Sentences with phrase «from social matters»

Now, though I am totally convinced that we must try to eradicate messianism and apocalypticism from politics and from social matters, I still think that in some way this temptation of apocalypse will always be with us.

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According to the New York Times, he said that Black Lives Matter activists need to be willing to sit down and actually discuss the issues with those who have the power to enact social change, instead of simply shouting at them from a distance.

A Facebook Inc. executive fielded questions from employees on the situation surrounding user data obtained by Cambridge Analytica, which has set off a firestorm for the social network around the world, according to a person familiar with the matter.

«My hope is Facebook and other social media platforms be more transparent about how our personal data is being utilized from a research and app - driven perspective and openly conduct outreach to educate those who are uninformed on the subject matter,» Lei said.

Beyond how your savings will grow, it's also a matter of knowing when you want to retire, how long you will live and how much income you will have from all sources, including Social Security.

Comments on the matter from Whole Foods founder John Mackey came under fire on social media Wednesday evening.

A social media savvy business encourages collaboration across teams, surfaces expertise from subject matter experts and can scale brand and community engagement by drawing upon the collective wisdom of employees and customers.

Industry leaders from around the globe, including Paige Bailey of Microsoft, Amanda B. Johnson of Dash, Dr. C Mohan of IBM, 16 - year - old «Crypto Price Tracker» app - developer Harshita Arora and many others, will speak on blockchain matters in AI, healthcare, the developing world, small and large enterprise, investing strategies, ICOs and DAICO's, hedge funds, fintech, venture capital, crypto economics, social welfare and industry disruption.

Far from being a simple matter of what the «neutral liberal state should do in public matters,» then, public law is for Sullivan the crucial tool of social transformation.

«[Religious leaders] essentially decided during the past twenty years that people could fend for themselves on matters of personal morality while the churches joined the «struggle» to establish social «rights» whose imprimatur comes from the courts, America's unique bishopric.»

According to the city's Social Development Department, 52 people had been retrieved alive from debris left in the wake of the disaster, the second major earthquake to strike Mexico in a matter of days.

Obama's version of Christianity (and most of society's for that matter) seems to consist of spiritual altruisms from the Bible mixed with popular opinion or a social agenda.

Economics has been particularly successful in establishing its subject matter as separate and distinct from the subject matter of other social sciences.

It is therefore not wrong to interpret cosmos itself as a movement from mechanical matter through organic life to the spiritual human selfhood, and to interpret human history itself as the evolutionary or revolutionary enlargement of the human selfhood and its spiritual self - determination and its social and cosmic responsibility.

Still, I think this lyric from Jefferson Airplane's She Has Funny Cars better gets at the heart of this matter, by coming at the self - isolating intellectual not from the angle of the social - commenter, but from the angle of her lover:

Too often, in that section of the evangelical community which stems from American revivalism and fundamentalism, discussion of social ethics passes over this foundational matter altogether, discussing instead only specific procedures.

And while the strains of the post-Conciliar years (which were also years of tremendous demographic transformation on the American urban / suburban landscape) have tested that claim as never before, there remain, in this, the sesquicentennial year of the erection of the diocese, many impressive signs of vitality in a local church that has been distinguished for its rich ethnic diversity, its identification of parish and neighborhood, its impressive clerical and lay leadership, its self - conscious social and political liberalism, and its sense of itself as the «lead diocese» in matters ranging from liturgical renewal to Christian social action.

But Christianity Today has moved away from the position of its founder on matters of social concern.

For the chapter on social ethics, I benefited from the personal reactions of James Daane and of Ronald Nash, gentlemen who come to very different conclusions on the matter.

In short, the question to which this article addresses itself might be phrased: «Is there any salvation apart from the salvation of the social order — or, for that matter, apart from the salvation of the world?»

I found I had to check so much of «who I was» at the door — my intellectual curiosity, my innate cynicism, my social concerns, my depressive temperament (all inherited from my dad)-- that no matter how hard I tried to get along, it never took hold.

When Karl Marx spoke scornfully of religion as the opiate of the people, no doubt he had in mind the practices of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting; these, he said, diverted attention from matters of social justice and gave people a good conscience when their conscience ought to be troubled.

Some of our best philosophers and social critics have thought that our troubles do indeed stem from our loss of any consistent and coherent way of talking about the things that matter deeply.

To be sure, this impulse is far from general, and there are many who want the churches to stick to «spiritual» matters, to «preach the gospel» instead of social change, and in particular, not to «meddle in politics.»

Important as it is, however, this change has been along lines familiar to me from my background in liberal theology, including the tradition of the social gospel, and thus is a matter of deepening and broadening my thinking more than of substantially revising it.

It is not easy to justify as a matter of «right» the exemptions from taxes paid by most employers, and one could contend that if nonprofit organizations employ people, they should pay the appropriate employers» share of social security and unemployment taxes just as any other employers do.

I would not hesitate to go to a wedding, funeral, graduation, retirement party, baby shower, ballgame, courtroom, birthday party, family reunion, public hearing, town parade, school play, or other social function due to the presence or lack of a 1 - 2 minute prayer from a pastor, priest, rabbi, imam, valedictorian, mayor, police chief, council member, or 3rd grader who will play the Tree in the school spring play, nor would I feel it appropriate or necessary to make a social scene just so everyone could hear my opinion on the matter.

In spite of this, we catch a glimpse of women and men, responding to what they sensed was a new movement inaugurated by a man from Galilee, a man who tried to break so many of the social conventions of his time, a response informed by the possibility of change and transformation, even though what he «actually taught often became a matter of bitter dispute....»

Far from being a minor matter, therefore, slavery was one of the dominant facts in the social situation that the prophets faced.

Why Casinos Matter, a new report from the Institute for American Values, details the human and social costs of gambling.

Now this tendency, through the influence of grace, is not often exhibited in matters of faith; for it would be incipient heresy, and would be contrary, if knowingly indulged, to the first element of Catholic duty; but in matters of conduct, of ritual, of discipline, of politics, of social life, in the ten thousand questions which the Church has not formally answered, even though she may have intimated her judgment, there is a constant rising of the human mind against the authority of the Church, and of superiors, and that, in proportion as each individual is removed from perfection.

Of course, since Gras starts from the presupposition that Christians are called upon to preserve social order and to govern others (two things that neither Christ nor the apostles enjoined), he evidently does not grasp quite how anarchically unworldly my perspective on the matter really is.

With the erosion of religious, ethnic and social connections and the rituals and practices they provide to confront mortality and bereavement, more and more of us must reinvent, from the leftovers and borrowings of our various traditions, the wheel that works the space between the deaths that happen and the deaths that matter.

Those who come from the opposite end of the scale of social acceptance are more readily aware of such matters, for they experience them daily.

For an entire book that deals with the interconnectedness of spiritual life and active participation in matters of social justice, see Gustavo Gutierrez, We Drink from Our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of a People (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1984).

Long food supply chains are actually far from a simple matter because they tie into a number of social and environmental issues, including the global carbon footprint, product quality and sustainability, too.

The first is a matter of the physical and mental traits which we carry over biologically from our forebears; the second is a matter of the social environments, the literary, artistic, religious traditions, the racial and national culture, into which we are born and by which our plastic lives are shaped and: molded.

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From «girls throwing themselves at him» to a lack of support on managing his social media and no disciplinary action from the club after the reports of his cheating were picked up by the papers, it's clear that Helena has a lot of anger towards the club over their lack of dealing of the matFrom «girls throwing themselves at him» to a lack of support on managing his social media and no disciplinary action from the club after the reports of his cheating were picked up by the papers, it's clear that Helena has a lot of anger towards the club over their lack of dealing of the matfrom the club after the reports of his cheating were picked up by the papers, it's clear that Helena has a lot of anger towards the club over their lack of dealing of the matter.

All humans, no matter what past or where they come from, what thier race, gender, social / econmic / political satus is, are worthy of love.

A study shows, for the first time, how these functional impairments arise: Social isolation during early life prevents the cells that make up the brain's white matter from maturing and producing the right amount of myelin, the fatty «insulation» on nerve fibers that helps them transmit long - distance messages within the brain.

We asked working moms what comments push their buttons; here are the top responses, along with suggestions from Devra Renner, a clinical social worker and co-author of Mommy Guilt: Learn to Worry Less, Focus on What Matters Most, and Raise Happier Kids for how to respond without burning a bridge.

Li pointed out that obesity is a complex matter, with factors ranging from genetic susceptibility to social and economic factors, to exercise habits all coming into the equation.

Mary Watkins and Susan Fisher, in their book, Talking with Young Children About Adoption, discuss adopted children benefitting from these relationships as they provide «not only a feeling of belonging but the clarifying understanding that prejudice and bad treatment are not an individual and private matter but a social issue.»

From fundraising to voter contact to social networking to online organizing of offline events, the critical point is that the Obama campaign seems to have integrated their supporter communications to a very effective degree — it's not one tool, it's the combination that matters.

Whether one has gained from such benefits — and just as importantly, whether one continues to gain, or whether gains have ceased to be extant — is a matter largely of social scientific discovery, which political theorists qua theorists are more or less ill - positioned to answer.

There are still matters for children's social care to address such as good risk assessment, which is absent from too many cases, and there is not enough long - term support for the child victims.

There's more where that came from, including talk about how what WE do on social media matters at least as much as what the candidates do: «More important than what candidates do is what supporters do on their behalf.»

Amina who was accompanied by the Borno State Governor, Shittima Kashim, the National Security Adviser, NSA and the presidential adviser to the prersident on Social Matters, Maryam Uwias was heavily veiled to prevent her from the public view.

And it offers grist to both ideological conservatives and liberals.For conservatives and libertarians, the tragedy reveals the deleterious blowback of nanny state intervention.The social welfare and family court judge tilted to the missing wife's parents, and restricted Josh's visits from his two sons.We should expect Gingrich to run with this story, attacking the liberal nanny state; and how this liberal state's actions have negative unintended consequences.Liberals will also weigh in.The police, 911 distpatcher, and the criminal justice systemas a whole, all failed.The «hard power» of the police state actually made matters worse.As the ideological divide plays out, the tragedy does not end.The young mother / wife is still missing, and presumed dead.The sick Josh is no longer a person of interest.