Sentences with phrase «as our society grows»

But as our society grows more comfortable with the concept of mental health, the reasons we go to counseling are landing on a broader spectrum.

As society grows more noisy and demanding, he said, «commerce with the ancients» produces «a steadying and composing effect.»

But as societies grew more and more complex, the need for formal organizations to protect and provide financial security grew.

Indeed, in contradiction to the often - expressed fear of infinite growth colliding with a finite planet, demand for many material goods may be saturating as societies grow wealthier.

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But as Virgin grew through the years, so did our ideas about how to treat employees well, and how to take environmental impact into account, and by 2004, I had come to realize that we at the Virgin Group had a chance to tackle the challenges our society faces in a new, entrepreneurial way.

Rather than hoarding their money or creating family dynasties as many of their predecessors did, a growing number of wealthy Americans are pledging their fortunes to benefit society.

«We're also sensitive of society's tendency to villianize corporations, and as we grow, we wanted to be proactive and deter individuals and the media from condemning an innocent, ethical company as unethical,» Wilson went on to say in a press release

It was some time ago now that wearing activewear as your everyday casual wear became accepted in society and we are sure glad this happened because it gives us the chance to talk about one of Australia's fastest growing activewear retailers... Rockwear.

That means spending has fundamentally failed to keep pace with our needs as a growing society and with our collective ability to pay.

It's viewed better as a group of people, group of members who come together with a common goal and agenda, and a common sort of direction for how they want to help Bitcoin grow, help promote Bitcoin, in the face of challenges and push - backs from governments and other aspects of society.

II § 5, Mill described rent - yielding properties as enabling their holders to demand payment from society «without any exertion or sacrifice on the part of the owners... Landlords... grow richer, as it were in their sleep, without working, risking, or economizing.

It defines pure capitalism as a system that grows among a group of completely free individuals and discusses why it is the only logical system upon which to structure a society.

Ultimately, a healthy society creates expanding demand for business, as more human needs are met and aspirations grow.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has cleaned up their mess, enabling and their wealth to grow on its trajectory as before — at the price of impoverishing the non-financial parts of society.

«[In] our understanding, OJK encourages UangTeman to grow, as part of efforts to provide an alternative source of loans for society.»

While such practices have their place, as a society we should be aware that these practices change how teachers think of students: not as budding learners, but potential shooters; not with the potential to grow and flourish, but with the potential to enact lethal harm.

The growing acceptance of abortion and euthanasia in Western societies depicts the weak and vulnerable as being outside the human community.

State your point and let it go, we as a society have slowly grown past folks who can not stand up to a view and must resort to name calling.

When the family disintegrates, social welfare programs multiply» and as they grow, civil society weakens.

I went on to speak of how, as the church grew and became a dominant force in society, the church and later the nation took some responsibility to protect the weak and powerless.

Inherited wealth doesn't yet play a big part in our society but given time - and the repeal of the estate tax - we will grow ourselves a hereditary elite just as set apart from the concerns of ordinary Americans as old Horace Havemeyer.

The Bible says the same kinds of things about people who don't worship the one true god... it even tells you you to kill people who try to convert you... the difference is that we have grown as a society and we no longer murder people for what they believe... islam hasn't caught up with the rest of us... it's a problem and threat to the civilized word.

Although the amount of discretionary time available to the average American continues to grow every year, Americans are having difficulty learning, as a society, how to play meaningfully.

One of the most poignant experiences for young people growing up in our society is to espouse some cause such as civil rights or world peace — a cause they learned to love in their home or church — and then find that their parents are opposed to overt action on behalf of social justice.

Suggesting that if you grow up alone on an island will bring you to the same conclusion is completely untestable as religion is a part of every society and corner of our planet.

We should seize the opportunity to do so, for as Familiaris Consortio 44 states: «Families should grow in awareness of being «protagonists» of what is known as «family politics» and assume responsibility for transforming society; otherwise families will be the first victims of the evils that they have done no more than note with indifference.»

They forgot what we all learned growing up and the public suffers as society gets out of balance.

One does not grow conceptually in the ways needed to discern and respond to God simply by acquiring abilities and capacities related to «grace,» «wrath,» and «glory,» and the like, as they are generally used in ordinary language in one's society or as they may be generally used in the various world religions.

Small but growing numbers of Christian theologians in Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walker).

As I said earlier, you can not have a fair society unless you have an economy which is growing, where people can get work, earn their own money, look after themselves and their families.

As children grow and achieve greater levels of maturity and self - sufficiency, it is generally society's expectation that they become less selfish and begin to develop more altruistic traits.

Sadly in the end religion one of the biggest crutches we need to grow out of so we can move forward as a society.

Just as the fact of nature and society grows hostile through injustice, so it will be restored to harmony through righteousness.

From this perspective, many of the religious movements we see emerging in various parts of the world — especially those in advanced industrial societies — can be understood as protests against the growing bureaucratization and monetarization of the lifeworld.

Given society's growing recognition that men and women are equal, is the gospel to retain its power if it remains tied to a hierarchical structuring in which women are seen as subservient and dependent?

A growing segment of society, the «engaged progressives,» as the University of Virginia Family Cultures Study calls them, is characterized by its firm rejection of transcendent norms.

As growing numbers of ministers and teachers began to speak a word of judgment against the society of their day, a movement arose at Grinnell College, in Iowa, crying for the complete reconstruction of society on the basis of the New Testament teachings.

Neville i liked what you wrote some really good points and churchs today are still making a difference in society though society is becoming more secular.My thinking is as the world gets darker and as it moves away from christian principles the light of Christ in believers will grow proportionately brighter.We are here to make a difference we are in the the world but not of the world.In Christ we have been given life and light to share with those in darkness so that they might have there freedom.brentnz

«For a society premised on the inherent worth of the individual as its prime value, the most disturbing element is the evidence of a growing contempt for human beings.

most of the generation that now leads our churches grew up with [this old paradigm] as a way of thinking about church and society.

But «a moral discussion is inconclusive and even trivial, if it leaves out the question of its application,» as Gregory Vlastos has said.13 In order to be as specific as possible about this approach to Christian social philosophy I shall outline in arbitrary fashion five general principles which I suggest can be supported by the evidence of human experience as being necessary guides to the conditions under which the Good Society can grow.

And as Rabbi Soloveitchik notes in The Halakhic Mind, «the force and effectiveness of religion grows commensurately with increasing participation of the entire society in the religious drama.»

Feelings about his body and about the demands of society grow strong as he is confronted with the expectation that he become toilet trained.

Just as a butterfly develops from a larva, growing inside a shell which was once the skin of a grub, so out of the chrysalis of Christendom there is currently emerging a new kind of society — a global, humanistic and secular society.

Modernization theory views such processes of institutional change within American religion as the alleged differentiation of private piety from public policy, the growing differentiation of secular education from its religious roots, and the emergence of professional therapy as a distinct alternative to pastoral counseling as bellwether trends in advanced industrial societies generally and suggests that they may be in some way influenced by broader international patterns.

And no Christian church is a monolith, impervious to change as society's wisdom and understanding grow.

Like Habermas, he has immersed himself in the growing literature on language, discourse, and communication, coming increasingly to conceive of society itself as a vast system of communicative action, and this perspective has given him a number of novel ideas about the nature of religion.

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11:8, which he translates as «My heart transforms itself upon me / My change of mind grows fervent,» God's love can overwhelm and transform such wrath, although preserving and including it within a greater integration: «Metaphor and Reality in Hosea 11,» Society of Biblical Literature 1976 Seminar Papers, ed.

«If we choose to have a federal government that tries to solve every problem, then as long as society keeps growing more complex, government must keep on growing right along with it.