Sentences with phrase «create human communities»

It is to create life itself, certainly to create human communities, probably to create all of the informed gestures of love that we know.

It is faith which creates the human community and makes it wholesome and stable.

It creates human community where none was before through the directness of loving, humble action.

Not exact matches

The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»

This joint proclamation of certain truths about the nature of the human person and human community as created historical realities can not be accomplished, however, in a didactic way.

As one consequence, the Whiteheadian perspective stands in fundamental opposition to what has sometimes been called «metaphysical individualism,» i.e., the theory that human individuals are self - contained in the sense that communities are created by them but not vice-versa.

A good place to start in creating such a community is to treat young adults like the complex human beings they are, and to take their questions about faith seriously.

Thus, metaphors and models of God are understood to be discovered as well as created, to relate to God's reality not in the sense of being literally in correspondence with it, but as versions or hypotheses of it that the community (in this case, the church) accepts as relatively adequate.16 Hence, models of God are not simply heuristic fictions; the critical realist does not accept the Feuerbachian critique that language about God is nothing but human projection.

Its effort to create community in the face of suspicion, its combination of idealism and despair, its testimony to the corruption of both oppressor and oppressed, and its tragic heroism in trying to actualize human values against impossible odds is a kind of microcosm of much of American history, but it would take a book to do it justice.

So a magical all - powerful being living in some fantasy world in the clouds created the earth, placed a modern day man and woman on the earth from whom all humans are modeled in a fantastical garden 4.5 billion years ago, allows «good» people to live in a cloud kingdom where everyone who has ever died lives (like a Florida retirement community in the sky), and sends «bad» people to a fiery pit of despair for all eternity.

What I have found most relevant is Colossians ch.3 in the light of which it is legitimate to speak of the gospel as the news of the New Man Jesus Christ («Put on the new self, the new humanity»); and more especially it is valid to present the new fellowship of mutual forgiveness created by the Divine Forgiveness in Christ and expressed in the Eucharist and the social koinonia of the church as the foretaste of true human community as the essential gospel («Forgiving one another as the Lord forgave you»).

Dewey's point is that we can not create a truly democratic community without extending the ideas of freedom and choice and the pooling of intelligence to all modes of human association.

Once I realized that humans were literally created to be part of community (first God, then each other), I understood that social media platforms like Facebook are a valuable tool.

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

But for its members it will fulfill the demands of being human: giving a sense of ultimate meaning, offering release from personal failure, creating a noble identity of integrity, fostering the richness of a caring community, and upholding a standard of perfection which will both judge and inspire.

Humans are distinctive in their capacity to create, sustain, transform — and destroy — community, both interpersonal and political: Violence, whatever else it does, categorically repudiates mutuality and equal participation in decisions affecting intimate and family relations.

It is founded on the love and mercy of God who has through Jesus Christ created this community as the human bearer of His spirit in history.

God who creates women and men for freedom and for community, divine and human community, does not play pre-determination with those very creatures.

2 He goes on to argue that the resurrection appearances were essentially hallucinations that the disciples mistakenly interpreted as Jesus come back from the dead, but that God used these hallucinations and this misinterpretation to create his kingdom, his community of love and forgiveness, within human history.

The Incarnate Word took to himself sinful flesh (which Bonhoeffer defines only as «human nature» or «our infirmities and... our sin «49) and thereby sought to create a community of followers.

From the standpoint of our interpretation of religion the central Christian experience just described is important because it provides an answer to the question regarding the relative power of community - creating and community - destroying factors in human history, i.e., to the question concerning the outcome of the battle between good and evil.

As the messianic events of liberation in the Old Testament were not a result of human efficacy but rather a gift, an act of power that transcended the given possibilities of history, the Christian communities saw in Jesus an act of God's freedom... the power that creates a new future is something new, it is freedom from beyond history that is freedom for history.

There is an essential difference between a faith which recognizes responsibility for the universal human community but does not seek to dominate it, and master race theories such as Nazism, or the interesting new Japanese version of Nichiren Buddhism known as Sokka Gakkai (Value - Creating Society).

As we examined the biblical foundations of the doctrine of love we saw that the Bible regards human life as a history in which God seeks to create a community of those who love him and one another, and who celebrate his love in a life of faithfulness and joy.

In sum, we can and we must adopt solutions that reflect the dignity and worth of every human being and that embody understanding of the community's shared responsibility for creating policies that are truly prowoman and prochild.

Consider the differences between the abilities and capacities called for respectively by the game of football and by farming, by creating and maintaining human communities and by painting, by physics and by the worship of God.

Moral codes and power - politics are necessary to check evil and promote legal and social justice that protects human rights of the weak; and redemptive power of Divine forgiveness helps to create a community of mutual love that transcends historical divisions of society.

Also by creating them as communities, God is equally concerned about their providence and life as of human community.

This is important because it makes it clear that the family, or basic human community, in which the newly born infant learns to take the first steps in faith and hope, is itself created by love and should continue to be a community visibly demonstrating love.

I want them to know that I deeply love Jesus, fully human and fully divine and I believe the way He lived, with whom he created community and the words He spoke are as important as the death he died and His ultimate triumph over death.

The Alliance of Pro-Life Students (APS) was created in 2012 to help overcome these obstacles by building and supporting university pro-life communities united by a lasting and profound respect for human life from fertilisation to natural death.

From Pentecostal communities like Deliverance Church in Kenya to international programs like Youth Alive, the reality of human beings as whole persons created by God forms the bedrock for transfigured practical existence.

Just as Christians they are very much members of the human community in the universe created, according to Christian faith, by the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus Christ.

They are the forms in which the human loves create communities and which embody man's response to the creative spirit of God.

This is certainly obvious in terms of widening the area of human co-operation — in uniting families into peaceful communities with equitable distribution of responsibilities and privileges, and then creating from these the larger communities of states and nations, and finally developing from these a world society dedicated to the fullest realization of every member of the human family.

The Sustainable Beauty Awards — organized by specialist consulting, research and training company Organic Monitor — honored Human Nature for its social entrepreneurship, noting its role in creating employment for impoverished communities by locally sourcing the ingredients for its natural cosmetics.

Our shared passions have compelled us to create a new kind of conference - to host an on - going conversation that explores what we see as the foundation of infant, child, family and community health: the mechanism of human bonding - how it works, why it's important, and how to develop, encourage and support it in our growing families and communities.

A growing number of camps are offering leadership training experiences for young adults, and organizations such as Global Works and Onshore Offshore Expeditions have created camping experiences that include community service programs where young people can work to improve the human condition and preserve the environment.

The discovery of vitamins» importance to human growth and health as well as the awareness of the foods that contained them created a paradigm shift of sorts for the medical community.

Thank you for your partnership and support in these efforts to engage our diverse community in understanding our role as human beings within the natural world and creating a sense of connection among all living creatures.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER At its annual New York City Gala this month, the Washington - based Human Rights Campaign presented a program that focused just enough attention on the dangers created since Donald Trump became president to press the urgent need for the community to engage in productive resistance to the now one - year old administration.

«This plan's singular focus is on infrastructure — investing in the physical needs and human capital to create a playing field where the entire community can grow.

«Furthermore, Mr. President's recent announcement to the world that the nation, with its abundant human and natural resources, is broke and can not pay cabinet ministers not only sends a discouraging signal to the domestic and international business community, but also exposes the ineptitude of the present administration to meaningfully and sincerely exert itself and work with industrious and innovative investors to create and manage wealth.

Founded in 1989, Comunilife's mission is to improve the quality of life and create a healthier tomorrow, for New Yorkers with special needs in the Hispanic and broader communities, by providing culturally competent health and human services and a continuum of affordable and supportive housing».

Speaking to an audience of approximately 300 people at the Johnson Community Center in East Harlem, Mark - Viverito called for new programs which would expand access to civil legal services, create new technology - focused programs in City high schools, as well as for expanding existing agencies and programs such as the Human Rights Commission.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

Early last year, Poloncarz created the Opioid Epidemic Task Force, bringing together players from the criminal justice, medical, mental health, human services, community and family advocacy arenas.

The other half is being earmarked to community organizations that will provide support to primary care physicians, offer expanded and rural access to opioid treatment and needle exchange services, and create a training program to assist victims of human sex trafficking who are controlled through opioid addiction.

The Council identified eight major priorities in its response: increased investment in city youth; investment in healthcare, education, jobs and legal services for immigrants; specific funding for the diverse communities; capital investment in infrastructure; creating a Rainy Day Fund and adding to existing reserves; baselining essential city services; expanding criminal justice, community support, and human services; and more accurately tracking city agency performance.

In my latest piece, at Zocalo Public Square, I argue that I should know who my wildlife neighbors are, and that understanding our natural world can create a better human community, too.