Sentences with phrase «of public life concerned»

Not exact matches

All of them understood that while the information relating to the romantic and sexual lives of celebrities may be matters of public concern, the act of publishing secretly - recorded footage of a celebrity naked and having sex in a private bedroom is not a matter of public concern.»

When asked his opinion of Taunton before a public debate, Hitchens said, «If everyone in the United States had the same qualities of loyalty and care and concern for others that Larry Taunton had, we'd be living in a much better society than we do.»

These are concerns that go to the heart of the raison d'etre of this journal and its publisher, the Institute on Religion and Public Life.

In taking a retrospective look at the second millennium, it is therefore both inevitable and entirely proper to explore the continuing impact of the Reformation, particularly concerning religion and public life.

If God is not much concerned about religion as a separate sphere of private or public life and if he is present where the needy cry out for help, then as Christians we can not fail to take most seriously the analysis of the concrete social situation in which we find ourselves.

Here the Supreme Court began to set in legal concrete the notion that sexual morals and patterns of family life are matters of private choice or taste, not matters of public concern in which the state has a legitimate interest.

Although Calvin never lost sight of these themes, he is perhaps best remembered for his detailed exposition of the leading themes of the Reformed faith in his Institutes of the Christian Religion» widely regarded as the most significant religious work of the sixteenth century» and his wrestling with issues concerning the identity of the church and its place in public life.

In «The Unhappy Fate of Optional Orthodoxy» (Public Square, January), Richard John Neuhaus proposes «Neuhaus» Law» concerning the life of religious institutions: «Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.»

Therefore a loving concern about this problem requires that men and women together try to learn what new possibilities of the organization of public life for both sexes there may be.

Most public debate concerns ethical issues such as the beginning and the end of life, or the permissibility of certain sexual behaviors.

He also warned of the rise of intolerant forms of secularism, saying: «Increasingly there are concerns that current understandings of secularism can lead to an aggressive, imposed form of public life where no room for faith discussion is left at the table.

It is 25 years since James Watson and Francis Crick published their initial paper on the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), but the technology to manipulate this genetic key to all of life is very new — so new that only during this past year did it become a matter of interest and concern to the general public.

The erotic literature of the age which is so exclusively concerned with one person's enjoyment of another and the pseudo-psychoanalytical thinking which looks for the solution to the problem of marriage through simply freeing «inhibitions» both ignore the vital importance of the Thou which must be received in true presentness if human life, either public or personal, is to exist.

And recently, those revelations were brought into even broader perspective through a study conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life, which rated most of the Arab Spring countries as «high or very high» concerning government - imposed religious restrictions.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

Seventy percent of the respondents to a survey conducted by the Williamsburg Charter Foundation (a non-sectarian organization concerned with religion and public life) said, «Religion has a place in public life.»

We are called today to a similar integration of words and deeds... We repent that the narrowness of our concerns and vision has often kept us from proclaiming the lordship of Jesus Christ over all of life, private and public, local and global.

It seems to me that, so far as public policy is concerned, some version of pragmatic pluralism is indeed the only live academic option.

Such a basis for public policy is not consistent with either a humanitarian tradition or a Christian view, nor does it acknowledge the diversity of beliefs that exist concerning the role of sex in human life.

Christ condemns as sin lack of public concern, lack of responsible political participation, lack of commitment to ways of peace in public life and concord among the nations.

Churchgoers have grown increasingly concerned about the secularization of culture and the moral, vacuum in public life, and many seek solutions in the reChristianizing of education.

In fact, if Christian witness in public life is the goal, this teaching ministry is to be preferred to the clerical leaders of the church controlling the decisions and activities of their lay members by communal dictate which is usually based on communal minority self - interests and rights and not on concern for the total neighbourhood.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

In this chapter we are concerned with the significance of all public worship as such and with why praying in church should be part of the normal Christian discipline of life.

As a proponent of the importance of religion in public life, Neuhaus is right to be concerned, even outraged.

What is called for here is that the religious concern for public life be expressed through the faithful laity and not through the institutional authority of religions, that is.

«Whoso turns his attention to the bitter strifes of these days and seeks a reason for the troubles that vex public and private life must come to the conclusion that a fruitful cause of the evils which now afflict, as well as those which threaten, us lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schoolsof philosophy, have now crept into all the orders of the State, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.»

Religion is concerned with the meaning of life and with faith expressing itself in bringing forgiving love in inter-personal relations and justice for the poor and the weaker sections of society in inter-people power - relations of public life.

If religion is concerned with ultimate Truth or God, it can not but have its implications for the whole of life, private and public, and therefore the fundamental human right of religious freedom should include the right to express religious faith in prophetic ministry in society and politics in the name of justice.

Indeed, many of the contemporary activists and academics most concerned about the marginalization of religion in American public life frame their critiques as issues of free exercise and not establishment.

Clarke D. Forsythe, senior counsel for Americans for Life, has written an essential book for lawmakers and all participants in the ongoing culture wars, particularly those engaging in public - policy issues concerning the origins of life, the end of life, and marriLife, has written an essential book for lawmakers and all participants in the ongoing culture wars, particularly those engaging in public - policy issues concerning the origins of life, the end of life, and marrilife, the end of life, and marrilife, and marriage.

Gregory does not, it turns out, base his critique on concerns about salvation and true doctrine, but instead on the inability of the contemporary world — having unjustly excluded religious ways of thinking from the public arena of the secularized university — to address and resolve adequately for people what he calls «Life Questions.»

Other CIA initiatives have further enhanced the college's position of leadership on these vital issues, including Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives ®, a continuing medical education (CME) conference co-presented by the CIA and the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and bPublic Health; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and bpublic health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and beyond.

The public health implications of arsenic contamination in food and water, particularly foods like infant rice cereals and other commonly consumed rice products early in life, raise serious concerns.»

WABA expressed concern that the Bill will open the doors to marketing and promotion in the public health system, risking the lives of millions of infants and young children in the country, via a Letter to the President of the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino III.

A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165

The electeds mailed Bloomberg yesterday raising concerns about quality - of - life issues at the park, which is privately owned by Brookfield Properties, but is considered public space.

Of course, I'm not talking about an absolute but a rule of thumb, and all bets are off when it concerns elected officials and others whose lives are in the public realm (celebrities, wannabes, MySpace exhibitionists, porn stars, bloggers), since there's no way a reality show contestant (for instance) can claim a reasonable expectation of privacOf course, I'm not talking about an absolute but a rule of thumb, and all bets are off when it concerns elected officials and others whose lives are in the public realm (celebrities, wannabes, MySpace exhibitionists, porn stars, bloggers), since there's no way a reality show contestant (for instance) can claim a reasonable expectation of privacof thumb, and all bets are off when it concerns elected officials and others whose lives are in the public realm (celebrities, wannabes, MySpace exhibitionists, porn stars, bloggers), since there's no way a reality show contestant (for instance) can claim a reasonable expectation of privacof privacy.

Among the significant concerns underlined by the Venice Commission are: i) lack of broader consensus and no public consultations, ii) unclear criteria and discretionary methods for establishing constituencies, iii) no clear criteria for the representation of Transnistria and of Moldovan citizens living abroad, and, iv) constituency members of parliament would be vulnerable to being influenced by business interests.

«The Working Group will review possession and public smoking of marijuana to address public concerns in the fairest way possible, while also promoting public safety and quality of life for all New Yorkers.»

An ongoing independent poll of 143,000 working people being conducted for Unite, Britain's biggest union, shows that immigration is in fact ranked last as an issue of concern with working people's top worries being money problems, the rising cost of living, cuts to public services, stress, education and housing.

BHA Head of Public Affairs Pavan Dhaliwal commented, «We are concerned that the outcome of this consultation is that pupils living further away from Tudor Grange Academy will get priority over those living closer because they attend St James primary.

Labour's campaign is correctly focussed on housing and public transport, two of Londoners» most pressing concerns about living standards.

We asked Higgins about his concerns for the future of education, especially for children living in poverty that attend Buffalo Public Schools.

By their very nature, newspapers are more directly in touch with the lives and concerns of the British public than any other agency.

I challenged David Cameron to stop the badger cull not only due to rising costs, animal welfare concerns and public anger, but also because of widespread criminal activity, which threatens the future of a species which is protected by law and has lived on this land for 300,000 years.

Wherever you live, people are concerned about the risk to our public safety as a result of radicalized elements and terrorism.

«We can't simply say to the public you were wrong... We're not going to do blanket opposition because we've heard all around the country that whilst people have got concerns, particularly about the standard of living for low income families in work, they don't want just... blanket opposition to what the government are proposing on welfare.»

«And that's where my concern is, for the reputation that's out there in the public, is for the people who are trying to do the business of the state who are making the kind of place where our kids what to live.