Sentences with phrase «conservative traditions well»

They seem to put robes, chalices, ceremonies, and conservative traditions well above simply talking and teaching about Jesus.

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He has given full - throated voice to a party base, which he knows well as a Conservative in the true Reform tradition in the party's heartland, wondering how the government it elected has lost its way.

Always penetrating and provocative, my good friend Patrick Deneen has, once again penetrated and provoked, this time in a brief essay entitled» Is There a Conservative Tradition in America?»

That is, pop culture studies can not simply be about conservatives (or Christians, or Great Books educators) dwelling upon the best moments of such culture, or otherwise using it to prove the relevance of the traditions they want to convey.

The fact that I attempt, very carefully, to show how a Christian public philosophy needs to take into account the contending views of various Christians» as well as our entire liberal / conservative political tradition» does not weaken my appeal for something more fully, integrally, and distinctively Christian.

The conservative justices fall back on this well - worn staple of conservative jurisprudence: that the «right» here can not be found in the text of the Constitution or in any «tradition» marked in the accumulation of cases over the years; and so the Constitution itself can not be the source of any such right that the judges have the authority to pronounce.

For him, progressive means good, and mildly socialist but not too radical, and conservative means perhaps rooted in classic traditions, but not fully in tune with current liberal thought.

If we define the religious right broadly — as orthodox religious people who hold to conservative positions on the right to life, the definition of marriage, the goodness of tradition, and the freedom to believe and practice one's faith — then the religious right is alive and well, despite the mythology of an ever - secularizing, omni - progressivizing Hegelian spirit - force.

Numerous prominent conservatives immediately denounced him for trampling on America's best traditions of religious tolerance.

Even a glance at the issue's table of contents shows the article by the Acton Institute's Kevin Schmiesing, «Another Social Justice Tradition: Catholic Conservatives,» which highlights and quotes CA: «The pope approves of that capitalism «which recognizes the fundamental and positive role of business, the market, private property, and the resulting responsibility for the means of production, as well as free human creativity in the economic sector.

At least, the oral exposition of the Old Testament had no authority for the Sadducees; they were conservative in clinging to the written text of the Bible, conservative in guarding the Temple traditions, intent on maintaining the status quo, and therefore stood in fairly good relations with Herod and the Roman rule.

Those characteristics include tree - lined streets, parks, historic structures, high levels of volunteerism and philanthropy, conservative government traditions, well - performing schools and top - flight park districts.

By the same token, I still believe that we need to rediscover and reinterpret the three overlapping political traditions — conservative, liberal and socialist or social - democratic — that have woven in and out of our history for well over a century; and that we have at least as much to learn from our complex religious traditions as from political ones.

Cox loyalists have insisted this isn't true, noting former Gov. George Pataki ran on independent lines in both 1994 and 1998 as well as the GOP and Conservative lines (this is something of a time - honored tradition; Mayor Bloomberg has done it in all three of his elections, too).

He saw his vote drop by 18 % as the Conservative chris Davies took the seat, with Labour also well up as the tradition of tactical voting in Brecon and Radnorshire broke down.

Priti Patel represents in many ways the very best of the Conservative Party tradition at Westminster.

People who are prepared to make a break with culinary tradition can reap huge rewards from reconfiguring their plates, and less socially conservative cultures help people to make such a break in tradition, for good or ill.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

Pre-homologation, Porsche is stating its output as «greater than» 641bhp and 553 lb ft. Nobody's denying those figures are fairly conservative, and in the best GT2 RS tradition the expectation is they'll be a good deal more than that.