Article: Left equals rights

Article: A social creed for the 21st century.(Ecumenical ...
The Ecumenical Review;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... fearful time. Just as the churches responded to the harshness of early 20th century industrialization with a prophetic "Social Creed" in 1908, so in our era of globalization we offer a vision of a society that shares more and consumes less, seeks compassion ...

Article: Vision, Virtue, and Vocation: the 'Mainline Church' Message to ...
Targeted News Service;  January 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... ecumenical churches is summed up in the "Social Creed for the 21st Century," unanimously ... one hundred years after the first "social creed" was adopted by the churches in 1908 ... quoted is in the 2008 version of the Social Creed and articulates the purpose of the Creed ...

Article: No less today than in the past: ; Methodists continue to fight ...
Charleston Gazette;  May 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... issues, a document we have called "The Social Creed" for the past 100 years, and the ... over the past century. In our first Social Creed, 100 years ago, we affirmed the right ... the working class. The 1908 Methodist Social Creed affirmed the right of workers to earn ...

Article: Methodists have always spoken up
Charleston Daily Mail;  September 9, 1998 ;     521 words ... ... slave trade. In the United States, the Methodists were the first to adopt a social creed (in 1908.) The Methodist Social Creed became the basis for the Social Creed of the Federal (now National) Council of Churches. The Social Principles ...

Article: CLERIC-SCHOLAR RETURNS FOR LAMAR LECTURE.(Religion)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  October 4, 2008 ;     605 words ... ... reacted to the harshness of industrialization with a new social creed. It stressed the abolishment of child labor, the importance ... Presbyterian. Dorrien was involved in the creation of a new social creed passed in 2007 by the National Council of Churches, whose ...

Article: Mideast conflict: Methodist Church calls for justice, not ...
Charleston Gazette;  October 21, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... church has long been a "voice in the wilderness." In our Social Creed and Social Principles we have long stated our opposition ... the un-Christian character of this propaganda ... " Our Social Creed and Social Principles, as stated in our Methodist Discipline ...

Article: The illusions of opinion.(political aspects of public opinion )
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... impulses which dispose each individual toward one of various creeds or modes of action. We can see, therefore, that a social creed may become the symbol for a great variety of feelings and emotions. A fixed opinion that never alters is like a cesspool ...