Sentences with phrase «questions about the justice»

«If it were only grace, making all earthly things cease to matter, God would still owe us an answer to the question about justice — the crucial question that we ask of history and of God.

So too, in every such location there are questions about the justice of the ways in which social, economic, and political power are distributed and how that distribution affects the people who live there.

We look for ways to reveal the scandalous grace of God to the world, raising questions about justice, righteousness, forgiveness, and love.

The question about justice is: What's the good of this pain?

His questions about justice are undoubtedly left without an answer.

For the witnesses of the most recent court session, the experience raised questions about justice, humanity and the ethics of the death penalty.

Questions about justice and the nature of government arise in both books.

My book looks at 11 cases of alleged wrongful conviction, all of which raise serious questions about the justice system.

The advocate general also does a weekly radio show in which people can call in with questions about the justice system.

But correctness is not the only issue in Wagar which also raised questions about Justice Camp's conduct.

And so long as she does, and Mr. Trump remains president of the United States, it seems to me that questions about Justice Abella's impartiality could be raised.

Not exact matches

The proposed question about citizenship, finally, is liable to exacerbate an existing inequality in the administration of justice.

In an interview on the Time's podcast The Daily, reporter Michael Schmidt explains that about three - quarters of the 49 questions are intended to glean Trump's motivations behind decisions, statements and tweets about various topics — and indicate that investigators are looking at a potential obstruction of justice case.

Second, high inequality raises a moral question about fairness and social justice.»

The decision by Justice Jennifer Schecter of the New York state court in Manhattan in favor of California restaurateur Summer Zervos, a former contestant on NBC's «The Apprentice,» raises the prospect that Trump might have to answer embarrassing questions in court about his behavior toward women.

In response, Mueller said he would like the chance to ask Trump questions about certain events that are crucial to the obstruction - of - justice case he has been building since Trump fired FBI director James Comey last year.

On pp. 19 - 21, Michael McCullough explores Warren Buffett's argument for why wealthy Americans like him should pay more taxes — which raises fundamental questions about distributive justice, freedom, and property rights.

Comey's testimony raises questions about whether Trump obstructed justice in his interactions with the former FBI director, beginning with a dinner on January 27, during which Comey said Trump asked him for his «loyalty.»

There has been some question about whether the ATF, which is part of the Justice Department, actually has the authority to ban bump stocks on its own.

A spokeswoman declined to answer a series of direct questions from CNBC about his case, instead providing a statement from Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division: «Bradley Birkenfeld was afforded due process of law and sentenced by a federal district court after full consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, including his admission that he advised wealthy UBS clients on how to conceal their assets from the U.S. government,» she said.

Equal Justice Works has compiled some basic questions to ask about any LRAP.

A spokesman for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to questions about a federal probe.

The extraordinary criticism raised questions about whether Trump was seeking to drive his top Justice official from office as a way to wrest control of the investigation from Mueller, who was appointed after Sessions» recusal for failing to immediately disclose his meetings with Kislyak.

Concerns about confidentiality and immigration status were discovered months before the Department of Justice asked to add a question about citizenship.

In the other passage, St. Thomas does address divine mercy and justice, but he is talking about God's work towards creation, so those passages aren't directly relevant to the question of the divine essence considered in itself.

People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.

His questions gave us an opportunity to talk about war, terrorism and, most importantly, justice.

If this is true, then it is reasonable to question whether this was about equality and justice or about discriminating against the Ashes because of what they hold to about Christianity.

The series, while entertaining, also raises some serious questions about oppression, violence, materialism, entertainment, and justice.

Pastors and mentors will of course feel compelled to offer guidance and prayer as young adults navigate the tricky terrain of sexuality, but they should not be deceived into thinking that the all the questions about faith, science, technology, religious pluralism, politics, justice, equality, and ethics emerging from the Millennial generation are related to sex and can be solved by abstaining from it.

Where the church is identified with the poor, and is active m the struggle for peace and justice, it does not have to worry about questions of relevance.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

The Justices write as if this question can be ignored or constitutes merely a «value judgment» about which reasonable people can disagree.

My friends at the invaluable Mirror of Justice blog have noted and commented on New York Times editor Bill Keller's snarky questions for and about the religious beliefs of various Republican candidates, but I feel compelled to add my two cents» worth.

A question is often raised about the relation between reconciliation and the struggle for justice, especially since the latter generates conflicts.

Ashcroft, in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee — the committee which has oversight authority over the Department of Justice — refused to answer pertinent questions about the detentions.

Interestingly, in September the Clinton Justice Department made some noises about possibly appointing some federal judges who are not on «the right side» of the abortion question.

Yes, the ultimate question about forgiveness, grace, mercy on the one side, and justice on the other.

Those who are involved in small groups often claim that these groups have influenced how they think on political and economic issues — for example, raising their interest in questions of peace and social justice or, in the case of conservative religious groups, generating ire about abortion and gay rights.

The recent ruling draws big questions about the criminal justice system, and how it is handling the prosecution of two children.

Large questions were at stake — questions about the meaning of life, the meaning of history, of society, of justice, of human flourishing.

In the face of a threat to public order, those with public power and the responsibility for maintaining peace, even if they care about justice, as Pilate did, are sometimes under pressure to sacrifice justice — and with it, all pretense of determining whose views are correct when it comes to life's big questions.

Söhngen attempted to do justice to Barth's insight about the frailty of human knowledge of God by placing the question of natural knowledge of God within a uniquely Christological context.

(Another way of putting this is that the environment is not a question of science but of justice; Marx, the obvious touchstone here, is very conflicted about where justice ends and where power begins, because he lacks an adequate theory of authority.)

While demanding respect for women who decide what is just for themselves, she views questions about the right to abortion (e.g., by Justices O'Connor and Rehnquist) as irresponsible acts of judging.

The heart of the issues is this: Theological education, in Stackhouse's view, incorporates the relevant pluralism in a way that inescapably implies a systematic relativism about all questions of truth and justice regarding God; it implies that the «Christian thing» has no intrinsic unity or identity.

Just when the culture starts asking questions about economic equality and issues of international justice for the poor, the church also starts teaching and writing about similar issues.

It is these hard questions about the nature of development, the life - style and justice that have to be raised.

The churches keep on raising questions, sometimes legitimate, about the style and structure of action groups and people's movements, without showing any readiness to face the challenge posed by the vision and strategy (justice and collective action) for the Church's ministry and mission.

By then a criminal justice major at Alabama, he also began to ask questions about the war that had caused his father's death.