Sentences with phrase «life affirming values»
In 1966, he created Kwanzaa to connect African Americans with their African cultural roots and to enshrine life affirming values into black consciousness: values such as faith, purpose, self - determination, and cooperative economics, to name a few.
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Speaking to the High River Times in April 2015, Mr. Fraser was quoted as saying «I will emphasize the Pro-Life values of Albertans, making constituents and other candidates aware of the issues surrounding abortion and how they are directly relevant to provincial policy... We should de-fund abortion and fund the life affirming alternatives of crisis pregnancy support, parental support, and adoption.»
The eight criteria of a «mature faith» include these: «Holds life - affirming values, including commitment to racial and gender equality, affirmation of cultural and religious diversity, and a personal sense of responsibility for the welfare of others,» and «Advocates social and global change to bring about greater social justice.»
The search is for a global order where life - affirming values are preserved and strengthened.
Camus steadfastly affirms the value of life in spite of personal and historical tragedy.
It affirms that the richer the total economic, cultural, spiritual, and intellectual life of others, the richer our potential for aesthetic value relations.
To live at all is to affirm the value of living (even the act of suicide affirms the value of human action and of human life); similarly every animal acts as if the world were orderly.
Can they develop theologies of ecology that affirm the intrinsic value of all life, as do the deep ecologists and most others within environmental philosophy, and that also affirm the care of a compassionate God for the poor and oppressed, as do prophetic biblical traditions?
Unencumbered, he could indulge in generalities that committed him only to his own opinion: «Novelists must be heroic in affirming life»; there are such things as «human nature,» «universal values,» and «a universal human morality.»
The original UM document called one body of mainline Protestants to affirm at the most basic level that all forms of human life are worth incalculably more than their industrial, market, scientific or even therapeutic use value.
Unless the discussion in the preceding pages has entirely failed to make its point, it will be plain that what is being proposed in this book is (as I have said) a «de-mythologizing» of the inherited notions of «life after death», with their (to many of us) impossible assertions; and also the «re-mythologizing» — or better, the re-conceiving — of their implicit intention so that we may have a valid way of affirming the value and worth of human existence, its significance and importance for God, and its preservation in God as a reality which has affected the divine life and in God has acquired an enduring quality which nothing can take away.
Under all variations of form, they continued to affirm that in the events out of which the Christian Church arose there was a conclusive act of God, who in them visited and redeemed His people; and that in the corporate experience of the Church itself there was revealed a new quality of life, arising out of what God had done, which in turn corroborated the value set upon the facts.
Genesis also affirms the fundamental value of each human life, our essential equality as human beings, and our interrelatedness with nature, rather than television «s view that young, white, unmarried males are somehow given a position of power considerably «above» females, older people, and minorities.
Without in any way wishing to ignore what has been called the «tragic sense of life», let us at this point affirm the positive values of human existence, finite though it is.
Today Roman Catholic philosophy and Protestant Modernism affirm rationality as a high value in human life.
As «social» as the coordinate processes of weaving one's own life from strands taken from the lives of others and giving one's own life as a strand to be woven into their lives, and as the universal essence of actual events, the single principle of love is the master key to the understanding of both facts and values.37 He denies that any human institutions, churches included, could be infallible; but he affirms that we can infallibly know «the appropriateness of love.
So, while we can affirm the right to life as a noble political value, as Kingdom people we have to revolt against the temptation to this noble value above the value of self - sacrificial love in order to manifest the beauty of the Jesus - looking Kingdom (The Myth of a Christian Religion, 84 - 85).
People have a duty to refuse to use such material: it may be necessary «to remove oneself, within the area of one's own research, from a gravely unjust legal situation and to affirm with clarity the value of human life» (DP 35).
Genesis thus affirms the fundamental value of each human life, our essential equality as human beings, and our interrelatedness with nature.
People are religious, not secular, so religion has to be given an orientation that is life - affirming and value - based.
I pray, read the Bible, recently revisited the Book of Mormon and was surprised to find how many of my deepest values originated there and that they aren't crazy at all but basic and life affirming.
, is President of the Value of Life Committee in Brighton, Mass., and is also a member of Women Affirming Life.
It «teaches that all life is essentially a unity as the creation which proceeds from the Divine oneness».26 This affirms the wholeness and holiness of the creation and thus it brings value to creation.
Is it possible to affirm the value of the technological revolution, the legitimacy of the hopes and claims of the dispossessed, most of all, of the moral centrality of the Negro revolution in America today — is it possible to affirm all these values and still to live comfortably in the modern world as these writers portray it?
Black Lives Matter operates under 13 guiding principles: Diversity, Globalism, Black Women, Black Villages, Loving Engagement, Restorative Justice, Collective Value, Empathy, Queer Affirming, Unapologetically Black, Transgender Affirming, Black Families, and Intergenerational.
The Christian calling is not only to service, not only to self denial, not only to a nature that is foreign to the status quo — it is a calling to life, abundant life — to express realities in the here and now that affirm the true value of creation and redemption as the work of the Father, Son and Spirit — to serve and give ourselves up in a manner that truly allows that to be made evident, that the world may become aware of the true fragrance of God — Jesus Christ.
In attitudinal values meaning is derived from choosing a life - affirming attitude toward even desperate situations.
Second, growth counseling involves a variety of growth - stimulating methods to help people use more of their potentialities by (1) developing better communication with self, others, nature, and God — the four basic relationships within which all growth occurs; (2) developing new skills of relating in mutually - affirming, mutually - fulfilling ways; (3) growing by making constructive decisions and taking responsible action; (4) using the growth possibilities inherent in each life stage; (5) learning to use the pain and problems of unexpected crises as growth opportunities; (6) learning better methods of spiritual growth — the maturing of one's personal faith, working values, sense of purpose, peak experiences, and awareness of really belonging in the universe.
Cage rejects this tradition, and declares that the end of artistic creativity is not order or value but purposeless play, a play that affirms life and invites other men to wake up to the ordinary life around them that can be lived here and now.
I want to affirm the supposedly shared values or eternal moral norms of my conversation partners while reminding all present that none of us possess a God's - eye view of what life is all about.
The widespread collapse of traditional certainties and value systems has created both the present value chaos and the opportunity to find life - affirming adult values to guide us.
More concretely it means to support values, practices and institutions that affirm and enhance life and to denounce systems and structures that diminish and extinguish the lives of so many.
Commitment to life - affirming values, and structures, solidarity with the poor in their struggle for justice and for their forests and land, and dialogue with other faiths directed towards a liberative ecumenism are some of these.
Building in time for family not only affirms the importance of ones personal life, but it also sends a message to others about what is valued.
«New Beginnings is for a lot of families an opportunity to put their child somewhere where they know that they're going to be valued for their culture, where they're going to be affirmed — even for where they live, which is not a common thing no matter where you go,» Swagerty says.
In Four Spirits I wanted to affirm the value of every individual life (including four unknown African - American school girls who were killed).
«In all these places,» write the Lappés, «we discovered people who are not accepting corporate global capitalism as it is but are evolving it so that growing and eating good food — and economic life itself — is again embedded in life - affirming values and community.»
When asked whether there is any relationship between her previous novel, Four Spirits (set during the Civil Rights movement) and Abundance she says, «I wanted to affirm the value of every individual life.
This is a world which values the profound life - affirming experience of her sculpture — a deeply felt, graceful encounter.»
The press conference was organized to announce the formation of an event to «affirm inclusive values and call on all nations, including Uganda, to decriminalize the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.»
What is key is that we understand that in a highly mobile and autonomous post-industrial society, we need to find easy ways for people to find connection and relationship with other people whom they may never have met, the literal equivalent of the evangelical service that is conducted several times every day, where people can come and go as they want, with child care and dry cleaning and whatever else liberals need to integrate that kind of regular activity into their everyday lives, and then we need to find ways to deepen those ties and connections, in ways that support and affirm secular values and personal autonomy.
It was, in part, about the relationship between Bob, the deceased husband, and his wife, Carol — a character - based love story affirming the value (in dollars) of Bob's life and his relationship with Carol.
A recent pair of Delaware Supreme Court decisions affirmed the common law allowing a legally insured person or insurable trust to sell a life insurance policy for market value as long as the purchase of the policy was not part of a prior agreement to resell to an investor or part of an illegal wager.
We are a Welcoming and Affirming Congregation and have a rich history of living into our progressive Christian values.
Nashville, TN About Blog Performing Songwriter Enterprises and its various media initiatives focus on celebrating music, shining a spotlight on songwriters, reinforcing the importance of music and arts education and affirming the value of music and its creators in all of our lives.
Instead of listening and affirming the value of your partner's life, values, thoughts and choices, you judge them as worthless and refuse to listen.
This value - oriented approach views humans as inherently driven to maximize their creative choices and interactions in order to gain a heightened sense of liberty, awareness, and life - affirming emotions, and the therapist and person in therapy cooperate in order to set therapeutic goals and work to reach the established milestones that may help promote positive change.