For leaders of our society to focus upon, even to blame, parents, whilst missing the undermining of their role by relativism involves a tragic hypocrisy.
Not exact matches
As business
leaders answer that question, they are redefining the role
of business in
society and reassessing the notion that the primary purpose
of a company is to deliver profits
for its shareholders.
Our
society's trend towards narcissism presents a challenge
for leaders to fight the cult
of self at all costs.
Dan Greenleaf has been a professional freelance Santa
for 10 years and is the co-founder and
leader of the New England Santa
Society.
While it is clear that as a
society, there is still a lot
of work to do to advance respectful, open dialogues, the events over the weekend serve as a reminder
of why we — as
leaders — rallied behind the CEO Action
for Diversity & InclusionTM in the first place, and how important it is to create candid, safe, and trusting environments
for our employees and communities.
Sanchez is a member
of the Asia
Society's Global Talent and Diversity Council and a founding member
of the Institute
for Corporate Productivity's Talent Acquisition
Leaders Board.
Leaders who prioritize volunteering and a connection to social causes are finding success in attracting and retaining Gen Yers, many
of whom stress their desire to work
for a business that has a positive impact on
society.
Elissa's significant role in merging the Institute
of Certified Financial Planners (ICFP) and the International Association
for Financial Planning (IAFP) to form the Financial Planning Association, her contributions as a thought
leader to the advancement
of the profession through her writing, presenting, and teaching, and her contributions to
society and the profession through her work at the Foundation
for Financial Planning were highlighted as she received the award.
Never mind that a cheap currency makes it more expensive
for Chinese households and businesses to buy things from the outside world, depressing standards
of living and hampering the transition to a consumer
society that China's
leaders ostensibly want.
It ignores the leadership
of civil
society, including religious
leaders; the political value
of religious ideas (real theology) in creating a functional future
for these nations; and practices like forgiveness that allegedly prevent the just application
of punishment.
Leaders of the Christian community saw this as an extremely grave threat to the faith; and,
for this reason they fled the comforts
of society and chose to live in solitude and want in remote parts
of the world (such as Syria and northern Africa).
Noting that two generations
of Catholic
leaders, including popes, have regarded human rights as important
for the building
of humane
societies and have employed rights discourse themselves as a «bridge language» supporting the protection
of human dignity, Reno declares that it is time
for the Catholic Church «to rethink its enthusiasm
for human rights.»
He fights with every religious
leader of his day (they are representives
of God), hangs out with some
of the lowest people in
society (drunks, prostitutes, tax collectors), healed people on the sabbath (they see this as against the law), healed lepers (also against the law), accepts some Gentiles and heals them (outside his actual mission), died
for all
of «humanity», etc..
More and more,
society mistrusts
leaders whose chief interests are their own agendas and authority; more and more, people are looking
for leaders whose first interest is the good
of others.
Top
of the agenda
for an October conference in Hungary
for Catholic, Protestant and Muslim
leaders in Europe will be «the role
of religions in secular
society» and relations between Christians and Muslims.
The Need To Develop It remains strange that so many
of the Church's
leaders seem incurious to the opportunity
of science
for the Faith, as the potential impact
of science on
society (
for good and ill) becomes ever more important with each passing year.
Formerly, when the liberal arts college was the major form
of higher education, and when it understood its mission as the prepartion
of leaders for society, there was some chance
of such health.
In an exclusive interview ahead
of May's general election, Liberal Democrat
leader Nick Clegg explains why he's not the atheist many assume him to be, and outlines his vision
for church and
society.
Mainline Protestant
leaders appeared to take an important step toward joining this movement in November when Robert Edgar, general secretary
of the Nation Council
of Churches, signed a statement calling on churches to do a better job
of articulating God's purposes
for marriage, supporting married couples, and proclaiming the good news about marriage to the wider
society.
But as they emerge as
leaders of our
society, they can find in the now somewhat despised and ignored liberal theology important resources
for relating the legitimate concerns
of Christian faith to the pressing problems
of our time.
In Florence, where the greatest «Magdalena was carved, prostitutes were in plentiful supply to fascinate the
leaders of society and mildly threaten ecclesiastical discipline, and a saint who was thought to have been a prostitute was bound to get attention from every group with money
for the arts.
The Jews never thought
of the laws
of their
society as created by that
society or by its
leaders for purposes
of order and convenience.
To help evangelicals grapple with the problems
of implicit racial bias, Christian
leaders must come to realize how deeply and personally experienced these problems are
for so many in
society and in the church.
We need
leaders who are willing to develop the expertise and accept the responsibility
for working with a group
of persons in the local church to cultivate patterns
of decision - making that lead to a greater acceptance
of the church's mission in
society.
It is clear that our Personage could not have known the vulgar class
of immigrants
for he lived either alone, in complete solitude, or as a shepherd, or as a big merchant in a caravan, or in the high
society with the
leaders of the community.
Church
leaders are accused
of fostering psychological violence against homosexual people by repeating certain myths or ignoring the important issues responsible
for many problems that gay and lesbian people experience, both in churches and the wider
society.
For this reason, teaching about television becomes a high priority for the church — teaching pastors how to function in an informational rather than an industrial society, teaching denominational leaders how to deal with the new kinds of ethical situations that have resulted from the dominance of this new institution, with its new kind of power, and, above all, teaching parishioners how to cope with the enormous wave of exciti
For this reason, teaching about television becomes a high priority
for the church — teaching pastors how to function in an informational rather than an industrial society, teaching denominational leaders how to deal with the new kinds of ethical situations that have resulted from the dominance of this new institution, with its new kind of power, and, above all, teaching parishioners how to cope with the enormous wave of exciti
for the church — teaching pastors how to function in an informational rather than an industrial
society, teaching denominational
leaders how to deal with the new kinds
of ethical situations that have resulted from the dominance
of this new institution, with its new kind
of power, and, above all, teaching parishioners how to cope with the enormous wave
of exciting.
«Humans serve their highest and best interest by serving God, which is characterized by building their own lives,» says Abdul Mallek Mohammad, a spokesman
for the
leader of the Muslim American
Society, W. Deen Muhammad.
The historian
of non-violence, William Robert Miller, says that the first explicit reference to non-violence in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott came from a white librarian, Juliette Morgan, who compared the boycott to Gandhi's salt march in a letter to the Montgomery Advertiser on December 12, 1955.35 The development
of non-violent strategies in the civil rights movement
of the 1950's and 60's arose partly from belief in pacifism as an expression
of love in the Fellowship
of Reconciliation and
Society of Friends from whom many
leaders of the movement
for racial justice came.
Some Christian
leaders have even rejoiced in the dissolution
of a Christendom that allowed, or perhaps encouraged, an excessive degree
of nominal Christian allegiance: the impact
of modem secular
society has challenged people to make a conscious choice about whether they are either
for or against Christianity.
’25 Moral concern can not be separated from inner transformation, but, as twentieth - century religious
leaders of several traditions have insisted, such inner transformation also embraces a concern
for the well - being
of the whole
society.
The
leaders of the Islamic
Society of Southern California address the issue
of young people in unequivocal terms in a book they have prepared
for American Muslim communities, In Fraternity:
My involvement with the tribal peoples
of India began in the sixties when as Director
of the Christian Institute
for the Study
of Religion and
Society (CISRS), I participated in consultations
of Christian tribal
leaders and researchers on the manifestations
of their self - awakening.
Thus a New York Times story described Washington Mayor Barry's alliance with Farrakhan in the following terms: «[Barry] has shown up at rallies with the Rev. Louis Farrakhan, the Nation
of Islam
leader who has gained nationwide attention
for his criticism
of white
society, particularly Jews.»
Francis Campbell sees Benedict XVI's message — especially as delivered to a gathering
of MPs and
leaders of civic
society in Westminster Hall, a highlight
of the State Visit — as central
for today's Catholics, striving to make a positive contribution to national and community life in the 21st century.
Led by a
leader beleived to be infallible, it is a closed
society, seeking to spread its influence throughout the world
for the greater glory
of itself.
But the evidence to date suggests that more than a few Ukrainian Orthodox
leaders and believers have chosen to stand with civil
society, rejecting the Patriarchate
of Moscow's support
for Putin's Great Russian nationalism.
Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades
of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially
for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral
Society and The Nature and Destiny
of Man; the founding
of the Fellowship
of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from
leader of the Fellowship
of Reconciliation to critic
of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration
of Christianity and Crisis; the founding
of the Union
for Democratic Action, then later
of Americans
for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center
for the Study
of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute
of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.
Civic
leaders emphasize the same habit
of personal giving
for the betterment
of civil
society, and as a necessary precondition
of the common good.
The building
of the Church as a community with complex organizational structure, with manifold functions and
leaders, with various responsibilities to the
society around it, can easily degenerate into the building
of religious clubs,
of sororities and fraternities and
of national associations
for the promotion
of good causes, if the understanding
of the Church's purpose,
of its responsibility to God,
of the nature and action
of God,
of man and his history,
of the meaning
of the Church's work in all the complex
of human activity and
of the interrelation
of the various aspects
of its work are lost to view.
The report, aptly named The Business Case
for Reducing Food Loss and Waste, was released on behalf
of Champions 12.3, a coalition
of nearly 40
leaders across business, government and civil
society who are dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals» Target 12.3 to halve food waste and cut food loss by 2030.
«Oscar Mayer's plan
for eliminating gestation crates from its supply chain sends a strong message to pork industry
leaders who are resisting change,» said Paul Shapiro, vice president
of farm animal protection at The Humane
Society of the United States.
«As an industry
leader, Heineken wants to contribute to the positive role
of beer in
society, by making moderation aspirational
for consumers.
Shedd is governed by the Shedd Aquarium
Society, composed
of volunteer corporate, civic and community
leaders that make up the 55 - member Board
of Trustees with the primary responsibility
for governance oversight and fiduciary accountability, as outlined in the
Society's bylaws.
Divisive
leaders today play a key role in manipulating such fundamental human predispositions and, indeed, accentuating and unleashing our fears, often even
for the most enlightened or informed members
of societies.
ONITSHA — A human rights group, International
Society for Civil Liberties and the rule
of Law, Intersociety has said that it is far better
for the detained
leader of Indigenous People
of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu to be kept in the prison custody than to remain in the captivity
of the Department
of State Services, DSS.
«We set the bar on what progressive government and what progressive
society looks like and we set that bar
for the rest
of the nation to follow,» Cuomo said at the event, which was also attended by House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi.
On Wednesday 5 November, senior aviation
leaders assembled at the Royal Aeronautical
Society to honour aerospace professionals
for achievements within their specialist field
of expertise.
While LRA
leader Joseph Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court
for crimes against humanity, Ugandan civil
society actors and peace activists were skeptical
of the U.S. troop deployment to the country.
Although
leaders of the civil
society campaign against the third mandate publically condemned the coup, they called
for protests to continue.