Sentences with phrase «about social»

This is not about money, it is about Social Justice, i.e., loving your neighbor.

It was appropriate, then, for early 20th - century Social Gospel theologians like Walter Rauschenbusch to observe how prejudice and social discrimination are passed from one generation to the next, and it is consistent for theologians today to incorporate observations about social inheritance — what liberation theologians and feminist theologians call «social location» or «systemic evil» — into our understanding of the human condition.

Concrete proposals become the occasion for educating members about social responsibility.

Are they teaching what it means to be human, about decision - making, about social roles, about living in the real world?

We often fail to make «intellectual space» for God in our reflections about our social and personal lives, and we tend to dwarf our assumptions about the perceptive capacities and destinies of humans.

What are they teaching children about what it means to be human, about decision - making, about social roles, about living in the real world?

Americans tend to think about every social problem in terms of «rights,» a mode of thinking we find convenient and comfortable.

The Church doesn't care about social justice or the poor (look at the lashing the nuns got).

What about social dynamics in your workplace?

Perfectionists are right in their conviction that our civilization stands under the judgment of God; no one can have an easy conscience about the social and political anarchy out of which the horrible tyranny that now threatens us arose.

But here's a paradox: many of the people who happen to be most deeply patriotic and talk about America's greatness are also the most concerned about social decline.

She was vilified as the cause of just about every social problem.

I have a strong disliking for the argument being made about social priveliges with being male when It is made in response to concerns raised about mistreatment of men by woman.

They listened to my reasonings about social drinking and moderation and our freedom in Christ.

Though in recent years he's become more and more vocal about social justice issues, for much of his career, Brand has been known for his uniquely raunchy brand of shock comedy (This is the guy who once brought his drug dealer to work with him when he was an MTV VJ.).

Even as the economy and jobs consistently rank as top issues in the presidential race, many evangelical Iowans say they're weighing the personal faith of the candidates and that they still care about social issues and honoring the country's Judeo - Christian heritage.

I have heard that argument made before about social privelidge with being male.

In its revolt against the Social Gospel, evangelical Christianity had become unwittingly inarticulate about the social reference of the gospel.

Like Maclntyre, Taylor is unusually knowledgeable about the social sciences (he has taught in...

The author provides no new documentation in support of his relentlessly grim essay, but the fair - minded reader will appreciate the frequent insights about the social and cultural currents that have contributed to Catholicism's now long - standing discontents.

Niebuhr was at one with the Social Gospel in caring much more about social justice than about his own or anyone else's individual salvation.

Theories of modernization, despite the rather serious attacks to which they have been subjected in recent years, have been so prominent in the social sciences, and have played such an important role in our thinking about social change, that any effort to consider the changing relations between states and religious institutions must begin here.

A true statement, «One is felt by people who care a great deal about social issues, especially white evangelicals, who are uncomfortable with Mitt Romney.»

... Justice simply has to be a major target for Christians concerned about social action.»

The purpose was, of course, to sharpen the church's thinking about the social issues now perceived to be far more complex than previously supposed.

«One is felt by people who care a great deal about social issues, especially white evangelicals, who are uncomfortable with Mitt Romney.»

Marty has also influenced the ways in which I think about social ethics.

We never hear about their social activities.

The power of these unwritten rules about social life should not be underestimated.

When human beings break their covenant with society by exploiting the labor of the worker and refusing to do anything about the social costs of production — i.e., poisoned air and waters — the covenant of creation is violated.

For others, dating is more about a social status, wanting to have a close friend of the opposite sex or not wanting to be alone.

It's about social control.

They certainly don't have anything good to say about social welfare programs or redistribution of wealth.

Since the late 1960s black American intellectuals and politicians have fallen prey to what amounts to a conspiracy of silence about the social and moral condition of the black lower classes.

These politicians couldn't care less about social matters and don't embrace these professed «ideals» in their own private lives.

If you care about social justice and limited government, if you care about freedom and the poor, then you have to care about marriage.

It's all about social issues now... esp abortion, contraception etc. (although a great majority of them are big ole sinners themselves)

An observer declares it «casual» because it did not meet his / her cultural expectations about social ceremony.

Samuel Goldman at The American Conservative judged our study «rhetorically provocative, intellectually shallow, and generally unsympathetic to reasonable concerns about social inclusion.»

The prophets often make sweeping statements about social justice, but there are always specific injustices they are trying to combat — sometimes through rhetorical overstatement.

Boyer also doubts that premillennialism went hand in hand with pessimism about social reform and the outcome of history.

Started in 2007 by Nina Brav, REVO is an organization that connects people who are passionate about social justice issues with charities that aid their favorite cause — like charity matchmaking.

He attended liberal Protestant seminaries where he learned about the Social Gospel's concern for the entire person, soul and body.

While the mainline has a great deal to say about the social - structural evils that afflict children, it sidesteps the impact of family breakdown on child well - being and has very little to say about the responsibilities that parents have to their children.

News flash — Nobody gives a rat's dick what some illiterate schizophrenic child molesting jackass thinks about social and ethical questions.

You can't talk about social capital in the U.S. without talking about religion.

Every time I talk about social capital to people in Britain or Sweden or France, and then talk about the role of religion, people start looking at me strangely.

But if you think about social capital from a broader social perspective, you would conclude that the U.S. needs nothing more than it needs connectivity across lines of class, race and gender — that is, we need more bridging social capital.

Indeed, ad hoc engagements in discourse always presuppose this widest possible discourse because any argument about the validity of social prescriptions is potentially an argument about the most general moral principles and thus about social action generally.

To ask about the future of the identity «Christian,» therefore, is to raise questions not so much about individuals as about social institutions.