Sentences with phrase «in public expression»

Not exact matches

Twitter, Inc. is a global platform for public self - expression and conversation in real time.

He reportedly qualified this expression of interest in the technology by cautioning parties that are developing blockchain solutions to thoroughly test their products, services, and platforms before releasing them to the public, and by denigrating the trend of cryptocurrency speculation.

The fourth of a six - volume interdisciplinary series of books on «Public Expressions of Religion in America.»

«Capital punishment on this particular occasion was inappropriate and any expressions of sympathy or compassion are extended in my capacity as a private individual and not in any professional or public capacity.»

Lasch reminds us that the corrosion of our democratic way of life and especially our public discourse has its roots in widespread distrust of our institutions and the traditions around which they have developed and of which they are the expressions — whether the family, church, and local communities, or private enterprise and all the various levels of government.

It is an expression of liberalism and liberality in public affairs.

He said federal law, under the Establishment Clause, is clear that public schools can not «approve in advance a student's prayer» or «carve out time specifically for religious expression.»

Freedom of expression is allowing you and anyone to stand up in public places and denounce being gay as terrible for mankind.

This requires public officials to engage in continuous, discriminating, intrusive censorship of student expression.

That same month, Pope Benedict XVI issued a warning to the U.S. bishops: «The entire Catholic community in the United States must come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres.»

Granted that, as in modern hymnals, expressions of religious need and aspiration originally born out of individual experience were often used in public application and became the voice of the whole people, still that very poignancy that made them thus generally applicable came from the intensely intimate experience in which they started.

As we attempt to reconnect with our own history, which is after all a sacred history as far as the Divine Liturgy is concerned, the value of the Church's liturgical traditions are once again being emphasised not just as expressions of sacredness and beauty in the public work of God, but as the embodiment and carriers of the Church's faith.

Their membership ceremony is very baptismal, no water, but it's definitely a public expression of a new life, following Jesus, in The Army.

More likely, the resurgence is simply giving public expression to what has been there all along in an overwhelmingly Christian nation rooted, albeit sometimes tenuously, in the Judeo - Christian moral tradition.

In a time of grave testing, America has once again given public expression to the belief that we are «one nation under God»» meaning that we are under both His protection and His judgment.

Though in a world of skyscrapers and office towers churches are no longer so prominent, the public role of church buildings to sacramentalize the heavenly city and redeem the earthly one remains critically important and demands new and compelling expression.

Mr Diamond claimed Mr Ngole's comments were presented in a «private / social as opposed to professional» setting, adding: «Mr Ngole's expression of his beliefs was a genuine contribution to an important public debate.»

The same stupidity prevailed after 9/11 when turban wearing Indian - American Sikhs were physically attacked in the streets because they looked Muslim, and when Muslim communities were subjected to increased state surveillance, extra airport screening, extrajudicial renderings of innocent people to torture chambers, racial profiling, and the heinous crimes committed against innocent Muslims everywhere by the US Military without so much as an expression of regret and remorse from the American public.

Only late in the article does it touch on the real issue» not «public observance» and not «spontaneous expression» but religious displays, songs, and presumably prayers that are supported or sponsored by local governments.

If religion is understood in its elemental sense, and not merely in its sectarian expressions, it is entirely practicable for the public schools to educate religiously without violating any ideals of religious freedom, without partisanship for any historical tradition, and without transgressing the principle of persuasion, not compulsion, in all matters of faith.

A small expression of favor the laborer would be able to get through his head; it would be understood in the market - town by «the highly respected cultured public,» by all ballad - mongers, in short, by the 5 times 100,000 persons who dwelt in that market - town, which with respect to its population was even a very big city, but with respect to possessing understanding of and sense for the extraordinary was a very small market - town — but this thing of becoming the Emperor's son - in - law was far too much.

Thus Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, far from being the cockamamie «Stars Wars» scheme it was promptly dubbed by political adversaries and journalists stuck in the conventional thinking of the era, was the technological expression of the president's moral conviction that nuclear weapons were a grave danger that ought to be taken off - the - board in international public life.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

The growing use of the internet, especially in social networking, meant that through the debates of the US Bishops» Conference (commendably held in public session) the general Catholic public became increasingly aware of just what thinking was behind what was coming to be known by consensus as the «lame - duck translation», an expression popularised by Fr Zuhlsdorf who has spent many years analysing «What does the prayer really say?»

It permits personal religious expression but contradictorily and dogmatically forbids religious «influence» in the public and political square.

The process of privatising the media offers a particular model of communication that, undoubtedly, will affect all religious expressions, In public service the supreme criterion is the presence of society and its institutions and respect for religious and cultural traditions.

It became a public expression as she identified with a practice that Christians have engaged in for well over a thousand years.

The power of the television industry has acted in this way to shape the public perception of American religious life and culture, not so much by the creation of a particular phenomenon, but by the selective promotion of one particular expression over another in a way that distorts the factual situation.

The chief ends in life are individual expression and success, with decreasing attention to the public good and even less ability to talk about the public good.

Part III: Bearing Fruit examines how this deepening awareness of the spiritual life bears fruit in prayer and, indeed, how necessary lectio and the liturgy are in order for us to remain rooted as Christians, especially in these days when free expression of faith is becoming less acceptable in the public forum.

the shift has been away from Freudian, Rogerian and Nietzschean values, especially individualistic selfactualization and narcissistic self - expression, and toward engendering durable habits of moral excellence and covenant community; methodologically away from modern culture - bound individuated experience and toward the shared public texts of Scripture and ecumenical tradition; politically away from trust in regulatory power and rationalistic planning to historical reasoning and a relatively greater critical trust in the responsible free interplay of interests in the marketplace of goods and ideas.

If the idea of art is restricted to poetic self - expression, then preaching the church's gospel in public does not qualify.

To this the PNT adds a comment by Dean Howson on the expression «believed» in this context, that it amounted to a public expression of their faith.

But, in the courts and other public forums, the ACLU now has impressive competition, while the political sea change of November 1994 has created a circumstance much more sympathetic to the public expression of arguments informed by religious tradition.

For Christian worship is one of the articulations, or expressions, of the Christian communal response to the action of the living God in Christ; and this, which is perhaps more obviously true of the public worship of Christians, is also equally true of their private devotions.

The controversy has to do with the «other» kind of Augustinian, the person whose piety can not find expression in a secular society, but hardens into a «new traditionalism» that rejects even Stout's generous terms for religious participation in public life.

The Strasbourg Court of Human Rights has judged (November 23, 1993, in Informationsverein Lentia a.o. vs. Austria) that the Austrian public broadcasting monopoly is incompatible with the freedom of expression.

As spiritual, the key to our well - being lies in direct communion with the living God, and as physical / social beings this essential religious dimension to our nature must also have a public as well as a private expression.

One theme that remains constant in this narrative is the fundamental agreement that, as two distinct institutional expressions, church and state must seek to shape human desire in ways that promote public goods without denying human freedom.

In its own way, the Declaration argues for religious freedom as not simply entailing private acts of worship, but also the guarantee of a public space for the institutional expression of religious commitment.

Thus, according to the news media, the public sphere (the press, public expressions and voting) is the central location of power in our industrialized nations.

He has been reproached by sociologists for believing in the omnipotence of the scholarly analyst of the laboratory without ever having used the laboratory, and for explaining events as the function of «technical» expressions which hide reality from him in the same manner that the accounts of corporations are carefully edited and kept from the public by so - called «experts.»

It seems ok for muslims to beat there wifes for showing to much skin in Public, that is an expression of their morality, conversley in western societies it seems ok that we can dress our young kids up as adults early and show countless degrading images of women across the media.

The clearest and probably the purest expression of the ethical dynamism I have located in the realm of the public theology broke through at one crucial moment in our history into the civil religion itself in the person of our greatest, perhaps our only, civil theologian, Abraham Lincoln.

The first group tends to take the law, see justice as its core expression, apply it in the public sector (social justice), and then see that as kingdom work.

In this and moments like it, I find myself wishing I prized politeness less and had the interior freedom to kick out my friend and his mistress» or in some way to give the moral truth that has been jammed into a far corner of my conscience some purchase on reality, some public expressioIn this and moments like it, I find myself wishing I prized politeness less and had the interior freedom to kick out my friend and his mistress» or in some way to give the moral truth that has been jammed into a far corner of my conscience some purchase on reality, some public expressioin some way to give the moral truth that has been jammed into a far corner of my conscience some purchase on reality, some public expression.

The denial of cultural expression, which almost inevitably includes religious expression, in public is the death of democracy.

Although there is pleasure in the discovery of a myth that illuminates nuances in the events of a parish, the greater benefit of the exercise is its public expression.

Minorities do not have a constitutional right to be protected from public expressions that remind them that they are in the minority.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.