Sentences with phrase «for social action»

Practical wisdom knows that the parish church is only rarely an appropriate or an effective structure for social action.

Knowing that religious leaders have often pressed for social action on behalf of the poor, this outsider might be surprised to find that there was virtually none.

Even in circles which are open to the new evangelical thrust for social action, there has been no critical look at this theological framework.

There is a small but growing movement among evangelicals against unique friendship for Israel, embodied by the recent «Impact Holy Land» conference hosted by Evangelicals for Social Action in Philadelphia.

WBFO's Focus on Education Reporter Eileen Buckley spoke with Jamaal Bowman, Principal at the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action in the Bronx, ahead of his Buffalo visit.

The Methodist Federation for Social Action is less affected by conservative pressure, but its publications are quite limited.

How a call for social action became a patriotic holiday, then turned into a multibillion - dollar industry.

Address to the Get - together of Social Activists of the a Programme for Social Action at Chilika 1993 expanded from notes taken at the time and published in the PSA Report:

Address to the Get - together of Social Activists of the a Programme for Social Action at Chilika 1993 expanded from notes taken at the time and published in the PSA Report: Strike a New Note: Student Power.

West District's newly elected Jennifer L. Mecozzi cited Cornerstone Academy for Social Action in the Bronx as a successful community school model that could be replicated in Buffalo.

He serves as executive secretary of the National Secretariat for Social Action, Justice and Peace of the Philippine Catholic Church.

The best way to go viral, he says, is to focus less on making their content informative, but instead create «an excuse for social action.»

Back then, Obama cited his religion more as a basis for social action than for spiritual sustenance.

What sparked your passion for social action?

The churches have just completed two decades devoted to each of these emphases in turn, the 1960s for social action and the 1970s for evangelism.

I may have strongly stated the case for social action, but this is only because for too many years, I have been too focused on head knowledge and learning the Bible and theology, and I feel that finally, my theology is starting to result in practice.

(CNN)- The fervent instinct for social action that energized Jewish - Americans when they fought for workers» rights and civil rights, rallied for the creation of a Jewish state, and battled all sorts of bigotry throughout the 20th century still percolates.

In the summer of 1952 the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches was forced to take a vote on the propriety of the activities of its Council for Social Action.

Both interpersonal relationship marathons and urban «plunges» (a weekend in the ghetto) increase group cohesiveness dramatically in training laymen for social action.

Since the release of The Creative Family, I've been overwhelmed by a continuing thread of email questions all around the subject of craftivism (which I wrote a bit about in the book), the concept of using craft for social action, as crafters and as families.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney & Assemblyman Dan Quart's Annual Holiday Party Monday, December 14th, from 6 - 7:30 pm PS 527 (East Side School for Social Action) 323 East 91st Street (between 1st & 2nd Aves) Free!

The effort, organized by members of Community Voices Heard Power, Interfaith Clergy for Social Action, WESPAC, Working Families Party and the Westchester Workforce Housing Coalition, comes after a year of advocacy to secure this funding in the 2016 Westchester County Budget.

Scientists would be wise to connect climate change to religious identity and engage with churches because houses of worship are not only engines for social action, but highly effective communication vehicles, said Nisbet.

Once we accept that, we can't dodge the responsibility for social action.

Observations and Selected Photos have been compiled to identify concerns raised during a site visit by Research Director Paul Robinson at the request of ISAR - FE (Institute for Social Action in Russia - Far East) and colleagues in the region.

The yamas and niyamas are restraints and observances that serve as guidelines for social action; they are the foundational ways of being that uphold order and make life possible.

Teen Hoopla highlights the potential of the Internet to heighten students» awareness of such local and global issues as environmental pollution, while providing teachers and students with avenues, ideas, and plans for social action.

Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology.

According to Bomer and Bomer (2001), teachers have four complementary responsibilities: to teach for social action, to teach the language of democratic classrooms, to introduce the practice of cultural critique, and to conduct themselves as political agents (pp. 18 - 19).

Beyond providing a space to consider the contemporary turmoil of the national stage, the project asks about the potential role of art and craft for «the common good» and the multiple ways it serves as a platform for social action.

Such an approach to art as a force for social action rather than private contemplation marks a significant art historical shift which many scholars attribute to a global shift in social and economic thinking in the year 1989.

Reading Room is a material and immaterial archive of texts, books, and writings in response to the question: «How can art act as a mechanism for social action?»

Prompted by Connie Hogarth — an octogenarian activist with so much energy that there's a Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action named for her at Manhattanville College — the group voted on Jan. 3 to give $ 1,000 to the Pachamama Alliance, a nonprofit group working with indigenous groups in Ecuador that are fighting oil companies and the government on several fronts.

The Common Witness Coalition — which comprises the Reconciling Ministries Network, the Methodist Federation for Social Action, and Affirmation — was quoted in a news report as «not in favor of a schism and... fully committed to inclusion of all opinions.»

«Our current political landscape has been fraught, leading to unprecedented calls for social action and change.

Ronald J. Sider is president of Evangelicals for Social Action and a professor of theology at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Their support for social action (measured by the percentage viewing it as «very important») has remained steady.

Organizing Committee (standing) develops and implements the club's organizing strategy for all social action (e.g., rallies, protests, social campaigns), electoral campaigns, and county committee reform.