Sentences with phrase «about war and peace»

Ben Franklin's observation about war and peace («There never was a good war or a bad peace») finds application here.

Büttner did not make, but rather borrowed the display from the Peace Gallery and Anti-War Museum in Berlin where it is an education tool for teaching about war and peace.

An RPG game about camaraderie and betrayal, about war and peace, and above all honor, coming to PC and consoles.

To inform your peers about Christian and Muslim beliefs about war and peace.

commenting step by step on a lesson plan for a lesson on war and peace: Learning objecitves are - To express your own opinion about war and peace.

Provide students with a template and let them create a pinwheel that reflects on one side their thoughts about war and peace, tolerance, bullying, living in harmony with others You might use this activity to incorporate one of your writing goals / standards for the year; for example, the writing might be a poem, prose, haiku, or an essay.

The movie ruminates loudly, if never very coherently, about war and peace, vengeance and justice, preemptive attack and negotiated settlement.

As politicians talk about war and peace on a circular table, Wright mounts a camera in the middle, spinning to capture the choreographed dialogue as it moves from man to man around the perimeter.

There's nothing contentious but for two areas: Trident — and that is coming up — and foreign policy when it comes to decisions about war and peace.

We don't know how many of the 803 delegates who voted for it (or how many of the 30 who opposed it) actually read the statement, but they should, as should Christians in other churches who are pondering what needs to be said about war and peace.

Important as the just - war tradition has been in the development of Christian thinking about war and peace, it gives insufficient weight to the central Christian calling to be agents of healing and reconciliation.

Has the Gospel nothing to say about war and peace, about our lives and how our lives are changed by the projects of politicians?

The «presumption» has tended to give theologians and religious leaders a bloated sense of their own role in decision - making about war and peace.

The study is a critique of pacifism and pacifist organizations in recent agitations about war and peace.

Not exact matches

The nonprofit organization, which uses a commerce - based business model instead of relying on donations, began selling incredibly fashionable metal whistle necklaces to encourage people to become «whistle - blowers for peace» in Congo and raise awareness about the deadly war.

«He talked about the good old days, when we had to ship in pizza and it didn't feel like we were working around the clock, about times of war and times of peace.»

The Center has made a real difference, most notably through the work of its senior fellow (and former president) George Weigel, in stimulating valuable thinking about the nation - state, war, and peace that is both strategically sound and theologically informed.

In other words, this text is not about how to go to heaven when you die, but rather about how to go from slavery to death in this world as we war against others (Eph 2:1 - 3), to unity and peace with others as we live in the family of God (Eph 2:11 - 22).

«All our talk about peace and the weapons of the spirit is meaningless unless we try in every way to embrace voluntary poverty and not work in any position, any job that contributes to war... We must give up our place in this world, sacrifice children, family... And we will be considered fools for Christ.&raqand the weapons of the spirit is meaningless unless we try in every way to embrace voluntary poverty and not work in any position, any job that contributes to war... We must give up our place in this world, sacrifice children, family... And we will be considered fools for Christ.&raqand not work in any position, any job that contributes to war... We must give up our place in this world, sacrifice children, family... And we will be considered fools for Christ.&raqAnd we will be considered fools for Christ.»

Jesus, when questioned about peace, was up - front about it: You will have no peace; there will be wars and rumors of wars, tumults, signs from above — but do not be terrified.

And concerning my comments about the teachings of Jesus Christ, I wasnt talking about hell, I was talking about your reference to «war and not peace», that does NOT sound very ChristianAnd concerning my comments about the teachings of Jesus Christ, I wasnt talking about hell, I was talking about your reference to «war and not peace», that does NOT sound very Christianand not peace», that does NOT sound very Christian...

This encouraged me to think more about issues of war and peace.

Islam is about peace and not war.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

Tragically, the only people in John 10 - 11 who want to kill are the religious people who feel threatened by what Jesus is teaching about God: that God is not a God of death and war, but is a God of life and peace.

I first sensed the ambiguity of the Bible regarding war and peace as a child, listening to my father and mother quote scripture to each other in their ongoing debate about this issue.

Here I am advocating a canonical approach on a practical basis: if we want a «level playing field» in debates about the Bible and war and peace, we need to start with a common definition of what constitutes the Bible, what can be quoted in the argument.

It faces openly the fact that the Bible is ambiguous about many great moral issues, such as slavery, the place of women, and war and peace.

And, as I shall seek to demonstrate, to eliminate the Old Testament eliminates not only a huge number of wars but also the essential picture of what peace is all about, of God as giver of peace, of how peace is to be maintained and ordered — its connection with justice — and of the final peace that is promised and hoped fAnd, as I shall seek to demonstrate, to eliminate the Old Testament eliminates not only a huge number of wars but also the essential picture of what peace is all about, of God as giver of peace, of how peace is to be maintained and ordered — its connection with justice — and of the final peace that is promised and hoped fand ordered — its connection with justice — and of the final peace that is promised and hoped fand of the final peace that is promised and hoped fand hoped for.

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

I like that they don't talk about «the culture war» or «the battle for truth,» but about peace and kindness.

Just some things to think about before you base your life on a message of peace upheld by war and hate, racism and superiority!

How can these politicians believe that god uses them for his will... there are many out there that actually believe that god is using the U.S. to bring about his will... example... world peace... that is such a lie and makes no sense... the bible teaches that only gods kingdom will bring peace and security to humanity... no nation will bring about his will... much less currupt war mongering politicians... all nations left and right wingers or whatever will be crushed!!!!

This was notably the case in the successful campaign against Negro slavery, in the many efforts, not so successful, to curb war and bring about international peace, in the Red Cross for ministering to the sufferers from war and from natural disasters, in the inauguration of the modern nursing profession, in the fight against the excessive use of alcohol, in the efforts to improve the care of prisoners and the insane, in the multiform endeavors, never before so numerous, to give larger opportunities to the underprivileged, and in some of the many programs for the thorough reconstruction of society.

So many times our two cultures worked together in peace for the benfit of both, in addition to the wars of Jihads and Crusades, that we always seem to hear about so much more.

A book I am reading now is called «Sea of Faith» and its about the interaction between Christian and Islamic culture in war and peace around the Mediteranean Sea from 600 to around 1700 I think.

The Pax Romana, which was established under Augustus and which for about two centuries, with the exception of some severe, localized rebellions, banished war to the borders of the realm, was of great advantage to the expansion of a faith whose spirit flourishes best in time of peace.

In other words, this text is not about how to go to heaven when you die, but rather about how to go from slavery to death in this world as we war against others (Ephesians 2:1 - 3), to unity and peace with others as we live in the family of God (Ephesians 2:11 - 22).

So if Paul's concluding «Application» is that people who were formerly at odds with one another (in an accusatory violent way) can now live at peace by following the example of Jesus, it only makes sense that in the «Solution» section, Paul talks about how Jesus brought the warring groups together and showed us how to live in peace.

Yet if all just wars aim at the establishment or recovery of the peace of order, then vigorous truth - telling about the American decision to go to war, about America's conduct of the war, and about America's postwar efforts at reconstruction and pacification in Iraq is an important component of the pursuit of a just peace.

Serious or comic, historical or contemporary, War and Peace or Lucky Jim, all novels deal with ethical questions» because novels are about human beings making choices that have consequences.

One of the key things is realising that if you are about peace making you've got to be involved with the people who cause conflict and war.

Everyday people complain about how politicians and bankers and... get all the money and flash it with their cars and bla bla and do nt care about people, money is not everything, the world is beocming to hateful, full of wars, we need more peace and friendship bla bla, and then when a guy like Conor shows up they apploud him for his childish and fake rants and show offs.

The most effective vote winning policies are ones which are popular on their own, but which also tell a bigger story about the party's values and are consistent with their other policies - opposing the Iraq war and top - up fees were both popular policies, but also clearly signalled to disillusioned Labour voters that the Lib Dems shared their values as a centre - left party of peace and public services.

From here (2002) it's just a short skip and a jump to the next rebellion (CNDP — 2004 - 2009), and the rebellion after that (M23 now), both of which are dominated by precisely those Rwandaphone Congolese officers brought into the military by the peace deals which ended the war (as this makes clear, about half of the leadership of CNDP has now joined M23).

Si vis pacem para bellum (i.e. if you want peace, prepare for war), at least an additional 200,000 policemen, 50,000 soldiers and 15,000 men of the secret police must be recruited in the next few months if the Federal Government is serious about overcoming the present security challenges.

The idea of a nation and a state being the same thing («Nation - state») is fairly new in modern politics [1](it came about as one of the consequences / results of Peace of Westphalia, which ended the 30 - year - war in Europe, when the concept of «Westphalian sovereignty» was introduced).

He added, «some look only at costs while some actually care about how our veterans, who have passionately served during different periods of war and peace, are being treated, especially with all that has happened at the federal level.»

Yes, and David Dilks, who has written about Chamberlain, examines Churchill's relationships with political and social figures in the UK and US in Churchill and Company: Rivals and Alliances in War and Peace (IB Tauris, # 20).