Sentences with phrase «concerned with social justice»

They're concerned with social justice.

But more than that, my family is deeply concerned with social justice, and that is the passion for educational equity that compelled me to apply for TFA,» Jackson said.

Yet many of the teachers who formed the picket lines were also concerned with social justice issues for their students.

This article examines the implications of using different theories concerned with social justice to interpret first generation Quechua (indigenous) students» voices for responsive education policy.

If we say the goats are unsaved because they weren't concerned with social justice, then we render John 6:35 - 40, 1 Thess 5:6 - 10 and Romans 4:1 - 5 useless.

Character assassination aside, it is time for anyone seriously concerned with social justice to examine the damage the feminist movement has done to the Black American Civil Rights Movement.

Though the early Church was quite concerned with social justice as a sign and fruit of the teaching of Jesus, over the centuries Churches have had different perceptions on rights, according to their social alliances and theological elaborations.

I consider myself a devout Christian, but I and my wife are far more concerned with social justice involving the needs of the poor, underprivileged and «least of these», to quote Jesus again, than we are with following the conservative Christian agenda.

His concern with social justice, which manifested itself in The Sun Shines Bright also became more evident during the early»60s, in films such as Sergeant Rutledge (1960), Donovan's Reef (1963), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964), all of which sought to address problems of racial prejudice.

Born a decade or more after the German Neo-Expressionists, Maguire's peers include Martin Kippenberger (1953 — 1997) and Francesco Clemente (b. 1952), but his kinship with Marlene Dumas (b. 1953) is most pronounced, in their outrage at moral hypocrisy and their concerns with both social justice and violence against the body.

Not exact matches

There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic issues and the concomitant demand for justice express the identification with the poor that is the glory of liberation theology.

Meanwhile, liberation theologians have protested that postliberal theology is more concerned with Christian catechesis, formation and liturgy than with the struggle for social justice.

Jesus was not concerned with «social justice» he was concerned with the souls of you and I.

More serious for evangelicals is the fact that these two culturally derived models seem at odds with the Biblical witness concerning «social justice.»

Further, it should unite the Christian tradition with a radical concern for social justice.

For, if faith is «trust in God's love alone for the ultimate meaning of our lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with it.

The pastoral role is concerned with ministry to individuals; the priestly role has to do with the proclamation of the faith and with leadership in the liturgical life of the church; the prophetic role focuses on judging the level of humaneness in the social order and pointing to the changes required if common justice is to be approximated; the kingly role takes up governance and the expression of neighbor love through responsible corporate action.

We can not simply go on with our evangelical concern for the person, he implied, and let other people and other institutions take care of social justice.

This essentially describes the social gospel, a public ethic concerned specifically with justice and generosity.

Since that time, while many internal divisions persist, the United Church of Canada has been able to get on with other things, including great global concerns of social justice that must have a certain priority over personal morality and church polity.

At first, justice had especially concerned the social group as a whole and Yahweh was held to be inflexibly fair in dealing with the clan or nation, thought of en masse.

For example, there is the common emphasis on otherworldly salvation for individual souls, with no corresponding emphasis on the social conditions that oppress and distort those souls and with no concern for justice in this world.

His main concern was to link the identity of Christianity with social justice, oriented in love and defined by hope.

It is worth repeating that economics, from the time of Plato through to Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill was as deeply concerned with issues of social justice, ethics and morality as with economic analysis itself However, economics students today are taught that Adam Smith was the «father of modern economics» but not that he was also a moral philosopher.

But I will continue to be disappointed by the Vatican until it shows me that it is at least as concerned with economic and social justice as it is with masturbation and gay sex.

The Buddhist's sympathy with the pain of the world, the Hindu's sense of the unchanging stability of the Eternal, the Moslem's realization of international comradeship, the Confucian's appreciation of social morality, and... the sacrifices of scientific workers in the quest of truth and human welfare [and today, may we not add the Communist's concern for social justice, the humanist's insistence on the value of right self - realization of man's capacities, and the secularist's recognition of the non-religious goods in human experience?]

This disillusionment with the culture war, coupled with what might be thought of as an attendant «neo-Anabaptist turn,» has provoked in younger evangelicals an exploding interest in more communitarian aspects of church life and the integration of the gospel with what might be labeled «progressive» social justice concerns.

(6) The setting for the dialogue was a national gathering of Presbyterians with deep concerns for issues of social justice and ecology.

Orthopsychiatry is concerned with mental health and social justice, with an emphasis on the relationships and social systems that promote positive development (e.g., family, school, and community contexts).

Don't judge it on how incredibly fast and loose it plays with a number of identity and social justice issues that don't appear to directly concern Hill or anyone else involved in the production in any way beyond exploitative amusement.

In any case, their concern for social justice has led them to question whether the bureaucracy's agenda is consistent with the needs of students.

Class sessions that critiqued notions of social justice and multiculturalism, raised concerns about affirmative action or a culture of «victimhood,» advocated phonics and back - to - basics instruction, or were generally positive with regard to testing or choice - based reform were coded as «right leaning.»

«The authors cleverly foreground the practice of inquiry into the priorities for, approach to, and impact of teaching, with careful integration of knowledge, competencies, dispositions, commitments, and concern for social justice,» Barrow said.

Gifted students tend to be concerned early on with macro social justice issues like poverty, world hunger, or the plight of shelter animals.

Although most teachers are concerned about students» critical engagement in our media - frenzied world, some teachers and students reject the idea that social justice has anything to do with literacy and learning.

In the last month we've raised serious concerns about the lack of emergency preparedness at many campuses, provided the school district with an application process to pilot restorative practices in our schools, and called on district leaders to expand SAISD's simplistic conception of student success and measure our students in ways that do justice to their social and emotional needs — something absent from SAISD's endless focus on standardized test data.

Publishers are also citizens, and I find myself very much in sync philosophically with the concerns regarding social justice and equity of access that our librarians grapple with every day.

Jones extended an invitation to Bethany Collins (b. 1984), with whom he shares a concern for issues of social justice and the power of text and language.

Green has long been concerned with overlapping themes of domesticity, decoration, art history, food and social justice in her work, and continues to spend half of each year working on her widely - exhibited project about capital punishment, The Last Supper.

While Valenzuela's projects center on ideas of social justice and equity, his approach is always oblique and metaphorical, with equal attention given to formal concerns.

Although Valenzuela's projects center on ideas of social justice and equity, his approach is always oblique and metaphorical, with equal attention given to formal concerns.

I find comfort in being with people who are concerned and interested in learning more about what they can do, and I am inspired by people who are organizing efforts such as letter writing campaigns, marches, stream clean - ups, and social justice activism.

ActionAid USA African Services Committee AIDS Foundation of Chicago AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland Alliance for a Just Society BAART Programs California NOW Center for Biological Diversity Center for Economic and Social Rights Center of Concern Chicago Political Economy Group Conference of Major Superiors of Men Corporate Accountability International DYNS Services EcoEquity EG Justice Food & Water Watch Foundation Earth Franciscan Action Network Friends of the Earth U.S. Gender Action Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Grassroots International Greenpeace USA Health Global Access Project (GAP) HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA) HIV / AIDS Law Project Holy Cross International Justice Office Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy International HIV / AIDS Alliance USA International Rivers Jobs with Justice Jubilee Oregon Jubilee USA Network Labor Campaign for Single Payer Labor Network for Sustainability Lifelong AIDS Alliance Main Street Alliance Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas, USA Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns National Nurses United National Organization for Women (NOW) NETWORK New Rules for Global Finance Nicaragua Center for Community Action Oxfam America PeterCares House PR CoNCRA Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) Raging Grannies Rainforest Action Network RESULTS Right to the City Alliance Sustainable Energy and Economy Network / Institute for Policy Studies Sisters of the Holy Cross — Congregation Justice Committee START at Westminster SustainUS Tax Justice Network USA Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL - NY) Wealth for the Common Good Women Together for Change, Inc. 350.

Clinics have had some questions and concerns, including the lack of annual cost - of - living increases under the new framework and the lack of discussion with them on the use of the social justice sector as a comparator for looking at salaries.

As a social justice advocate, I am particularly concerned with the protection of rights under the Ontario Human Rights Code and the power imbalance between Employers and Employees.

They are integrally linked with other social justice concerns in our community.

I'm generally concerned about the unpaid internship economy present in many industries, but there are grey areas, and, from a policy perspective, I find it more difficult to challenge volunteer positions with social justice organizations.

An organization that holds a core commitment to equality, social responsibility and justice with attention to marginalized and underserved groups, and fosters policies that support the welfare of families and children and serves as a context for all concerned with the health of the family;

At base, it was considered that where nationwide strategies for the twin goals of self - determination and social justice for Indigenous people could be set, the problems associated with the gross over-representation of Indigenous people in matters of child welfare and juvenile justice would begin to be addressed and concerns over contemporary separations correspondingly allayed.

In my Social Justice Report 2007 I committed to report on «the actions taken by the government to address the concerns identified in this report relating to non-compliance with Australia's human rights obligations and the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth)(«Race Discrimination Act» / «RDA»).