The whole international climate debate is infused
with issues of justice, and progress is possible only if each nation is seen to be doing its fair share.
* How would your society — I know, it's not really «yours» but I'm not sure what label you'd prefer — deal
with issues of justice and conflict between and within groups, and how can we transition to it?
Process theology has failed to deal extensively
with the issue of justice, at least under that rubric.
Not exact matches
As the nine
justices grappled
with the technological complexities
of email data storage, liberals Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the court needed to act in the data privacy case in light
of Congress now considering bipartisan legislation that would resolve the legal
issue.
The company still faces the wrath
of the U.S.
Justice Department, which is nearing a decision on whether to criminally charge GM over its failure to disclose the problem and recall affected cars after it staff first discovered
issues with the switch in 2001.
The eight -
justice court is hearing arguments Monday in two cases that deal
with the same basic
issue of whether race played too large a role in the drawing
of electoral districts, to the detriment
of African - Americans.
«The determination
of the PSD - led government to charge ahead
with the contentious criminal
justice reform in disregard
of widespread public discontent and political opposition sets a scene for tumultuous period ahead, highlighting a risk
of further deteriorating operating environment,» Andrius Tursa, advisor on central and eastern European
issues at Teneo Intelligence said in a note last week.
The judge said in a 91 - page decision that, while the Army Corps substantially complied
with the National Environmental Policy Act, federal permits
issued for the pipeline violated the law in some respects, saying in a court order the Corps did not «adequately consider the impacts
of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental
justice.»
Successive administrations followed
with major initiatives in trying to broaden land ownership, sometimes getting embroiled in political battles and important
issues of justice.8
She will inherit a series
of legal
issues the ride - hail behemoth is continuing to grapple
with: For instance, Uber is facing fresh lawsuits over its data breach earlier this year and dealt
with a number
of probes from the U.S. Department
of Justice last year.
Earlier this year, the company reached a settlement
with the Oregon Department
of Justice that cost it $ 1.1 million, and it looked like that
issue was behind it.
As a pastor, a blogger, a speaker and having a small but growing reputation as someone that loves
justice and advocates on
issues of justice, I realised on a personal basis that I had grown more in love
with the idea
of justice than actually living justly.
Dissenting from the Championruling, Chief
Justice Melville Fuller
issued a prescient warning that, having adopted the notion that the nation's «fundamental law is flexible,» the court would be met
with constant demands to «ease the shoe where it pinches» until nothing resembling the vision
of the Constitution remained.
Yesterday my friend Rick Garnett, who teaches law at Notre Dame and blogs at Mirror
of Justice, took
issue with my article (and White's).
The main problems
with the religious right, Harris says, include disregard for poverty and international
justice (particularly for women), obsession over the
issues of abortion and gay marriage, and a mindset that generally embraces greed - centered capitalism.
Perhaps
with enough people hammering the
issues of abortion and gay marriage, Harris is right to direct her attention and effort to other
issues of mercy and
justice, but the flavor
of the book seems to downplay the importance
of traditional marriage, infant life, and the church's role in mercy ministry.
People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have
issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many
of the priests used to «hang out»
with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social
justice.
Yeah, it makes me feel better denouncing baptist cause
of my family's involvement
with the KKK to become a catholic and the hate by socialism and such from conservative uncompassionant individuals on the moral question
of social
justice issues.
The
issue of the relation
of the human life and the nature is not merely the question
of how to deal
with the natural environment but that
of the total creation, which involves the
justice, participation and peace in an integral unity.
Moderate Protestants (along
with Catholics) tend to «lean in a conservative direction on personal life - style
issues and in a more liberal direction on matters
of social
justice.»
The
issue of the relation
of human life and nature is not merely the question
of how to deal
with the natural environment but that
of the total creation, which involves the
justice, participation and peace in an integral unity.
They will require a concerted effort by theologians who take both ecology and
justice seriously, and who are prompted by a sense
of urgency that will allow them to struggle creatively and resolutely
with the deeper
issues — if not in perfect harmony, at least
with a sense
of solidarity.
Both are weighty
issues that deal explicitly
with «high cosmic
justice,» so if he argues that a government overreaches its authority to execute
justice by attempting to «balance the books
of the universe» in repaying blood
with blood, then does that mean there can never be any just criteria for one nation to retaliate against another after an unprovoked attack» an attack that in essence would repay blood
with blood?
CNN routinely partners
with and praises the work
of organizations like International
Justice Mission, Not For Sale, and World Relief, and has
issued several flattering portraits
of «the new Christian abolition movement.»
There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location
of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic
issues and the concomitant demand for
justice express the identification
with the poor that is the glory
of liberation theology.
The
issues of justice between men and women are so complex that a full discussion
of them would require a shelf
of books, and indeed a shelf has been appearing
with Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex; Helen Deutsch's Modern Woman, the Lost Sex; and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, to mention some outstanding ones.
Dolan's statement framed the
issue in terms
of social
justice and respect: «Every person deserves to be treated
with justice, compassion, and respect, a proposition
of natural law and American law that we as Catholics vigorously promote.»
At the heart
of the
issue was the fact that exclusivism just didn't feel right to me, it didn't fit
with my very core sense
of right and wrong,
of justice and injustice,
of good and evil.
These data provoke concern in terms
of economic
justice, but another real
issue is that media owners and players are «gatekeepers,»
with the power to define who has access to information.
His private meeting
with victims, and commitment to
justice on their behalf, impressed the British public, disproving any notion he was out to dodge or minimize the gravity
of the
issue.
Between 1980 and 1995, 32 percent
of the articles in the CHRISTIAN CENTURY dealt
with social -
justice issues, only 5 percent
with family - and sex - related topics.
Laudato Si, last week's encyclical from Pope Francis, seeks to address a plethora
of problems in the modern world — predominately focusing on environmental
issues, distributive
justice, and perceived problems
with consensus developmental economic theory.
the
issue i have
with creationism is that it does not do
justice to the vast and beautiful intricacies
of the universe.
Moreover, more than 40 percent
of family - focused articles in these journals and in the CENTURY dealt
with social -
justice - related
issues like child poverty.
They don't do so
with all
issues of social
justice.
Though in recent years he's become more and more vocal about social
justice issues, for much
of his career, Brand has been known for his uniquely raunchy brand
of shock comedy (This is the guy who once brought his drug dealer to work
with him when he was an MTV VJ.).
Finally, a new collection
of 14 essays, Progressive Muslims: On
Justice, Gender, and Pluralism (Oneworld), illuminates the breadth
of the honest intellectual engagement
with which many Muslim scholars today address critical and controversial
issues.
A second
issue has to do
with justice — in this case,
justice for the emerging new nations
of the Third World.
Since then, she has worked
with national speaker and consultant Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, earned a Masters in Social
Justice, and directed a short - term missions site on the west - side
of Chicago, where she created interactive opportunities for young people to engage
issues of poverty, injustice and race.
It is difficult to speak
with authority on
issues of social
justice when there is not enough confidence to speak
with authority on
issues of faith.
In this way, I should like to signal what I myself sense to be a significant shift in my recent thinking: from being preoccupied for the most part
with theoretical questions
of belief and truth to giving greater attention to the practical
issues of action and
justice that likewise have their basis in the underlying concern for freedom.
Just as in Bultmann's analysis the questions
of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way
of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily
with the
issues of action and
justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.
But the history
of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power
of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government
with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement
of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective
of love to concrete
issues of social strategy and political power,
justice is accomplished by a confluence
of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.
Indeed there has been lots
of issues with pedophile priests they should be judged by the
justice system accordingly but God will call them into account and that I guarantee you will be even worse... God Bless everyone here...!
We come now to an
issue with which many discussions
of economic ethics begin — namely, the nature
of a just economic order and the principles by which such
justice is to be judged.
Churches recognize that
issues of justice in local and national development can not be addressed without a consciousness
of the role
of communication, nor can any group do so without the tools
with which to make their views known.
But here a basic
issue is joined, and I conclude
with Hartshorne's further explanation: «I think the truest way to do
justice to the inaccessibility
of the past, which nevertheless we somehow know, is to say that we indistinctly intuit the past itself.»
Students were still concerned
with issues of spirituality, morality and
justice, but they sought a more programmatic approach than many campus ministries offered.
I think when a Christian individual / group / nation — loses touch
with basic
issues of justice towards humanity, its really sad and damaging to the reputation
of Jesus.
At the same time, the other theologies that have contributed most to explicating and justifying the metaphysical implications
of the Christian witness seem to have been typically preoccupied more
with theoretical questions
of belief and truth than
with practical
issues of action and
justice, and so have contributed only indirectly to clarifying and answering our central question.