Sentences with phrase «secular elites»

And it is this theology, along with the blindness of secular elites, that is stirring up populist rebellions — not closed steel mills.

In my view this tempts us to accept a soft dhimmitude imposed by secular elites, a temptation that we need to resist in every possible way.

That's been the trend among secular elites for decades, which is why I think legalization is likely to happen.

First Things is uniquely positioned to build an international community of religious intellectuals, writers, and activists to contest with secular elites for the future of global culture.

But with a black President, many media pundits, racists, and white secular elites seem to shrug off his faith statements as arising from cultural baggage, not sincerely held beliefs.

At the same time, however, Christian voices are discouraged from speaking in an explicitly Christian way to an increasingly secular elite culture.

Barton argues that religion — and Christianity in particular — played a huge role in the founding and history of the United States, and that that role has been largely scrubbed from the history books by modern secular elites.

«In the UK, it is socially respectable among the secular elite to regard Christianity as weird and permissible to bully its followers a little.»

Indeed, fundamentalist leaders frequently gave themselves the title of» «Dr.,» effectively saying that the institutions of the secular elite did not own the title, and that proven ability in the rough - and - tumble world of ordinary affairs — putting up radio stations and running colleges in remote mission outposts — was credential enough.

This is a message not likely to be well received by those secular elites that shape much of American cultural life.

The «symbolic code» that Whitehead insisted was essential in coping with change is expressed openly only in those religious communities outside the mainstream that is dominated by the secular elite.

Francis» words «have given unhelpful encouragement to those who would like the Catholic Church to surrender and accept the dominance of our secular elite.»

,» that challenged the parochialism of our secular elites.

But civic education, properly conceived, involves teaching children to appreciate our genuinely «core» liberties and institutions — not conscripting them as foot soldiers in the secular elite's ongoing struggle against religious and social conservatives.