Sentences with phrase «for social justice work»

I was the recipient of numerous national awards for my social justice work.

A parallel passion for social justice work led her to create arts opportunities for children in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Not exact matches

With a background in civil rights advocacy, Amina has a special appreciation for the impact of working for social and economic justice through investing and shareholder engagement.

We stand up for the principles of equality, equity and social justice and we work with our affiliated unions and social justice partners to build a better world for all citizens.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

Chris Stedman has his heart in the right place when he says, he will work for social justice, reconciliation and love.

Imagine, nuns working for social justice, helping people Bah!

Jason Fileta and Scott Bessenecker have both been working in social justice for years, learning the keys to inspiring people to take action on issues of justice the hard way.

I think not, Perhaps if one made the unbiblical assumption that evangelism is primary and social action is secondary, one could argue that one should resist the governing authorities in order to preach the gospel but not to work for social justice.

That's the way it is for those who come out and for allies: they have put a lot of work into building and nurturing their emotional and mental intelligence for the sake of personal and social justice.

For liberal Christians, such victories embody the justice of the social gospel, the idea that believers should do God's work — even aid the Second Coming - by improving society.

The development of a new philosophy of science which radically questions the earlier mechanical - materialistic world - view within which classical modern science worked and also the search for a new philosophy of technological development and struggle for social justice which takes seriously the concern for ecological justice, are very much part of the contemporary situation.

She is involved in energising churches in Hackney to work for social justice as well as developing younger leaders and helping churches tell their stories.

Clifford Longley in The Tablet argues that «the encyclical's theological keynote» is that it «emphatically unites the Church's roles of spreading the Gospel with working for social justice -LSB-...] under the banner of integral human development»

They'll work with others who share their passion for social justice.»

Though in recent years he's become more and more vocal about social justice issues, for much of his career, Brand has been known for his uniquely raunchy brand of shock comedy (This is the guy who once brought his drug dealer to work with him when he was an MTV VJ.).

Many thousands of citizens, including many Christians, have been working for social justice for years — through nonprofit organizations, community organizing efforts, and justice - oriented churches.

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.

To be a light is to follow this God, struggling to bring about social justice in our society, to safeguard human rights and to work for peace and reconciliation.

This brings us to Wright's response to the objection that working for social justice is an attempt to build the kingdom by our own efforts:

These distinctives remain important to our faith: salvation by grace, not works; the authority of the Bible; personal faith; passion for both evangelism and social justice; and commitment to historic central doctrines.

Both as scientists and as Christians we have reasons to work for a social order providing the maximum freedom consistent with the operation of justice and equality.

In all these ways, moral and democratic forces work to balance and tame markets for the sake of social justice and well - being.

Justice and peace, social service, awareness of and care for the environment, volunteer work; or liberal arts, discriminating inquiry, courses in professional ethics, gender studies: these are presented as the contemporary surrogates for faith.

Indeed, Ryan's radical budget and ideologically driven plan to end Medicare as a guaranteed benefit program did what decades of work by Catholic social justice advocates had never been able to achieve: It activated a gut level Catholic concern for solidarity and the common good.

If Christians are going to commit themselves to being pro-life, they must be willing to adopt, work for social and economic justice, and help teen mothers along.

They're cracking down on women with opinions, for doing social justice work instead of politics.

The absence of healing prayer weakens our faith, and thereby weakens our conviction as we Christians work for peace and social justice.

In the Life and Work movement of the non-Catholic churches in their search for social justice and international peace (which is now part of the WCC) and in the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Church, Christian Ecumenism has given up the church's traditional pietist and negativist approaches to modernity and has been involved in the attempt to redefine the forces and values of secular culture within the framework of Christian anthropology.

It also succeeds in lifting up the importance of social justice in Christian faith (for example, one clip shows El Salvadorans and North Americans working on a Habitat for Humanity effort).

A single board member determined to back an outspoken staff working for social justice can make all the difference in the world to staff morale and to a program's effectiveness.

On this premise, to work for social and economic justice and for religious and cultural quality is to work for the end of black middle - class churches and, eventually, of all black churches.

Indeed, the other part — which I'm sure troubles Driscoll — is something that those who do social justice work have been noting for a long time: The Internet gives the powerless a voice like they've never had before.

We are well used to such Evangelicals, sharing with them the doctrinal and moral essentials of classical Christianity, a commitment to the Augustinian patrimony of the West, recent remarkable joint statements on justification, and much common work for the sanctity of life, Biblical standards of sexual morality, social justice, environmental responsibility and world peace.

We meet regularly with Ministers and have been working hard to develop and maintain a relationship with the Opposition (this year we contributed to, and were mentioned in, Iain Duncan - Smith's Centre for Social Justice report, and met with other leading Tory frontbenchers including Tim Loughton, Maria Miller and Michael Gove).

The Interfaith Leadership Council, working hand - in - hand with the social justice group United Power for Action and Justice, puts Chicago - area families facing deportation in touch with a justice group United Power for Action and Justice, puts Chicago - area families facing deportation in touch with a Justice, puts Chicago - area families facing deportation in touch with a lawyer.

She is the former Communications Director at Forward Together, and worked for five years as a consultant for social justice non-profits, focusing on digital communications.

Within this role she led and facilitated the Race and Social Justice Initiative for the department and helped develop tools and an equity policy lens that city employees could use in their work.

«Now more than ever, we need leaders at the Democratic National Committee who will continue the fight for social and economic justice, take on entrenched special interests in Washington and work to unify communities across the country,» Brown said.

Miliband's vague social justice message — of a fair deal for working families - was formulated because it needed to stretch itself across such disparate political constituencies.

Previously he worked for the Centre for Social Justice and at Conservative Central Office.

... Usually one expects to get a sense of the person who has died, but your obituary chose to minimize the extraordinary work of an extremely intelligent and compassionate woman dedicated to social justice for all people.

I am also hugely grateful to the Centre for Social Justice for its analytical work, which has opened up the whole debate on the impact of family breakdown on society

Home secretary Theresa May will work with Mr Duncan Smith to tackle the problem, building on the latter's work at the Centre for Social Justice.

For the past 16 years, the Working Families Party has led the charge for social and economic justice — and it has had a hand in nearly every major progressive victory in New York, from raising the minimum wage to winning paid sick days to passing the Millionaire's Tax that helps fund educational opportunities for all New YorkeFor the past 16 years, the Working Families Party has led the charge for social and economic justice — and it has had a hand in nearly every major progressive victory in New York, from raising the minimum wage to winning paid sick days to passing the Millionaire's Tax that helps fund educational opportunities for all New Yorkefor social and economic justice — and it has had a hand in nearly every major progressive victory in New York, from raising the minimum wage to winning paid sick days to passing the Millionaire's Tax that helps fund educational opportunities for all New Yorkefor all New Yorkers.

The former Tory leader has been working on these issues for a decade but intensively for six years through his Centre for Social Justice.

I got to know Margot James a couple of years ago when she started to support Iain Duncan Smith's work at the Centre for Social Justice.

Prof. Mills said he saw in his former student as «someone who will work for the ordinary people of this country, not the powerful with a high sense of social justice, fairness, and above all truthfulness.

«I would urge you to continue to collect this data both so that we continue to have the same evidence - based argument for justice, but also so that we can prove that the policy changes work because we need to be able to prove that, that what we all know on an ideal level really will have an economic and social impact,» Clinton said.

Last week he pledged that Solidarity would «be offering solidarity to working people in struggle, to those fighting for an independent socialist Scotland, solidarity to all those opposing Blair and Bush's illegal wars, to all those fighting for social justice and an end to poverty and discrimination».