Sentences with phrase «speak against the culture»

It takes conviction and courage to speak against the culture.

Not exact matches

It is an online community of gamers that are upset that people are speaking out against the objectified way women are portrayed in gaming culture on - screen, and the community has also provided some resistance to the growing number of female gamers.

Practically speaking, how do we push back against a culture of lack and «never enough»?

Pornography culture has diminished and devalued women, and Christian men should not normalize this, but should speak a prophetic word against it, regardless of the political ramifications.

Ironically, it seems like you've created your own culture here where motives are cynically questioned, honest questioning is dismissed and anything that is contrarily spoken against the actions and behavior of the group is mercilessly met with derision.

At the same time she questions Calvin's individualized notion of unfaithfulness, insisting that feminists must speak out equally against «unfaithful cultures» — those institutional structures and cultural forces that perpetuate the gendered bondage to sin.

Obama has aligned himself with this culture of death that Christian must speak against because the babies can not speak for themselves.

Christians, compelled by the love of Christ, must not only be the best kind of friends; we must also become the best kind of enemies — forgiving when injured, praying for and blessing those who speak against and ridicule and say untrue things about us, and refusing to get caught up in a culture of outrage.

Religious people are very invasive in this culture, and sometimes people feel the need to speak out against that invasion, before the religious people start to think everyone agrees with them.

Whether you were for or against U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, you had to admit that in each case Americans went into a country whose language they did not speak and whose culture they did not understand.

They are militantly against some dimensions of the culture and often speak of America not as Israel, but as Babylon.

But if it has any message for modern man, if it has any place for him to stand and fight against the demoralizing and tyrannizing structures of a culture that has been severed from its true secular responsibility to serve human need, then those Christians who know this must speak and act.

The Cal / OSHA citations against UCLA, writes Langerman in his article, «speak to a laboratory which lacks a safety culture.»

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Kate Winslet recently spoke out against the culture of sexual harassment in Hollywood, saying at the London Critics» Circle awards on Sunday that she has «bitter regrets» over the «poor decisions» she made in working with certain certain «directors, producers, and men of power.»

ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD Ashley Judd, Rose McGowan, and all the women who spoke out against the culture of sexual abuse

Culture of fear of reprisal develops in which teachers, principals, staff, even parents feel afraid to speak up against the policies of the district or the superintendent.

Set against the promise implicit in the launching of Apollo, her touching recollection of her youth and teenage years — her strange, unhappy parents, her difficulties fitting into a new school, and her first love — speaks to universal concerns about growing up and resurrects a pivotal episode of American history and culture for a new generation.

Hearing my own mum speak through her Azeri avatar, I saw firsthand how differences of culture truly pale against the community of our common character.

In fostering this culture of terror, you can ensure the majority is silent — that it won't speak out against the harm you are doing.

Culture minister Kim Howells spoke out against the Prize, calling it «conceptual bullshit» and was joined by Prince Charles himself, who agreed the Prize had «contaminated the art establishment for so long.»

Meanwhile, then culture minister Chris Smith spoke out against the prize for being «controversy for controversy's sake... too narrow and unrepresentative of British art».