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Named for two significant figures in American history — President George Washington and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee — Washington and Lee is steeped in traditions, including the school's honor code, which allows students such freedoms as scheduling their own exams and taking them without supervision.

The ping of an aluminum baseball bat is not a common sound at Pahokee High School, a place far more known for it's tradition of producing top pro and college football players.

Here in Texas, we have all three holy days (from the Abrahamic traditions) covered: Friday nights for high school, Saturdays for college, and Sundays for the Cowboys!

Further, they are already aware of «disagreement about some theological matters» and the CCCU schools are committed to «certain essentials of the faith once for all delivered to the saints» simultaneously adhering to particular theological postures in one's particular school and its theological tradition.

To seriously entertain the possibility that the Christian tradition may hold some of the answers for which they are looking would be to go backward, even though for most of these writers it would be going back to where they had never been except as children with a Sunday School impression of Christian doctrine.

The MORAL LIFE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION SEMINAR is a week - long program for advanced high school students interested in the origins of Western moral thought and its influence on Christian ethics.

Moral Life and the Classical Tradition: for rising high school juniors and seniors, with readings in Plato and Aristotle, and discussion of contemporary moral issues from a Judeo - Christian perspective.

And Roy Peachey's brilliant description of the emergence of the novel from the British tradition of Christian «protest», and of the related de-Catholicisation of the English school curriculum, sets the scene for the Church to reclaim this tradition in the name of true humanism.

This need not happen from the pulpit, but perhaps a Sunday school class or Bible study addressing these issues would be helpful, not only for those new to the church but also for those who grew up in the tradition and need a refresher.

Robert moved to North Carolina to pursue school at Duke, and while searching for a new church and faith tradition, Robert found Durham Friends Meeting and the Conservative Quaker tradition.

There has also been a deliberate attempt to develop our particular situation into a strong culture for the College, mainly rooted in traditions that staff experienced in their own schools a generation ago, or in revivals of medieval traditions, such as that of the boy - bishop (a boy rules the College for a day on the feast of St Nicholas.)

Christian congregation; some have seen a theological school as distinct from but interrelated with congregations in ways analogous to the relation in the Reformed tradition between the congregation and its clergy; others have seen a theological school as related, not to congregations, but to a cadre of active clergy for whom it provides «in - service» or «extension» education.

Lindbeck's «experiential - expressivist» model does a reasonably good job of accounting for the romantic and mystical streams of liberal theology, but it does not account for variants of liberal theology that make gospel - centered claims (such as the tradition of evangelical» liberalism), that base their affirmations on metaphysical arguments (such as the Whiteheadian process school) or that appeal to gospel norms and metaphysical arguments (such as the Boston personalist school).

The various schools of Tradition agree that natural reason relies upon experience for its initial signals of reality; hence, to start philosophy with sense and image is no crime, but it is a crime to end there.

If religion is understood in its elemental sense, and not merely in its sectarian expressions, it is entirely practicable for the public schools to educate religiously without violating any ideals of religious freedom, without partisanship for any historical tradition, and without transgressing the principle of persuasion, not compulsion, in all matters of faith.

For me, the prime attraction was attending a school that took its Catholic identity seriously and would educate me in the faith's intellectual tradition.

Guides were published about how to treat religious holidays in the schools, how to teach students about religious traditions, and how to create equal access for organizations, including religious clubs on campus.

A lot of Muslims where I live in NYC don't show much respect for our traditions / customs, so why should we close schools for them?

Liberal Catholicism has many mansions, and depending on how the term is used, it can sweep in everything from worldly prep schools «in the Jesuit tradition» to passionately ascetic Catholic Worker houses, everyone from the all - but - lapsed Catholic who shows up at Mass twice a year to the devout Catholic who attends every Sunday but felt glad for his gay nephew when the Supreme Court ruled for same - sex marriage.

Moral Life and the Classical Tradition (Women: June 19 — 25, 2016; Men: June 26 — July 2, 2016) is a seminar for rising high school juniors and seniors interested in the ancient philosophical tradition and its influence in the Christian moTradition (Women: June 19 — 25, 2016; Men: June 26 — July 2, 2016) is a seminar for rising high school juniors and seniors interested in the ancient philosophical tradition and its influence in the Christian motradition and its influence in the Christian moral life.

Some Moslem writers speak of these Companions as essentially schools for the transmission of the Traditions.

Writing from the vantage point of Yale Divinity School in the late 1940s Niebuhr had little interest in this tradition and little notion of its potential for continuing vitality.

Among university divinity schools today, Duke is notable for its efforts to reappropriate the fullness of the Christian tradition, refusing to be dominated by the fashions du jour.

Moreover, in its examination of problems of government in theological schools, the study continues in the tradition of the University of Berlin by voicing a powerful protest against patterns of school governance that «seem to have little confidence in the power of God to establish the victory of truth» and an eloquent plea for the freedom of inquiry that disciplined critical inquiry requires.

It will be impossible to assess the fruitfulness of that larger proposal to a particular theological school if the understanding of «worship» and of «congregation» it takes for granted is inapplicable in a particular tradition.

The Witherspoon Institute (where I direct the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution) is now accepting applications for the following seminars: Moral Life and the Classical Tradition: for rising high school juniors and seniors, with readings in Plato and Aristotle,....

It is actually a double option which determines Professor Radhakrishnan's explicit and implicit evaluation of religion: his preference for the apprehension of ultimate reality as proclaimed by the seers and sages of India and, within this tradition, his preference for the teachings of the Upanisads in the peculiar interpretation of the Advaita school.

That will provide the context for turning finally in the last two chapters to what makes the school's curriculum a course of study rather than a clutch of courses, what it can do to and for its students, to and for congregations, and to and for traditions of academic research.

(Second ed., Strassburg, 1903) And these traditions, be it observed, were the traditions of legal interpretation or of Bible hermeneutics, for the most part, handed down in schools of Jewish law.

If you are stupid enough to use religion as a voting criteria, here are your choices: a guy who committed to one religion and has been living it; or a guy who went to muslim schools, sat in Reverend Wright's Marxist church for 20 years and then dumped both traditions when it was politically expedient.

The choice among these various schools of commentary on the Qur» an and Sunnah depends on one's attitude with respect to three basic issues: the credence to be attached to historical tradition; the weight to be given to the claim for a hidden meaning in the Qur» an; the amount of subjectivity to be allowed in interpretation.

Nor do they account for the fact that the Thomism they dismissively deprecate (while failing to recognize the variant schools within the Thomist family) was taken seriously as an intellectual tradition by such respected secular scholars as Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mark Van Doren.

■ Bishop Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1168 - 1253), Bishop of Lincoln and founder of the «Oxford School» known for developing the tradition of experimental science.

For these reasons the great tradition of the Franciscan school, and of Scotus in particular, were not given due prominence.

Like his more speculative contemporary Ptolemy, a moderate Gnostic teacher, he undoubtedly thought of himself as standing in «the apostolic tradition» in a «succession» of teachers.24 Like pagan teachers and rabbis, Justin laid hands upon the head of each disciple on the completion of the course.25 At his trial, Justin, philosopher - prophet - teacher, describes the «school» where he has been teaching for the examining prefect, who will presently put him and several of his students to death.

Apparently the tradition started in 17th century Poland and the coins were intended for the children's school teachers.

A recent new tradition at my school is a Chili Cook Off to raise money for our band department.

(See here for a fantastically written article about a very nerdy tradition at my school, which is the nerdiest of the nerdy)

In the tradition of the Humanitarian Bowl (the former name of the Famous Idaho ® Potato Bowl), many events during game week will raise funds and awareness for local charities, including the United Way, Optimist Youth Football, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Boise School District, Treasure Valley YMCA, Boys and Girls Clubs, Girl Scouts, and Armed Forces personnel.

It's a tradition that I travel to our daughter's and help «babysit» with grandchildren while their parent's attend the Home School conference for 2 days.

The WCAL just happens to include several schools not just that have been strong for the past 30 or 40 years, but a few that have great baseball traditions that stretch more than 100 years into the past, especially with Sacred Heart Cathedral (formerly just Sacred Heart) of San Francisco.

These schools have tradition to rival some of today's powerhouses, but they're fit for the old brand of college sports, not the current culture that values athletics as its own industry, not just part of the college experience.

The Bears start their pregame routine by performing the HAKA (Warrior Dance) led by # 53 Moala Tautuaa who transferred from Tonga as he went to Toloa High School known for their rugby traditions.

Still, don't for a minute think that Mission's first - ever title is a sign of city public schools that don't have a rich, colorful and at times a dominant basketball tradition.

They talk about the dream possibility of playing for the same pro team, how Rick, Kay, Norm and Kelli could still caravan to games and how the two players would marry their high school sweethearts (Greene's girlfriend, Veronica Clark, and Pollack's, Lindsey Hopkins, are Georgia students) and continue the family - getaway tradition.

They also would allow for «important traditions,» such as parents sending cookies or cupcakes to school for a child's birthday, or «occasional fundraisers and bake sales.»

Perhaps the traditions of the Waldorf School, in the large sense are a wonderful fit for every child, but in a small sense some of it is very difficult for the average homeschooler.

You see a lot of back to school gifts for TEACHERS, but I was thinking of all the fun traditions I'll start with my kids when