It also helped to foster the culture which surrounds First Things, perhaps the most articulate organ for the expression of
conservative religious voices in the current cultural climate.
But we are no longer the
sole religious voice, nor the exclusive voice of conscience in the community.
DO
allow religious voices to have dominance in the public sphere if they can not achieve majority support through democratic means.
Where the first conference simply featured a number of religious thinkers as speakers, this conference focused on the increasing (or at least increasingly perceived) «marginalization»
of religious voices in public discussion of bioethical issues.
The bigger, and ongoing, issue is the continual sanitization of unacceptable
religious voices from universities.
When First Things was founded, Richard John Neuhaus and his co-conspirators thought a
renewed religious voice in public life could reshape American politics.
As a result,
religious voices like those of philosophers Alastair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Paul Ricoeur, and John Milbank are closer to the heart of academic debate than they have been for several generations.
Richard John Neuhaus and others first published the magazine in 1990, our essential mission remains the same: to
make religious voices heard in the public square.
The problem is that systematically
excluding religious voices from the curriculum makes public education fundamentally illiberal — something that, ironically, most liberals fail to see.
Christian conservatives did not write the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, which intensified hostility
toward religious voices in the public square.
Patrick, I don't mind that you believe that, but it isn't exactly true, and the sad thing is that so many people are currently using that claim to try to
silence religious voices.
Stephen Lammers
depicts religious voices in bioethics as somewhat marginalized both in the academy and in the worlds of medicine and public policy.
More than twenty years ago Richard John Neuhaus and his colleagues founded First Things to project a confident, informed, engaged, and
religious voice into the Public Square.
The White House seems to have assuaged the concerns of liberal and
moderate religious voices, particularly Catholics, who complained that the U.S. Health and Human Services mandate on contraceptive coverage violated religious freedom of conscience.
Come hear one of the country's
leading religious voices on climate issues, and learn of the hopeful work the church is called to undertake on behalf of God's creation.
Prayer Pal joins a host of
religious voice apps that have been made available for Google Assistant, from Divine Song, an action that plays songs from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita, to YouVersion, a Bible - reading action with a narrator that can read scripture based on your mood.
get this) DO NOT
allow religious voices to have dominance in the public sphere (politicians want their vote) DO ensure that the voices of religious minorities and those who have no faith are protected (again protected..
period) DO listen to
religious voices on social, political and economic issues (don't shout down Christians especially) allow people to justify their views (justify..
«And no matter how you slice it, I believe this healing will require the help
of religious voices and American Muslims.»
The larger worry for Lammers» and it is a worry worth pondering» is that
religious voices in public may be heard simply as another «interest group.»
But
religious voices (conservative and liberal, Christian and non-Christian) must be included in the curricular conversation, not to save religion, but to be consistent with our educational, political and constitutional principles.
Moreover, if combined with a healthy respect for the role of
the religious voice in politics, the accommodation principle might at least create some pressures for the society to change for the sake of religion.
Although there have been some clever moves in political philosophy to explain why
the religious voice should not be a part of our public debates, such theories wind up describing debates from which deeply religious people are simply absent.
«The vast majority of
religious voices are clear that there is no justification for making the provision of aid or assistance conditional on expressing religious beliefs.
Especially in these times, we desperately need voices —
religious voices — to speak on behalf of respect, pluralism, civility and nonviolence.
When rhetoric of a qualified justice, a qualified humanity fill the airwaves,
religious voices of unqualified justice, unqualified love, unqualified respect must be raised in song, in prayer, in preaching, in politics.
What have
these religious voices been saying?
If you believe that religion lives on the right, and you are booking a television program, then when you look for an authentic «
religious voice» you're probably going to find a conservative one.
Those who wonder whether
a religious voice can speak religiously in public might ponder Allen Verhey's concluding meditation on Psalm 88.
Even without the kind of success Planned Parenthood experienced under Richards, some pro-life leaders said their movement's opposition — which now enjoys a broader coalition of
religious voices and a wave of enthusiasm from millennials — would be just as fierce.
So tell
your religious voice to pipe down and enjoy the moment (AND USE PROTECTION if you don't want disease and aren't ready for children!)
I doubt any of
these religious voices have casted away all their possessions and are leaving in the woods praying and following Gods words — and if you hear some one telling you do something — we do have some help for you and some very good medications, too, that will make those voices stop!!
After all,
every religious voice I heard in my youth - whether it was from the pulpit or in the news - told me that I was evil and that there was something wrong with me.
For good or ill, religion is now a major factor in this country and it's important that
religious voices should be heard in both the Commons and the Lords.