Sentences with phrase «about justice because»

Christianity is all about justice because God is justice.

I became passionate about justice because of two episodes in my life.

Not exact matches

Comey said he kept memos on his conversations with Trump — a move he said he did not do with two prior presidents or other top Justice Department officials — because he «was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting.»

So it's very inefficient and it's an unethical position, because if I'm making judgments in my head about you or vice versa and I'm not allowing you to be part of that decision and understand the criteria, one of the most basic things of justice is the right to face one's accuser.

The Justice Secretary Michael Gove has said he's passionate about the rehabilitation of prisoners because... More

If any of the attending justices ever complained about not going back because they were preached at, it would have been headline news.

If this is true, then it is reasonable to question whether this was about equality and justice or about discriminating against the Ashes because of what they hold to about Christianity.

Oh, and don't forget about King David who after murdering Uriah and commiting adultery with Uriahs wife impregnating her, God brings his justice hammer down taking a life because of this sin, that of the newborn child.

It's also a film that works because there are lots of stories from the perspectives of heroic soldiers and Jewish survivors of WWII, but far fewer about those living in occupied countries who did what they could, with what they had to pursue justice.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

Second, because it was a request not a command, Abraham was free to refuse, and his refusal did not require any argument about the justice or injustice of the matter.

Think about the many families who have had their children mauled by a criminal but still forgave the criminal because they thought it was justice.

Because even these well intentioned folks would never consider going to a black or hispanic church... we want them to tone down their spirited religion and stop talking about poverty and social justice.

Many young people in Latin America, who were motivated by the Gospel to love their neighbor and be concerned for justice and freedom in their society, have often become Marxists simply because their churches did not provide biblical instruction about Christian discipleship, or because they [their churches] were blind to clear demands from the Bible and opportunities and challenges provided by new social situations.80

These versions do not take the problem of justice in history seriously, because they have obscured what the Bible has to say about the relation of justice to mercy in the very heart of God.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

Because let's face it, true justice and compassion requires more than not just being a dick yourself, but also doing something about the harm caused by others» dickishness.

In particular, he kept seeing the baffling personal injustice involved when «the wicked doth compass about the righteous,» and, even when he thought of the nation's collective problem, his solution was not so much to blame present social tragedy on antecedent social sin as to believe that justice, now denied, would come in time — «Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.»

Because of the financial demands of commercial broadcasting, the electronic church can not afford to talk much about suffering, shared need, or requirements of the cross, about justice and humility, and giving one «s self (not just one «s checkbook) in love to one «s neighbor.

But the idea that every human law is imperfect, and therefore unjust to some extent, does indeed make sense, because we can imagine a perfectly just judge who administers perfect justice» who assesses a person's talents, motives, opportunities, weaknesses, ideals, history, and everything else about him, and then judges all his actions against the standard of what he is able to do.

Now I make these points about social justice kingdom and redemptive power kingdom only because of where I stand on what the Bible says about «kingdom.»

(Another way of putting this is that the environment is not a question of science but of justice; Marx, the obvious touchstone here, is very conflicted about where justice ends and where power begins, because he lacks an adequate theory of authority.)

So here it goes: In contemporary usage I hear «kingdom» used for two primary dimensions — for public sector social justice activism (I call this «skinny jeans» because a pastor told me a story about his social justice associates who wore skinny jeans) and for seeing kingdom as God's redemptive power unleashed wherever that power is unleashed (again, I call this pleated pants kingdom because of the same story).

Because God is something more than just natural existence, it leaves room for Process theologians to speak about there being real values, like love and justice, existent in the universe, even though they don't exist materially.

Some people believe the health care situation in America would be scandalous to Jesus because he was a prophet concerned about social justice.

Suffice it to say that the conceptuality which I accept — and accept because it seems to do justice to deep analysis of human experience and observation, as well as to the knowledge we now have of the way «things go» in the world — lays stress on the dynamic «event» character of that world; on the inter-relationships which exist in what is a societal universe, on the inadequacy of «substance» thinking to describe such a universe of «becoming» and «belonging», on the place of decisions in freedom by the creatures with the consequences which such decisions bring about, and on the central importance of persuasion rather than coercive force as a clue to the «going» of things in that universe.

Especially because we had friends coming over and I had talked my girlfriend's ear off about how much I loved the baked treats at Wild Flour, I needed to do this recipe justice.

Yesterday I hastily posted about the USDA's proposed new regulations for school food, but because I was burdened with a lengthy To - Do list and a doctor's appointment that ran late, I don't think I did this topic justice.

Because I couldn't possible do the topic justice, I just want to rave about my absolute favorite baby carrier, the Calyx.

Conference is concerned about evidence from the research which shows that when members who are being bullied initiate Grievance Procedures against headteachers or other senior leaders, they may experience a lack of natural justice in the forms of honesty, fairness and impartiality because this same group are the most likely perpetrators of workplace bullying.

Speaking to about 1,000 people Nixon cast her support as primarily driven by racial disparity in marijuana arrests, declaring that «I want to do it first and foremost because it's a racial justice issue.»

Mr Justice Collins found the «virtual ban» was unlawful because it contradicted Grayling's public comments about the importance of books being useful for education and rehabilitation.

And it could arise this time on the Left side of the aisle in opposition to Trump because they may be worried about his potential for demagoguery or worried about mob justice or the federal government just being too powerful in general.

«Laura Crane and I have heard of many cases where problems have arisen because police and other criminal justice professionals know very little about autism,» says Dr Maras.

I used tweet about the decisions he used to make at the Department of Justice, because he has really stood strong and has an incredible trajectory,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said.

«And that's not just New York, it's a problem all across the country and it's a problem in reality and it's a problem in perception and if it's a problem only in perception, it is still a real problem because people have to trust the justice system and the trust has to go both ways,» Cuomo said, speaking about police and community, but also referring to the oft - cited conflict of interest around police and prosecutors who regularly work together but can then be at odds when an officer is suspected of a crime.

He told Chief Jerry Forson on Ghana Yensom on Accra100.5 FM on Thursday, 10 May that: «The justices are not bothered about this development because they have already been suspended.

The pardon plan also comes amid a national debate over reducing sentences for nonviolent offenders, in part because of the cost of mass incarceration and concerns about racial inequality in the criminal justice system.

Though he didn't have complaints about his own advising experience, he decided to pursue the issue in part because «I've always been interested in these kinds of social justice causes,» Brozek says.

78 percent want companies to address important social justice issues, 87 percent will purchase a product from a company because it has advocated for an issue they care about and 76 percent will refuse to purchase a company's products if its stance is contrary to their beliefs.

The most popular post on this blog for 2 years describes why Chile is the best country to move to, mainly because the constant flow of terrible news about Justice Dept., Fighting to Kill DACA, Asks for Supreme Court Review -...

Because old - school Greek storytellers were all about the eye - for - an - eye style of justice, Artemis demands that Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter as penance.

Because of this, about two - thirds of Justice League is pure set - up.

Alfred Hitchcock remade The Man Who Knew Too Much (original 1934, remake 1956) because he felt that he didn't know enough about the craft of filmmaking in 1934 to really do justice to the story.

I'm glad Peele went a different way, because his movie isn't really about «the system» — or maybe it is, but it's about a system of which unequal justice is only one manifestation.

We know more about WB's ultra-secretive «Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Justice» than we do about Nichols» picture, obviously because Zack Snyder's keynote of the DC Cinematic Universe is under the fanboy microscope.

MB: I am glad that you ask this question, because here again is about how do we go at the personal and local level to bring about the culture of peace, and the call for justice, liberation and human fulfillment, the education began at home, in childhood, from my mother and father.

: I am glad that you ask this question, because here again is about how do we go at the personal and local level to bring about the culture of peace, and the call for justice, liberation and human fulfillment, the education began at home, in childhood, from my mother and father.

I told this story to a group of two dozen or so of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed reform efforts still focus far too little on what kids do in school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social justice issues at the heart of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.

Jenisha «Jay» Fair, Physical Education Teacher CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, NEVADA «I am involved because I want to use my voice — as a young educator — to advocate for my students [and] raise awareness about the importance of social justice in every classroom at every school,» says Jenisha «Jay» Fair of her involvement with the union.