Not exact matches
All of them understood that while the information relating to the romantic and sexual
lives of celebrities may be matters of
public concern, the act of publishing secretly - recorded footage of a celebrity naked and having sex in a private bedroom is not a matter of
public concern.»
When asked his opinion of Taunton before a
public debate, Hitchens said, «If everyone in the United States had the same qualities of loyalty and care and
concern for others that Larry Taunton had, we'd be
living in a much better society than we do.»
These are
concerns that go to the heart of the raison d'etre of this journal and its publisher, the Institute on Religion and
Public Life.
In taking a retrospective look at the second millennium, it is therefore both inevitable and entirely proper to explore the continuing impact of the Reformation, particularly
concerning religion and
public life.
If God is not much
concerned about religion as a separate sphere of private or
public life and if he is present where the needy cry out for help, then as Christians we can not fail to take most seriously the analysis of the concrete social situation in which we find ourselves.
Here the Supreme Court began to set in legal concrete the notion that sexual morals and patterns of family
life are matters of private choice or taste, not matters of
public concern in which the state has a legitimate interest.
Fundamentalism was too other worldly and anti «intellectual to gain a hearing amongst the educated
public, and was unwilling to
concern itself with exploring how Christianity related to culture and social
life in general.
Although Calvin never lost sight of these themes, he is perhaps best remembered for his detailed exposition of the leading themes of the Reformed faith in his Institutes of the Christian Religion» widely regarded as the most significant religious work of the sixteenth century» and his wrestling with issues
concerning the identity of the church and its place in
public life.
In «The Unhappy Fate of Optional Orthodoxy» (
Public Square, January), Richard John Neuhaus proposes «Neuhaus» Law»
concerning the
life of religious institutions: «Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.»
Therefore a loving
concern about this problem requires that men and women together try to learn what new possibilities of the organization of
public life for both sexes there may be.
Most
public debate
concerns ethical issues such as the beginning and the end of
life, or the permissibility of certain sexual behaviors.
A survey last month by the Pew Forum on Religion and
Public Life found «little evidence to suggest that
concerns about the candidates» respective faiths will have a meaningful impact in the fall elections.»
He also warned of the rise of intolerant forms of secularism, saying: «Increasingly there are
concerns that current understandings of secularism can lead to an aggressive, imposed form of
public life where no room for faith discussion is left at the table.
It is 25 years since James Watson and Francis Crick published their initial paper on the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), but the technology to manipulate this genetic key to all of
life is very new — so new that only during this past year did it become a matter of interest and
concern to the general
public.
The erotic literature of the age which is so exclusively
concerned with one person's enjoyment of another and the pseudo-psychoanalytical thinking which looks for the solution to the problem of marriage through simply freeing «inhibitions» both ignore the vital importance of the Thou which must be received in true presentness if human
life, either
public or personal, is to exist.
And recently, those revelations were brought into even broader perspective through a study conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and
Public Life, which rated most of the Arab Spring countries as «high or very high»
concerning government - imposed religious restrictions.
The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual
life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian
Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the
public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).
The most important prejudice
concerns priority: «The first thing to be said about
public life is that
public life is not the first thing.»
The questions about religion and
public life, those calling for «
public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but
concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our
public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the
public reaction to them, and protecting the
public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!
Seventy percent of the respondents to a survey conducted by the Williamsburg Charter Foundation (a non-sectarian organization
concerned with religion and
public life) said, «Religion has a place in
public life.»
We are called today to a similar integration of words and deeds... We repent that the narrowness of our
concerns and vision has often kept us from proclaiming the lordship of Jesus Christ over all of
life, private and
public, local and global.
It seems to me that, so far as
public policy is
concerned, some version of pragmatic pluralism is indeed the only
live academic option.
Such a basis for
public policy is not consistent with either a humanitarian tradition or a Christian view, nor does it acknowledge the diversity of beliefs that exist
concerning the role of sex in human
life.
Christ condemns as sin lack of
public concern, lack of responsible political participation, lack of commitment to ways of peace in
public life and concord among the nations.
Churchgoers have grown increasingly
concerned about the secularization of culture and the moral, vacuum in
public life, and many seek solutions in the reChristianizing of education.
In fact, if Christian witness in
public life is the goal, this teaching ministry is to be preferred to the clerical leaders of the church controlling the decisions and activities of their lay members by communal dictate which is usually based on communal minority self - interests and rights and not on
concern for the total neighbourhood.
Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members
living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in
public life with a
concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).
In this chapter we are
concerned with the significance of all
public worship as such and with why praying in church should be part of the normal Christian discipline of
life.
As a proponent of the importance of religion in
public life, Neuhaus is right to be
concerned, even outraged.
What is called for here is that the religious
concern for
public life be expressed through the faithful laity and not through the institutional authority of religions, that is.
«Whoso turns his attention to the bitter strifes of these days and seeks a reason for the troubles that vex
public and private
life must come to the conclusion that a fruitful cause of the evils which now afflict, as well as those which threaten, us lies in this: that false conclusions
concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schoolsof philosophy, have now crept into all the orders of the State, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.»
Religion is
concerned with the meaning of
life and with faith expressing itself in bringing forgiving love in inter-personal relations and justice for the poor and the weaker sections of society in inter-people power - relations of
public life.
If religion is
concerned with ultimate Truth or God, it can not but have its implications for the whole of
life, private and
public, and therefore the fundamental human right of religious freedom should include the right to express religious faith in prophetic ministry in society and politics in the name of justice.
Indeed, many of the contemporary activists and academics most
concerned about the marginalization of religion in American
public life frame their critiques as issues of free exercise and not establishment.
Clarke D. Forsythe, senior counsel for Americans for
Life, has written an essential book for lawmakers and all participants in the ongoing culture wars, particularly those engaging in public - policy issues concerning the origins of life, the end of life, and marri
Life, has written an essential book for lawmakers and all participants in the ongoing culture wars, particularly those engaging in
public - policy issues
concerning the origins of
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life, the end of
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life, and marriage.
Gregory does not, it turns out, base his critique on
concerns about salvation and true doctrine, but instead on the inability of the contemporary world — having unjustly excluded religious ways of thinking from the
public arena of the secularized university — to address and resolve adequately for people what he calls «
Life Questions.»
Other CIA initiatives have further enhanced the college's position of leadership on these vital issues, including Healthy Kitchens, Healthy
Lives ®, a continuing medical education (CME) conference co-presented by the CIA and the T.H. Chan Harvard School of
Public Health; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and b
Public Health; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and
public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and b
public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility
concerns within the foodservice sector and beyond.
The
public health implications of arsenic contamination in food and water, particularly foods like infant rice cereals and other commonly consumed rice products early in
life, raise serious
concerns.»
WABA expressed
concern that the Bill will open the doors to marketing and promotion in the
public health system, risking the
lives of millions of infants and young children in the country, via a Letter to the President of the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino III.
A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of
life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the
concern among
public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165
The electeds mailed Bloomberg yesterday raising
concerns about quality - of -
life issues at the park, which is privately owned by Brookfield Properties, but is considered
public space.
Of course, I'm not talking about an absolute but a rule of thumb, and all bets are off when it
concerns elected officials and others whose
lives are in the
public realm (celebrities, wannabes, MySpace exhibitionists, porn stars, bloggers), since there's no way a reality show contestant (for instance) can claim a reasonable expectation of privacy.
The Minister further said government is putting a lot in place to ensure that the Steel Complex gets back to
life as the company would no longer be run as a
public concern.
Among the significant
concerns underlined by the Venice Commission are: i) lack of broader consensus and no
public consultations, ii) unclear criteria and discretionary methods for establishing constituencies, iii) no clear criteria for the representation of Transnistria and of Moldovan citizens
living abroad, and, iv) constituency members of parliament would be vulnerable to being influenced by business interests.
«The Working Group will review possession and
public smoking of marijuana to address
public concerns in the fairest way possible, while also promoting
public safety and quality of
life for all New Yorkers.»
An ongoing independent poll of 143,000 working people being conducted for Unite, Britain's biggest union, shows that immigration is in fact ranked last as an issue of
concern with working people's top worries being money problems, the rising cost of
living, cuts to
public services, stress, education and housing.
BHA Head of
Public Affairs Pavan Dhaliwal commented, «We are
concerned that the outcome of this consultation is that pupils
living further away from Tudor Grange Academy will get priority over those
living closer because they attend St James primary.
Labour's campaign is correctly focussed on housing and
public transport, two of Londoners» most pressing
concerns about
living standards.
We asked Higgins about his
concerns for the future of education, especially for children
living in poverty that attend Buffalo
Public Schools.
By their very nature, newspapers are more directly in touch with the
lives and
concerns of the British
public than any other agency.