Sentences with phrase «about earlier practices»

Later writings, particularly manuals of church order, undoubtedly have something to tell us about earlier practices, but they do not throw any strong or steady light into the shadows of the Apostolic Age.

(Just ask the Mormons about the early practice of polygamy).

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, earlier this week, BuzzFeed wrote about a practice in which it claims a growing number of businesses are paying Facebook to promote positive news stories from publishers as sponsored posts.

In early February, the firm received a response from Vanguard, which Tim Smith, senior vice president at Walden Asset Management, told me included a discussion of Vanguard's efforts to talk with companies about social and environmental issues, but stopped short of saying that Vanguard would actually change its proxy voting practices.

In early January, Walden Asset Management, a corporate client who uses Vanguard for their 401 (k) program, wrote Vanguard about its proxy voting practices with respect to social and environmental issues like political spending and climate change.

«Establish the needs of each partner early on, practice working towards meeting those needs, and give feedback about which needs are still being unmet,» clinical psychology PhD student and long - distance relationship researcher Emma Dargie told Business Insider.

As an early adopter of Lean Startup, Rob not only applies these principals to Sharethrough but also advises other companies and speaks about Lean Startup in practice.

An earlier filing might have been a telltale sign about the financial problems to come: Tesla disclosed that it had begun reimbursing Mr. Musk for his use of his private plane, justifying the cost by saying, «By paying only the variable expenses of Mr. Musk's private airplane, consistent with the reimbursement policy in place, we will recognize a cost saving as compared to the customary practice for an initial public offering road show.»

Many Canadian firms are still in a relatively early stage of building knowledge networks in China, and are focused on the process of acquiring market information and knowledge about business practices.

Nevertheless, this current situation described earlier makes us reflect, and, as pastors, we are worried about the fact that many people who contract marriage are formally Christians, since they have received baptism, but are not practicing the Christian faith at all; not just liturgically, but also existentially.

Yet this practice had come about much earlier.

Casualties included a story about practicing the Sabbath, an account of the Puritan ducking chair, an interview with a courtship couple, an in - depth look at the it - couple of the Early Church (Priscilla and Aquilla), and and a far too detailed description of the beautiful grotto at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Alabama

Many people claim that the early church invented stories about the resurrection of Jesus in order to support their new belief system and practices.

• Fact # 9: I taught at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary early this year and spent some time with the President, Byron Klaus — who is a Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary graduate and keeps up with (and says good things about) his friend Paige Patterson, whose seminary has taken a position against some practices associated with Pentecostal Christianity.

As I said earlier, Christianity, as a movement, was born from the ashes of late antiquity's social malaise, gobbling up the philosophical attitudes and cultic practices that were lying about, offering ultimate meaning to the Greeks, ultimate justice to the Jews, a City of God to the Romans.

It is preserved and practiced in one form by the descendants of the earlier Zoroastrians, the Parsis, who now number only about 100,000.

Peter, I was thinking about writing some about the early church's view and practice of cremation.

Carefully itemizing mercantile bills of sale, inventories of militia and volunteer detachments, the evidence that there was a lack of gun - smiths, records of importation of guns from Europe, the incidence of duels (three in the entire South in the 1760s, none fatal), children's books and toys, comments by eyewitnesses about the abysmal shooting ability of settlers (lacking both the weapons and the gunpowder to practice), court records, and a wide variety of other historiographical resources, the author assembles an overwhelming mass of data to show that military prowess was not, in fact, characteristic of early Americans.

Just about everyone agrees that one reason religious belief and practice have flourished in the United States, in comparison with Western Europe, is that one state after another in the early republic ended the «establishment» of a preferred denomination and allowed all religious groups to....

They were attracted to what they saw of the faith and practices of early Christian communities; only later did they come to understand very much about the faith, after a prolonged program of catechesis made them proficient in an alien grammar and way of life.

Compatible with this practice was the way of speaking about and addressing Jesus in the early Christian communities.

All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

Coach Franklin talked about Thorpe earlier this week, seems the DL are complaining that he's going too hard in practice.

While practicing EC may lend itself to early toilet training, the ultimate goal of EC is not just about the end result.

In early April, I had a news story in the New York Times about the passage of a groundbreaking law in New Mexico that bans «lunch shaming» - practices in the cafeteria that single out kids with meal debt, such as being given a cold sandwich instead... [Continue reading]

Throughout this site I will be talking about all kinds of things related to pregnancy, birth, and parenting practices for which I advocate, that my parents may or may not have done in the early 70's.

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Calls from preschool about 1) an escapade falling off the jungle gym resulting in an E / R visit, 2) compassionate concern about your son's speech development, 3) a child chasing your child out of the preschool building (practicing early Mafia potential?).

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

«Building on a well - established knowledge base more than half a century in the making, recent advances in the science of early childhood development and its underlying biology provide a deeper understanding that can inform and improve existing policy and practice, as well as help generate new ways of thinking about solutions.

Even if, especially if, we didn't know about or practice many of the early strong bonding elements of attachment parenting, we can learn parenting practices that will strengthen our bond with our children.

In «Trauma Proofing your Kids,» Levine and Klein argue that parents should begin teaching children «about inappropriate touch as early as preschool» and that «it is especially important to practice what to do or say beforehand.»

By adopting a relaxed attitude about your due date in early pregnancy, you're practicing patience and trust that will serve you well as your pregnancy progresses.

At the meeting in November, Helen Gray and Clare Meynell gave an excellent presentation on the WBTi project, explaining why politicians should care about breastfeeding and how current practices result in so many mothers stopping breastfeeding much earlier than they wanted to.

Tuesday's event was hosted by the Long Island Pre-K Initiative, a grant - funded project administered by Nassau BOCES that seeks to share information about research, policy and best practices for early learning.

That's because of federal investigations surrounding the Buffalo Billion and an early December announcement about the FBI investigating hiring practices within the executive office.

Of course, immunity is a sine qua non of diplomacy, a rule invented to move away from earlier practices like killing ambassadors and sending back their heads when you weren't happy about something.

Notwithstanding the argument I made earlier about farming practices and slaughter houses being out of sight and out of mind for most consumers, there has been a sharp increase in demand for ethically produced food in recent years.

Cuomo said that in the early 1960s, not long after he started to practice law, he took over the representation of an association of about 15 junkyard dealers after the group's previous lawyer, Michael Castaldi, became a judge.

But in recent years, as Silver resisted growing calls for tighter ethics laws in the wake of a series of earlier pubic - corruption indictments, the suspicion grew that Silver's hold on power was actually about extracting as many dollars as he could for himself from the legal business he was practicing on the side.

They also raise concerns about well - established practices such as early training sessions and late - night athletic competitions and the possible negative effects on performance and health,» said co-author, Geneviève Forest, PhD, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO).

Dr Simon Stanworth, at NHSBT / Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, indicated the importance of the study as a baseline recording of practice: «This study tells us about the challenges of early delivery and administration of blood patients to a group of patients with life - threatening injuries.

Nevertheless, it may not be intuitively obvious that spreading animal dung around plants is good for them, and archaeologists had found no evidence for the practice earlier than about 3000 years ago.

There are tantalizing hints of feasting among Paleolithic hunter - gatherers perhaps as early as 20,000 years ago, but the practice became common only during the Neolithic (early farming) period beginning about 10,000 years ago.

The first evidence of early humans using fire dates back to more than a million years, but the practice did not become routine until about 650,000 years later, the latest research indicates.

My mother taught me about manifesting at an early age, and I've been using the practice ever since.

That's a very good thing to have a victory, and he has over his egg every morning, especially his breakfast, and he is incredibly vocal for other reason not just his diet but I can guess, helped with his linguistic skills also us just talking to him in terms of the practice that we used, now that we're here to talk about raising children, but he communicates very well at an early age and has a big vocabulary for...

I used to juice pretty much everyday about 10 years ago when I was on my first «wellness journey», I even used to get up one hour earlier everyday to do my yoga practice!

Unlike milking practices adopted by ancient nomadic cultures that restricted milking to the early months of pregnancy (when hormonal levels in the pregnant cows were relatively low), modern dairy farms maintain pregnancy in dairy cows about 80 % of the year and milk throughout pregnancy, even during months when hormonal levels are relatively high.

She talked to us about some of the awful practices she's seen early in her career working in the beauty industry (such as animal testing and beauty products created from potentially harmful petrochemicals) and how that motivated her to create a natural beauty brand that's dedicated to producing only the purest beauty and skincare products and promoting clean living.