Sentences with phrase «social life of communities»

You, and other people from the community, can help ensure that people with disability have the same opportunities as other Australians to participate in the political, economic and social life of our communities by letting us know what is happening.

Culture plays a central role in the political, economic and social life of communities.

But the sermon is the most consistent and public statement of the Christian vision and thus plays a crucial role in the social life of the community.

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According to the Global Well - Being Index, people say their most important concerns in life are community, finances, physical health, sense of purpose and a happening social life.

The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»

A model network for the internet age, Nerdist consists of a blog, podcast network, daily e-mail newsletter, premium YouTube channel, TV shows, live events and a massive social media footprint that includes the Nerdist Alliance, a community of curated partnerships with YouTube creators.

Almost 340,000 individuals participated in the Canadian Community Health Survey and General Social Survey from 2009 to 2013, which permitted Statistics Canada to perform community - level measures of life satisfaction for 33 census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and 58 economic regions across theCommunity Health Survey and General Social Survey from 2009 to 2013, which permitted Statistics Canada to perform community - level measures of life satisfaction for 33 census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and 58 economic regions across thecommunity - level measures of life satisfaction for 33 census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and 58 economic regions across the country.

But what I liked best about the book is how it engages with what I see as one of the most important and difficult social - policy questions of our time: How do we unstack the deck and, at the same time, get people to take ownership over improving their own lives and communities even when they reasonably believe that the deck is stacked against them?

The community and energy of live events adds richness and depth to your social media relationships, and makes a positive impact on that illusive metric — your social media ROI.

Team Red White and Blue: a program that enriches the lives of America's veterans by connecting them to their community through physical and social activity.

At Franklin Templeton Investments, we strive to be recognized as a responsible global corporate leader, working to support and enrich the social, economic and educational wellbeing of the communities where we live, work and do business.

There she worked with a team to manage the social media engagement of their 7 million member community, and ran advertising operations for all major live streamed events hosted on the site.

«Our Corporate Social Responsibility Report exemplifies our commitment to value our associates and to care for the communities in which we live and do business» said Stephen P. Weisz, president and chief executive officer of Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation.

In order to keep this success going for future viral campaigns, the basic steps spoken by the entire panel were to outline a clear objective when starting the campaign, make sure the content is good and relevant, take time contributing to online communities to spark life within social media and make all pieces of the campaign work together.

«We are proud to provide our inaugural Corporate Social Responsibility report that showcases our spirit to serve the communities and the lives of those around us.»

His explanation of Kant's interest in moral community and the relation of historical and social affairs nicely complements an account of Kant's view of the role of God in the moral life.

Having recently returned from El Salvador, it was my observation that it is only within the base and repatriated communities that one finds genuine democratization of all aspects of social life.

Once this congregation was group of German immigrants living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.

Thanks to the breaking of social bonds in our families and communities, and the lack of self - control that a culture of indulgence promotes, we will continue to become more bureaucratic and inefficient in our governance, while at the same time creating the conditions whereby citizens become less capable of leading their own lives.

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

Having seen an Arab chieftain's son, who had attended the American University in Beirut, make his decision between the old nomadic life of his clan, still living in tents, and the new town life which his education made possible, one vividly understands that, choosing the former, he inevitably chose submergence in the social solidarity of his group as against emergence into the individualism of a commercial community.

The ultimate aim of the formation of all movements were to create a beloved community in America, an integrated society wherein brotherhood would be an actuality in every aspect of social life.

The «humility» that is usually (but not always) present in 12 - Step Program communities comes from «bottoming - out», coming to the end of one's psychological / social resources while experiencing life's challenges.

For our purposes, the most satisfactory definition would be: Christianity is the total life of the community of men and women who respond to what they know about God — along with their neighbors, who are caught up into the social movement or process we call «the church» (however this may be understood)-- in terms of the socially remembered event of Jesus Christ.

To the Christian, such an atheistic approach to human nature is essentially inhuman, since men do not exist without a fundamental religious vocation any more than they exist in this life without physical needs, individuality or communities, all aspects of the human condition eagerly studied by social scientists.

However, as a social being man lives necessarily in community, and though he is the subject of radical freedom, he is yet not its abstract subject, confronted, as it were, with the variety of its indifferent possibilities.

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.

Yet his words were filled with power — the kind of power that transforms human life, crystallizing it into social and community action.

The American novus ordo, with its revolutionary form of social life — the voluntary association — demonstrates that ordered liberty and human rights are products of social arrangements that give primacy to both persons and communities.

It is due also in part to the fact that religious institutions in black communities have not been sufficiently cognizant of the radical implications which the changing political, economic and social realities have for their life.

The traditional reply to this has been to make a distinction between the visible Church (the Church as a social institution) and the invisible Church (the community of those who have been restored to new life by faith in Jesus as Christ, whether they belong to the visible institution or not).

Wilson can not grasp anything but corniness in a trope that goes back to Ancient Greece, resonates through the Middle Ages, and informs the social preaching of our day — the presence of God in a beggar that binds him into a community with me despite our radically different lives.

Home, school, and community life should be organized democratically, with respect for every person and with a grant of freedom in proportion to social maturity.

Cf. above, note 21, and William Lloyd Warner and Paul S. Lunt, The Social Life of a Modern Community and The Status System of a Modern Community (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1941, 1942); for the non-Christian world: John F. Embree, Sure Mura, A Japanese Village (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939), chap.

Life had attained through Man the highest degree of inventive choice in the individual and social organisation in the community.

For example, the concept of freedom speaks of a condition where capital has the ability to embark and disembark in a country without any approval or regulation from a social agency in which individuals and community set different priorities to seek perfection in life.

In other eras of cosmic insecurity there was still «a social certainty» resulting from «living in real togetherness» in «a small organic community.»

All three emphasized personal purity and conversion, a life of diligence in attending to the scriptures, a clear vision of God's kingdom becoming a moral community on earth, and an active inner - worldly approach to social improvement and moral asceticism.

In the larger social community, in the affairs of business, and in civic life the notion of the infinite value of personality is a noble abstraction more than a living reality.

Seeking to live solely by the values and priorities of Jesus Christ: and his kingdom, desiring, that is, to be Christ's community of called - out people, the Sojourners staff and community have sought (a) to become post-American in their social critique, visibly protesting the systems of death in the world.

He practically ignored the significance of life in the social process, and in the religious community.

In the years since that day, our lives have grown to include some of the very things that used to look heroic to us on the outside: preaching, writing books, community development, social justice work, teaching, leading, stages, travel.

Community groups such as SPUC, LIFE and the Good Counsel Network are some of the agencies who provide alternatives to abortion including social, material, psychological and spiritual support for the woman during pregnancy and afterwards.

A community is where «life is lived,» a society is an association in rational action, and the mass is man caught up by stimuli in which there are no real social bonds.12 The idea of the community — the willed entity — is important for the form of the church.13

Thirdly, living in close contact with Guatemala's indigenous communities, he became acutely aware of these peoples» extreme poverty and powerlessness due to illiteracy and social marginalization.

Bonhoeffer answers: «The individual personal spirit lives solely by virtue of sociality, and the «social spirit» becomes real only in individual embodiment.10 Therefore Bonhoeffer can speak of both the individual and a collective being.11 The design of God for men to live in community leads to the natural question of the religious community.

If systematized these would fall into three main types: the beauty, sustenance, and orderliness of nature on which our lives depend; social relations in the family, community, nation, and all our past which have nourished and fashioned us; and, less obviously but essentially, the human capacity of thought, feeling, and will by which to live and act as morally responsible beings.

The Church, as the community of his followers united by his living presence as Holy Spirit, is more than a social institution; it is a divinely grounded fellowship.

On the social power of a community of memory and hope, see Robert N. Bellah et al., Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), 152 - 55.

It was the schooling in local self - government and the institutions so developed back in the hills and valleys of ancient Palestine that gave the uprooted Jews immediately a social organism able to withstand the shock of exile and to support and adapt the community in its struggle to live in an alien environment.