Sentences with phrase «turn present society»

To follow Jesus means to hope and pray for a world structured on principles that would turn present society upside down, create countercultural communities, nonviolently, and to do this while remaining open to ideas and ways of being of quite different sorts.

Not exact matches

Finally, the very idea of the nation - stirring «Demosthenes blogger,» the one presented in the 90s sci - fi novel Ender's Game, was revealed to be hopelessly naïve: the true guides to how the Internet World would and would not empower individuals, and whether it would allow underdogs and unknowns to be heard by society, turned out to be Hobbes's meditations on self - promotion and Tocqueville's on the way equality stoked and then discouraged each individual's ambition.

We hear much of «the silence of God,» and Jacques Ellul, a distinguished French lay theologian, has written a book entitled Hope in Time of Abandonment in which he presents evidence from the state of society and the church that God seems at least temporarily to have turned his back on the world.

First, in the present extremely perilous situation of America and the world the servants of the church can not afford to turn their interest merely to the salvation of the individual, forgetting that society must be radically reformed.

«We're doing very cool science and using the space station as a platform to execute that science, which in turn enables X-ray navigation,» said Goddard's Keith Gendreau, the principal investigator for NICER, who presented the findings Thursday, Jan. 11, at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington.

In particular, the prototype of a class of stars used to determine cosmic distances turned up a few surprises, according to scientists presenting new observations here at the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

There's also a landfill that seems to take up half the island, and it's home to a thriving society of those «forgotten children»: a cabal of orphaned rats turned savage predators, who chant, «The future is past, garbage is the present, blood is our law!»

The bias presented in the film will be a turn - off for some, but if you have a good sense of humor about the ridiculous society in which we live, take a seat and enjoy Catfight.

Even before I had opportunity to learn about trauma and its effects on the whole society, I was aware about enormous quantity of a complex emotion mixed of pain, anger and fear, floating between sorrow, rage and depression, present on both individual and collective level, and its potential to turn on in a new cycle of hate, violence and war.

«One of the major turning points of the 20th century, the Vietnam War is the subject of an unprecedented exhibition presented by the New - York Historical Society.

By attempting to present an objective image of drug use, the artist addresses the cultural politics that allow our society to simultaneously glamorize the «drug look» in fashion magazines and the entertainment industry and meanwhile turn a blind eye to the complicated, and vast, problem of drug abuse.

Over at Metro Pictures (Booth 3D07), you can expect a full booth presenting uncanny new works by legendary photographer Cindy Sherman, who is famed for turning the lens on herself in a critique of society's female tropes.

Programmed in parallel with Art Turning Left, Tate Liverpool also presents a display of archival material from Palle Nielsen's social experiment The Model - A Model for a Qualitative Society 1968.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; and presents academic papers on the subject / object of fieldwork in artistic practice in addition to a series of public performances and artist talks on a new environmental (re) turn.

Turning her lens on images already present in popular culture — books, record albums, magazines, and film stills — Collier considers the integral role photography and image - making play within contemporary society.