Sentences with phrase «culture war»

A culture war has been declared on us.

Jules Might I suggest that the Christian Left could accomplish this by directing ALL of its charity efforts and funds towards actually helping the poor, as opposed to wasting them fighting the culture war against gays, women, and science like the Right does?

In my opinion, the Republicans need to return to their basic platform of minimal government plus maximum business, and cease trying to create a new culture war.

Hunter's book presents a strong case for understanding the current state of public discourse as a «culture war,» shaped by ideological extremes.

The readers of First Things, I know, are eagerly awaiting further reports by this writer from the wilder shores of American feminism and other battlefields of this country's culture war.

Here's the problem with fighting a culture war: Every war needs an enemy.

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

The culture war mentality that has made certain segments of the population «enemies» of Christianity (labeled with words like «liberal,» «secular,» or «worldly»), not only lacks nuance to understand why others believe what they believe, but it also makes neighbors into combatants.

The ad is based on an increasingly flawed premise that has misinformed large portions of several generations of well - intentioned evangelicals: We are in a clearly defined culture war.

Johnson contends that the metaphysical disagreement between naturalists and theists — the clash of two incompatible «creation stories» (RB 12)-- is a central issue in a «culture war» now raging in the United States.

The talk of the culture war issues might have been secondary to the lines about the economy, but when you look at what they have actually done, little of the work has been related to the economy and most has been items important to social conservatives.

Of course they are trying to turn this into a culture war.

No this is not a culture war.

The aggressive culture war mindset is still alive, but an upcoming generation of Christians — who are able to ignore ideological labels and see people for who they are — has the ability to extinguish it.

Many people we know think it mostly has to do with religion, politics, conservative positions on «culture war» issues, and an odd assortment of other things.

Similarly, in response to Wednesday's post, I heard from Christians on «Side A» as well as Christians on «Side B» who were united in their desire to move beyond a culture war mentality when it comes to homosexuality.

Many of you want an end to the culture war too.

Without realizing it, I had internalized the culture war, and it was tearing me apart inside.

As I wrote in November, Christians are increasingly considering the reality that we might be on the losing side of the culture war.

The culture war will go to hell.Here's why: 1.

In fact, in my experience, I've found that the folks most passionate about waging a culture war against homosexuality are often folks who don't know a lot of gay people.

Wednesday's post, «How to win a culture war and lose a generation,» shattered every record in my blogging history.

All I am asking is that you stop sidestepping, that you stop saying, «I choose not reveal, because the culture war is so bad already [and so on and so forth]» when the truth is, you actually haven't arrived at a conclusion.

Debating her status as a Christian or not has been one of those «culture war» debates in which I refuse to participate.

Second, he says, we have become too closely identified with political partisanship and the American culture war.

This I something we have discussed at length here on the blog in the past, (see «How to Win a Culture War and Lose a Generation») so I won't spend much more time on it here.

Are we in a new culture war?

If we are [in a culture war], it's probably because interests of the church are self insured.

Adults need to focus on common values of respect and civility and take the culture war off the school campus.

Nor is the culture war the sole cause of the public incivility and political stagnation that often seem to show up on the evening news.

We are witnessing a «culture war» we are told.

So what is the «broad» version, of the notion of a culture war?

The possibility of a culture war speech «There is a religious war going on in this country,» former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan told the 1992 Republican convention in a primetime address.

While culture influences our politics, no culture war dominates them.

What is often identified as evidence for a culture war has more to do with the requirements of» activist rhetoric than the attitudes or actions of the body politic generally.

Rather, the culture war is a style of rhetoric that is useful for political activism in a media age.

Historian Rick Perlstein observed that the culture war amounted to the fact that «what one side saw as liberation the other side saw as apocalypse: and what the other saw as apocalypse, the first saw as liberation.»

The case represents the latest volley in a culture war of sorts as courts and academics — not to mention employers and employees — try to reconcile the law's fundamental commitment to two principles increasingly emerging at loggerheads: religious liberty and women's health.

The motto of the tradinistas might be, «Win the class war, win the culture war.»

The notion of a culture war is plausible — and a «broad» version of the idea is useful.

Southern white evangelicals, now overwhelmingly Republican, are the vanguard of the culture war, defending their view of a properly ordered American way of life.

The most developed, systematic and sweeping version of the idea of a culture war appeared in the 1991 book Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, by James Davison Hunter, a University of Virginia sociologist.

This, perhaps the most significant culture war ever fought, finally resulted in the grand chivalric syntheses of the gentle Christian knight and the Victorian gentleman.

Patrick Buchanan brought the glare of the national spotlight to the phrase «culture war» when he used his address to the 1992 Republican National Convention to declare a «war for the nation's soul.»

So the data on mass opinion do not reveal a culture war of polarized attitude clusters.

I've been saying this for a while now, but on the most contentious issues of the culture war, namely homosexuality and same - sex marriage, it is conservative Christians that deserve credit for being the most reasonable and peaceable combatants.

As I've said before, the best way to move beyond a culture war mentality is to listen to one another's stories, and Justin's is just the kind of story we need to hear right now.

At issue were a change in worship style and Tchividjian's rejection of culture war politics.

Was this one of the American «culture war bishops,» as commentators have termed them, that collection of prelates driven by hate, anger, and power?

The bitter truth is that the Christian culture war is not carried out for Jesus» glory and renown, but for ours.