Sentences with phrase «in liberal minded»

Conversely there is far more Biblical knowledge and conviction in the liberal mind than ultraconservatism imagines.

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This is a far cry from what Liberal MP John Mackay had in mind in 2009 when he tabled a private member's bill that would have charged the Department of Foreign Affairs with investigating complaints, holding mining and energy companies to legalistic standards and withholding government support from those found to be offside.

There is no figure in public life, with the possible exception of her husband, who has so strong a hold on liberal hearts and minds.

And while it's clear the Liberals hope to use their tax changes as a sort of parable for the standing - up - for - ordinary - workers part of their broader discourse — a centre - left populism that Trudeau believes other like - minded leaders, such as Hillary Clinton, forgot to defend, to their peril — the specific tax changes in question didn't appear on the Liberals» radar because the current arrangements are unfair.

Others in the business think the secret to greater acceptance lies in building a distribution network and courting liberal - minded builders rather than targeting home buyers.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, a loyal soldier for Hillary Clinton since he conceded the Democratic presidential nomination in July, plans to push liberal legislation with like - minded senators with or without Clinton's support if she is elected - and to...

It isn't clear yet what the Liberals have in mind for small businesses.

The B.C. Liberals are designing a tactical retreat with their Federal cousins in mind, all in hopes of fighting another election as soon as possible, one they hope to win.

Liberals hunting for a fiscally minded champion to take on Trudeau have the Bank of Canada governor in their sights

If we lose the fight to stop these pipelines then I would think the next line of attack would be to both make sure the liberals have such a bad image in people's minds they will not be re-elected, and more needs to be done to convince those believing oil and gas are a good thing that there are better alternatives.

Opinion: If the Liberals really wanted to help the economy, they'd design a policy with ambitious entrepreneurs in mind — not an army of small - business owners content to stay that way

I question whether the Liberals have the priorities of British Columbians in mind when dealing with such important issues.»

Reminiscent of the federal Conservative Party attacks against former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, Ms. Smith tried to plant the seed in Albertans» minds this week that Premier Redford is not a real Albertan.

Amazon's general counsel, David Zapolsky, had a lot on his mind last month when he and four members of his legal team visited the offices of New America, a liberal - leaning think tank in Washington.

With that in mind, the Elon Poll asked residents in these locations whether Amazon HQ2 would make their region more liberal, more conservative or have no impact.

There is no such thing as a «liberal» Christian, it does not exist, except in the vanity of their minds.

the reason were in the mess were in is because of people giving up and thinking they can do everything on their own without any consequence why do you think the world is so corrupt its because of the athiests and liberal minded people that do nt live according to the law.

It is especially interesting in this case because on almost any other subject most liberal parents — and most Jews are liberal — insist that they want their children to «be exposed to alternative viewpoints,» to «make up their own minds,» and so forth.

This habit is shared, not only by revolutionaries, but also by constitutionally - minded socialists, and even by many who would describe themselves as liberals, and who locate the instrument of social transformation not in violent confrontation, but in law.

I have in mind writing an essay entitled «What the working class boy Jesus said that upset upper class limosine liberals.»

Indeed, the attempt at that rescue and restoration is the disturbing aspect of Percy's fiction, disturbing to the «liberal» mind in its common manifestation among us.

When TPers refer to Hitler, the man who burned down the Reichstag and blamed it on Communists, then proceeded to hunt them to extinction in Germany, then declared war on the Soviet Union even though he had a peace treaty with them; when TPers refer to this man as a LIBERAL — why, it boggles the mind.

In short, mainline liberals have failed so far to make a persuasive biblical argument to prompt us to change our minds and those of Christians worldwide.

I had always assumed that the Ordinariate would begin in a small way, consolidate over a year or so, and then find itself growing naturally as Catholic - minded Anglicans perceived it to be a real alternative to an Anglicanism increasingly under liberal protestant domination.

But the charge puts me in mind of the colloquium discussion in the January issue of First Things which treated the debate between so - called «liberal» and «radical» Catholics, perhaps because my contribution to that discussion has elicited similar accusations of political irresponsibility or moral cowardice from people sympathetic to the liberal line of thought.

This broad, liberal creed supported by a set of idealistic categories that never questioned seriously the progressive revelation of the mind of God in the existing personal and social relationships of man has been too much at home in this prosperous world to need to call out a rebellious Danish religious prophet who challenged the very categories of its thought.

But the ordinary person had to keep fixed in mind that the Syllabus lists liberal theses rather than Catholic doctrines, and then had to go in search of just the right negation.

That was, in 1943, the tough - minded Reinhold Niebuhr, who later would become among the staunchest of anti-Communist liberals.

Novak identifies the United States as a liberal society in the process of maturing, and proposes that the liberty of this society has and always will be dependent upon vigilance of mind with regard to such concerns as free speech, terrorism, and freedom of the press.

According to their fundraising page, Swansea Unitarian Church is an open - minded, liberal and welcoming congregation on the High Street, in the heart of Swansea.

On this retelling, our eighteenth - century forebears appear in a new light: once considered selfish liberal brutes, intent on their rights and interests, they are transformed into virtuous citizens, single - minded in their dedication to the common good.

In that history of the liberal mind Jonathan Edwards is described as the great «anachronism.»

His College: The Undergraduate Experience in America (Harper & Row, 328 pp., $ 19.95), a report sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, describes the dusky condition of liberal education in recent years, but he writes with the hope of a sunrise in mind.

The eclipse of liberal education, as Allan Bloom recounts it in The Closing of the American Mind (Simon & Schuster, 392 pp., $ 18.95), occurred at Cornell University in 1969.

The Murjites — literally those who postpone; here, those who postpone judgment until it is pronounced by God on the Day of Judgment — were more tolerant than the others in their political views and more liberal - minded on theological questions.

you really have to dig thru some sh-t to get to the gems, modern christians who claim the founding fathers on their side should keep this in mind, these men where largely liberal intellectuals with a practical bent and where not the judeo / christian zealots that some try and make them out to be, jeffersons take on jesus is wonderful and it is useful in the modern world where we really need to focus more on the lessons of jesus than THE RULES in the entire bible, as jesus said ABOVE ALL ELSE love neighbor as yourself, jefferson had a great mind and his approach to spiritual matters like this is great

Some in the church tend to believe that the seminary — at least «liberal» interdenominational seminaries like ours — are, with horrendous results, hopelessly detached from the realities of the workaday world and — such is the mind of our most bitter (and most reactionary) critics — that our graduates are rendered in fact maladroit if not downright incompetent by the very training designed to fit them for ministry.

To Lohia, the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi was not an episode of Hindu - Muslim fight as of the war between the Liberal and the Fanatical in Hinduism («Hinduism» in Fragments of a World Mind).

He felt that the biblical portrayal of the human predicament could liberate the liberal mind from its rationalistic fixations, show the limitations of all human schemes, and save men from guilty despair when their visions did not bring in the Kingdom of God.

O'Malley is especially single - minded in eschewing the use of terminology such as «liberal» or «conservative», making the valid point that such broad groupings were not easily identifiable at the time and were often marked by a certain fluidity in connection with particular issues.

He amusingly quotes an unnamed liberal - minded Catholic bishop who objected to the use of the word «bounty» in new liturgical translations (he could equally have used paschal or consubstantial) as a case in point.

A check of this kind seems to be exactly what the public had in mind in 2010, ending liberal hopes that Obama's presidency would inaugurate a «new» New Deal.

By «liberal theology» I mean the movement in modern Protestantism which during the nineteenth century tried to bring Christian thought into organic unity with the evolutionary world view, the movements for social reconstruction, and the expectations of «a better world» which dominated the general mind.

It was characteristic of Israelite life that the liberal - minded did not throw up their hands in despair, nor yet accept the situation with pseudopious resignation.

The liberals have been more conscious of the need of applying human intelligence to the quest for the truth of the gospel, and chastened by an awareness of the fallibility of the human mind, they have been less dogmatic in asserting that God has given to them the full and final disclosure of Christian truth.

Two hundred years after the adoption of the religion clauses, Kristol argues, the prevailing liberal mind - set is far more concerned with avoiding religious establishment than in encouraging religious expression.

The rise of McCarthyism, according to Lasch, confirmed in the minds of many liberal critics like Hofstadter that mass movements mask ingrained hatred of the other and therefore control must be taken from the people and the folk cultures they foster.

As I observed earlier this year in a speculative piece on the Westminster succession (one of those runners and riders articles so beloved of the editorial mind) written for The Catholic World Report, «When Vincent Nichols went to Birmingham, it was considered a «liberal» appointment.

The liberal arts, he recognized, made pathways by which the mind journeys to God — who, as the ultimate source of unity, cohesion, and interconnection in everything that exists, is also the ultimate subject of inquiry.

I realized today that my hatred of being torn between these two perceived camps has created a new category of real Christians in my (ever so self - absorbed) mind: Real Christians are those who don't feel at home in either conservative or liberal camps.