Sentences with phrase «social justice concerns in»

They are integrally linked with other social justice concerns in our community.

(4) In addition to leading the church to address social justice concerns in such practical and far - reaching ways, Dr. Smith has served a term on the Oakland School Board after being elected by more than 80 percent of the vote.

Not exact matches

«As Hispanic Catholics in the U.S achieve upward mobility, they may become a little more conservative on social justice and concern for the poor,» Dillon says, «but currently many of the issues that are especially important to Catholics in Latin America are also very important to Hispanic Catholics in the U.S.»

The triumph of conservatives in the Southern Baptist Convention should not obscure the fact that a sizable number of Southern Baptists share classic liberal concerns for women's rights, racial and social justice and international peace, not to mention the viability of historical - critical method.

But our interest here is in the stereotypes of Mr. Rorty, and none of these concerns counts as «social justice» in his view since they are not aimed at advancing the redistribution of wealth under the auspices of the state.

Yet if the most important development in that doctrine in Caritas in Veritate is a strong linkage of the life issues to Catholic social - justice concerns, then it is also true that the challenge of this particular encyclical falls more sharply on those who believe that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided, and remedied an injustice in prior American law.»

Jens Soering's book The Convict Christ: What the Gospel Says About Criminal Justice (Orbis, 2006) won first prize in the «social concerns» category in the 2007 Catholic Press Association Awards.

In more modern terms, those who are committed to social justice have looked askance at those who are concerned to preserve the natural world.

When biblical scholars have interested themselves in ethical studies, they have tended to focus on rather specific, narrow topics: social justice, the status of women, war, vengeance, property rights, ecological concern for nature and the like.

Thus the particular historical exigencies and social possibilities in our own age will necessarily affect the ways in which these values are translated into norms on such issues as women's rights, sexual ethics, social justice, property rights, energy policy or ecological concerns.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

The prophets were the mouthpiece of YHWH in the concern for social justice and humanitarianism, and pioneered the way for all subsequent social reform.

Such a concern that social justice receive equal billing in the church's missionary task is motivated by two factors - the Biblical and the pragmatic.

Many Christians accepted the call to justice and righteousness in society without changing their views that social concern and action flowed forth in a secondary way from personal salvation.

Many young people in Latin America, who were motivated by the Gospel to love their neighbor and be concerned for justice and freedom in their society, have often become Marxists simply because their churches did not provide biblical instruction about Christian discipleship, or because they [their churches] were blind to clear demands from the Bible and opportunities and challenges provided by new social situations.80

The concerns of environmentalists and of social - justice advocates need not be in conflict when it comes to the attack on absolute rural poverty.

For, if faith is «trust in God's love alone for the ultimate meaning of our lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with it.

The pastoral role is concerned with ministry to individuals; the priestly role has to do with the proclamation of the faith and with leadership in the liturgical life of the church; the prophetic role focuses on judging the level of humaneness in the social order and pointing to the changes required if common justice is to be approximated; the kingly role takes up governance and the expression of neighbor love through responsible corporate action.

The church is called to embody the concern for individuals, interpersonal relations and social justice, for in the Christian life these are not distinct and separate but integrally related dimensions.

There has been remarkable progress in the concern for social justice and, in many countries, in the social and economic institutions which give effect to this higher sense of justice.

Where a domesticated piety dominates the commitments of a denomination, the conservation of middle - class ideals can blind both leaders and people to the prominent concern for social justice found in the Bible.

Much has been said in criticism of Luther's doctrine here, and there are many issues concerning the later development of the Christian ethic in relation to war and social justice; but our immediate concern is to understand Luther's faith that it is possible for the Christian to live the life of agape in the midst of the world's affairs and conflicts.

At first, justice had especially concerned the social group as a whole and Yahweh was held to be inflexibly fair in dealing with the clan or nation, thought of en masse.

For example, there is the common emphasis on otherworldly salvation for individual souls, with no corresponding emphasis on the social conditions that oppress and distort those souls and with no concern for justice in this world.

Reform Judaism (known in Europe as Liberal Judaism) seeks to preserve the basic moral precepts of the Torah and other ethical aspects of Jewish tradition — including a passionate concern for social justice.

His main concern was to link the identity of Christianity with social justice, oriented in love and defined by hope.

Nussbaum, who has frequently visited India to research how gender relations shape social justice, is particularly concerned about the situation of women in contemporary India.

Some see the issue in communism, some in devotional exercises in public schools, some in concern over pornography, some in issues of social justice.

These do not depend upon the highest ethical commitments of which men are capable, but upon that mixture of human sympathy, rationality and self - interest which constitutes the basic pattern of human motivation While Niebuhr is a realist about the possibilities of human justice he has a strong concern for the social reformism in politics which characterizes modern democracy and the Christian social Gospel.

Some people believe the health care situation in America would be scandalous to Jesus because he was a prophet concerned about social justice.

The Buddhist's sympathy with the pain of the world, the Hindu's sense of the unchanging stability of the Eternal, the Moslem's realization of international comradeship, the Confucian's appreciation of social morality, and... the sacrifices of scientific workers in the quest of truth and human welfare [and today, may we not add the Communist's concern for social justice, the humanist's insistence on the value of right self - realization of man's capacities, and the secularist's recognition of the non-religious goods in human experience?]

This disillusionment with the culture war, coupled with what might be thought of as an attendant «neo-Anabaptist turn,» has provoked in younger evangelicals an exploding interest in more communitarian aspects of church life and the integration of the gospel with what might be labeled «progressive» social justice concerns.

Offering voters social justice without addressing their basic concerns about physical insecurity in a world of borderless crime and terrorist threats is a recipe for future defeat.

«All who believe in social justice, in equality and in democracy and are concerned about the future of our children and young people will recognise the need for a change of political direction after the 2015 General Election.»

And I accept that excessive pay in banks owned by the taxpayer, and in other banks bailed out by the taxpayer, is a problem about which any government that cares for social justice ought to be concerned.

His concern with social justice, which manifested itself in The Sun Shines Bright also became more evident during the early»60s, in films such as Sergeant Rutledge (1960), Donovan's Reef (1963), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964), all of which sought to address problems of racial prejudice.

Don't judge it on how incredibly fast and loose it plays with a number of identity and social justice issues that don't appear to directly concern Hill or anyone else involved in the production in any way beyond exploitative amusement.

From his deep concern for the poor and wealth inequality, to his involvement in environmental issues and social justice, Pope Francis engages the audience face - to - face and calls for peace.

Even the teachers unions have been in the grip of neoliberal education policies, although for years I have advocated a social movement unionism — that is dedicated to engage beyond workplace concerns, but also in terms of wider political struggle for social and economic justice, for human rights, and for participatory and direct democracy.

In any case, their concern for social justice has led them to question whether the bureaucracy's agenda is consistent with the needs of students.

One of the best ways to develop cultural literacy and help our students understand these goals is through social justice processes and projects, activities that develop a mindset of concern for our society's inequity in wealth, education, and privilege.

Educators and others in society, though, have to start viewing inclusion as a right and a social justice issue, not just an educational concern, according to Dr. Mara Sapon - Shevin, a professor of education at Syracuse University.

What has become clear is that explicitly focusing on the educational concerns of poor and minority children regardless of where they live, and expanding that to the criminal justice reform and other the social issues that end up touching (and are touched by) American public education, is critical, both in helping all children succeed as well as rallying long - terms support for the movement from the parents and communities that care for them.

Although most teachers are concerned about students» critical engagement in our media - frenzied world, some teachers and students reject the idea that social justice has anything to do with literacy and learning.

The egregious disparities revealed in the pages that follow transform concerns about educational policy that allows frequent disciplinary removal into a profound matter of civil rights and social justice.

In the last month we've raised serious concerns about the lack of emergency preparedness at many campuses, provided the school district with an application process to pilot restorative practices in our schools, and called on district leaders to expand SAISD's simplistic conception of student success and measure our students in ways that do justice to their social and emotional needs — something absent from SAISD's endless focus on standardized test datIn the last month we've raised serious concerns about the lack of emergency preparedness at many campuses, provided the school district with an application process to pilot restorative practices in our schools, and called on district leaders to expand SAISD's simplistic conception of student success and measure our students in ways that do justice to their social and emotional needs — something absent from SAISD's endless focus on standardized test datin our schools, and called on district leaders to expand SAISD's simplistic conception of student success and measure our students in ways that do justice to their social and emotional needs — something absent from SAISD's endless focus on standardized test datin ways that do justice to their social and emotional needs — something absent from SAISD's endless focus on standardized test data.

Publishers are also citizens, and I find myself very much in sync philosophically with the concerns regarding social justice and equity of access that our librarians grapple with every day.

Whether in the realm of social justice, community building, spirituality or environmental concerns, the claim of art as a pure domain of disinterested aesthetic contemplation has been relentlessly challenged for over two centuries.

At 18th Street Arts Center, we have great concern about the state of our nation in this post-election world and want to confirm our mission and commitment to artists and social justice.

Some of the chatter concerns her biography: Casteel was born and raised in Denver and is the daughter of a social justice activist mom, herself the daughter of civil rights hero Whitney Moore Young, Jr..