Sentences with phrase «social action more»

The constructive implication here is that we need to structure social issues and social action more organically into the life of the congregation.

Not exact matches

As The Wall Street Journal notes, the call - to - action button allows the social network to easily track how users interact with businesses outside its platform — i.e. how they spend their time and more importantly, their money.

By placing a specific call to action on your social media site that leads to a dedicated landing page, you can capture more customers.

If you notice a lot more people using Foursquare to «check in» at your business, you can most likely thank Foursquare itself for the influx in social - media action.

So, even with the temptation to spend based on social media, «millennials are finding innovative ways to build their financial strength,» Kelash says, «and are becoming more confident because of these actions.»

Braiding together more than 40 years each in business profitability / marketing and organizing for social change, Shel Horowitz — known as «The TransformpreneurSM «-- is working to create a world that rewards business for human - focused, planet - focused values and actions.

Government Accountability — The need for accountability in government is vast, spanning social programs to business regulation, military action and more.

Years later, though, the latest controversy is spurring demands for more action from consumer advocates, who say the FTC is partly to blame because it did not penalize the social media giant for other privacy mishaps.

Action: Use multiple browsers and / or browser containers Who is this for: People who don't want to stop using social media entirely How difficult is it: Some effort to not get in a muddle Tell me more: Using different browsers for different online activities can be a good way of separating portions of your browsing activity.

Grounded in social democratic values and ideas, the Institute seeks to deepen our democracy, encourage strong action to counter growing economic and social inequality, and fuel a transition to a more innovative and sustainable economy.

At a side when the organic reach of business pages is almost dead, the social networking giant is introducing features, such as Call to actions buttons and many more for to benefit brands.

More positively, almost all of these portrayals include a focus on social action and justice.

Back then, Obama cited his religion more as a basis for social action than for spiritual sustenance.

Thanks in large part to his personal verve and social action within and without, the church reaches more people at Yale than on any other campus I know about.

This year marks the launch of what could be the largest Christian social action project the UK has ever... More

This broader understanding of what we seek to defend should make social conservatives both more and less political than we have tended to be: We should be more political in that we do more than occasionally resort to legal appeals to protect our own freedom of action.

More striking are the shifting responses regarding personal development, fellowship and social action.

Since the «ever - enduring social instincts» were more primitive and hence stronger than instincts developed later, the social instincts were the sources of our feelings of unease when some action of ours violated them.

’42 Indeed, women from all three continents, Africa, Asia and Latin America, say that «In the person and praxis of Jesus Christ, women of the three continents find the grounds of our liberation from all discrimination: sexual, racial, social, economic, political and religious... Christology is integrally linked with action on behalf of social justice and the defense of each person's right to life and to a more humane life.43 This means that Christology is about apartheid, sexual exploitation, poverty and oppression.

We suspect that when the conservative clergy preach on such topics it is to denounce such individual action — when they preach on crime they emphasize «Thou shalt not steal,» while the more liberal clergy emphasize the social causes of crime.

Hence, the principle of religious freedom also implies that constitutional stipulations should do nothing more than institutionalize the formative principle of communicative respect; they can not properly require of any citizen as a political participant explicit adherence to any substantive prescription for social action.

A specific social practice occurs in the context of social relationships generally and, therefore, may specify more general norms or principles of social action.

In other contexts, such as that of social action, we may want liberals to be more assertive about convictions that divide them from others; to be willing, for example, to call a social policy unchristian that they think is unchristian.

A social action project aimed at mobilizing congregational support of legislation to provide more opportunities for job training for the poor (primary prevention).

Rorty feels that philosophy should not be thought of as a foundation for education or politics; on the contrary, he insists that grounding social and political action on philosophical theories of human nature has done more harm than good.

He concludes that more attention to the Bible did not necessarily mean more virtuous action; that personal engagement with the Bible did result in self - sacrificing service, but also in divisive hubris, mistaken interpretations (such as the identification of America with ancient Israel), and blindness to social evils; and that Protestant spiritual individualism undercut corrupt hierarchies and supported democracy, but also promoted political excesses and violent anti-Catholicism.

abortion as a standard part of health - care provision, insisting on programmes of sex education that promoted a range of sexual activities and downgraded marriage... all this and more gave great cause for concern and brought together a group of doctors, teachers, social workers and others anxious to take some action.

He thinks that the recent swell in political interest is due to more churches getting involved in social action over the past 20 years, from running foodbanks with the Trussell Trust to working with Christians Against Poverty (CAP) in alleviating debt.

Accordingly, the social sciences may be expected to play an increasingly important role in liberal learning, as it becomes ever more evident that the conditions of human existence are not simply imposed by fate, nor the results of the interplay of blind, impersonal forces, but the consequences of deliberale human action.

While I don't believe that we all need to take such drastic action as Esther did, I do feel we need to be more aware of the emotional impact chasing after «Likes», and spending energy on being noticed on social media has on us.

The effects of this we shall note repeatedly as we look more precisely at social sin and hence at the need of enlightened and loving social action.

While no Christian disagrees with these efforts, some Catholic, Orthodox, liberationist and ecumenical Christians tend to reject these emphases because they fail to evoke direct social action in the more usual sense.

Spirit - blessed theology is not merely a means to an end of social change, though I can think of no action that has more enduring political significance.

More recently, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) established a Committee on the Social Aspects of Science, whose 1956 report spoke of «the pressing need that scientists concern themselves with social action» and urged scientific organizations to abandon their traditional isolation from public proSocial Aspects of Science, whose 1956 report spoke of «the pressing need that scientists concern themselves with social action» and urged scientific organizations to abandon their traditional isolation from public prosocial action» and urged scientific organizations to abandon their traditional isolation from public problems.

I recall the awakening of a social action committee which decided to launch a community effort to deal more constructively with the problems of a slum - ghetto.

Performances in the confessional mode in a ritual context are «primarily concerned with identity and self - disclosure»; in the political (or ethical) mode performance «is oriented more toward affecting the world through direct social and political action.»

The plan calls for four separate and complete educational systems, ranging from a more traditional system designed to serve churches dissatisfied with the national emphases on social action to a forward - looking system meant for churches wishing to be involved in social change.

But more important is that the discrete region of Christian social action has foundations in a certain way of interpreting the Christian faith, a way which is native to theological schools and for the most part foreign to Protestant congregations.

This knowledge of love as grace is the real meaning of I Corinthians 13, which ought to be studied more often for the ethics of social action.

The bottom line here is that the Republicans» fascination with an unfettered free market and their lack of faith in the government's ability to provide any benefits to our common life (except to assist business in making money) is no more consistent with Catholic teaching than the Democrats» emphasis on individual freedom in social questions and their faith in human perfectibility through government action.

Changes in circle 5 (larger, more impersonal organizations) and circle 6 (the systems beyond the local community) may occur through educational [and] persuasive approaches, but often they require the use of political [and other social action] methods....

With money for social programs scarce, my own priority is to put cash into more direct actions on sexual and domestic violence rather than into prosecuting obscenity.

The field of imagination at any rate is broad, ranging from automatic, instinctual, or reflex actions (in which the problem of meaning is virtually, but not entirely, non-existent), to more or less habitual modes of response to «natural signs,» and rising ultimately to sophisticated conceptual activity and various poetic or secondary forms of meaning — making in cultural and social significations.19 In the higher reaches of semiotic activity an increase in imaginative freedom is accompanied by a greater risk of error.

Even as God's work as Creator is in the deeper interest of every creature in a cosmic order that frees it to realize its own interests as fully as possible in solidarity with all its fellow creatures, so right actions toward others and, even more so, right structures of social and cultural order are byway of realizing the same deeper interest, thereby carrying forward God's own work of creation.

In Livezey's terms, adapted from Robert Wuthnow's, they are more likely to engage in «cultural production,» focused on theology, morality and community, than in traditional social action.

The survey bears out that the caliber of leadership is a far more determinative factor in church growth than questions of liberal - versus - conservative positions, or social action versus personal - individual religious experience and expression.

«A kind word, a warm smile, and a hearty handshake,» wrote one spokesman in a national Protestant magazine, «is more effective for church strategy in race relations than all of its social and political action programs.»

Community clergymen can therefore move into action in the prevention of mental and emotional disturbances in each of these three areas: (1) by using the mental health center resources to make their total pastoral ministry more effective in the early detection of problems; (2) by becoming more comfortable in the use of their own style of helping troubled people so that some crisis situations can be contained; (3) by using the rich resources of social concern in the churches to attack the wider problems out of which so many individual cases of emotional disturbance arise.

Persons or groups with strong commitments to social action or evangelical faith often shun direct engagement with Wiltshire - like churches, dismissing them as lost to the cause, and instead issue more general pronouncements that avoid the nastiness of encounter with specific congregations whose values oppose their own.

Christianity in its more pietist, fundamentalist and conventional expressions, has confined its attention largely to the ultimate spiritual salvation forgetting its temporal witness in charitable social service and more than that, in social action to bring about justice in social structures.