Sentences with phrase «of social justice work»

While their training programs seem to make it possible for enthusiastic and recently - transformed yoga practitioners to bridge their yoga practice and activist aspirations, by many accounts, the organization doesn't equip people with some of the complexities of social justice work.

Not exact matches

It's that millennials and African - Americans and a lot of social justice - oriented white people and a lot of white people who are working class really were progressive and they really were open to a message that was things like «no death penalty,» «put the money back in schools,» «mass incarceration,» and «stop taking people's property unjustifiably.»

Through her work at Emerson Collective, Laurene has been a longtime leader in areas of education, immigration, social justice and the environment, and has demonstrated that she shares Ted Leonsis's belief in a double bottom line philosophy: that the companies that do best are those that do good in their communities.

NEO, a low - profile funding intermediary, moves over $ 40 million a year and works with a who's who of major foundations, managing projects that often focus on social justice and civic participation.

With a background in civil rights advocacy, Amina has a special appreciation for the impact of working for social and economic justice through investing and shareholder engagement.

We stand up for the principles of equality, equity and social justice and we work with our affiliated unions and social justice partners to build a better world for all citizens.

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.

While working as a laborer in this program of infrastructure development, Saeed becomes pious and joins a social justice mosque; Nadia becomes a lesbian and moves to Mykonos.

Jason Fileta and Scott Bessenecker have both been working in social justice for years, learning the keys to inspiring people to take action on issues of justice the hard way.

That's the way it is for those who come out and for allies: they have put a lot of work into building and nurturing their emotional and mental intelligence for the sake of personal and social justice.

For liberal Christians, such victories embody the justice of the social gospel, the idea that believers should do God's work — even aid the Second Coming - by improving society.

Collaborative and complementary work by process theologians and liberation theologians can contribute to the realization of South American Indian social justice.

Since then, I've worked with national speaker and consultant Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, earned a Masters in Social Justice (in one of my favorite cities - Detroit!)

Christian social justice works in the same vein — it's worthless to say you love Gd and Jesus and seek the presence of the Holy Spirit if you're not bothering in the first place to make the world better.

The development of a new philosophy of science which radically questions the earlier mechanical - materialistic world - view within which classical modern science worked and also the search for a new philosophy of technological development and struggle for social justice which takes seriously the concern for ecological justice, are very much part of the contemporary situation.

After I left professional ministry my heart was drawn to issues of social justice so I went into the field of social work.

Clifford Longley in The Tablet argues that «the encyclical's theological keynote» is that it «emphatically unites the Church's roles of spreading the Gospel with working for social justice -LSB-...] under the banner of integral human development»

Simultaneously, denominational offices and social - justice groups have worked to raise churches» awareness of children's issues.

To resort simplistically to militantly pro-earth and antiprogress positions misses the vital Christian and humanistic point that our sojourn upon the earth is not yet completed and that we must continue to work unflaggingly toward social justice and the well - being of all people.

In the years since that day, our lives have grown to include some of the very things that used to look heroic to us on the outside: preaching, writing books, community development, social justice work, teaching, leading, stages, travel.

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.).

Many thousands of citizens, including many Christians, have been working for social justice for years — through nonprofit organizations, community organizing efforts, and justice - oriented churches.

To encourage and empower the work of social and environmental justice by the Association and Unity ministries.

Then there is wisdom, human wisdom, man's intelligent ordering of his life, the serious employment of right reason, the attempt to find the proper way of life, the whole enterprise that takes form in political action and personal morality, in social work and poetry, in economic management and the building of temples, in the constant improvement of justice by changing laws, in philosophy and technology, the manifold wisdom of man which is also inscribed in the wisdom of God and which may be an expression of this wisdom, the first of all God's works that rejoiced before him when he laid the foundations of the world (Proverbs 8:22 ff.).

Rather than giving up when our hard work fails to result in perfection or to accomplish our goals, we are able to see that improvement in justice or compassion or social conditions can make a difference in the lives of our fellow human beings that really matters.

Since then, she has worked with national speaker and consultant Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, earned a Masters in Social Justice, and directed a short - term missions site on the west - side of Chicago, where she created interactive opportunities for young people to engage issues of poverty, injustice and race.

Those who work in theological education are also aware, however, that we must also avoid intellectual or spiritual tourism — the tendency to explore the range and quaintness of the world's wondrous variety without asking about the truth - claims of various cultures, without attempting to discern the relative justice of alternative social practices, or without seeking commonalities that may overarch multiple lands and religions.

In a good enough city, social progress would be possible and meaningful, but the work of justice would never be finished.

These distinctives remain important to our faith: salvation by grace, not works; the authority of the Bible; personal faith; passion for both evangelism and social justice; and commitment to historic central doctrines.

Concretely, the church must exhort its more committed members — the gathered remnant — to ever more strenuous work in the service of social justice, work which will reveal to both the world and its wavering members the fact that religious fervor is conducive to true social progress.

Good works / Social Justice mean nothing without the boldness of spreading the gospel.

Both as scientists and as Christians we have reasons to work for a social order providing the maximum freedom consistent with the operation of justice and equality.

In all these ways, moral and democratic forces work to balance and tame markets for the sake of social justice and well - being.

Justice and peace, social service, awareness of and care for the environment, volunteer work; or liberal arts, discriminating inquiry, courses in professional ethics, gender studies: these are presented as the contemporary surrogates for faith.

Indeed, Ryan's radical budget and ideologically driven plan to end Medicare as a guaranteed benefit program did what decades of work by Catholic social justice advocates had never been able to achieve: It activated a gut level Catholic concern for solidarity and the common good.

But today the Fox Boxers have relabeled Jesus «s plan as SOCIAL JUSTICE, and the work of the Devil.Also known as Barack Hussein Obama.

Whereas the old left, from the Progressive Era to the Depression, openly asserted the interests of the «working man» and organized labor, advocates of feminism, diversity, and gender identity, and neoliberal economics, too, justify their positions as a generic social justice or economic freedom.

They're cracking down on women with opinions, for doing social justice work instead of politics.

The absence of healing prayer weakens our faith, and thereby weakens our conviction as we Christians work for peace and social justice.

In the Life and Work movement of the non-Catholic churches in their search for social justice and international peace (which is now part of the WCC) and in the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Church, Christian Ecumenism has given up the church's traditional pietist and negativist approaches to modernity and has been involved in the attempt to redefine the forces and values of secular culture within the framework of Christian anthropology.

It also succeeds in lifting up the importance of social justice in Christian faith (for example, one clip shows El Salvadorans and North Americans working on a Habitat for Humanity effort).

Within this Augustinian framework, social justice and racial reconciliation are works that extend the mercy of Christ to the earthly city.

A slave mentality There will always be a struggle between priestly authority and prophetic challenge in institutionalized religion because institutions are intrinsically conservative and will always choose social stability over justice which works to the advantage of the socioeconomic / political power - elites whose interests are served by sustaining the status quo.

On this premise, to work for social and economic justice and for religious and cultural quality is to work for the end of black middle - class churches and, eventually, of all black churches.

Most importantly, a book with this sub-title should have included arguments that confront the bishops» working presuppositions about poverty and wealth, the nature of the Christian duty to the poor, and such terms as «economic rights,» «redistribution,» and «social justice.»

We are well used to such Evangelicals, sharing with them the doctrinal and moral essentials of classical Christianity, a commitment to the Augustinian patrimony of the West, recent remarkable joint statements on justification, and much common work for the sanctity of life, Biblical standards of sexual morality, social justice, environmental responsibility and world peace.

His most famous encyclical, Rerum Novaruni (1891), was directed to «The Condition of the Working Classes», and it has been hailed as one of the most important modern pronouncements on social justice.

This part of the event resonated with me the most, since I come from a social justice / law background and now work in the food industry.

A parallel passion for social justice work led her to create arts opportunities for children in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Outside of my doula work I have spent 10 years working in conservation and social justice advocacy and organizing, and I love cross-country skiing, traveling, and cooking!