Sentences with phrase «as peace movements»

Just as peace movements need both optimism and pessimism to thrive, it is inevitable that in their appeals fear will be mixed with hope.

Not exact matches

I and others of like mind criticized the drug culture and related antics as a self - indulgent distraction from the goals of racial justice and peace, and worried that the new enthusiasm for «ecological consciousness» was in fact a conservative ploy designed to turn the movement away from the cause of the poor.

A peace movement arising out of terror is as idolatrous as peace based on the bomb.

Clergy were scarcely perceived as nondirective listeners as they joined the movements for civil rights and peace, or the war on poverty.

To the extent you sympathize with that movement, he's all the more interesting and attractive, just as the man wearing a peace symbol is to the woman with pacifist sympathies.

The ecumenical movement articulated as social middle axiom the idea of free society, the idea of responsible society, and the idea of just, participatory, and sustainable society, and then the idea of justice, peace and integrity of creation throughout its recent history.

If the day of the formally established church ever ends once and for all, then transnational religious movements may be increasingly valued and supported and perhaps can be more effective as peace agents if they remain institutionally poor and weak.

The Christ as the Lamb of peace as well as the vision of Shalom in Isaiah 11 and Ezekiel 37 and Revelations 21 and 22 gives a powerful dynamics of peace in the ecumenical movement.

Join the movement for God's peace and justice - and God will give you eternal life as a gift!

As the reality of the nuclear threat has come home to me and I have been caught up in the peace movement, the biblical ambiguity has continued to haunt me.

I still have serious concerns regarding the World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi in 1986, both in its reality and in the media myth, which struck me at the time, and today, as a movement away from the message of Catholicism as a Church called to convert the world and to be the «sign of contradiction» in the world.

We see it in the flourishing of fundamentalism; in the controversy raging in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod; in the phenomenon of the Jesus freaks, the spreading charismatic movement, the popularity of Transcendental Meditation; in attacks on the National and World councils of churches and the cooling of ardor for such social issues as racial justice, world peace, and the abolition of hunger and malnutrition.

But in spite of the leadership of Martin Luther King and the martyrdom of divinity students in the civil rights movement, and in spite of the leadership of the Berrigans and William Sloane Coffin in the peace movement, those movements as a whole remained indifferent if not hostile to religion.

The ecological movements became peace movements as well.

In 1965, as the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations were beginning to peak, a young member of the Catholic Peace Fellowship burned himself alive, causing Merton to observe that both the country and the peace movement had an air of absurdity and frPeace Fellowship burned himself alive, causing Merton to observe that both the country and the peace movement had an air of absurdity and frpeace movement had an air of absurdity and frenzy.

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.

The pre-1914 German peace movement, when it was noticed at all, was attacked as a stooge for the English.

Like an alien body, like an activating ferment injected into the mass, it gives the world no peace, it bars slumber, it teaches the world to be discontented and restless as long as the world has not God, it stimulates the movement of history.

Yet, even as the movement restated the evils of the Great War, some peace elements came to feel that they were irrelevant to the European situation of the late 1930s, while others found themselves uncomfortably allied with isolationists at home.

The Marxist movement, as we know, represents a way of realising peace by the struggle of the workers for justice.

For Espinosa, food is a catalyst for regeneration and reconciliation in every sense; culinary, political and social — as well as a way to build a whole new cultural identity which both cultivates dignity and peace — a movement which she believes can benefit not only her country, but Latin America as a whole.

You gain the peace of mind that you aren't going to have weird bowel movements from whatever it is that Arbys tries to pass off as meat.

Body movements can rob your peace as you sleep.

It's more than just a baby monitor; this Angelcare Video Movement Monitor is a peace of mind for parents, as it not only monitors every movement of baby's, but tracks and records all data as well.

Howie Hawkins has been an organizer in movements for peace, justice, labor, the environment, and independent working - class politics since 1967 when he got active in «The Movement» as a teenager in the San Francisco Bay Area.

3 interviews looking at the climate crisis from 3 angles: Medea Benjamin of Code Pink talks about the links between the peace movement and the climate justice movement — and how Code Pink started as an Environmental group -

While commending the gallant vigilantes and volunteers as well as security agencies for their sterling performance in the rescue and evacuation of casualties, we are appealing for all peace loving people of Birnin - Gwari to be on alert and report suspicious persons and movements to the security agencies.»

Wangari Maathai discusses the value of recognition as a part of the peace «puzzle», the real effects of climate change in Africa (7:55), the importance of recapturing her childhood memories (12:56), the evolution of Green Belt from a pilot project to a movement (18:03), the custodial role of governments (20:54), and her new book, The Challenge for Africa (27:50).

Many controls carry over from Guns Of The Patriots and the console port of Peace Walker, such as a button for contextual interaction (climbing, picking up bodies) and a button for movement stance (walk / crouch / crawl).

Like the peace symbol, it became a bridge between the counterculture, the peace movement, and a rapidly expanding mass media, and therefore provided a fulcrum for advertisers and others who could rely on it as a form of generational shorthand.

Formed by the artist, writer and pacifist John Hargrave after becoming disillusioned with the Boy Scout movement, the Kibbo Kift philosophy was based on a shared appreciation of nature and handicraft, as well as a commitment to world peace.

Artists such as Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley and Jake and Dinos Chapman have customised AK47 assault rifles for the AKA Peace exhibition being staged at London's ICA to highlight a global ceasefire movement.

Here the ceilings overflow with a modern mythology of the War in Vietnam and opposing peace movements of the 1960s and»70s, subjects that — as in much of the artist's best - known work — speak to the enduring significance of the Vietnam era as a nexus of imperialism and resistance.

She is active in movements furthering world peace as well as collecting art.

Dr. Robert Bullard (who is featured in NWEI's Seeing Systems: Peace, Justice and Sustainability course book) is often referred to as the «father of the environmental justice movement.»

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

But Leonardo DiCaprio is arguably the celebrity doing the most in the climate movement: he's created the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, joined the People's Climate March, spoken at the United Nations (as a UN messenger of peace), and has pledged to completely divest from fossil fuels — just to name a few activities.

The movement to make ecocide a crime against peace under international law, led by UK - based lawyer Polly Higgins, as well as efforts to grant legal rights to Mother Earth, such as Bolivia has done, is exactly where we need to be going in terms of the highest level of environmental thinking: Recognizing that destroying whole swaths of the planet, with little to no concern for the effect on all the creatures that live upon it, is not just unethical, unacceptable behavior, but is also a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against life itself.

As a Muslim, I stand in solidarity with Indigenous people in meaningful and intentional ways and take leadership from them,» said Amal Rama of the Interfaith Institute for Justice, Peace and Social Movements, an anti-racist, anti-colonial collective.