Sentences with phrase «called culture wars»

In 1990, at the height of the so - called culture wars, Hamilton County prosecutors charged the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and its then director Dennis Barrie with obscenity for showing the photos.

Mr. Helms was a well - known supporter of censorship in the arts and was a leading protagonist in the so - called Culture Wars.

John Frohnmayer, the relatively new head of the NEA, rescinded the grant, causing a firestorm throughout the art world and setting the stage for the so - called culture wars that followed.

What happened was the progressive dumbing down and crudeness of what has been called the culture wars.

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Given the state of the country, «Far Cry 5» feels like something made for an alternate reality where mass shootings aren't common, where there isn't a raging culture war between so - called Red and Blue states, where there isn't yet another misinformed scapegoating of violent video games unfolding.

Religious people are so concerned about the so - called «culture war» that they're out there voting for the greatest enemies of the well - being and opportunity of the working - and middle - classes.

With the exam oriented toward Western civilization and theistic as well as secular perspectives, it calls to mind the Culture Wars of the 1980s.

Such divergent responses to the crisis are unintelligible unless one sees them as part of the deeper issue of what might be called American Catholicism's «culture wars.»

The prestige media is generally blind to its own belligerency in the culture war; it champions as courageous the exercise of free speech that is vituperative and slanderous while simultaneously calling for civility, and condemning as uncivil even the measured responses of those who are slandered.

«My generation of evangelicals is ready to call a truce on the culture wars,» I said.

Leonard begins her remarks by saying, «It's not polite to call someone else's journal a crypto — white nationalist project, but...» Shenk insists that whatever agreements Dissent and American Affairs might have on political economy, «the culture wars aren't over.»

My story is about leaving the boxing gloves behind, about calling a truce on the culture wars that have left so many people beaten and bruised and left for dead by those who claim to follow a crucified Savior.

Now our calling is to love and accept people one - on - one, caring for them where they are... We're joining our community in a different culture war — one that attacks poverty, crime, addiction, and pain.

So rather than wearing out my voice in calling for an end to evangelicalism's culture wars, I think it's time to focus on finding and creating church among its many refugees — women called to ministry, our LGBTQ brother and sisters, science - lovers, doubters, dreamers, misfits, abuse survivors, those who refuse to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith or their compassion and their religion, those who have, for whatever reason, been «farewelled.»

This is the core truth of your so - called «culture wars.»

Paul takes the combative call of the culture wars and replaces it with something better — the exemplary, meek faith of martyrs.

takes the combative call of the culture wars and replaces it with something better — the exemplary, meek faith of martyrs.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

There are actually two versions of the «culture wars» idea — what I will call the «broad» and the «narrow» versions.

Despite the fact that culture conflict is deeply ingrained in American politics (I am calling this the «broad» version of the culture - wars idea), the «narrow» version of the argument found in Hunter's book (and many activists» rhetoric) is clearly wrong.

By calling a truce on wars over «culture,» and start fighting to save relationships with neighbors, no matter what they believe.

In a 2006 book called, «Is There a Culture War?»

Amid the strife of the Culture Wars and the heated partisan divides between Red and Blue states, one thing seems to bring together a great many Americans across both sides of the nation's secular / sacred divide: a deep, abiding sense of amusement and incredulity — if not outright contempt — for purveyors and supporters of the so - called «Prosperity Gospel».

Ironically, in calling for a cease fire in the culture wars, the author, a «progressive evangelical,» enters the fray fully armed for rhetorical combat.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

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.

«By contrast, in «Evangelii» Francis repeats his calls for Catholics to stop «obsessing» about culture war issues and enforcing church rules, and to focus more on spreading the Gospel, especially to the poor and marginalized.»

By contrast, in «Evangelii» Francis repeats his calls for Catholics to stop «obsessing» about culture war issues and to focus more on spreading the Gospel, especially to the poor and marginalized.

One of the most startling developments in the culture war is the apparent takeover of the Republican Party by conservative evangelicals who claim that the U.S. is a Christian nation, uniquely called and blessed by God.

But after World War II, the Court began to insert itself into what James Madison called the «internal» objects of state governments, particularly the culture - forming institutions, including education, religion, marriage, and government's domestic control over matters of life and death.

While sharing many common moral concerns in what were then called the «culture wars,» the framers of ECT determined to address these issues precisely as believers in Jesus Christ.

Best Argument: Laura Ziesal with «Are Christians Called to Culture War?»

Though the ad calls for an end to the Mommy Wars, the ad's power ultimately depends on that culture war, and brings that war no closer to an end.

Also at noon, faith leaders and low - wage workers will gather at the state Capitol for a Moral Monday press conference and vigil to call on lawmakers to end the culture of on - and off - the - books corruption that characterizes the policy - making process in Albany, War Room, 3rd Floor.

To model Gulf War Illness, the researchers treated cultures of human and rat neurons with an organophosphate called diisopropyl flurophosphate, which is an analog of sarin.

Having tackled the gangster genre in his last film Black Mass, Cooper's moved right to his culture's most potently mythic territory, pinpointing its peak moment: the climax of the so - called Indian Wars and the fading of the misguidedly romanticised American Frontier.

The entire film references other comic book films, and pop culture mentions, typically by making fun of them in some way; Green Lantern, joke in the credits, Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice's silly mommy moment, Hawkeye's lack of powers, Josh Brolin's Thanos's two - timing as a character in Avengers: Infinity of War less than three weeks ago, at one point Wade simply calls Brolin's (Cable), «Thanos,» Logan's gags you'll need to see for yourself.

Kawaii pop artist Truck Torrence (a.k.a. 100 % Soft), best known for making the official Star Wars and Marvel Studios emoji, is back at it with a new pop - culture focused series called «Mass Hysteria 2.»

There's scant wiggle room even for something that the industry calls «counter-programming,» which is a film released to a market to attract moviegoers who aren't interested in football or Star Wars or whatever other big pop - culture thing is happening.

Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Dr David Zyngier, has called upon the new Education Minister to dump Christopher Pyne's proposed Higher Education reforms, replace religious chaplains in schools with well - trained and professional welfare officers, and to end the «culture war» over the National Curriculum by replacing education policy adviser Dr Kevin Donnelly.

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Many gamers are angry because these cultural critics are not merely calling for greater creativity and diversity — they have declared war on gamer culture.

In an interesting culture - wars shift, many of the calls have come from the political left.

It, too, might be called «remembrance of culture wars past,» and the artists at P.S. 1 can not seem to forget.

By Ruslana Lichtzier download printable PDF A Missed Call Since the 1910 Thomas Edison movie «A Trip To Mars,» Orson Wells» radio - drama «The War of the Worlds,» in 1938, to Ridley Scott's 2015 film «The Martian,» modern culture has manifested a preoccupation with the planet Mars.

For a nation recently defeated in World War II and emerging from the shadow of totalitarianism, Gutai's call for vitality, play, and new artistic frontiers served as a jolt to a culture of consensus.

Michael Gerson, George W. Bush's trusted speech writer and advisor, wrote a telling piece in the Washington Post earlier this year called «Climate and the Culture War.»