Archbishop Justin Welby has said of the scheme: «The full community sponsorship scheme presents churches and other civil
society groups with the opportunity to provide sanctuary to those fleeing war - torn places.»
Mr Copson spoke about how, increasingly, advocates of Bishops have also built their case on the position of the Church of England as our largest NGO — a civil
society group with a branch in every community.
Not exact matches
A project led by MASS (Model of Architecture Serving
Society) Design
Group, the state - of - the - art hospital is a 60,000 - square - foot clinic
with 150 beds.
«Why do so many Americans think playing footsie
with fringe hate
groups isn't a disqualifier from polite
society, much less the presidency?
He mentioned the company's plan to hire «dozens» of Burmese language content reviewers as the first part of a three - pronged approach in Myanmar, also noting a partnership
with civil
society groups to identify hate figures in the country rather than focusing on removing individual pieces of content.
It's viewed better as a
group of people,
group of members who come together
with a common goal and agenda, and a common sort of direction for how they want to help Bitcoin grow, help promote Bitcoin, in the face of challenges and push - backs from governments and other aspects of
society.
Daniel graduated from the University of Oxford
with a First Class degree in Economics and Management and was previously the co-chair of the Value Investing Special Interest
Group of the UK CFA
Society.
The Party is also committed to the recognition that Alberta is a diverse ethnic
society with a uniquely distinct Albertan culture, and that responsibility for individual ethnic
group maintenance rests solely
with those who wish to support their heritage (and not the government).
I'm familiar
with the problems which occur in Israel when Haredi and non-Haredi
groups meet; they do not, in general, bleed into the wider
society.
He repeats his description of the ways bad charity (the Great
Society) drove out good charity (religiously based
groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people
with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.
Bellah and his colleagues praise religion because they note that religious
groups, unlike other
groups in our
society, are concerned not only
with the common good of the nation but also
with the common good of all human beings.
For in America today, the usual secularist reaction in dealing
with any message brought to
society by a particular community is automatically to assume that the message is from a «special interest
group,» one whose motives are those of self - interest, even when hidden behind a rhetoric of altruism.
Someday... hopefully
with American Muslims just becoming another one of our diverse
group of peoples and religions that make up «the great mixing pot» of what we know as American
society.
This could be a sample of judgment that falls on a pagan
society that is filled
with lust or God removing a known obstacle to the plan of salvation through Christ (Jesus came from this
group of Israelites).
With his path now clear to the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney is on the verge of becoming the first Mormon to head a major party's presidential ticket, a new milestone in America's embrace of religious
groups that were once shunned by
society.
A more controversial
group also dealing
with suicide is the Hemlock
Society, founded by Derek Humphry, who assisted his wife to take her own life in England several years ago.
Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian
societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian
societies as aggregates of mini-entities
with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire
group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.
To sum up, then, Wolf's article is important because it represents a «halfway house» between the traditional conception of a
society as an aggregate of actual occasions
with the dominant occasion providing the unity for the
group and my own contention that every
society, whether it contains a presiding occasion or not, possesses an objective unity in virtue of the dynamic interrelatedness of its constituent occasions from moment to moment.
Thus university theology is characteristically in search of the very possibility of theology as such and tends, on the one hand, rarely to advance beyond prolegomena, programmatic probings, or an apologetic natural theology — unless it turns, on the other hand,
with no little relief, to the very respectable study of the history of theology (as demonstrated, for instance, by the Bonhoeffer
Society, the 19th Century Working
Group of the AAR, the Tillich Working
Group, or even the recently founded Karl Barth
Society).
The problem is that through out history folks have called
groups or elements of
society that they do or did not like or agree
with such names to de-humanize them.
The Second Vatican Council said: «Let associations and
groups be organised through which the lay apostolate will be able to permeate the whole of
society with the spirit of the gospel».
Stephen Evans, campaigns manager at the National Secular
Society (NSS) says: «We welcome the government's robust response to the specific allegations against schools in Birmingham, but it has a long way to go before we can be confident that children's education isn't being compromised by
groups with a religious agenda.
God started
with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways
with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up
with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home
groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.
If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide
with that of the
society, you are in good accord
with your
group.
Doomsday scenarios and whispers of the rise of the anti-Christ reveal a very U.S. - centric view of the world and a frightful distraction
with power among a
group of people that has always been more effective when serving at the fringes of
society anyway.
Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good
Society, written by the same five authors and to be published in 1991, speak as one
group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not
with optimism, at least
with hope.
society needs to stop protecting the rights of gays and lesbians and should focus on our mere extinction if we do nt repent, and hed to the words of CHRIST, we should not be spending even a minute talking about gays, bc the main story is how ignorant and stupid
society has become, KNOW THIS, IF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any
group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that
society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS
WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR SIN.
Primordial
groups, like publically consequential religiosity, are incompatible, in Seligman's view,
with the autonomous individualism the civil
society tradition has required.
The charter deals also
with the rights of particular
groups who merit special consideration in
society, such as elderly people, migrants, people
with different capabilities, and prisoners (12).
The National Secular
Society (NSS) and the Christian Institute are two
groups that are used to clashing
with each other.
Personally, I have had enough of these
groups who insist in setting themselves apart from
society with their clothes and their views, and then complain because they are treated like outsiders.
A divorce growth
group is a support and mutual - help
group, similar to a grief
group, in which divorcing persons share and work through their feelings and help each other make sound decisions in coping
with the host of problems that single and divorced people face in a couple
society.
With a common ideological foundation» the American Way of Life» underlying each social
group, the three
groups could then properly contest for
society's rewards.
By contrast, conflict models in sociological theory emphasize the ways in which different
groups in a
society pursue their own interests and the ways in which different ideologies struggle
with one another.
In Florence, where the greatest «Magdalena was carved, prostitutes were in plentiful supply to fascinate the leaders of
society and mildly threaten ecclesiastical discipline, and a saint who was thought to have been a prostitute was bound to get attention from every
group with money for the arts.
I have no problem working
with a Muslim in an inter-faith charity event for example (or whichever
group is doing something meaningful in
society).
The fundamental notion of dividing
society into saints and sinners, separating the saints from the sinners as much as possible, and then instituting a system of external controls to bring the sinners into at least outer conformity
with the moral expectations of the saints, originally had nothing to do
with the relations between ethnic and racial
groups.
Despite an inadequate development of neighbourly relationship between the communes, Buber feels that the Jewish communes are of central significance in the struggle for a structurally new
society in which individual
groups will be given the greatest possible autonomy and yet will enjoy the greatest possible interrelationship
with each other.
When the allegedly sinful
group was external to the
society, the dialectic of saint and sinner could fuse
with the notions of chosen people and holy war to justify extraordinary hostility and aggression against the despised
group.
(b) Notwithstanding his interest in the socio - religious situation of the
society of which he is a member, the student of religious
groups can not afford to exclude from his range of effort a concern
with religious
grouping in all parts of the populated earth.
Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along
with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a
society so constructed that certain people and
groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a
society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.
To meet the challenge of our
society, a church should experiment
with new patterns of
group life.
Those who converted to Islam in such a sectarian
society might well experience changes in their inner perceptions, but they would also be faced
with concrete and external changes in their social
groups, marriage opportunities, and legal status, and in the body of linguistic and cultural skills they were expected to possess.2
We are today called upon to be in solidarity
with many other
groups who are made helpless in modern
society The needs of the handicapped should receive serious attention.
Economics is the study of how men and
society end up choosing,
with or without the use of money, to employ scarce productive resources that could have alternative uses, to produce various commodities and distribute them for consumption, now or in the future, among various people and
groups in
society.
It is possible to have a reasonably well - ordered
society (in both the large and small sense of that term) as long as we deal abstractly
with individuals and
groups.
If we introduce euthanasia / PAS as a legal, medical option, would we risk discriminating against vulnerable
groups — such as those
with AIDS, Alzheimer's or spinal cord injuries — that are perceived as burdens on the system and on
society?
investing one - Depth study
groups:
with self in a personal growth
society) focus.
While congregations and other types of
society possess obviously different intentions, they nevertheless work through analogous forms of culture in which a local church might recognize its deeper solidarity
with other human
groups.
We need leaders who are willing to develop the expertise and accept the responsibility for working
with a
group of persons in the local church to cultivate patterns of decision - making that lead to a greater acceptance of the church's mission in
society.