Such a move could see the replacement for Mr Johnson increase the Tory majority
in traditional Conservative heartlands, further increasing the party's momentum after it overturned Labour's hold over Crewe and Nantwich in yesterday's by - election.
He grew up
in a traditional conservative household, went to a Christian college, and waited until marriage to have sex.
Not exact matches
White and ivory business cards are common choices for professionals
in traditional and
conservative careers, but brighter colors can be eye - catching and convey a more creative tone.
On one end of the market, you have
traditional banks that are
conservative in their approach to issuing small - business loans due to risk and profitability concerns.
In the conservative person's eyes, that compares favorably to money invested in a traditional variable annuity or in a retail mutual fun
In the
conservative person's eyes, that compares favorably to money invested
in a traditional variable annuity or in a retail mutual fun
in a
traditional variable annuity or
in a retail mutual fun
in a retail mutual fund.
Real estate is further behind
in market development due to strong
traditional financing alternatives, regulatory barriers and to a limited degree, our
conservative business culture.
One of the counterintuitive implications is that unconstrained funds can actually be most useful
in more
conservative portfolios that are dominated by
traditional bonds.
Politicians always follow the «look busy» rule: when bad things happen, they have to be seen to be responding, even if there is little likelihood their actions will have any effect. But
in this case, Harper was motivated by an additional strategic judgment. Perversely, with his re-election campaign sidetracked by ongoing revelations
in the Duffy / Wright case, the Prime Minister actually wants Canadians to worry about the economy.Â
Conservative strategists hope that will undermine voters» willingness to consider an alternative government, playing into the
traditional frame that
Conservatives have the strongest economic «credentials.»
Yet this isn't the first time
in the present campaign that the
Conservatives themselves have trespassed on
traditional Bank of Canada terrain. On July 22 Joe Oliver publicly rejected the use of quantitative easing
in Canada (the unconventional credit - expanding strategy that has been used successfully
in the US, the UK, and now Europe) despite dimming economic projections here. Decisions about the use of QE should,
in theory, be the purview of the central bank. Several economists publicly questioned Oliver's statement, noting that it throws into question the Bank's future decisions on monetary policy.
The
conservative wing of the church is itself a fragile coalition, including those who lean
in a catholic direction, those who are card - carrying charismatics, those inclined
in an Anabaptist direction, and those who are really pragmatists at heart but for the moment lean to conservatism out of convenience and
traditional piety.
This, despite the fact that
conservative Protestant households are more gender -
traditional in terms of duties than others, with husbands performing less housework than husbands
in other categories.
Incidentally, women
in traditional religions, or who are politically
conservative, or members of minorities from both genders, tend to really not appreciate people who presume to be more enlightened throwing around «Stockholm Syndrome!»
For instance, the ecumenical openness of an otherwise profoundly
traditional church is of crucial importance, especially
in light of
conservative and traditionalist circles
in the Greek and Slavic worlds.
A theory of constitutional law that may be out of fashion
in today's legal academy, but that fits comfortably within the modern
conservative and the
traditional liberal views of the courts, begins with certain basic premises: the existence of law and the possibility of meaningful rules of law.
Other Facts: Is a
conservative, considered the driving force behind crackdowns on liberation theology, religious pluralism, challenges to
traditional moral teachings on issues such as homosexuality, and dissent on issues such as women's ordination, according to CNN's John Allen
in «Who is Pope Benedict XVI.»
Wilcox notes that soft patriarchs aren't just a phenomenon of
conservative Protestantism, but are to be found these days
in «
traditional Catholic parishes, Mormon temples, and Orthodox synagogues.»
Over the long haul (and evolution is all about the long haul) there are rewards (and thus replication) for both the
conservative (caution, trust
in the elders,
traditional practices) and the innovative (curiosity, exploration, experimentation), so each of us inherits a built -
in tug - of - war
in the att ¡ tude department.
«CPAC's mission is to be an umbrella for
conservative organizations that advance liberty,
traditional values and our national defense,» said Perkins, who spokes at CPAC
in 2012.
«So at this point,
traditional Mormons, evangelical Protestants and
conservative Catholics have more
in common with one another politically than they do with the more liberal elements within their respective churches.»
Those
in the mainstream media who ignore these trends, or who simply place
conservatives like Huckabee and Santorum
in the
traditional Religious Right frame, are missing a big story about the Republican Party, the evangelical movement
in America, and my generation's response to both.
Such reasons have also existed against ancient and
traditional decisions, even if they were not expressed
in so many words and were not felt to be important by
conservative people.
That is, having made one's image of Christ for instance,
in a given context, the theologian then needs to show how this image reconciles,
in broad terms, with the mainline «
conservative» or
traditional» components of Christianity.
Conservatives need to be careful that we do not confuse a love of the merely historical and
traditional with a belief
in the truth.
You've got to give as much airtime to
conservative views as liberal ones, equal time
in debate to secular and religious views, the same column width to progressive and
traditional opinion.
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism appears to mix with more
traditional beliefs and practices
in different ways for
conservative Protestants, mainline Protestants, black Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews, Mormons and the nonreligious.
On page 15 of «The Interpreters Bible», Dr. Herbert F. Farmer, Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University wrote about the indispensability of the texts, their importance and how the «truth» of them should be approached, after an exposition of the
traditional conservative Christian view of person - hood, sin and the salvific actions of Jesus (aka Yeshua ben Josef), known as «the Christ»
in human history.
The publication of Thomas Sowell's Race and Economics
in 1975 marked the rise of an aggressive and widely visible black
conservative assault on the
traditional liberal leadership of blacks
in the United States.
Neoconservatives differed with
traditional conservatives on a number of issues, of which the three most important,
in my view, were the New Deal, civil rights, and the nature of the Communist threat.
The magazines move from the strongly
traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately
conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded
in the Anabaptist tradition).
It's fascinating since I've mostly been
in that very world and am generally a
traditional,
conservative person who defers to authority figures.
In 2009, he linked arms with prominent evangelicals and conservative Catholics in signing the Manhattan Declaration, which defended a traditional definition of marriage and denounced abortio
In 2009, he linked arms with prominent evangelicals and
conservative Catholics
in signing the Manhattan Declaration, which defended a traditional definition of marriage and denounced abortio
in signing the Manhattan Declaration, which defended a
traditional definition of marriage and denounced abortion.
First, charismatics espouse a
conservative morality that, reflected
in their
traditional interpretation of Romans 13, seems to offer uncritical support to the government.
She had already learned how to forge a
conservative alliance between traditionalist Catholic and evangelical Christian women, and she deftly enlarged the coalition to include Mormon and Orthodox Jewish women
in a decade - long battle
in which the stakes, as she defined them, were the home, the family, and
traditional faith and culture.
Finally,
conservative theology and practice have tended to be strong
in their affirmation of
traditional American culture, including the values of free enterprise and the validity of its financial rewards.
When secular America openly broke away from
traditional Christian values
in the sixties and seventies, political involvement by
conservative Christians became,
in retrospect, inevitable.»
Doing this will require moving beyond the sterile polarities that have defined the church
in the modern era: liberal vs.
conservative,
traditional vs. contemporary, reason vs. experience, faith vs. science, megachurch vs. maintenance church.
Writing
in The Times, Henrietta Royle, chief executive of the coaching and strategy consultancy firm Fanshaw Haldin, made the point that while most
Conservatives have no difficulty with equality for gay people, «a significant chunk of the party's core supporters clearly doesn't think that has to include redefining the
traditional concepts of marriage to suit a small portion of the population without so much as a by your leave».
We
conservatives also see clearly, of course, that the truth about God is necessarily and beneficially embodied
in the
traditional, relational institution we call the church, and we see the idiocy (
in the precise sense) and so the unsustainability of the «individualistic» Protestant view that it's possible to know the personal, relational God all alone through one's own conscience.
In this age when the culture of modernity has been fast eroding the traditional belief in God, along with the transcendent spiritual world supposedly surrounding him, the conservative devotees of the religious past hold ever more firmly to the most tangible form of the past: Holy Scriptur
In this age when the culture of modernity has been fast eroding the
traditional belief
in God, along with the transcendent spiritual world supposedly surrounding him, the conservative devotees of the religious past hold ever more firmly to the most tangible form of the past: Holy Scriptur
in God, along with the transcendent spiritual world supposedly surrounding him, the
conservative devotees of the religious past hold ever more firmly to the most tangible form of the past: Holy Scripture.
In the book's second half, they lay out their proposals for how the GOP can creatively apply
traditional conservative principles to contemporary social issues.
Douthat and Salam's youth» they're among the brightest lights
in the next generation of
conservative writers» gives them a new perspective on the contemporary political scene, allowing them to step out beyond
traditional conservative fixations on tax cutting and limited government» where the supposed Reagan solution is always the correct solution» and to offer incisive criticisms of how the Grand Old Party's ideology frequently serves as a blinder to effective policies for the working class.
Putin's cynical pose as a defender of
traditional Christian values and persecuted Christians
in the Middle East is part and parcel of this new, cooler Cold War attack on the cognitive security of the West — and too many Christian
conservatives have swallowed that noxious bait.
But
in her
traditional - what she calls «orthodox» - Mormon home, she was only exposed to pamphlets on women's rights penned by Phyllis Schlafly, a
conservative stalwart who railed against the ERA push.
Perhaps American religion's recent
conservative shift has so affected the mood of the schools that denominational seminaries must now battle just to hold on to the gains made
in the 1950s and «60s (such as commitments to practical theology, to historical - critical hermeneutics and to revisioning
traditional dogmatics).
Zhoag said: «I think the neo Reformed guys (DeYoung, Mohler, et al) want us to think that there is going to be a massive crevasse
in the evangelical landscape, leaving people to either side with «liberalism» or good,
conservative,
traditional, scriptural (Reformed) orthodoxy.
I hear «heresy» used
in a joking manner more than a serious one, as most younger Christians have been so inundated by the word to refer to any deviation from «
traditional» (read:
conservative) Christianity that they are inoculated from the possibility that heresy is a real and dangerous thing to avoid.
Greg Downes, our theologian
in residence, unpacks the
traditional,
conservative, evangelical stance and I have interviewed others.
Leaving aside the evidence that arrives each day from Eastern Europe which seems to show that the opposite is the case, that socialism there has
in some sense «frozen»
traditional ways of life, there is a more important issue: one wonders if tradition, when purchased and consumed like a commodity, can really play the role which some
conservatives believe it must
in any healthy society.
Coming out of the 1960s, therefore,
conservative Protestant theology including that of the evangelical broadcasters was strong
in its affirmation of
traditional American culture, including the values of free - enterprise capitalism and the validity of capitalism's monetary rewards.
In this situation, those European - trained Eastern historians of religions became suspect to the conservative elements in the East because of their emphasis on «Western scientific methodology» in the study of traditional religion
In this situation, those European - trained Eastern historians of religions became suspect to the
conservative elements
in the East because of their emphasis on «Western scientific methodology» in the study of traditional religion
in the East because of their emphasis on «Western scientific methodology»
in the study of traditional religion
in the study of
traditional religions.