Sentences with phrase «liberal conservative think»

He is currently chairman of the liberal conservative think - tank Bright Blue.

But he acknowledged that student debt was a «huge issue», telling the Bright Blue liberal conservative think tank's conference: «If you wanted to say you want to reduce that (fees) then either fewer people go to university or the experience would be less.

Not exact matches

And I think here's an opportunity for me a conservative and you a liberal and people like us to sit down and say, «Ok, let's push all this aside.

Regardless of the response, we view this kind of public CEO activism as a welcome counterpoint to the largely hidden involvement of corporate leaders in shaping policy through the hundreds of millions of dollars they direct to Super PACs, trade associations, and think tanks to promote liberal and conservative causes.

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Legitimate small business tax rules — put in place by previous Liberal and Conservative governments to support small business growth and expansion — are now thought of as loopholes being exploited by the fat - cat owner of the neighbourhood coffee shop, chiropractor or dry cleaner.

Back in 2014, it was a good idea for Trudeau and the Liberals to start thinking of Conservatives as neighbours — as people with whom they would have to find common ground.

Typically, liberals will attack her worse than any conservative would because of their extreme unquenchable hatred for anyone who thinks differently than they do.

When Jesus returns, I don't think he will automatically fall into the Conservative camp, with all his radical beliefs about shunning wealth and individual rights, Jesus just may be the biggest Liberal of them all.

I love how liberals accuse the GOP (falsely) of racism, then accuse any black person who thinks for themselves and decides to be a conservative (actual racism).

To me it reads as if you think that being liberal is somehow inferior to being conservative, and because «rebelling against» anything is often associated with juveniles.

«Changing America», man it makes me sick that the liberal news media thinks conservatives got their clocks cleaned in the latest election and need to re-adjust their position.

Right wing conservative types have a Jesus who is against gay marraige, is anti-abortion, thinks there should be prayer in school, and teaches the prosperity stuff and so on... Left wing liberal Christians quote the verses about giving up possessions, feeding and clothing the poor... inner city Christians often have a Jesus who is about social justice... we were made in His image?

You seem to think liberalism ended in the late 80s; untrue, else why would conservatives keep screaming about liberal bias in the media?

The liberal group People for the American Way's report on how conservative foundations have deployed vast sums to support think tanks, friendly media and other institutions that promote right - wing causes is titled «Buying a Movement.»

Do your conservitive freinds think you might be teetering on the edge of liberalism, while your liberal friends think you are way too sympathetic to the concerns of conservatives?

The target is, rather, those forms of broader modern liberalism which have produced certain ways of thinking about faith and the church which can be found in both conservative and in so - called «liberal» churches.

A person can, no doubt, make an idol out of an ideology, but the mere possibility does not establish, as Koyzis seems to think, that Christian liberals, Christian conservatives, etc., have committed themselves to an essentially idolatrous project.

He associated his thought with the liberal Arminius against the dominant conservative Calvinism that insisted on the doctrine of predestination and all its consequences.

But, if I am understanding Wright correctly, this idea has consequences for both uber - conservative Christians (who may tend to see God's presence and revelatory activity as limited the words printed in the Bible) and more liberal Christians (who may prefer to think of the words of Joshua and Jeremiah as entirely their own, and not the words of God).

Theologians — conservative and liberal — continue to provide alternatives to secular ways of thinking about the world.

The dangers of conservative religious thought have frequently been noted by liberal theologians to include a kind of individualistic withdrawal from the social realities of the world.

Indeed, the clergymen recognize this: 94 per cent of the liberal ministers thought their own theological views generally encouraged their participation in social - action activities, but only 39 per cent of the most conservative clergy thought so.

Conservative Catholics think and vote just like conservative Americans in general; and liberal Catholics think and vote just like liberal AmericansConservative Catholics think and vote just like conservative Americans in general; and liberal Catholics think and vote just like liberal Americansconservative Americans in general; and liberal Catholics think and vote just like liberal Americans in general.

I do nt think Jesus would be liberal or conservative in the sense that americans practice it.

Rush, you've misjudged Catholic conservatives (and liberals) if you think this nonsense will sway us to abandon our church.

The only question that I thought was hard was number 10, because with the Surpreme Court you never really know what the decision is unless you know the breakdown of liberals to conservatives when the decision was made.

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

Liberals think that some conservative Christians don't want to provide help to those who need it.

That Was the Church That Was (I think I can reveal without causing any grave difficulties to anyone) is dominated by factional differences between evangelical conservatives and liberal Catholics, by office politics, by money troubles, and by struggles over homosexuality and over the ordination of women.

I also think that he finds it easier to do with Liberals than Conservatives.

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).

Even though I am a conservative and you are mostly liberal I did think you did a great job with exposing the errors of Calvinism maybe there's another new subject out there waiting for you.

This also means that while I agree with Beer that we could benefit from a better way of capturing the distinction between liberalism in theology and liberalism in (Catholic) politics, I also think that terms like «conservative» and «liberal» are a healthy way of acknowledging the obvious.

In the end, however, Feezell's moderate view (which leans toward the «conservative view») is not too much different in practical effect from my or Hartshorne's moderate view (which leans toward the «liberal view») in that I am only delivering a carte blanche for abortion in the early stages of pregnancy and pointing out that the fetus in the later stages of pregnancy has a moral status analogous to that of an animal, a status which I think deserves considerable attention on our part.

Since the 1960s, and in new ways under this pope, Catholics are having an internal debate about how to adapt to liberal modernity, and in that debate there are conservatives who think we've had quite enough adaptation and liberals who think that more is needed.

So here's something I just posted on their site to rile them up: Postmodern conservatives aren't first wave liberals and are anti-Cartesian in the spirit of Maritain / Percy / Deneen / MacIntyre, while thinking Maritain himself is too Kantian and Deneen / MacIntyre are too Marxist.

As Tillich says in the introduction, «The consciousness oriented to the myth of origin is the root of all conservative and romantic thought in politics,» while «the breaking of the myth of origin by the unconditional demand is the root of liberal, democratic, and socialist thought in politics.»

This conflict has emerged between the liberal and militant activist pastors and denominational leaders, on the one hand, and a large body of more conservative laymen, on the other hand, who think the church should stick to spiritual matters and stop meddling in politics and «social» issues.

Liberals and conservatives are both influenced by dualistic habits of thought.

It's certainly more in line with a lot of modern liberal thought than modern conservative thought.

Indeed, one must resist the temptation to think of this emerging alignment in terms of the conventional liberal - conservative continuum.

I think both liberals and conservatives try to force beliefs on others to an extent.

Liberal theologians, evangelical revivalists, and Princeton conservatives were all fundamentally dualistic in their thinking about human nature.

I thought this was a remarkably balanced piece, giving several paragraphs to the conservative preacher who worked with the Heritage Foundation in addition to more liberal voices.

I would keep those conservative thoughts to yourself when you talk to the liberal lemmings.

For him, progressive means good, and mildly socialist but not too radical, and conservative means perhaps rooted in classic traditions, but not fully in tune with current liberal thought.

These affinities grew out of a common desire to get beyond «liberal» and «conservative» ways of thinking about scripture, mission and theology.

Nevertheless, both the Catholic tradition and conservative Protestantism strike certain deep notes which, though not absent from liberal Protestant thinking and preaching, have been underemphasized to our great loss.

As an Austinite (the liberal, free thinking, live and let live — even you conservatives we all don't agree with bastion of the state), I am queasy just reading this.