Sentences with phrase «with culture wars»

With the Culture Wars still in full pitch, a collage by Chris Ofili titled The Holy Virgin Mary and featuring artfully placed clumps of elephant dung drew outrage from the Catholic community and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who threatened to withdraw funding from the museum.

The third largest donation went to the National Christian Foundation, whose raison d'etre has nothing to do with the culture wars.

Once a hard - core Republican who wanted to «take America back for God,» I became disenchanted with the Bush administration, conservative politics, and the evangelical preoccupation with the culture wars.

The questions of secularization and the Judeo - Christian tradition have everything to do with the culture wars in which our society is embroiled.

I am not overly concerned with the culture war because it is a battle for something that doesn't last.

That's how liberal Catholics responded to the stunning interview published Thursday in which Pope Francis bluntly said the church shouldn't be «obsessed» with culture war issues like abortion and gay marriage.

This disillusionment with the culture war, coupled with what might be thought of as an attendant «neo-Anabaptist turn,» has provoked in younger evangelicals an exploding interest in more communitarian aspects of church life and the integration of the gospel with what might be labeled «progressive» social justice concerns.

It's also possible this is an attempt to disrupt the effort to fight global warming with a culture war, tying the science of climate change to fundamentalists» unease with evolution.

Not exact matches

This could take the form an actual agreement with Vivid, or it could be an extraordinarily progressive attitude — Lucas might consider a porn parody as another step toward his goal of total pop culture domination with Star Wars.

When told by Business Insider that the show may satirize him, Infowars editor and polemical culture wars vlogger Paul Joseph Watson said «the fact that they have to resort to satirizing me in a comedy show proves that they're struggling to combat me with actual logical arguments.

For years, Urban Outfitters has also been stocking retro graphic T - shirts with pop culture imprints ranging from 1980s rock bands to Star Wars.

After World War I, with ears across Europe still ringing from explosions, the transnational culture war against noise really took oWar I, with ears across Europe still ringing from explosions, the transnational culture war against noise really took owar against noise really took off.

For hundreds of years, Western culture has been at war with noise.

In many ways, Pence was on the same doomed trajectory as the conservative - Christian movement he'd long championed — once a political force to be reckoned with, now a battered relic of the culture wars.

While I'm willing to agree with Michael Barone that at least some of the heat in the culture wars has been turned down a bit (but see this post for a qualification), a lot of interesting things have been said recently about marriage, some of which I noted here.

Those who have so far survived the culture wars with their sanity and compassion intact want to save them from that adjustment.

In the waning decades of Counter-Reformation Catholicism, which coincided with the post — World War II period, Catholics in the West experienced a relatively comfortable fit between the Church and the ambient public culture.

Bottum opines that we should prepare ourselves for the next chapter in the culture wars, in which the left here will get into step with its European compatriots, espousing a militant skepticism toward science while maintaining their polemic against the religious right, but this time for its uncritical embrace of scientific progress.

Adhering to Muslim Law by burying bin Laden at sea had nothing to do with showing a dead terrorist mercy for his body or fulfilling bin Laden's wishes; it had to do with showing the world we are respectful of religion and cultures that may be different than our own; our war on terror has nothing to do with culture or religion.

Schickel's work» represented here by 175 full - color photographs» brings us face - to - face with the concerns of our own culture war, especially as it is manifested in clashes between traditionalists and liberals in the Church over the past three decades.

With the exam oriented toward Western civilization and theistic as well as secular perspectives, it calls to mind the Culture Wars of the 1980s.

It has everything to do with an effort to revive the culture wars - to return to the bedroom politics of the old Religious Right.

The show features Peggy dealing with her own hypocrisy, instilling values in her son, the culture wars, addiction (to cigarettes) premarital sex (to a man who is not Hank), forgiveness and even getting over-committed at a megachurch.

(CNN)- With its ivy - covered entrance and Teddy Bear bouquets, Arlene's Flowers seems an unlikely spot to trigger a culture - war skirmish.

that minimizes the historical suffering of women and minority groups in this country, 2) an overwrought persecution complex that confuses sharing civil rights with others with being persecuted by them, and 3) a persistent fear of the perceived «other» — Muslims, LGBT people, immigrants, refugees, etc. — that results in culture wars meant to «take back» the public square.

That's how I hope Christians today see it as well — not as a lightning rod of the culture wars, to be avoided or embraced as some sort of statement, but as a pleasurable gift of a good God, who made water, yeast, barley and hops, and human beings with the creative capacity to brew up something wonderful.

With the Great War as backdrop, the great culture warrior for the social gospel utilized his understanding of historicism as a method to discuss how religion and patriotism should be rightly understood in a genuine democracy.

For that society to endure in a culture at war with the very foundations of its freedom will require more than space for alternatives.

Despite what you've heard, Christians are not at war with our culture.

Previous chapters in the book have dealt with the relations of Christian ethics to the culture of our times in reference to family life, economic relations, race relations, political structures, and the problems of war and peace in the international scene.

«In the new 24/7 mediaverse, in a brutal, unending culture war, with the web unleashed and news and opinion flashing every few seconds, you can very easily lose yourself, and forget how and why you got here in the first place.

As legislators grow weary of culture wars along with their constituents, «you're going to see the states respond to it whether the feds are going to or not.»

We have an entire culture that is infected with violence — we're talking 10,000 homicides a year in America, $ 20,000 a second spent on war.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

Furthermore, this culture war has presented people like Justin, and people like Cindy — a mom who contacted Justin in a panic after learning her son was gay, knowing that her church was the last place she could turn if she wanted her son to feel loved and supported — with a dangerous false dichotomy: It's gays vs. Christians.

Brooks warns contemporary Christians that when we try to engage in public life, we are perceived as prosecuting a «culture war,» one that has «alienated large parts of three generations» of Americans, turning «a rich, complex, and beautiful faith into a public obsession with sex.»

It should be noted that the book was essentially written before September 11, and some last minute stitchings about what the war on terrorism might mean for the world and American culture do not sit well with the burden of his argument.

In the current culture wars, religious liberals tend to ally themselves with the educational establishment against those on the Religious Right who are attacking the public schools.

In a post — Cold War, post-9 / 11 world strewn with conflicts involving competing religious postures and contradictory global views, where supposed divisions on lines of race, culture, and faith are loudly promoted and violently exploited, the example of past wars fought in pursuit of religious idealism has proved seductive for some seeking false assurance from continuity with history.

Paul takes the combative call of the culture wars and replaces it with something better — the exemplary, meek faith of martyrs.

I agree that polemicists in the culture wars are often as careless with historical facts and epidemiological data about children as they are with facts generally.

takes the combative call of the culture wars and replaces it with something better — the exemplary, meek faith of martyrs.

A conservative student, well versed in Burke and Tocqueville, knowing his Kirk and his Berry if not yet his MacIntyre, exhausted by the culture wars, seeks common ground with students on the other end of the political spectrum.

With Santorum sidelined, the forces of darkness in the culture wars don't have a horse in the race anymore, which is a good thing.

Gertrude Himmelfarb is deeply patriotic, appreciating the genius and exceptionalism of the American experiment, and is confident that the culture war in its pres ent and future forms will be contained by «a tolerance that does not require, as is sometimes supposed, a diminution of conviction but that is entirely consistent with the strongest convictions.»

By his words and deeds, John Allen concluded, Francis has «debunked impressions of a rift with the American bishops when it comes to the «wars of culture.

My concern with Douthat's analysis is that it leaves no room for a «merely Catholic» center — for the possibility that younger generations of Catholics might finally get beyond the culture wars to a real Catholic consensus on orthodoxy, one that would still allow for political disagreement on less than fundamental matters.

Not to be outdone rhetorically, much fund - raising literature for liberal causes uses culture - wars language with similar tones of alarm.

What is often identified as evidence for a culture war has more to do with the requirements of» activist rhetoric than the attitudes or actions of the body politic generally.

Elections have provided culture - wars campaigns with a platform, but have denied them power.