Our Christian events should focus
on issues of justice, compassion, mercy, generosity, kindness, forgiveness, grace, and sacrifice.
In these rather general notes we have tried first to look at some of the basic points of departure for a Christian consideration
of issues of justice and peace.
The whole international climate debate is infused
with issues of justice, and progress is possible only if each nation is seen to be doing its fair share.
After all the legal proceedings have ended, after the media has left, you are still left with a community that needs to engage with
other issues of justice.
The problem is complicated by the fact that there are
real issues of justice and defence of values in any important conflict.
If you don't mind that it's not in continuity with the «Justice League» TV show, or even the comics (though it does set itself up to be a prequel to the first
issue of the Justice League in «The Brave and the Bold» # 28), this is an example of the superlative quality comic book inspired material that DC and Marvel have been putting out of late.
He has also traveled widely in the First World (Europe and North America) where he has participated in conference and workshops, visited churches and theological schools, debated with theologians and economists, and dialogued with lay people and pastors
about issues of justice, peace and the integrity of creation.
I think when a Christian individual / group / nation — loses touch with
basic issues of justice towards humanity, its really sad and damaging to the reputation of Jesus.
Much of what environmentalists were saying seemed to call for a redirection of energies
from issues of justice to those of preserving the environment.
Issues of justice arise when there is a contract or a mutual agreement between two people by which one does something for the other and the other agrees to give something equivalent in return; this equivalence is what is termed the quid pro quo.
If we metaphysicians, on our side, spent more time showing how metaphysics shapes practice in a variety of fields, the dichotomy between our field and the
crucial issues of justice and survival could be overcome.
To be successful in
addressing issues of justice, land reforms must be accompanied by the development of «infrastructures» such as credit for the poor, agricultural extension services, conservation education, and supportive industrial development.
But since, as it seems, white churchmen can not deal boldly with the issue of integration, they can hardly be expected to take on the more
challenging issue of justice.
They were strongly committed to
global issues of justice, to specific ministries with those at the margin of our own society, to peacemaking, and to environmental concerns.
Culture often gets condemned by Christians because although the culture
raises issues of justice, peace, and equality, the motivations and end results of their attempts at achieving such goals usually only results in greater injustice, war, and inequality.
She
considers issues of justice and accessibility, because, as she wrote in the American Journal of Bioethics, while «cancer and infertility are conditions that afflict all women equally and traverse class, race and ethnic lines, social and economic distinctions generally determine health care access.»
Particular areas of focus for healthy adolescent development, using an ecological model to support research, programs and service provision, includes cultural well - being and development, enabling environments which support aspirations, the provision of basic needs, support
around issues of justice, key health areas, sexual health and parenting supports.
If we ask why so few economists are willing to take more serious account
of issues of justice or of the conservation of the natural world, the answer is found in two deeper assumptions.
Doula Trainings International, or simply DTI, is an organization that certifies doulas while focusing
on issues of justice.
This is the «Comics & Graphic Novels with Kindle Panel View» list; the other list, of straight - up Kindle comics, consists entirely of single issues of Injustice: Gods Among Us except for two
issues of Justice League; three more show up when you stretch it to the top 20.
Churches recognize that
issues of justice in local and national development can not be addressed without a consciousness of the role of communication, nor can any group do so without the tools with which to make their views known.
Evangelical churches are usually refuge houses for certain kinds of sinners — the loveless, the self - righteous, those apathetic toward the poor and unconcerned
with issues of justice and race, the greedy, the gluttons, and so on.
Media are being viewed instead as products and thus discussion is taking place in the realm of trade negotiations
where issues of justice and equity are often ignored as irrelevant.
As a pastor, a blogger, a speaker and having a small but growing reputation as someone that loves justice and advocates on
issues of justice, I realised on a personal basis that I had grown more in love with the idea of justice than actually living justly.
Labels aside, Foreman has a lot of opinions on what it means to live as a Christian band — especially when it comes to
issues of justice.
And
issues of justice... these to us are not tangential to the gospel they are the gospel.
Issues of truth gave way to
issues of justice.
Process theology has failed to deal extensively with
the issue of justice, at least under that rubric.
Among these,
issues of justice, of overcoming poverty, of true development, and of the environment were prominent.
Curiously, Novak makes no mention of
the issue of justice.