Sentences with phrase «political leaders about»

Educate both the public and our political leaders about the importance of social - emotional learning (SEL) because of how it changes behaviors that concern and cost our society so much.

Write to your political leaders about shifting subsidies away from environmentally destructive activities to climate - benign energy sources.

Or it might be writing and talking to political leaders about the need for a carbon tax.

Educate both the public and our political leaders about the importance of social - emotional learning (SEL) because of how it changes behaviors that concern and cost our society so much.

Having said that, I think that the business community and education reformers must do everything they can to educate citizens, opinion shapers, and civic and political leaders about the urgent need to set higher standards.

The ZERO TO THREE Policy Center is an independent, non-partisan research - based voice that educates the public and political leaders about the unique developmental needs of babies and toddlers.

Steve Chalke considers what Jesus might say to our political leaders about race and identity.

Willem spends much of his time on the road reporting from major European cities and beyond, speaking to business and political leaders about Brexit and its implications, US - Europe relations, and international security.

Not exact matches

Questions about where Mr. Low and the prime minister's stepson — a movie producer behind films including «The Wolf of Wall Street» — obtained money for the United States properties have helped fuel political unrest in Malaysia, where several political leaders in the opposition and in Mr. Najib's own party have called for the prime minister to step down.

The world's business leaders are confident about going into 2017, despite the large number of political uncertainties, a survey shows.

From a political nobody, to one of the front runners of the 2017 French elections, this is everything you need to know about Emmanuel Macron, leader of En Marche!.

Foreign Policy — Discover the actions of our government beyond our borders and the attitudes about foreign policy held by our political leaders, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership, foreign aid programs, military intervention and more.

The 45th annual World Economic Forum kicked off today as business and political leaders prepare for urgent and immediate changes that are about to shake up the global economy.

Another student, Emma Gonzalez, said on ABC's «This Week» that the students want to talk to political leaders, including Trump, about gun control.

In this week's episode, we ask former PC President, Katherine O'Neill, about what really happened inside the PC party after it was nearly wiped off Alberta's political map in 2015, and why she decided to step down from the party executive, just three weeks after the election of party leader Jason Kenney.

When considering political leaders, it seems redundant to talk about egos.

Asian stock markets were mixed Monday amid uncertainty about the outcome of a central bank meeting in Japan and nervousness over whether U.S. political leaders will be able to reach a deal on the government's debt limit.

During a portion of an interview with NBC News National Political Reporter Heidi Przybyla, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - NV) stated, «the less we talk about impeachment, the better off we are as a country.»

One of the things I fear about our modern Christian «leaders» so many put on a pedestal, is their political pandering on these sorts of topics.

In remarks to Croatia's religious, political, business, and cultural leaders in Zagreb's National Theater, the Pope refined into six digestible propositions the case he has been making about religion - and - society ever since his election to the papacy in 2005: 1.

What Jesus said about the evil shepherds and other individuals, who were using the flock for their own selfish gratification, could also be said today of many of our religious leaders and our political leaders.

Denominational leaders, they charge, are interested only in bringing about social, political and economic change.

While only about a third of American evangelical leaders said they currently experience persecution for their faith, more than twice as many believe they will experience persecution in the form of social, financial, and political pressure in the years ahead, according to an NAE survey conducted in October.

I think I just read about a radio talk show host who is beginning to understand that a religious leader (the Pope) is outside his personal political ideology.

Perhaps the widening of the split between black liberal leaders and black conservative critics will lead to a more principled and passionate political discourse in and about black America.

In general, the cynical leaders of the backlash» as distinguished from the true believers at the grass roots who really do care about issues like abortion, religion, homosexual marriage, and the rest» are often moderate cultural modernists themselves, but they are perfectly happy to reap the benefits that accrue to them from red - state Americans losing sight of the material issues that ought to dominate their political imaginations.

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

Yet it is on Tax Day that we learn a lot about the giving nature of our political leaders, at least those who release their tax records.

The lawsuit claims that Lively conspired with political and religious leaders in Uganda beginning in 2002 to incite anti-LGBT hysteria with warnings about the dangers of LGBT people to children and hom.ose.xuality to Ugandan culture.

We can wax anxious about the details» impersonal suburban mega-churches taking the place of the intimate congregations, professionalized «community organizers» instead of local leaders, and of course a political process increasingly dominated by pollsters and spin artists» but we shouldn't lose sight of the basic American impulse.

For example, business leaders in the aftermath of the popular protests that challenged U.S. involvement in Vietnam complained about too much democracy in the United States.6 In a similar way, free elections are held up by U.S. leaders as essential for democracy unless political parties opposed to U.S. interests win.

In other words, evangelical leaders were willing to speak about the issue when it was unpopular to many conservatives (this is another reason why Christians should not be seen as a wing of any political party; they must speak prophetically as needed on issues).

Now, following a number of seismic lurches over the past two years, M5S appears to be moving into a post-Grillo phase, having six months ago replaced the comedian as de facto leader with 31 year - old Luigi Di Maio, in what seems to be a sign that the movement is about to grow up and join the political mudbath (albeit with Grillo remaining in the wings as «guarantor»).

Pope Francis's recent comments about the migrant crisis in Europe indicates that he's aware of these limits and respects the need for political leaders to grapple with them.

Canadians at one point in Ontario were thinking about having a Canadian Revolution, but, luckily, the British political leaders learned from their horrible failing in their treatment of Americans and they gave Canada a lot of political and economic rights — more than they gave the Americans, and they then gave us our own country.

It'll be interesting to see if those political leaders who admire Rand continue to talk openly about her philosophy as the 2012 presidential campaign escalates.

Some conservative Christian leaders have questioned Obama's Christian faith, even though Obama got his start in politics through church - based political organizing and has written about accepting Jesus in his 20s.

What worries us about liberal democracy is that political leaders, especially democratically elected ones, find it difficult to admit their mistakes.

Nearly 60 per cent said it did matter what political leaders think about homosexuality.

More Americans now think political leaders talk too little about their faith and prayer life (40 %, up from 30 % in March 2012), and fewer Americans think political leaders talk too much about their faith (27 %, down from 38 % in March 2012).

Christians living in better circumstances, however, need to take up the cause of their suffering brethren: they need to educate themselves about what is happening, spread the news, ask their own religious leaders to speak out, support reputable organizations that are working for religious freedom, and appeal to their political leaders to do far more in their contacts with key diplomats and oppressive governments.

Even former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, one of the most articulate Christian political leaders, seemed uncomfortable as he fielded questions from moderator Tim Russert that hinted there is something nefarious about religious groups receiving government funds for programs that serve the public.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

I found the speech to be very moving.I also liked what the president said about Billy Graham.There was a time when this country seemed more at peace within.Billy Graham seemed to command respect from most quarters, and he had the role of a patriarchal leader, in his own way.I'm sure he has political views, but I have never heard him say things that are polarizing, unlike too many ministers today.This country needs another Billy Graham, who will stand for the gospel, and his convictions; but who doesn't major in alienating others.

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

As our Road from Regensburg column recounts, his addresses to our political and cultural leaders seemed to hit the right note - giving us a gentle reminder about God.

The order requests that the Treasury Department not deny any «tax deduction, exemption, credit, or benefit» to groups and leaders for speaking about «moral or political issues from a religious perspective.»

But it should be a respectful opportunity for millions of Americans to hear the message of an important moral leader concerned about the «common good» of all Americans, without it being played out in the media as a divisive political sideshow.

While our political leaders — Democrats and Republicans alike — say a lot about the former, they say comparatively little about the latter.

From Dawn: Given all the nasty rhetoric that has been aimed at the LGBT community — and in that sense, at you personally — by Christian and Christian political leaders, what is it about Christianity itself that's so compelling that you haven't been turned off completely by so many of its messengers?