Sentences with phrase «moral issues confronting»

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Bonhoeffer confronts us as someone who, in following Christ, made a personally costly decision that doing nothing to rid the world of Hitler was worse than doing what he did, however ambiguous the moral issues.

These developments confronted «the church and civilization with moral issues as important as the elimination of war» (June 21, 1928).

It is not true that political candidates hate to confront moral issues.

While it is true that many denominational bodies and leaders protested vigorously against our government's Indochina policy, it is all too evident that by and large the local churches failed to confront the theological and moral issues of the war.

For the situation it deals with still confronts us, and so do the moral and spiritual issues it raises.

It is difficult not to admire Leigh's boldness in giving the Christian virtues of selfless generosity, charitable goodwill and quiet passivity to a backstreet abortionist, but by presenting Vera with an almost cartoonlike saintliness from start to finish, Leigh misses an opportunity to engage seriously with the moral complexity of the abortion issue — and some viewers will be left longing for Vera to be a shadier, more difficult figure, like the protagonist of Leigh's far more confronting «Naked» (1993).

It confronts moral issues, religious conundrums, and the dynamics of emotions in young adult lives as two girls driven by the past and present realize their impact on the future.»

By stripping the game of any kind of pre-determined narrative and emphasizing player involvement through gameplay alone, Pope also reminds us of the the sad reality that we often confront moral issues and attempt to resolve them because we feel a sense of obligation to do so only after our engagement in the practices which define our environment, and our recognition that they are actually the cause of these problems.

An important member of the Young British Artists, Mat Collishaw creates work that confronts issues of moral ambiguity with formally stunning and alluring imagery.

There are two great moral and ethical issues confronting and dividing Americans, abortion and migration.

... [C] onsistently with Australia's obligations under the Torture Convention, the Parliament has spoken with clarity about the moral issues that may confront officials of governments, whether foreign or our own, and persons acting in an official capacity.