Sentences with phrase «as the spiritual director of»

As the spiritual director of the life of the congregation, the pastor is the person charged with oversight of all church - related programs.

Thus, part 3 is about the servant role of a pastor as the spiritual director of a congregation.

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Since retiring at the end of 2010, she spends her time working as a spiritual director and writes on her blog, www.drgtjustwondering.blogspot.com She also contributes monthly at www.deeperstory.com/home/family.

Some time ago on your blog you referred to yourself as a spiritual director (or advisor)... I thought you were on to something good with that thought, however, I think the term elder kind of sucks.

As for the well - known «medicine men and women» who travel with their groupies and for - profit organizations, Ramona Soto Rank, Klamath tribal member and director for the Affiliated Tribes of the Northwest, likes to remind seekers after authentic Native healers and spiritual teachers that these individuals seldom speak of themselves in such terms.

The ministry of today and tomorrow must indeed represent all the kinds of authority associated with the office in the past — institutional, teaching or Scriptural, communal and spiritual; but as institutional authority was central in the priest's office and Scriptural in the preacher's so communal authority becomes of greatest importance to the pastoral director.

They would say that John has taken the same sort of spiritual «licence» with the actual events of Jesus, as a consortium of film directors might take with some heroic theme from history, an heroic theme perhaps from the Bible itself.

i actually went through his school of spiritual direction last year, great stuff that resonates with what you are saying about the role of the spiritual director as not imposing but supporting, «coming alongside», helping somone else foster their relationship with God with the honed skills of listening, discernment and journeying with someone.

For Shah, who is the Hindu American Foundation's senior director, yoga is primarily a moral and spiritual philosophy, a fact she says has been lost as the popularity of physical yoga has boomed in the West.

What I wanted to communicate to the congregation, I concluded, was that, as a pastor, I believed it was spiritually healthy to reflect with a spiritual director of some sort on at least an annual basis.

One of the first exercises my very first spiritual director had me do was to go back as far as I could remember and write my «spiritual history».

It is for this sense of the transcendental that Malick is often hailed by some as a modern - day Robert Bresson, the director of such films as the deeply spiritual Diary of a Country Priest.

This Church has fired a well known music composer as choir director because he prayed and was «too spiritual» at choir practice, Fired an amazing organist (who played with one hand because of a disability) for reasons unknown.

He is the director of the Office for Spiritual Development for the Catholic Archdiocese of New York as well as as - sociate director of Trinity Retreat [1] and the executive director of The St. Francis House.

Mbaka, the Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministries, Enugu, had, in his New Year Eve sermon, said the President had failed Nigerians, suggesting that Dankwambo should be considered as the President's replacement.

Ari Goldman, director of Columbia Journalism School's Scripps Howard Program in Religion, Journalism and the Spiritual Life, who served as an independent judge of the competition for the second year, said he was again impressed with the quality of the applicant pool.

A primary goal of Kundalini Yoga is a spiritual awakening, so Joan Shivarpita Harrigan, a brahmacharini (Vedic nun) and director of Patanjali Kundalini Yoga Care USA in Knoxville, Tennessee, isn't at all concerned with the purely physical aspects of Sun Salutations, such as opening the hamstrings or building a tight core.

Meredith Gould, former director of marketing at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts, and author of Deliberate Acts of Kindness: Service as a Spiritual Practice, believes that for many, karma yoga starts as a sort of inner tug.

Prem's spiritual journey began in service as a sannyasin (monk) for 24 years in the Sivananda Organization where he was the director of the New York City and London centers.

With exemplary use of archival footage, director Asif Kapadia expertly contrasts episodes of adrenaline - rush speed with moments of reflective slow motion to capture the addictive thrill and danger of the sport, as well as the personal values of the humble, spiritual sportsman.

Founded by When Marnie Was There director Hiromasa Yonebayashi and producer Yoshiaki Nishimura, it's a venture that couldn't help but be viewed as a spiritual continuation of Ghibli at best, and in Ghibli's shadow at worst.

Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist (C --RRB-: A fascinating story, but as reimagined by screenwriter by screenwriter Nick Hornsby and director Jean - Marc Vallée («Dallas Buyers Club»), «Wild» starring Reese Witherspoon is a well - intentioned, but misguided and occasionally even garish adaptation of spiritual redemption that never connects or finds itself.

Unfolding like Roman Polanski's take on «The King of Marvin Gardens» while simultaneously serving as a suitable spiritual sequel to the director's debut, «Afterschool,» in which the male desire to connect meaningfully with others is frayed and warped by life experience, «Simon Killer» is Antonio Campos» latest chilly, chilling character study, with Corbet effectively replacing Ezra Miller, who led the previous film, as a neuroscience major who studied how the eyes and the brain relate, but has a seriously loose wire between his own brain and his heart.

«Guardians of the Galaxy» director James Gunn shares Andrew Kim's Yondu concept art that depicts the Ravager leader as a spiritual warrior.

Three reasons explain why Tokyo Story is generally regarded as Ozu's finest work are: it's by far the film of his that's been most widely seen in the West; its first distribution in the U.S. coincided with the landmark publication in 1972 of Paul Schrader's Transcendental Style in Film, which considered Ozu alongside other such luminaries as Carl Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson as an exemplar of spiritual filmmaking; and it's seen as the most complete summation of its director's art.

Sheila Roberts: Writer - director Maggie Betts hits all the right notes tonally and stylistically as she explores the experiences of a young nun in training who comes to question her faith, sexuality and spiritual purpose during an era of radical church reform.

Olivier Assayas, the internationally - acclaimed director of Clouds of Sils Maria and Summer Hours, returns with this ethereal and mysterious ghost story starring Kristen Stewart as a high - fashion personal shopper to the stars who is also a spiritual medium.

John Doonan, director of motorsports, Mazda North American Operations: «This is a special weekend for all of us at Mazda Motorsports, as there's nothing better than watching our customer teams win championships at our spiritual home, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

As the director of the Scripps Howard Program in Religion, Journalism, and Spiritual Life at Columbia, he teaches the popular «Covering Religion» seminar that in recent years has taken students on study tours of Israel, Jordan, Russia, Ukraine, India, Ireland, and Italy.

Her work as a chaplain and Director of Spiritual Care for Hospice of Green Country in Tulsa, Oklahoma provided her with a profound understanding of the Human - Animal Bond in the lives of the elderly and the terminally ill.

As he settles into a black leather armchair next to a taxidermied fox, he outlines upcoming exhibitions and projects that encompass his multifaceted career as a member of the General Idea collective, a spiritual healer, the director of Printed Matter and an independent artisAs he settles into a black leather armchair next to a taxidermied fox, he outlines upcoming exhibitions and projects that encompass his multifaceted career as a member of the General Idea collective, a spiritual healer, the director of Printed Matter and an independent artisas a member of the General Idea collective, a spiritual healer, the director of Printed Matter and an independent artist.

Debonee is known as a charismatic workshop leader, presenting at conferences for Spiritual Directors International, Georgia Association for Marriage and Family Therapists, Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta, and the Society for the Integration for Spirituality and Psychotherapy.

As Director of the Action Institute of California, she provides Leadership Workshops, Psychodrama and Sociometry Training, and uses action methods in businesses, medical, and mental health settings to effect change on a body, mind, and spiritual level.