Sentences with phrase «unjust systems»

Thus, in Smith's depiction, it is the lawyers who are the primary bearers of moral outrage, they are the agents who engage and confront unjust systems on behalf of their clients.

Did some feel guilt for their participation in unjust systems that they didn't choose or create?

Maybe this year we prepare for Jesus not simply by hanging up wreaths but by pulling down the broken, unjust systems that tend to obscure God's presence among us by obscuring God's image in our brothers and sisters.

It is imperative that we not only acknowledge our individual sins, but also that we realize and accept ways we benefit from unjust systems and corporate brokenness.

I know some Christians are uncomfortable with that, preferring not to «mix» faith and politics, (as if we can compartmentalize), but as Aaron Niequist put it the other day, «if we want to love our neighbor, we will naturally get involved in building the systems that lead to flourishing, and fighting to change the unjust systems that target the poor, weak, and marginalized.

Yet the writers of Scripture often tried to find a way to subvert the current culture and to move us further ahead on God's arc of justice even within unjust systems.

By thoughtfully advocating for changes in unjust systems, providing relief in areas of raw need, and empowering people within broken neighborhoods to love one another, the power of the Gospel to deal with individual sin and systemic injustice will be proclaimed to the watching world to the praise of our Father.

Jesus condemned the oppression and marginalization of his impoverished people by the Romans and other ruling elites who sought through their unjust system of taxation to extract as much wealth as possible from the majority of people to benefit the rich, powerful, ruling elites.

One of the unspoken delights in life is the rich satisfaction that comes with bearing witness to the spectacular failure of an offensive and unjust system.

The guiding principle has always been that anarchy and the killing of fellow Muslims are worse than living under an unjust system.

The Greco Roman household codes were an unjust system: these teachings show us how to work within them as people committed to the ways of Jesus.

Jajmani had used traditional caste relationships for division of labour and had provided some material security for them, although it was an exploitative and unjust system.4

Signifying loyalty to an unjust system, conventionally regarded as good manners, from a more fundamental view is bad manners.

Apartheid was an unjust system of oppression and violence.

This Greenville - based group provides emergency assistance, counseling, advocacy and other services for the poor blacks (and those whites who are beginning to see that they too are victims of an unjust system) of a large portion of the Mississippi Delta.

And when I talk about encouragement, I'm not referring to encouraging an unjust system to continue in its carnage just because it's the church.

But then came video cameras on cell phones, recording the very acts that have been perpetrated on many black communities throughout the country and honestly, I look at the same song as an honest and powerful protest against an unjust system that at times treats minorities as sub-human.

Your union, Randi, has been a major contributor to the rise and entrenchment of an ineffective, unjust system that, rather than anchoring American democracy, is destabilizing it.

If you fire people based on an inappropriate tool, it is an unjust system similar to firing salespeople whose sales decline during a recession or depression.

I have been fighting this legally), but it's a slow, time consuming and I am beginning to see very unjust system.

«As people of faith, we need to think about how we can challenge the unjust system we have and create an entirely better one.»

He is in jail because of an unjust system where the villains are free.»

While some see it as a political witch hunt to oust a conservative judge, others see it as a corrective to an unjust system.

The reason for my choice was straightforward; studying and also knowing about an unjust system did not allow me to be ad hoc or piecemeal in my approach to law.

By paying child support you are supporting a broken, inefficient and unjust system that discriminates against you on the basis of your gender.

Not exact matches

After calling Mill's sentence «unjust and heavy - handed» in a Facebook post last week, Jay - Z wrote an op - ed protesting Mill's sentence and the «absurdity of the criminal justice system» for The New York Times on Friday.

He also treats blacks principally as victims of an unjust, racist society and a pernicious, oppressive global capitalist system.

And in his view America's poor are also victims of the unjust international system.

The Belhar Confession, originally drafted in 1982 and formally adopted in 1986 by the DRMC of South Africa, came about as white and black Christian leaders wrestled with the gospel and the unjust social systems of their land.

1) That in no way addresses my post 2) I don't believe in sin 3) Eternal condemnation for a finitie «sin» is an unjust and immoral system, as is eternal reward for holding a specific belief instead of a totality of actions taken, and the innermost part of a humans morality.

This vision is not a romantic ideal; it calls for the transformation of unjust social systems.

The UN system, set up basically to legitimize and continue that unjust world order of Western domination, will be under pressure from the poor peoples.

After all, He knows a thing or two about facing a violent government system, turning unjust laws on their head and living as a child of God.

She learns in her freshman seminar that unjust economic and social «systems» have intertwined and are driving the planet toward environmental catastrophe.

That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

The Social Gospel movement tried to change America's unjust social systems by convincing the men who controlled and managed the systems to live by the Sermon on the Mount.

And the republicans» misguided trust in a broken, and unjust capital punishment system, in a number of cases, condemns innocent men, who are primarily racially profiled, to their deaths.

With immense dedication Christians by and large helped to build the unjust world system of colonialism.

The Church can in this way try to make amend for its past collusion in building up this unjust world system.

But even these excesses were the fault not so much of the protestors as of an unjust and unresponsive social system that provoked extreme reactions to it.

Organisers fear current legislation risks creating a «less diverse and inclusive» healthcare system by not properly protecting staff for «unjust discrimination».

They have inspired powerful movements of social protest (like Hebrew prophetism in monarchical Israel, or the bhakti movements in medieval India) which have attacked both the oppressive rigidity of the religious systems themselves, as well as of the unjust socio - economic and political structures of the societies in which these religions flourished» (Voices from the Third World, p. 153)

They are oppressive because they legitimise unjust social systems like apartheid, and caste, and because they create their own special forms of religious unfreedom... But history shows us that religions can be liberative too.

They are oppressive because they legitimate unjust social systems like apartheid, and caste, and because they create their own special forms of religious unfreedom... But history shows us that religions can be liberative too.

It is politically controversial, since some feel that justice systems can not correct an unjust conviction after an execution.

According to Sobhan, poverty is not a social inevitability, but rather a consequence of an unjust economic system within which it is reproduced.

A system of unjust abstraction, oppression, and legal fraud, by which the most useful classes of society are drained of their wealth, and consigned over to eternal toil and never - ending slavery.»

Third, it was not possible to attain a financial model which ended a system regarded as unjust (quantified as between 7 % and 10 % of Catalonia's GDP, figures that led to the use of the term «fiscal despoliation» in political debates), nor respect for the «ordinal principle» once the territorial transfers have been made.

As a panel, we have concluded that the current system is expensive, ineffective and unjust.»

«We want to talk about what we think is post-arrest abuses that have made the system unjust in a way that many communities feel that they're treated unfairly.