Sentences with phrase «engage in justice»

This process is neither clean nor straightforward; inviting students to engage in justice issues can be messy and fraught with difficulty for students and adults alike.

Christians are called to be part of bringing God's Kingdom on earth, and part of that is engaging in justice issues.

Clergy are encouraged by reading our materials and meeting other retreatants engaged in justice work.

In order for the public to become engaged in the justice system, it must become responsive to its rightful owners — the public.

Not exact matches

Explore how law students, young lawyers and the wider legal profession can engage in the social justice space and understand the legal and professional skills required when embarking on related career pathways.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made no secret of his contempt for marijuana use, and his Department of Justice is on the verge of releasing a report that many in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry fear will propose prosecuting people engaging in marijuana sales — even if they are in states that have legalized the drug locally.

High - level Justice Department officials and a magistrate judge had to conclude there was probable cause that Cohen had evidence of a federal crime, that he could not be trusted to hand over evidence voluntarily, and that there was reason to believe Cohen had voided his attorney - client privilege by «engaging in crime or fraud,» attorney Ken White writes.

For more than two weeks, the Trump White House has engaged in an unprecedented assault on the president's own Justice Department, and in particular on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the FBI.

This makes the Justice Department and the Treasury Department extremely fearful of indicting a major Primary Dealer because convicted felons can not engage in Treasury auction contracts.

The march led participants to the Assembly worship tent, where they engaged in «worship on [sic] justice, peace, and the integrity of creation.»

Are we to presume that these Presidents and Justices are engaged in a fraud and a sham?

I have to say, after reading George Weigel's surprisingly off - the - mark review shortly after the encyclical was released, I was eager to see someone in the realm of Catholic intellectuals do the encyclical (and Benedict) justice by seriously engaging it in its entirety.

A columnist in a newspaper outside of Zambia even proposed that, as a matter of justice, developing nations deserve to engage in a few generations» worth of wanton polluting.

Chief Justice Roberts, joined by those freewheeling constitutional interpreters Justices Scalia and Thomas (among others), engaged in judging practices familiar from the common law.

This means, of course, engaging in difficult and complex decisions of justice and care, as we seek to determine the economic, social, political, and cultural rights of individuals in our own species and as we pay attention to the rights of the silent, nonvoting majority which is made up of all the other species.

He is the co-founder and director of Ohio Prophetic Voices, a movement of faith leaders and clergy engaged in a biblically rooted struggle for economic and racial justice.

Since then, she has earned a Masters in Social Justice and directed a short - term missions site on the west - side of Chicago, where she created interactive opportunities for young people to engage issues of poverty, injustice, and race.

Despite being panned by critics, the box - office success of Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice teaches us about engaging young men in spiritual,... More

In 1983 the Sixth Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Vancouver invited all churches to engage in a process of mutual commitment to justice, peace, and respect for the integrity of creatioIn 1983 the Sixth Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Vancouver invited all churches to engage in a process of mutual commitment to justice, peace, and respect for the integrity of creatioin a process of mutual commitment to justice, peace, and respect for the integrity of creation.

Whether or not he invokes God explicitly, in opposing that aggression, no morally sane person engages in a conflict without believing, or at least hoping, that he is on the side of a transcendent justice.

However, if these enemies prove themselves to not want to live in peace with their Jewish neighbors, and they engage in criminal acts against Jews (or others), then justice requires that they be fought and no further relations be sought with them.

Also evangelists often see social justice as a gutless way of living out the gospel, whereas people engaged in social action often assume the evangelists are hypocritical Bible bashers, but actually we need both proclamation and demonstration.

The truth is that, as, for instance, in Rawls» A Theory of Justice, contract thinking engages ideas of promise and obligation that take on at least the appearance of being covenantal.

The Christian life I find described in the New Testament culminates in a willingness to engage in mission that includes witness, acts of charity, and acts of justice — all at risk of losing worldly reward.

To be free of ideological captivity is to «join the community of struggle,» to oppose racism and sexism, to fight for human rights and women's ordination, to engage in social action, to envision «holiness as justice,» and to develop nonsexist language and imagery in order to «empower» and free the congregation to engage in the «struggle for liberation.»

An investigation by the Department of Justice has found that the Ferguson police department engaged in a years - long pattern of racial discrimination against members of the black community, who of...

This means that the church needs to be present in trade unions, political parties, and every other secular institution to promote justice and compassion.18 In this way ordinary men and women who are engaged in the actual life - situations participate in the dialoguin trade unions, political parties, and every other secular institution to promote justice and compassion.18 In this way ordinary men and women who are engaged in the actual life - situations participate in the dialoguIn this way ordinary men and women who are engaged in the actual life - situations participate in the dialoguin the actual life - situations participate in the dialoguin the dialogue.

I had the privilege a few years ago of meeting Dr. Cornel West, a man who has been engaged in activism and justice work for decades.

(It is curious that Arthur does not extend his denunciation to Justices Holmes and Black, for they, like Bork, would also be loath to engage in a jurisprudence grounded in abstract, non-textual claims of natural rights.

Christians, Jews, Muslims and all other people have in interest in engaging traditions of reasoning that speak of the obligation to seek justice — including, perhaps especially, justice in the conduct of armed struggle.

The liberal field will be left to Sandel and other «communitarian» theorists, for whom «justice finds its limits in those forms of community that engage the identity as well as the interests of its participants» and for whom the hitherto «incompleteness of the liberal ideal» is corrected by a substantive notion of the good of community.

Yet it can not be our only task, for the problem of organizing the technical civilization of the western world upon a new basis of economic and international justice, so that the anarchy and decay that have characterized our life in the past three decades will be arrested and our technical capacities will be made fruitful rather than suicidal, is one which must engage our best resources.

The signs of the times cry out for people who will stand in the gap and engage the pursuit of justice, but what does that really mean?

Being engaged in community is a core value of the Jesuit tradition urging that all men and women should share gifts generously, pursue justice, and show concern for the poor and marginalized.

Since then, she has worked with national speaker and consultant Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, earned a Masters in Social Justice, and directed a short - term missions site on the west - side of Chicago, where she created interactive opportunities for young people to engage issues of poverty, injustice and race.

The process of transformation gradually enables us to «rule in life» and to engage in the activities of the dikaiosyne tou theou, the justice of God (Rom.

I want to engage in passionate worship, passionate justice, and passionate biblical study and application, passionate community.

In 2014, the Church once again saw the value in engaging social justice and reaching over ethnic and religious divideIn 2014, the Church once again saw the value in engaging social justice and reaching over ethnic and religious dividein engaging social justice and reaching over ethnic and religious divides.

We need to engage in the issues of justice in our world, and in our churches.

On the other side of the social justice debate are those who argue that social justice issues are at the center of the Gospel, and that as we look at the life and ministry of Jesus, we see Him engaged in social justice actions at every turn.

Because our overhead costs are low, we are able to support missionaries throughout the world, Because our members are active, we are able to finance and engage in a variety of evangelistic, educational and justice ministries locally, and to partner with local congregations in many parts of the world.

First, some Christians say that social justice is a perversion of the Gospel, and that rather than seek to engage in social justice issues, we should instead just preach the Gospel.

Christians must be engaged in the quest for justice.

An appeal to the unchanging teaching of the Church does little justice to the Church Fathers who engaged their whole minds and souls in the defense and articulation of the truth, based on Scripture, reason, liturgy, peculiar strands of philosophy, and sundry other allies they mustered to their side.

Only when clergy too engage the world in witness, charity, and justice, thereby escaping the ghetto of the institutional church, does their soma group become the body of Christ with its peculiar gifts and graces.

Primary among these «relationships» is the one between the two men Miss Mattie becomes engaged with in her effort to bring her father's murderer to justice; the «marshall,» Rooster Cogburn, a debouched man, given to tobacco, liquor, and the occasional opium pipe, and the young, ebullient, but rather efficacious Sharp's rifleman, the Texas Ranger.

To mature in mission is to be willing to engage in witness, charity, and action for justice simultaneously whatever the risk in loss of worldly status and reward.

From this very moment we are engaged in destroying this peace and justice and affluence.

Children play it for kicks and confidence men for a living, but Supreme Court justices do not engage in such antics consciously or deliberately.

Accordingly, what will make education «theological» is that it engages students» rational powers in such a fashion as to capacitate them for rigorous, disciplined, systematic theorizing about God's truth and justice.