Sentences with phrase «social and political issues in»

Her paintings and mixed media work utilize pop culture and humor to address social and political issues in a meaningful and forthright manner.

Her work is primarily focused on the invisible social and political issues in contemporary society.

Hogin is deeply concerned by the social and political issues in our contemporary culture.

Jakkai Siributr (b. 1969) works primarily with textiles, creating powerful statements about religious, social and political issues in contemporary Thailand.

Celebrated Bangladeshi Artists Premiere Works Confronting Social and Political Issues in New Exhibition

Should school leaders speak out on social and political issues in this contentious time?

Internet forums and radio stations will be extended to allow young people to discuss social and political issues in a public space that can not be hijacked by extremists.

C.E.O.s are speaking out on social and political issues in sometimes startling ways, recasting the role business plays in the national debate.

The Gaeltacht [areas where the Irish language is the vernacular], for example, is a social and political issue in Ireland.»

Not exact matches

With the scope and reach of a political platform, the company publicly declared goals for itself on practically every major social issue it touches, from local sourcing and carbon emissions to ethical recruiting and the treatment of workers in its suppliers» factories.

There are two distinct types of social infrastructure that must be built: The first encourages engagement in existing political processes: voting, engaging with issues and representatives, speaking out, and sometimes organizing.

In early January, Walden Asset Management, a corporate client who uses Vanguard for their 401 (k) program, wrote Vanguard about its proxy voting practices with respect to social and environmental issues like political spending and climate change.

But in Germany the labor movement remains strong, and on workplace issues the mainstream political parties, the Christian Democrats as well as the Social Democrats, are well to the left of their American and British counterparts.

Our team at Truth In Media is committed to providing quality content focusing on issues that impact humanity, featuring a number of fearless journalists sharing their expertise with a diverse audience that honors genuine and compelling reporting that transcends political, social and geographic boundaries.

Alexander Chan is a Hongkonger with a fond interest in China & Hong Kong's political and socioeconomic development, especially issues related to social mobility.

Zillow is partnering with ATTN:, an issues driven media company with a mission to deliver engaging content to a mobile - first audience, informing people to make a social impact and engender greater participation in communities, the political process and the world.

Cybersecurity is a hot topic this year at the World Economic Forum's annual gathering in Davos — an event that examines the major economic, political, technological, and social issues impacting our world.

This meeting will be held under the Chatham House Rule, so expect candid opinions and economic, social and political issues discussed in depth.

«Although the French government has introduced or announced a number of measures intended to address these competitiveness and growth issues, the implementation and efficacy of these policy initiatives are complicated by the persistence of long - standing rigidities in labor, goods and services markets as well as the social and political tensions the government is facing,» Moody's said.

In 2014, for example, shareholder proposals related to social and political issues received average support of 29 % with ISS's support, and only 5 % if ISS recommended against.

I am no expert in Vatican politics, but I know better than to close my eyes to the fact that there are those who do not share the insight that Weigel attributes to John Paul II and to Benedict» the insight that Nielsen herself embraces» «that all social issues, including political and economic questions, are ultimately questions of the nature of the human person.»

Though seminary faculties like to affirm, in principle, a relationship between Christian theology and the life of the church, academic theology tends to view the ministering congregation as an addendum to the really interesting issues of ethics, philosophical and political theology, or social policy.

Our generation needs to add to the mix our own sages who were born in the same century we were, who can engage the same issues we face in our communities and our political and social landscape.

-- I tried to sidestep some of the political and social questions raised (due to my lack of expertise in these areas and to the many other opinions already aired in response to this article) and instead call attention to some of the spiritual issues at stake.

It is this view of things that accounts for the contemporary politicizing of Christian endeavor, with the churches exhausting themselves in trying to tell the world what to do, including issuing directives for social and political action.

Romney has several well publisized religious conflicts and social issues in which the Morman church pours million into lobbying and political issues.

Until those issues are resolved within each person — religiously or psychologically or existentially — the social and political issues will never be resolved, except in a slapdash way.4

Authority is an issue that occupies a central place in current ecumenical discussion among the churches and it is one of enormous social and political importance as well.

In the Conference on Church and Society (Geneva, 1966), considered «the first genuinely «world» conference on social issues» because of equal representation by all the continents, there were strong demands for the churches to take a more active role in «promoting a world - wide revolutionary opposition to the capitalist political and economic system being imposed on the new nations by the Western industrial countries which was leading to new types of colonialism and oppression» (Albrecht, DEM 1991: 936In the Conference on Church and Society (Geneva, 1966), considered «the first genuinely «world» conference on social issues» because of equal representation by all the continents, there were strong demands for the churches to take a more active role in «promoting a world - wide revolutionary opposition to the capitalist political and economic system being imposed on the new nations by the Western industrial countries which was leading to new types of colonialism and oppression» (Albrecht, DEM 1991: 936in «promoting a world - wide revolutionary opposition to the capitalist political and economic system being imposed on the new nations by the Western industrial countries which was leading to new types of colonialism and oppression» (Albrecht, DEM 1991: 936).

But while experience shows that the Catholics» answer to the fundamentalists lies in the base communities, only a minority of bishops have strongly pushed for them because of the Vatican's frequently voiced concern that they are too «horizontal» — meaning that they are a democratic influence on a hierarchical church — and liable to become involved in social and political issues.

It is projecting an Urbana - style convention on evangelical social witness, annual conferences for pastors to explore avenues for the involvement of congregations in community justice issues, and the formation of vocational task forces among evangelicals in politics, business and other callings, through which the shape of American political and business life might be altered to promote Christian values.

But what is most striking about Studiorum Ducem is the interest in the social and political issues.

This is especially strange considering the large amount of attention theology gives these days to social and political issues and Weil's own passionate, often heroic involvement in social and political action.

The war in Vietnam was surely the most profound American social and political issue at the time of the survey.

The affirmations to be negated in Pius IX's 1864 Syllabus became affirmations to be affirmed in Leo XIII's famous 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum — positive statements of Catholic teaching on modern social and political issues.

It allows congregations to become active on political issues without the divisions sometimes engendered by church social action in the 1960s and «70s.

He did not envolved himself in social and political issue of his day but preached God's Kingdom as the ONLY hope for mankind.

Jay W. Forrester, professor of management at MIT whose sophisticated computer modeling of social and environmental issues led to the Club of Rome report on «The Limits of Growth,» sees the political and economic stresses in the world as caused by the necessary transition from worldwide growth to equilibrium.

A statement read: «In a social and political climate such as ours, it often takes a gathering of unlikely individuals to shape the future of our nation on issues of faith and inner city initiatives.

He does not ignore political and economic developments, but he pays special attention to social issues, including, as he says in his preface, «the transformation of gender relations, the regeneration of the home, the disciplining of leisure and pleasure, and the establishment of segregation.»

It has, on the one hand, become more in line with the American way of life, while at the same time increasing its commentary and critique on specific social and political issues.

Since Harold Lindsell assumed the position of editor late in the sixties, Christianity Today has moved away from the mere elucidation of socially related Biblical principles, as Henry thought was right, to an ongoing commitment to social critique and specific commentary on a wide range of social and political issues.

These are issues in international relations, in the interplay of social movements and classes, and in political appeals.

There will always be differences of judgment in the Christian group on specific political and social issues.

Sharp declines in relative numbers (to about one - fifth of the population), even sharper reduction in religious commitment, and deep divisions on social issues sapped the Mainline's political strength and undermined its dominant position in the Republican Party.

«Serious economic, social, and political issues in the Muslim world... need urgent remedying,» Safi Writes, and if «one is talking about a reformation that would address all of those levels, then I would suspect that most progressive Muslims would readily support that usage of the term.»

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

Our present argument is that responsibility exercised in love leads to continual inquiry within the social and political processes where complex issues are decided.

He asks us to believe that the U.S. bishops issued a statement called «Political Responsibility» during a U.S. election year that merely rediscovers nineteenth - century German social thought, which by chance offers a political platform that, by sheer coincidence, parallels the U.S. Democratic platform program by program, yet these very bishops are completely immune from influence by the current political constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the CatholPolitical Responsibility» during a U.S. election year that merely rediscovers nineteenth - century German social thought, which by chance offers a political platform that, by sheer coincidence, parallels the U.S. Democratic platform program by program, yet these very bishops are completely immune from influence by the current political constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the Catholpolitical platform that, by sheer coincidence, parallels the U.S. Democratic platform program by program, yet these very bishops are completely immune from influence by the current political constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the Catholpolitical constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the Catholic faith.

Nevertheless, it takes seriously the developments in critical Bible studies, the new insights gained from the social sciences of cultural anthropology and sociology, the impact of technology and political theory in rapid cultural change and the issues raised by cross-cultural communication on a global scale.