Sentences with phrase «people and communities long»

In what ways does support for civil legal aid help people and communities long - term?

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Likewise, there's good reason to think the goal of «protecting our community from abuse and hatred» is a non-starter as long as «our community» means a user base of more than two billion people.

Developmental lending as practiced by IBC involves providing financial services (primarily loans) to aboriginal people who, for a variety of cultural and / or financial reasons, are alienated by mainstream lending institutions; approving loan applications on the basis of typical financial considerations while taking into account the potential for positive social or community outcomes; and evaluating social outcomes resulting from the loan portfolio over the long term.

Preventable disparities in health outcomes continue for black, brown and Native people, communities of people who not that long ago may have also been unwitting medical test subjects.

Beyond being an incredible song, its chorus became a rallying cry of protesters in the United States — «a kind of comfort that people of color and other oppressed communities desperately need all too often: the hope — the feeling — that despite tensions in this country growing worse and worse, in the long run, we're all gon» be all right,» as Slate culture writer Aisha Harris put it.

And two: The money that does make it into black communities, she argues, doesn't stay there long enough because people just aren't spending it where they live.

It will help boost the business owners revenues and bring back that sense of community the American people are longing for and seeking.

We have a long way to go, but by organizing people in their home communities, building voting blocs in key ridings, mobilizing around key decisions, slowly reframing big stories and fighting to lock in systemic changes, we are fundamentally re-balancing power in British Columbia.

Bitcoin core no longer has people like Mike Hearn and Gavin Andersen because they were bullied, trolled, and exiled from the community.

The bitcoin community has long been known for its generosity, as seen from its outpouring of support for ALS research and outreach for people facing homelessness.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

As an estimated $ 5 billion project employing as many as 50,000 people, the Amazon HQ2 is likely to have a broad impact on the local community in terms of what people pay for real estate, how long it takes them to get to work and what dollar figures they see on their paychecks.

In response, CBA has included a new measure --» People and community» — in its long - term incentive plan, which will assess the company's progress in this area over the ensuing four years.

Taube Philanthropies» executive director, Shana Penn, said, «Taube Philanthropies is committed to being there for people and communities in need, whether those needs be long - term cultural and educational challenges, or critical emergency relief such as that which faces us in Houston.

Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

«Our military neglected, out of ignorance, long - established correct procedures for handling religious materials,» said Lavoy, «even as we were fighting to help the Afghan people secure and govern their country, we as the military did not meet our obligations to the Muslim community.»

But, as a person who tries to depend on reason and community harmony, I don't see a problem with it being there, as long as we can have a mosque in the neighborhood, a star of David, and whatever else represents people who lost their lives in this national tragedy.

The acute sufferings of that time brought to a head the misgivings about God's providence in history which had been aroused by long - continued misfortunes and disappointments; for these sufferings not only fell upon a people which had made sincere and persistent efforts to observe the law of God in its corporate life, but they fell most heavily upon the best members of the community.

No longer can pastors and leaders assume that the people in their communities share their unique cultural experiences.

But the point is that IN THAT CONTEXT Calvinist theology was a much - needed pastoral and communal approach that helped people to break from the shackles of long - established systems of spiritual abuse by offering a different story to live by and a different kind of community to live in.

Civic responsibility, devotion to community, and a sense of humor go a long way to convince people that you aren't a reprehensible bigot, a pock on the face of society.

The early - release people adjusted better on the outside and helped to puncture the myth that longer sentences are better for the community.

That is a healthy emphasis — as long as that diversity includes serious attention to the vocations of people sitting in wheelchairs in retirement communities and a teenage boy who is trying to summon up the courage to ask a girl on a date.

I'm under no illusions about people who have left our community and who I no longer see.

It would be that the people of God from long ago understood (in God's great purpose) «function in being» far better than we; that men & women (and children) participate extensively with community life in Christ, doing so with some understood, intrinsic variation / rolls — Not because they must, but rather because doing so continues as God's ideal for His children.

In every community there are hundreds of ordinary, functioning people who — when they let themselves feel — long to experience more vividly, relate more pleasurably, and work more effectively.

«The Christian community, indeed, the entire American faith community, can no longer tolerate this persisting and escalating gun violence against our people.

Before there was much speculation on the «nature» of the person and long before any dogmatic statements about that nature were attempted, the members of the community knew that they stood at the great climacteric moment of all history, that in and through the things which had happened among them and of which they were witnesses, God had visited and redeemed his people.

It may be, however, that both positions are partly correct — that we do need a renewed and increased commitment of our collective resources to relieve existing misery, but that, in the long run, we also need to empower people and communities to deal more effectively with their own problems.

Wherever they are being taught, by whatever methods and with whatever preconceptions, theological students are everywhere being asked to enter into long and serious conversations with the persons and communities of the Old and New Covenants of the Bible.

«The African - American Christian community does not need to be concerned about losing people to Islam,» says Calvin O. Butts III, senior pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and president of the College of Old Westbury in Long Island.

It is that one social gathering where people can go and have a sense of community without fear of rejection as long as you play along with it.

These prayers, written down ahead of time, often first spoken long before my birth, remind me to turn my thoughts toward the people I love, to forgive and ask forgiveness, to pray for my enemies, to plead for mercy for «the things I have done and the things I have left undone,» to remember the hungry and the suffering, to «bless the congregation of the poor,» to worship, to thank, to intercede, and to join with the whole community of saints who — this very hour, all around the world, and for centuries past and to come — are praying these prayers with me today.

The «I Have a Dream» speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. is a great example for all of us who long for freedom, justice, love, and community among all people.

The Evangelical Immigration Table, including leaders like National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) president Leith Anderson and Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) president Russell Moore, wrote the President and congressional leaders this week to tell them that Dreamers are «leading in our churches and our communities» and to «find solutions that allow these young people to stay in our country long - term and continue to be a blessing to our communities.»

The loneliness Lisa and I experienced while in the church... because we felt limited in how much we could be ourselves... and the loneliness we experience now... because we are no longer surrounded by people... is somewhat remedied by our online community.

Christian and church communities are credible only as long as people hear issuing from them the passionate cry: Your Kingdom come.8

As one historian of nationalism puts it: «The Protestant Revolution, by disrupting the Catholic Church and subjecting the Christian community to national variations of form and substance, dissolved much of the intellectual and moral cement which had long held European peoples together.

For a very long time now we have been willing to tell ourselves that there are two moralities: one for the private world of family and community, where people share common interests, and another for the public world, the world of economics and politics, where power, greed and self - interest hold sway.

To anyone familiar with the history of Western biographies of the Prophet, with its long tale of vituperation and certainly of totally reckless distance from the attitudes of Muslims as a community of persons, it is particularly striking to have a scholar write explicitly in the awareness that he is writing also for a Muslim audience, and take pains to write in a way that they can accept.

It is a surprise to most people to learn that there was a large and widespread Christian community throughout the whole of Central Asia in the first centuries of the present era and that such countries as Afghanistan and Tibet which are spoken of today as lands still closed to the Gospel message, were centres of Christian activity long before Muhammad was born.

A blog begin a conversation thousands of people long, but it will take many more courageous people to transform the Church, relationships with others and humble communities to recognize loving words, reminiscent of Dr King's Beloved Community: «intergroup and interpersonal living.»

Religions have constituted the core of the lives and communities of the people; cultures have expressed and transmitted their values, forms, styles and tastes; and civilizations have formed through the long accumulations of the peoples» religio - cultural achievements and failures.

The Kharijites» doctrine, which led the community to treat them as outlaws, was that people who disagreed with them concerning the consequence of committing a mortal sin should no longer be accepted as Muslims and should be killed on sight.

Civilization is the dimension of religio - culture which, through its long process of historical cumulation and geographical expansion, constitutes the matrix of community life of the peoples; its inner, organic nexus crosses the boundaries of human communities, organizing them into a large - scale constellation.

Such people can be lived with, the commentators imply, as long as they keep their beliefs safely within the confines of their own communities and leave the public square to those of a more modern and scientific bent.

The Huffington Post: «What I longed for with church, and what I think a lot of people long for, is not an exclusive club of like - minded individuals, but a community of broken and beloved people, telling one another the truth and taking it all a day at a time.»

Even the company's largest community, Long Prairie, Minn., has only a 3,400 people, according to the 2010 U.S. Census, so employees get to know their customers and often greet them by name.

As much as Campbell is committed to the natural wine movement, though, and as much as she thrives on the community («It's such an honor to roll up somewhere in the middle of Europe and just have people know you,» she says), she doesn't abide by dogma: «If I find a wine that's beautiful and resonates and needs to be seen and drank and it's not made from native yeast or the guy isn't working 100 percent organic, I just go with it, as long as I know what's going on.»

The outright rejection of this modest proposal is a step backwards for reconciliation, and disrespects both the people, and the process, which entailed a long period of consultation and collaboration among a broad cross-section of Indigenous Australian communities.