Sentences with phrase «building a tradition of»

Building on an extensive body research showing physical, emotional, social, and educational benefits of family dinners, the FDP has developed a plethora of useful tools to help families build a tradition of fun and frequent dinners and good tableside conversations about goals, hopes, and daily challenges.

Summary: This article tells the story of how a district worked with all of its schools to build a tradition of character education and social - emotional learning.

That car will no doubt follow the Italian - designed, coach - built tradition of being ungodly expensive, however, so it will be for the well - heeled only.

The MARS team was in town for their annual sales meeting, and, as part of their team - building tradition of community service, MARS and Rescue Resource spent the day building places for pets to play at the Pima County Animal Shelter and Christopher Columbus dog park.

Popular things to do and see are the centuries - old boat building traditions of Windward village, or to have a bite to eat at the Lazy Turtle Restaurant, which boasts the best pizzas away from PSV's Caribbean Beach Restaurant.

The use of natural materials such as volcanic stones, raw teak, timber and slate pay homage to the building traditions of the island.

Established in 1973, the clerking program continues to build a tradition of excellence and offers an opportunity for outstanding students to develop skills in legal research, writing, and advocacy.

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«As you build an environment in which not everybody is going to be together every day in the same space, it became this folklore that made you familiar with one another,» Whitehead says of the tradition.

Eaton Construction from Portland, OR, boasts quality craftsmanship built on a family tradition of 400 years in the industry, starting with the arrival of Francis Eaton, a «House Carpenter» as described in the ships rolls of the Mayflower, to Plymouth Colony in 1620.

University of Notre Dame students become part of a storied history, where carrying on school traditions is a built - in part of the experience: Pep rallies, homemade - boat races, and masses at chapel are among the activities available during students» four years on campus.

Built on tradition, the Masters is a no - nonsense tournament, banning patrons from bringing phones, electronics, and most types of chairs onto the grounds.

The worry is that the Federal Republic's proud 70 - year tradition of constructive consensus - building is under threat too, and that the legacy of 2015 is a Germany that has become fundamentally less predictable and harder to govern.

However, built on an innovation out of the private school tradition, a lot of high growth will come, he says.

Members of the press were also barred from the meeting, adding to building criticism that a President Trump will not honor White House traditions of transparency.

«It's even more important that Uber build a company that reflects the multi-racial, multi-cultural character of Oakland and the East Bay community, and its tradition of advocating for racial equality and economic justice.»

One of the most creative link building strategies I've ever pursued involved leveraging a client's annual tradition and turning it into some of the Internet's most beloved content: cute animal photos.

Built on the strength and tradition of the 104 year old Financial Post, National Post provides readers with comprehensive reporting from across the country and around the world, all with a distinctly Canadian voice.

The article is vintage Neuhaus, the kind of theological bridge building that offers hope, because it reflects a listening across traditions that enriches all of us.

It was a genuine extending of a hand to build a future where we find unity in our diversity, where faith, religion and tradition can be taken seriously while engaging one another respectfully.

Her position emerged out of the dialogue with Lawrence Kohlberg, whose research and theory on the development of moral reasoning builds toward post-conventional stages grounded in the Kantian ethical tradition of rights, duties, and obligations.

It is built on centuries of apostolic tradition passed down from age to age in the fullness of Christ.

Such development of doctrine, typically in response to grave error and deviant traditions built upon such error, is to be understood not as an addition to the apostolic teaching contained in Holy Scripture but as Spirit - guided insight into the fullness of that teaching.

The lives of the saints do not present us with a new theory of virtue, but a new way of teaching, a new strategy that builds on the tradition of examples, but enriches it by unfolding a pattern of holiness over the course of a lifetime.

And many of the challenges and inconsistencies of the emergent movement stem from the fact that it has intentionally not built itself on any foundation ¯ an effort to avoid proposition, metanarrative, and tradition.

There are parts that are, but much of medicine is still an art built on tradition and assumptions rather than cold hard data.

Capitalism, in turn, creates the economic base on which may be built, with guidance from religion and democracy, a more humane society of the kind called for by both Christian and Jewish traditions.

They re-founded the Jewish community among the ruins of Jerusalem, and by slow and painful degrees built up a civil and ecclesiastical polity through which the Jewish people maintained and developed its national traditions under the tolerant rule of the Persian Empire.

Here it is assumed that the church's teaching is the responsible development of biblical teaching, but the task is not so much to check this assumption as to build on the tradition.

Women's stories serve not only as the testing ground for new theological proposals, but also as material for building new theological traditions that revitalize the entire community of faith.

After the Mutiny, when the Muslim freedom movement was finally crushed by the British, the remnants of the defeated party sought to revive the Walliyulla tradition and build up a fresh movement for the freedom of Islam.

If the characteristic mark of hermeneutical theology is its interpretive stance, especially in regard to texts — both the classic text of the Judeo - Christian tradition (the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament) and the exemplary theologies that build on the classic text — then heuristic theology is also interpretive, for it claims that its successful unconventional metaphors are not only in continuity with the paradigmatic events and their significance expressed in this classic text but are also appropriate expressions of these matters for the present time.

A critical challenge of liberation theology is its rooting in local praxis and base communities, and here the main British version has been a multifaceted urban theology which has built on a tradition of pastoral, political and community - building activity in cities.

Building on but moving beyond psychological understandings of guilt, and excavating the reality of wrong «being that underlies our wrong» doing, Pieper brings the wisdom tradition of Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas into conversation with moderns, both Christian and anti-Christian, who try to make sense of sin and evil in the human condition.

All this is basic to contemporary work on the theology of the synoptic evangelists and their tradition; indeed, this contemporary work is consciously built upon the foundations laid by Bultmann in this most important book.

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

He consistently opposed what he called «nation - building» as an American responsibility and called for more «humility» in our relation to the rest of the world, striking an isolationist chord that has been perennial in our tradition.

In hopes of a deeper understanding of God, we study such subjects as Jesus Christ and Israel, scripture in tradition, the history of practices of interpretation of scripture and practices of response to God in worship, moral responsibility and institution building.

You see that although many translations try to be straight from the Greek or Hebrew, they also build on previous translations, so that if a particular translation has a long tradition, the tradition might get carried forward, even if that way of translating the word or idea is not the best.

This is what Christianity has done with most of our history and traditions (church buildings, Easter, paid clergy, etc), and what Moses himself did with much of his writing.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

And so may you pass from death to life, from the authority of tradition to the experience of knowing God; thus will you pass from darkness to light, from a racial faith inherited to a personal faith achieved by actual experience; and thereby will you progress from a theology of mind handed down by your ancestors to a true religion of spirit which shall be built up in your souls as an eternal endowment.

He clearly sees a role for Marxism, which, he thinks, has enriched the myth of Golden Age found in many religious traditions by working towards building a classless society.

I think I hold to some hodge - podge mixture of both ideas: Buildings and holidays and traditions can be redeemed, as long as they do not consume our values and mission.

The building exhibits the wonderful influence of two traditions expressed in elegant form, sitting beautifully in its prairie setting.»

Celebrating the vernacular: Certain regions of the country have a distinct tradition of church architecture, and congregations often want to tie their new building to that tradition.

But like all works of architecture, sacred buildings reflect not only a faith tradition but the values and concerns of the builders» immediate context.

Embroidering on the past: Many communities wish to use the historical style of their building or the traditions it represents as the inspiration for a new design.

In building long - distance devotion to human rights we need not and should not draw primarily on the secular Enlightenment of the 18th century, which has so often been hostile to the biblical tradition.

emphasizes the public expression of what is known, the crucial importance of language, texts, and tradition — linking to and building up a community of learning and knowledge.

The controversial head of a Muslim congregation in New York announced the launch of a «multinational, multifaith movement» meant to improve understanding and build trust between «people of all cultures and faith traditions,» according to a statement released Tuesday.