Sentences with phrase «social justice issues in»

James S. Rickards High School (Tallahasse, Fl) uses PeaceJam to instill civic engagement, peacemaking skills, and the understanding of social justice issues in its students.

Providing students with the opportunity to research and explore the history of civil and social justice issues in their own communities can be a powerful tool for learning and reflection.

Conservatives think it's a problem to include social justice issues in the reform movement, because it threatens to splinter coalitions by introducing divisive racial and social issues.

Says Chung, who was a junior at a Los Angeles - area high school at the time,» [The riots] opened my eyes to how we do or do not teach about social justice issues in schools.»

Laalitha Surapaneni, M.B.B.S., M.D., M.P.H., an instructor of medicine and a hospitalist at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, was recently added to the board of Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility, which advocates on environmental and social justice issues in Maryland and Virginia.

Since 1976 I have been associated with the faculty, students, staff, and administration of Pacific School of Religion, where an entire academic community is also a faith community struggling with a multitude of social justice issues in personal and corporate ways.

NETWORK, a group founded by 47 Catholic sisters that speaks out on social justice issues in particular, will be hitting states like Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia in order to reveal «how federal budget cuts proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan, (R - WI), and passed by the House of Representatives will hurt struggling families in these states,» a release by the group reads.

But, I couldn't pass up a chance to address what I see as a key social justice issue in our society.»

The extreme lack of access to pet resources for millions of people is an overlooked national crisis and a social justice issue in its own right.

Not exact matches

She gets that investing in women isn't just a social justice issue but an economic issue as well.

In a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, the mogul reflected on his desire to «amplify» discussions around issues of social justice, and the decision to produce documentaries about Kalief Browder and Trayvon Martin.

The Sherwood Foundation, led by the billionaire's daughter Susan A. Buffett, targets social - justice issues in Nebraska.

El Puente, a Latino organization based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that focuses on social justice, education and climate change issues, has raised enough money to purchase thousands of lanterns — which Puerto Ricans on the island view as a glimmer of hope to help guide them through the dark.

Premiers concluded their meeting in Edmonton by looking at ways to advance shared objectives on critically important justice and social issues.

In addition to this general statement, the Party also provides a detailed summary of its policies in key areas, including health care, the economy, democratic reform, education, the environment, and social justice and issueIn addition to this general statement, the Party also provides a detailed summary of its policies in key areas, including health care, the economy, democratic reform, education, the environment, and social justice and issuein key areas, including health care, the economy, democratic reform, education, the environment, and social justice and issues.

And in truth prudent privatization could address more effectively «social justice» issues than single - payer schemes given our demographic and debt challenges.

«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.»

People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.

Jason Fileta and Scott Bessenecker have both been working in social justice for years, learning the keys to inspiring people to take action on issues of justice the hard way.

In particular, NETWORK, a group founded by 47 Catholic nuns that speaks out on social justice issues, went on a bus tour around the country to protest the Ryan budget.

Moderate Protestants (along with Catholics) tend to «lean in a conservative direction on personal life - style issues and in a more liberal direction on matters of social justice.»

That's why we cover life issues and culture next to social justice and spiritual growth — to look at the things relevant to our lives and world, and give voice to what God is doing in and through our generation.

But as much as John Paul appreciated the United States, he kept his independence and issued a series of declarations about social justice and peace that challenged many Americans — both on the domestic front and in foreign affairs.

Dolan's statement framed the issue in terms of social justice and respect: «Every person deserves to be treated with justice, compassion, and respect, a proposition of natural law and American law that we as Catholics vigorously promote.»

Since then, she has earned a Masters in Social Justice and directed a short - term missions site on the west - side of Chicago, where she created interactive opportunities for young people to engage issues of poverty, injustice, and race.

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.»

Vermeer lives in the Chicago suburbs and blogs about the intersections of faith and feminism and, increasingly, social justice issues on her blog, From Two to One.

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.

Between 1980 and 1995, 32 percent of the articles in the CHRISTIAN CENTURY dealt with social - justice issues, only 5 percent with family - and sex - related topics.

Moreover, more than 40 percent of family - focused articles in these journals and in the CENTURY dealt with social - justice - related issues like child poverty.

Started in 2007 by Nina Brav, REVO is an organization that connects people who are passionate about social justice issues with charities that aid their favorite cause — like charity matchmaking.

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.

In an editorial introducing an issue on the Scriptures, editor John Alexander struggles with the apparent inverse correlation between commitment to «inerrancy» and commitment to social justice.

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 central term of normative Christian thinking in relation to social issues has been «justice.»

You can check out your favorite stores on BetterWorldShopper.org (they have an app, too, if you want to check it on the go) where they grade companies A-F (just like in school) based upon 5 issues: human rights, environment, animal protection, community involvement and social justice.

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Though in recent years he's become more and more vocal about social justice issues, for much of his career, Brand has been known for his uniquely raunchy brand of shock comedy (This is the guy who once brought his drug dealer to work with him when he was an MTV VJ.).

In inviting me to participate, Professor Joseph Bracken asked that I present some of the foundational elements in contemporary Christian liberation theologies relative to the issues of social justicIn inviting me to participate, Professor Joseph Bracken asked that I present some of the foundational elements in contemporary Christian liberation theologies relative to the issues of social justicin contemporary Christian liberation theologies relative to the issues of social justice.

In this lecture the author outlines the major social justice issues to which various forms of liberation theology are responding.

In this lecture I shall first outline the major social justice issues to which various forms of liberation theology are responding.

The New Deal did not, in their estimate, constitute the hardest step in bringing about a socialized economic system; the idealistic weekly was sidestepping the crucial issues of class conflict and the factor of coercion in effecting social justice.

Does the lack of explicitness in the Apostle's Creed leave open the possibility that a pastor or church could ignore the pressing issues of social justice, kingdom living, and earth - care, among many others?

Since then, she has worked with national speaker and consultant Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, earned a Masters in Social Justice, and directed a short - term missions site on the west - side of Chicago, where she created interactive opportunities for young people to engage issues of poverty, injustice and race.

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.

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.

On the other side of the social justice debate are those who argue that social justice issues are at the center of the Gospel, and that as we look at the life and ministry of Jesus, we see Him engaged in social justice actions at every turn.

First, some Christians say that social justice is a perversion of the Gospel, and that rather than seek to engage in social justice issues, we should instead just preach the Gospel.

Those who are involved in small groups often claim that these groups have influenced how they think on political and economic issues — for example, raising their interest in questions of peace and social justice or, in the case of conservative religious groups, generating ire about abortion and gay rights.

My own penchant in this regard has been to tilt toward social - justice issues.