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as a sign of hope and also a call to action — action that will turn words of recognition into practice decisions that will be known and understood now and into the future.
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as sign of hope, despite not passing.
The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans has chosen to fly Dread Scott's flag, entitled A Man Was Lynched By Police Yesterday, as an acknowledgement of lives being taken in our communities, as an invitation to a public dialogue, and
as a sign of hope that history can be articulated, transcended, and put in the service of education and healing.
«[Graham] almost invariably read the enthusiasm of others as a yellow caution light, and he took their misery
as a sign of hope.»
It would be tempting to look at City's 3 - 0 loss at Anfield on Wednesday and interpret
it as a sign of hope for United.
Actually my thought was not meant
as a sign of hope.
A video of a Houston pastor playing his piano in his flooded home is being shared across the world
as a sign of hope in the midst of darkness for the Texan city.
But children should not be feared as a threat or a burden, but rather seen
as a sign of hope for the future.
If they should keep it in the museum I feel like it shouldn't be a «center piece» but more or less as a reminder to those who held
it as a sign of hope in those days.
Empire State Development president and CEO Howard Zemsky looked to Hood's name recognition and market presence
as signs of hope.
Not exact matches
The three months ending with March were Apple's first full quarter selling its new flagship phone, the iPhone X. Analysts had pointed to
signs, including the financial results
of Apple's suppliers, that the device and its sister iPhone 8 and 8 Plus had not revitalized Apple's iPhone business
as the company had
hoped.
My guess is that it was lack
of blood to the brain, but they decided to interpret it
as an emerging possibility that maybe business might be starting to show initial
signs of hope.
On the other hand, if you have a coworking space in the direct vicinity
of WeWork or in a relatively untapped market, their marketing efforts might do you more harm than good,
as we saw last year when WeWork employees started to reach out to other workspace members in the
hopes of getting them to
sign a lease with WeWork.
Signs of fading growth momentum across Europe have come
as bad news to equity investors
hoping for a repeat
of 2017's bumper returns, but many say they're not ready to throw in the towel yet on companies that are still delivering strong earnings.
LONDON
Signs of fading growth momentum across Europe have come
as bad news to equity investors
hoping for a repeat
of 2017's bumper returns, but many say they're not ready to throw in the towel yet on companies that are still delivering strong earnings.
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As they did through decades of civil war, the churches once again stand as one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.&raqu
As they did through decades
of civil war, the churches once again stand
as one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.&raqu
as one
of the few
signs of hope, giving voice to the needs
of the people
of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is
as strong as ever.&raqu
as strong
as ever.&raqu
as ever.»
The Stop The Traffik Declaration: At the end
of 2007 we
hope to deliver millions
of signed copies
of the Stop The Traffik Declaration to domestic governments
as well
as the United Nations.
The child
as a gift
of God is a
sign of hope,
of God's continued affirmation
of his creation.
«It marks not only the place I hold
as the Church
of England's first woman Bishop and the
sign of hope that may be for those who aspire to break new ground, but also the continuing fruitful dialogue between faith and learning and our shared endeavour to be beacons
of possibility.»
Footnotes suggest a scenario behind the text: an illness, an inability to make pilgrimage to the Jerusalem temple, the taunt
of naysayers who treat bad health
as a
sign of divine disfavor, the persistent
hope that the soul now cast down will once again be raised up.
In the
hope of locating his father's lost asses, Saul and his servant have consulted the seer, Samuel, who has not only reassured them on the score
of the animals but has also anointed Saul «to be prince over his people Israel» (10:1)
As sign and token of the validity of Samuel's act Saul is informed in advance of what is to take place, and it happens precisely as Samuel has said it woul
As sign and token
of the validity
of Samuel's act Saul is informed in advance
of what is to take place, and it happens precisely
as Samuel has said it woul
as Samuel has said it would:
And that, in the last analysis, is all he can really have to say to us infirm sinners: «
As men in a battle can not see how it is going, so Christians have no certain
signs of God's presence in their hearts, and can but look up towards their Lord and Savior, and timidly
hope.»
Arkes remains a convinced incrementalist in abortion politics: he recounts the battle over partial - birth abortion (still ongoing)
as a «modest first step» away from the jurisprudence
of Roe; in a similar vein he has
hopes that the Born - Alive Act (now
signed into law) might help to revive reasoned public discourse about the true character
of abortion.
Given so much, we may be justified in believing that such a venture may honestly be reckoned
as a grace - full
sign of hope, even in these raddled times.
Nonetheless, the bishops maintain that lovers who want to be married
as Catholics are a
sign of hope in a culture where marriage seems superfluous.
This singularity
of vision means that we have failed to make a positive case for children
as a social good, a
sign of a society that is vibrant and alive, a source
of joy, and a
sign of hope.
The community
of believers in each town, city and metropolis is the continuing presence
of God in society, and
as weak and faltering
as that may be, it is a
sign of hope in a world filled with power and greed.
The Jewish scholar here touches on a basic issue with which both Jews and Christians struggle
as they seek to read the
signs of the times and to approach their historical responsibility with a sense
of honesty
as well
as hope.
Judaism and Christianity both point to the
signs of God's active presence in history
as the foundation
of their
hope.
And they speak
of this
sign as if it had been expected all along, but
hope was delayed through all the centuries until the formation
of the nation rekindled it.
I shall explore what It might mean to live
as a confessing people in the context
of the radical sin
of low - intensity conflict and how we can faithfully respond to the present historical moment in which our participation in the structures
of oppression call us to be prophetic witnesses and living
signs of hope.
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and de
Hope, insofar
as it is
hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and de
hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction
of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the
sign of the Cross and death.
The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter
of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless
hoped against
hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not
as a fully paid - up liberal,
as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «
signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders
of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have
as his papal agenda the hammering
of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated
as head
of the Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith.»
Editor: So much for doom and gloom, where do you see
signs of hope for family life
as you survey our Western culture?
So let me share something
of what I see
as the affirmations, and the
signs of hope that Americans are an integral part
of this struggle to manifest total humanness and to acknowledge God's ownership and care
of the whole
of creation
of which human beings are a part.
She saw the religious artist
as living in a world in which imagination had so badly eroded that
signs of hope and transcendence were just barely perceivable.
In fact one has the feeling that the New Testament sees realms
of society and state
as both capable
of being transformed by the ferment
of the church, the community
of Divine forgiveness and the
hope of the coming Kingdom, to become foretastes and
signs of ultimate human destiny, namely the Kingdom
of God.
As disciples speak and live their faith and
hope grounded solely in Jesus Christ, they become for others
signs of hope, pointing not to the future secured by human hands, but the one intended by God.
The second
sign of hope is how many young people have rallied around Adam, even
as adults still feel somewhat awkward: There remains a cultural fear and lack
of understanding toward special - needs children and the disabled.
If our redescriptions
of the world
of everyday life under the
sign of the Resurrection have helped to fuel this desire for goodness and happiness in this life, if they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion
of a human society understood
as a «Kingdom
of ends» (in which each human being, including oneself, is treated
as an end in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such
hopes requires us to «postulate» realities which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, God.
Reston expected great things from the mighty, not only muscle and heart but also some piety and nobility
of spirit; and yet when they failed him,
as they most often did, he did not damn them but rather foresaw
signs of redemption and
hope [p. 9].
Their knowledge
of the life and ministry
of Jesus, their experience
of him
as risen from the dead, and their recognition in him
as 1) that
hoped - for eschatological prophet (the Christ),
as 2) God's own envoy, who could and does bear God's name (the Lord), and
as 3) one who did and does God's saving work (the Savior)-- all contribute to the significance
of that
sign received first by the shepherds.
In his syndicated article, Fr Richard McBrien (Professor
of Theology at Notre Dame) makes a similar point: «The lessening
of interest in private devotions is more likely a
sign that the Church is spiritually healthier now because its spiritual life is,
as the Council
hoped it would be, rooted more directly in the liturgy itself and especially inthe Eucharist» (The Tidings, Los Angeles 28 March A Matter
of Health Many theologians in fact rather look forward to the withering
of private devotions,
as a vindication that maturity has arrived.
St John's account
of the resurrection and encounter
of Jesus with Mary
of Magdala in the garden where Jesus calls Mary by name becomes for Vanier a
sign of hope for us all, and when the disciples react with disbelief and ridicule at Mary's good news Vanier is reminded
of the tensions in all human communities that can only be transformed by living in the Spirit who is sent by Jesus
as a
sign of his undying love for his followers.
In its Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium), the Second Vatican Council described the church
as a
sign and instrument
of that eschatological
hope.
«The communion
of saints», which in one sense was understood
as a
sign of present glory, a realisation here and now
of a share in the glory
of God and his saints in «the last times», became a kind
of last
hope, a rescue operation.
There is, however, no
sign as yet
of the reform that many in this country (and elsewhere) are
hoping for:
as George Weigel puts it in his Los Angeles Times article, it is «the question
of the appointment
of bishops — and the volatile but unavoidable question
of whether the church ought not devise criteria and processes for removing bishops who are manifestly incapable
of leadership.
He offered his blood
as the seed
of liberation and a
sign of hope that was soon to become a reality.
thank you, thank you, thank you for: — maintaining such a consistently wonderful blog that brings me a little joy with every new post — writing in a completely endearing way that makes you feel like a far - away friend (slightly creepy, perhaps, but true)-- coming to vancouver to speak about and
sign your book, which is exactly
as beautiful and chock - full
of deliciousness
as i could have
hoped.
I (and my sons, who introduced me to your blog) have to wait until November 16th when you are in Toronto,
as the cost
of the tickets included a (
signed, I
hope) copy
of your book.