Someone who is accustomed to having a huge part
of their social life come from work can raise a red flag.
Not exact matches
«This
social contract between employer and employee basically said, «If you
come to work every day, and you work hard, and you give the corporation a measure
of loyalty, we in turn will take care
of you, often for the rest
of your
life, by extending healthcare and generous pensions to retirees.»»
The holidays are
coming, which means more
of just about everything in your
life - more
social engagements, more stuff, more food, more people, and hopefully more joy.
You will be able to see how a cost -
of -
living adjustment affects your
Social Security payment
come December.
Retirees who want to know how much their
Social Security cost -
of -
living adjustment will change their benefits should check their online statements
come December.
With diverse types
of messages (complaints, requests, updates)
coming in and going out via different platforms (phone, email,
social media posts,
live chats), it was becoming increasingly difficult to keep track
of who was saying what and to whom.
Much
of the chatter on jihadi chat boards
comes from Europeans and Americans, often
social outcasts
living vicariously through the online reputation
of their handle — including disenfranchised teens or jailhouse Muslim converts turned radicals, Scott said.
Between orchestra, Odyssey
of the Mind, viola lessons, tutoring, and everything else that
comes up in her active
social life, making it all work can be time consuming and stressful.
UBI will not solve the
social problems that
come from loss
of people's purpose in
life and
of their
social stature and identity — which jobs provide.
This should
come as no surprise, considering that they've grown up with
social media their entire
lives: in one study 50 percent
of them said they can't even «
live» without YouTube.
thanks, and yes, a pittance
of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch
of service)-- along the way, frugal
living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually
came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on
social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!
Cruz also told people around him he expected to
come into some substantial money from his mother's estate, including his share
of the medical insurance settlement and, possibly,
Social Security or
life insurance payments.
«Such
social doctrine provides directions but, with few exceptions (for instance, the defense
of innocent human
life), does not provide directives
of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people
of good faith, guided by reason and conscience, can
come to different conclusions.»
If one is not prejudiced either by
social beliefs or by scientific training into the conviction that
life originated spontaneously on the Earth, this simple calculation (
of the 2,000 proteins
coming about chance) wipes the idea entirely out
of court.»
Niebuhr viewed this construction in terms
of developing the institutions and
social organizations that could embody the essence
of the Protestant spirit as «a
life, a movement, which could never
come to rest again in secure habitations.»
Despite some
of his protests against the Reformed, Dawson's fundamental convictions about the
social nature
of the human person resonates with Abraham Kuyper's argument that the organic nature
of life is the foundation
of the
social or ecclesial organisms that
come after it.
The supernatural element in human
life, whether it
comes to us through conscience as human beings or through the Spirit as believers, is not to be located externally in the world
of nature and
social institutions (as for Taylor and MacIntyre), nor internally (as for the Romantics), but in the interaction
of the individual with his world.
Admittedly I have drawn attention to large - scale suffering, but the question is just as difficult to answer when we
come to the hatred, lust, malice, greed, pride and selfishness which mar the national,
social and family
life of our own country.
With increasing complexity in Israel's
social life, however,
came corresponding developments in ritual and priesthood, especially after royal families began copying, in temple architecture, modes
of worship, and priestly prerogatives, the models
of Phoenicia.
The «humility» that is usually (but not always) present in 12 - Step Program communities
comes from «bottoming - out»,
coming to the end
of one's psychological /
social resources while experiencing
life's challenges.
Every structure
of secular
life both present and to
come is called into question by hope, because this is the anticipation
of what is not in our power, and the historical and
social act
of hope is realized in this calling into question, though not entirely.
Even Chaplin's recently bestowed knighthood — however much deserved and belatedly granted — sat rather awkwardly on a figure whose greatness lay in his portrayal
of a tough but tender little tramp who stood at the bottom
of the
social order, if not quite outside
of it, and who in real
life had
come from the slums
of London.
With Aaron Sorkin (The Newsroom, The West Wing, The
Social Network) writing, Danny Boyle directing and Michael Fassbender in the starring role, it all
comes together to show both the brilliance and the messiness
of Jobs» real
life and legacy.
The unlettered Catholic who
came to the United States in the last century fashioned a way
of life within the host Protestant culture that was tight, intellectually narrow, and wrapped in an invisible and largely impermeable membrane that resisted
social osmosis with the rest
of the country.
Hence, it is not justifiable to identify the
coming of the Kingdom with human
social progress, but neither is it legitimate to overlook God's demand that in every aspect
of human
life our world must be fashioned more nearly to his will.
Africans, who were
living in a period
of rapid
social change gradually
came to feel that their traditional world - view was no longer adequate as a method
of «explanation, prediction and control.»
Whatever legal and public policy solutions are reached in the
coming years, Christians need to find a
social, political and religious way to secure the well - being
of women and children, involve fathers in the
lives of their children, and support gays and lesbians who want to establish committed relationships and receive the benefits and blessings that go with this commitment.
And so in Christianity we again
come upon that mysterious law
of additivity and
social heredity which in every field governs the processes
of Life; while at the same time the fundamental role
of education is again manifest, as the human instrument
of divine instruction.
Pentecostals also affirm that their hope in the Second
Coming of Christ implies that Christians currently find themselves in an active waiting period, in which believers collaborate in the church and participate in
social life.
«Change
comes, we suspect,» states Wallis, «more through the witness
of creative and prophetic minorities who refuse to meet the system on its own terms but rather act out
of an alternative
social vision upon which they have based their
lives.
The existence
of a powerful, wise, and benevolent Divinity, who foresees and provides the
life to
come, the happiness
of the just, the punishment
of the wicked, the sanctity
of the
social contract and the laws: these are its positive dogmas.
Evidence about trends in workplace socializing is difficult to
come by, but even if workplace socializing has increased, it mains only a small part
of most people's
social lives.
As I have warned so often, there is here no guarantee
of any particular
social good, but at least there is ground for hope that in ways beyond our present understanding the powers
of the «age to
come,» the work
of the
living Christ, the influence
of the Holy Spirit, the impact
of that within the church which Paul Tillich calls the «New Being» will break through many
of the obstacles in the secular order to transform and transform again the kingdoms
of this world.
With the
coming of the Gentiles to Utah, the political direction
of the state has,
of course, passed from the church as church, but even today the economic and
social life of the Mormon community is still to an amazing degree determined by the principles taught in their sacred book.
This somewhat optimistic prediction
of things to
come may not seem helpful for the here and now, because we
live in an era
of fear, anxiety, and worry, and our question and our text is how can we adapt now and in the immediate future to this rapid rate
of social change.
It was a
social gospel they proclaimed, yes — but only as the gospel
of the
coming Reign
of God over all the earth, and as the new Halakak, the description
of «
life in accordance with the sayings
of the Lord» who was God's final Messenger to his elect.
«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface,
come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization
of humankind could lead to the formation
of a new kind
of living entity — a
social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form
living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.
When we think
of all that has
come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge
of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest
of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight
of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind
of suffering, the stabilizing
of the inner
lives of millions
of his followers around the world, and the fostering
of a prophetic attack on such giant
social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher
of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder
of it does not sweep over our souls.
This is the heart
of what
came to be known as «the
social question,» which raises fundamental queries about human nature and the possibilities for pursuing
life in common.
Lastly, I can't wait till the «nation
of Islam» penetrates into our government and
social life, then all
of you so called «liberals» will wish the good old christian values
come back!!
Expanding from a Jewish to a Gentile world the early church concluded that no legalism, Judaic or Gentile, was adequate to fulfill the gospel standard
of agape, that the Kingdom
of God was already present and yet to
come, and that in
living the gospel in this world with its political, economic and
social challenges would require faithfulness and patience.
But at the core
of social advance there must be the dynamism that
comes from the interests
of those who know in their own
lives the necessity
of change.
I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status
of Black Americans, loaded as it was with
social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms
of the actual
lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has
come to be called the underclass.
Recent political events have compelled us to ask how we may know our way when it
comes to law, morality and the tests
of loyalty demanded by complex political and
social lives.
What is the law in the perspective
of ethics supposed to mean when it
comes to the needed growth
of genuine
social morality and the injection
of hope itself into human
lives?
The
coming of Christian immigrants from Persia did not seriously affect the
social life of the Indian Christians, as the immigrants (except the Thomas
of Cana group) intermarried with the Indians.
There was a time, not too terribly long ago, when I could have been somewhat confident that I could help lay the intellectual foundations for a
life of thoughtful responsibility when, as seemed almost inevitable, the usual vehicle for
social commitment and responsibility — marriage and child - rearing —
came up in their
lives.
(2) The «utopia»
of peace and justice (i.e., the expectation
of «a new age») is not an ideal construction from which certain consequences are derived for specific situations but, on the contrary, it is the
coming together in a vision
of the specific struggle
of the community to solve the conflicts, contradictions and difficulties that they find in everyday
life — political,
social, religious, economic.
The question over whether evangelicals with counter-cultural stances fit in broader movements similarly
came up as some
social justice — minded evangelicals endorsed the main thrust
of the Black
Lives Matter cause in recent years without getting behind the organization's LGBT position.
It is when we
come to study the basic conceptions
of God, the relationship between man and God, the impact
of belief upon
social conduct and the view
of life after death, that we realize how wide and deep are the gulfs between the leading religions.