Sentences with phrase «culture wars at»

There was a lot of art about politics and culture wars at the time.

The choices, including modern and abstract classics by such artists as Josef Albers and Mark Rothko, along with works by edgier names like Jasper Johns and Ed Ruscha, made news around the world — and launched the latest skirmish in the culture wars at home.

No one minded a long rundown of the culture wars at the 2006 Whitney Biennial, with some of the same artists as at Long Island City now.

«This is not a political war at all, this is not a culture war at all, this is a spiritual war,» Santorum said, according to a recording of the speech on the university's website.

Today in Conservative Media: Hollywood Was Busy Fighting a PC Culture War at the Oscars, but Real America Wasn't Even Watching

Not exact matches

At one point early in the campaign, media theorist Clay Shirky said that the anti-Trump camp — including many in traditional media — were «bringing fact - checking to a culture war,» implying that doing so was like bringing a knife to a gun fight.

At the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War At the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War I.

At the same time as CJNG's pseudo-insurgency and violence between self - defense groups, the UN Human Rights Council has found that the drug war's disruptions to Mexican society have deepened a culture of lawlessness and impunity.

For hundreds of years, Western culture has been at war with noise.

Last month, I spoke at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland because I believe our country is on the wrong track, and we need to solve real problems instead of fighting fake culture wars.

McDonnell is also a master at parrying culture war attacks and going back to the economy.

While I'm willing to agree with Michael Barone that at least some of the heat in the culture wars has been turned down a bit (but see this post for a qualification), a lot of interesting things have been said recently about marriage, some of which I noted here.

Adhering to Muslim Law by burying bin Laden at sea had nothing to do with showing a dead terrorist mercy for his body or fulfilling bin Laden's wishes; it had to do with showing the world we are respectful of religion and cultures that may be different than our own; our war on terror has nothing to do with culture or religion.

But it's not clear how conservative Christians are going to persuade Muslims to reshape their religion to make them at once less susceptible to Wahabi literalism and at the same time fit to be eager warriors in Western culture wars.

What will it mean for both sides in this debate — at least as it takes place among believers, in and for the church — to move beyond political ideologies and culture wars and stand together under God's word of law and gospel?

The show features Peggy dealing with her own hypocrisy, instilling values in her son, the culture wars, addiction (to cigarettes) premarital sex (to a man who is not Hank), forgiveness and even getting over-committed at a megachurch.

One might look, for example, at From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate, by neoliberal Protestants Don Browning, Bonnie Miller - McLemore, Pamela Couture, Bernie Lyon and Robert Franklin; Gender and Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World, by evangelical Protestant Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen; and Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics, by Catholic Lisa Sowle Cahill.

An editor at the New York Times recently remarked that the use of the term «culture war» is dangerously inflammatory.

Dr Andrew Davies at the University of Birmingham argues that the narrative of the culture wars isn't the theological foundation.

For that society to endure in a culture at war with the very foundations of its freedom will require more than space for alternatives.

Despite what you've heard, Christians are not at war with our culture.

* worship God, who has never been, at any time for any reason, a capricious God of death, war, murder, destruction, violence, abuse, vengeance, hate, fear, lies, slavery, systemic injustice, oppression, conditional acceptance, exclusion, segregation, discrimination, shunning, ostracism, eternal condemnation, eternal punishment, retribution, sacrifices, patriarchy, matriarchy, empire, nationalism, only one culture, only one race or portion of the population, parochialism, sectarianism, dogma, creeds, pledges, oaths or censorship — and who has never behaved as a Greco - Roman or narcissistic deity.

So what is at stake here is not just money but the contested intersection of religion, morality and sexual politics that has been going in recent years by the tagline of «the culture wars.»

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

If we can be slower to respond in anger every time a controversy unfolds, culture war battle is being fought or a joke gets made at our expense, we can actually be recognized for how we love.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

Although the book reminds us of a time when deep social divisiveness was not at the core of the culture wars, was he right to suggest that religion was an under - acknowledged party in American discussions about pluralism?

Anyway, the only culture war that exists is on TV which considering overall TV viewership as a % is at an all - time low I find quite funny.

He may also inspire American Christians at the losing end of our decades - long culture war.

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...!

It largely won, although a culture war continues, at least in America, to try to restrain it, and to partially return society to some of the codes and decencies taken for granted in the 1950s.

This article is good at showing where a potential «culture war» can occur, as is evident through the various responses so far.

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

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.

Talk about women mutlitation... talk about wherever islam goes it destroys the host culture, look at Persia, Egypt, or Turkey once the center of christianity... most islamic states where delivered by war... look around you today... what you see all over the world is exactly what islam has been from DAY ONE.

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.

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.

During World War II the persecuted Christians threw a ringing challenge at comfortable, culture - adapted Christianity when they declared: «The first duty of the church is to be the church.»

You may have heard it from Kirk Cameron or an anchor at Fox News or an army of culture warriors who have once again worked themselves into a frenzy over the «War on Christmas.»

... for the past 25 years, the Democratic Party, at least rhetorically, acknowledged that compelling taxpayers to fund abortions was a step too far in the culture wars.

While the culture wars are, to Santorum's delight, with us at least until November, the cultural questions that beset us are likely to shift and shift quickly.

Process theism, such as that of Lewis Ford and his colleagues, seems the best present means to provide interpretation (at once theistic and naturalistic) that extends to all events, including major evolutionary developments — and might even provide adequate theological and philosophical basis to moderate some culture - war hostilities.

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.

«This year for the first time Oadby Multicultural Group will be laying a wreath at the War Memorial as well as the one I will lay on behalf of the parish and we do want people of all faiths who are paying respect to those from their own faiths and cultures who served and gave their lives, to feel welcome in the service.

At the root of today's culture - war issues — abortion and euthanasia, the marriage debate, the LGBT insurgency — are competing and, frankly, irreconcilable ideas of the human person.

Not only that: crime is running amok, abortion and out - of - wedlock births skyrocket, parasitic urban males are permanently at war with the culture by age fifteen, and city school systems seem incapable of delivering anything but multicultural trashings of societal values, and condoms.

There was a brief invasion in about 1700 B.C. by the Hyksos kings, and there were imperial wars fought with the nascent Babylonian and Assyrian empires at a later time; but few cultures have enjoyed a longer, more uninterrupted period of development than did Egypt.

Some who see themselves at war choose to separate from the mainstream culture, some live militantly in a paradoxical relation to that culture, not of the world but still in it.

And why are we giving the culture of Washington new powers of life and death» making ourselves «God's Partners,» in President Obama's language» at a time when that culture has proved itself so vague and so deluded about all the issues of life and death that have come before it: war, and embryos, and the unborn, and the weak, and the vulnerable?

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.