Sentences with phrase «more social justice»

Berman is also constantly thinking of ways she can incorporate more social justice themes into her science classes.
We need to bring a lot more social justice into things.
«We can bring about more social justice across this continent, we can be an influence for better environmental protection and standards around the world,» said Corbyn.
Far more social justice and belief and knowledge that anyone can get into politics.
I long for more social justice in our liturgy, but more so in our actions.
It is hoped that the socialist society, as visualized by Marx, gives people more social justice and security, more human dignity, more free time, better standards of living etc..
I'd like to see more social justice issues covered: we need to be having conversations about modern day slavery and sex trafficking.

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Suddenly, Barkan is fighting not just for social justice but his own life prospects and ability to spend more time watching his young son grow.
But consider: if you're really interested in social justice, you might well insist that Canadian CEOs continue outsourcing to foreign countries, where workers surely need the jobs (on average) much more than (most) Canadians do.
Ultimately, looking more deeply and broadly into the foundations of the contesting positions on commercial surrogacy and the sex trade leads to the realization that even those who are committed to gender equality and social justice should reconsider the advisability of undermining the core concept of consent, and the desirability of criminal prohibitions.
Millennials, while also tagged «selfie - obsessed», «entitled» and «self - indulgent», are significantly more engaged with sustainability and social justice than previous generations.
The Trade Justice Network (TJN) is a network comprised of environmental, labour, cultural, farming, social justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade Justice Network (TJN) is a network comprised of environmental, labour, cultural, farming, social justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade regime.
Expected to be more politically active and socially conscious, this new generation of young people are fired up about changing laws, ending violence and prejudice, and screaming loudly in the name of social justice.
With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.
Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).
And in truth prudent privatization could address more effectively «social justice» issues than single - payer schemes given our demographic and debt challenges.
«As Hispanic Catholics in the U.S achieve upward mobility, they may become a little more conservative on social justice and concern for the poor,» Dillon says, «but currently many of the issues that are especially important to Catholics in Latin America are also very important to Hispanic Catholics in the U.S.»
In Matt 23:23, Jesus stated that the more important matters of the Law (of Moses) were «mercy, faithfulness, and [social] justice».
The nuns are RIGHT, social justice is vastly more important than crawling on the ground to kiss the ring of some fat cat cardinal or a professed ex-nazi in the vatican.
When the post-modernist argues that justice is a game we play; a set of rules two or more people agree upon as the frame within which to carry on their social intercourse (see, for instance, JG), the discussion shifts from a celebration of various uniqueness to the difficult question of how they interact.
And, when she describes that change, what she ends up describing is what already more - or-less exists, namely: mainline christianity, embracing the reformed and the catholic, the scientific and the traditional, which has been doing (never perfectly, to be sure) the sort of deep thinking, social justice, and disciplined prayer that she talks about continually while the evangelicals were breaking off to do their own thing (the thing she seems to want them to stop doing) throughout the twentieth century.
More positively, almost all of these portrayals include a focus on social action and justice.
Moderate Protestants (along with Catholics) tend to «lean in a conservative direction on personal life - style issues and in a more liberal direction on matters of social justice
Without foundations, there are no truths that can mandate radical change, and the stereotypes of left and right by which he defines «social justice,» along with his religio - patriotic flights of «pure, joyous hope» in limitless change, seem no more than quaint and fanciful.
New research by the Centre for Social Justice revealed that more than 75 per cent of teenagers aspire to be married, but Rt Rev Mark Davies said the reality of married life today is bleak.
But they conceive of justice in the sense of equality, in a social sense, as requiring more equitable division of consumers» goods.
I often hear from «Mainliners» who essentially say, «Hey, we're much more open to science, social justice, political diversity, and LGBT people.
The survey «shows that religious progressives are a more significant group than is usually assumed, and there is a strong social justice constituency among religious Americans that cuts across labels,» according to E.J. Dionne, a Brookings Senior Fellow.
Three of the terms used most frequently in Catholic social thought» and now, more generally, in much secular discourse» are social justice, the common good, and personal (or individual) liberty.
Among those Catholics who support more «social justice» teachings, 60 % support Obama while 37 % support Romney.
Yet if the most important development in that doctrine in Caritas in Veritate is a strong linkage of the life issues to Catholic social - justice concerns, then it is also true that the challenge of this particular encyclical falls more sharply on those who believe that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided, and remedied an injustice in prior American law.»
Polls showed the swaying of young Christian voters toward the Democratic party, typically the party considered more friendly to social justice issues and helping «the least of these.»
’42 Indeed, women from all three continents, Africa, Asia and Latin America, say that «In the person and praxis of Jesus Christ, women of the three continents find the grounds of our liberation from all discrimination: sexual, racial, social, economic, political and religious... Christology is integrally linked with action on behalf of social justice and the defense of each person's right to life and to a more humane life.43 This means that Christology is about apartheid, sexual exploitation, poverty and oppression.
Many sensed that succeeding generations would need more spiritual sustenance than was provided by a radical commitment to social justice.
In more modern terms, those who are committed to social justice have looked askance at those who are concerned to preserve the natural world.
Moreover, more than 40 percent of family - focused articles in these journals and in the CENTURY dealt with social - justice - related issues like child poverty.
I consider myself a devout Christian, but I and my wife are far more concerned with social justice involving the needs of the poor, underprivileged and «least of these», to quote Jesus again, than we are with following the conservative Christian agenda.
Making «control» more important than love or social justice speaks volumes about the leaders of this religion.
Meanwhile, liberation theologians have protested that postliberal theology is more concerned with Christian catechesis, formation and liturgy than with the struggle for social justice.
Don't you think harming children for life is a little more serious than Nouns being too involved with social justice!!?? Behaviors like these continue to make the Catholic Church look bad.
Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.
He never hesitated to join a movement promoting social justice, and during the thirties and forties he lent his name to more than a hundred of them — a matter of some amusement to his friends.
The gift of the Spirit is the presence of divine life in humans, inspiring us to be more arid more god - like, loving one another and motivated towards love and social justice.
Niebuhr was at one with the Social Gospel in caring much more about social justice than about his own or anyone else's individual salvSocial Gospel in caring much more about social justice than about his own or anyone else's individual salvsocial justice than about his own or anyone else's individual salvation.
More serious for evangelicals is the fact that these two culturally derived models seem at odds with the Biblical witness concerning «social justice
Acknowledging this Elnes writes, «Environmentalism and social justice may be more closely linked than often recognized.
Though in recent years he's become more and more vocal about social justice issues, for much of his career, Brand has been known for his uniquely raunchy brand of shock comedy (This is the guy who once brought his drug dealer to work with him when he was an MTV VJ.).
For, if faith is «trust in God's love alone for the ultimate meaning of our lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with it.
Modern efforts to seek social justice, which recognize more and more the need for sophisticated social - economic analysis, can not leave that insight behind when seeking guidance from the Bible.
The more prophetic forms of Christianity that press toward human rights and social justice are precisely those most under attack by non-Christian militants at local levels, and many activists want to bring judgment against these religions.
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