut food loss by 2030.

«Oscar Mayer's plan for eliminating gestation crates from its supply chain sends a strong message to pork industry leaders who are resisting change,» said Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection at The Humane Society of the United States.

«As an industry leader, Heineken wants to contribute to the positive role of beer in society, by making moderation aspirational for consumers.

Shedd is governed by the Shedd Aquarium Society, composed of volunteer corporate, civic and community leaders that make up the 55 - member Board of Trustees with the primary responsibility for governance oversight and fiduciary accountability, as outlined in the Society's bylaws.

Divisive leaders today play a key role in manipulating such fundamental human predispositions and, indeed, accentuating and unleashing our fears, often even for the most enlightened or informed members of societies.

ONITSHA — A human rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the rule of Law, Intersociety has said that it is far better for the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu to be kept in the prison custody than to remain in the captivity of the Department of State Services, DSS.

«We set the bar on what progressive government and what progressive society looks like and we set that bar for the rest of the nation to follow,» Cuomo said at the event, which was also attended by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

On Wednesday 5 November, senior aviation leaders assembled at the Royal Aeronautical Society to honour aerospace professionals for achievements within their specialist field of expertise.

While LRA leader Joseph Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, Ugandan civil society actors and peace activists were skeptical of the U.S. troop deployment to the country.

Although leaders of the civil society campaign against the third mandate publically condemned the coup, they called for protests to continue.