Sentences with phrase «of social divides»

The Facebook website was launched on February 4 The batch of more than 3,000 Russian - bought ads that Facebook is preparing to turn over to Congress shows a deep understanding of social divides in

The batch of more than 3,000 Russian - bought ads that Facebook is preparing to turn over to Congress shows a deep understanding of social divides in Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California.

Against this bustling, vibrant backdrop, writer - director Anthony Minghella conceives a muddled and somewhat ponderous affair between people from opposite sides of the social divide.

Black, Jewish and indigenous white working - class pugilists moved in the same circles as the European elite; and ladies of noble birth rubbed shoulders with the young women from the other side of the social divide; each seeking fame or the means to a living and a secure future.

Not exact matches

«With people of various income levels increasingly divided by geography, income inequality can worsen and the risk of social polarization — and even serious conflict — can grow,» Shiller said recently in an op - ed for Project Syndicate.

Also, Slack may be the most successful example of the consumerization of business tools, a trend that has implications extending to the social divide between digital haves and have - nots.

Social media is one of those topics that divides people.

«If Mr. Trump is unable to reverse the trend towards increasing social polarization, U.S. democracy will be at greater risk of further deterioration,» the EIU said in its report, referring to the extreme divides between Republicans and Democrats on issues such as immigration and environmental regulation.

The post is a healthy reminder for the proudly brusque, but in it Olds also goes a step further, not just cautioning self - described straight shooters of the social and business costs of stepping over the line that separates directness from rudeness, but also offering three helpful tips to keep you on the right side of the divide.

The essential concept of the public sphere is under siege from legal and extra-legal adversaries alike seeking to divide and conquer democracies by microtargeting neighbors into parallel realities using the tools of internet advertising and social media marketing.

With the recent revelations that a Russian group took advantage of social media algorithms on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to try to divide Americans, the stakes are higher than ever.

Bradford Wilcox, in his National Affairs essay «The Evolution of Divorce,» discusses social science data showing a class divide in the percentage of Americans marrying and divorcing.

From the far distant past right up until the twentieth century, humankind showed a tendency to divide and diversify into ever more ethnic groups, all of them retaining the tribal type of social life.

«There are a number of critical divisions among Catholics, including an important divide between «social justice» and «right to life» Catholics.»

In other contexts, such as that of social action, we may want liberals to be more assertive about convictions that divide them from others; to be willing, for example, to call a social policy unchristian that they think is unchristian.

It overlooks the fact that the original or classical evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries was united around a constellation of concerns which in the modern church have been divided up between the left and right: Reformation orthodoxy, the spiritual renewal of the church, Christian unity, evangelism and missions, the reformation of manners, and social reform.

This idealist's picture of a social world divided into givers and receivers, while morally superior to a callous neglect of the needy, overlooks the fact that the benefactor receives as well as gives.

In the late 19th century, under the deforming impact of dispensational pessimism and liberal optimism, the broad river of classical evangelicalism divided into a delta, with shallower streams emphasizing — ecumenism and social renewal on the left and confessional orthodoxy and evangelism on the right.

Looking at history, a very good argument could be made that that is the real social purpose of religion... to divide people, because a divided people are easy to control and manipulate.

Generalization is dangerous here too, but it is safe to say that liberation theology is characterized by an emphasis on the experience of oppression and a Marxist - inspired social analysis that divides society into oppressor and oppressed.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

The problems of social class derive not from this classifying of men with the animals but from dividing the inclusive class of persons into subclasses.

Many people are tired of the divides between «reconciliation» and «justice,» between «personal salvation» and «social gospel.»

With respect to church bodies, my premise is that, given our present ecclesial and social circumstances, the issue of authority will serve more to unify the churches than to divide them.

But contemporary evangelicals also seem to be a house divided on other theological issues they address - consider their discussion on the role of women, their definitions of social ethics, and their responses to homosexuality.

To put it differently, bridging the marriage divide in America is of paramount import for all of us who are committed to pursuing social justice.

But the prophets had failed; instead of telling the truth, they deceived and distorted: «When the people build a wall» (the wall of the city; Wall Street; walls of finance, defense, security and privilege; walls that divide and protect; walls that include and exclude; walls of policy which are highly doubtful in their social implications and in their theological presuppositions), «the prophets paint those walls with whitewash.»

Other Republican hopefuls, Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and such «cultural warriors» as Rush Limbaugh, former Secretary of Education William Bennett, and James Dobson, director of Focus on the Family, have claimed there is an encompassing social divide over morality and values.

Instead of dividing the complex activity of a congregation into categories of sacred behavior and secular baggage, this approach sees God's meaning as fully available only to members who perceive the entirety of social links that make their group whole.

The main theme was divided into three sections for Conference discussion: Salvation and Social Justice; Salvation and Cultural Identity; and Renewal of the Churches in Relation to Salvation.

Religion News Service: Catholic bishops fail to agree on statement on the economy A divided Catholic hierarchy on Tuesday (Nov. 13) failed to agree on a statement about the economy after a debate that revealed sharp differences over the kind of social justice issues that were once a hallmark of the bishops» public profile.

He concluded that their news portrays society as divided into three separate spheres of activity: the private sphere, which includes the individual, family and private enterprise; the public sphere, where «politics» and «the economy» operate; and the state sphere, where agencies of the government maintain political, economic, and social stability.

It is almost as if the social activism of the 1920s and 1930s, summed up in the 1925 Life and Work slogan «Doctrine divides but service unites,» were once again ecumenically triumphant.

The radicals» war begins by dividing society into the politically chosen and the morally condemned, and ends with the total annihilation of the social enemy, which will usher in a millennium of social peace.

This is seen most clearly in Faith and Order's emphasis on reconciling the churches and the alternative talk about «a partisan church of the poor» which would divide Christians in a new way along social and political lines.»

Telling someone to fuck - off or a theology that says that great swaths of humanity (most people actually) are damned and are going to hell — and all the political, social, and psychological ramifications of that theology in the world of dividing people into «us» and «them» — and the «them» are not worthy of being in God's presence in the afterlife and therefore not worthy in this life either...

The Lord's Table open to people of different castes and tribes and sexes challenged the traditional spirituality that divided peoples into the ritually pure and impure and thereby supported social structures of caste, sex and other discriminations.

It is not moral culpability or choice that divides law - abiding citizens from criminals — so Clarence Darrow argued eloquently — but the accident of birth or social circumstances.

(21) They must be hospitable to the whole family of God, enabling the family members in their diversity to address with integrity the whole range of issues that divide us, issues of Christology and ecclesiology, issues of culture, race, and gender, issues of social justice and the integrity of creation.

It seems clear that he intends his book to address this divide and its practical implications, not the least of which are social and political.

His five - point agenda for post-fundamentalist evangelicalism included: (1) clarification of the philosophical implications of biblical theism, (2) Christian engagement with the pressing social issues of the day as well as concern for individual salvation, (3) refusal to divide over secondary matters such as the details of biblical prophecy, (4) openness to the possibility of a biblically faithful ecumenicity, and (5) the development of a truly biblical theology that took into consideration the whole sweep of salvation history.

For example, the historical and theological areas may be combined into an area described as «Interpretation of Christianity» while the older «practical» field is divided into two, one dealing with «Church and Culture» (sociological, psychological, and philosophical studies of church phenomena in American culture) and the other dealing with the practice of ministry construed as the application of social scientific and psychological theory to clergy responsibilities.

(That social commentary aside, I also believe that equality in a relationship is not determined by dividing chores or housework equally or the size of paychecks or changing equal numbers of dirty diapers.

Dividing the Child: the social, and legal dilemmas of custody.

The content of the website is divided into the following seven topics: Political / Legislative, Psychological, Education, Employment, Social, Health, and Research; and the website is structured around four different sections: Knowledge, Best practice, Future, and Resources.

Who does the dishes or changes the nappies is more than a social choice it's the effect of an economy that runs on gender divides.

Britain, according to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, is on the brink of stepping over an event horizon of doom and becoming a «permanently divided society».

Yet most failed on both counts because the combination of divide - and - rule politics and high levels of corruption led to economic stagnation and mounting social tensions.

Liam Burns, National Union of Students (NUS) president said: «Ministers» claims that their proposals will put power in the hands of students have been shown to be spurious and it is increasingly clear that the course they are pursuing will actually restrict access to university for disadvantaged students, entrench existing social divides, and cost far more than expected.

It is difficult to bring to mind a more divisive policy, or one more deleterious to social cohesion and respect, than one which allows schools to label children at the start of their lives with certain beliefs and then divide them up on that basis.