As much time is spent on their story arc as any other, which does occasionally blur the thematic resonance of the story to be more
about the new culture of India vs. the traditional class and matchmaking structure, but one can also read into this the angle that India, like the building and its residents, is an old country that must also find new life through new ideas, not getting stuck in old ways of thinking at the cost of growth.
Not exact matches
Similar to how learning the likes and dislikes
of a potential
new hire provides insight into someone's preferences, asking
about the
culture at their previous workplace gives us insight into how that company operates and what aspects
of that
culture attracted them to our opening.
The Vidyo team is from all walks
of life, and our employees learn more every day
about each other's diverse
cultures, backgrounds and traditions, and face - to - face inclusion across the board constantly opens our managers up to
new ways
of approaching each challenge.
New York «s
culture website Vulture wrote recently
about the difficulty in forecasting this year's Best Picture Oscar race for reasons that include an especially diverse crowd
of contenders, as well as last - minute controversies and an all - around «politically charged moment» in time.
There's no better time than the beginning
of a career to teach a
new team member
about what makes your company and
culture special.
When asked if anything
about Rent the Runway's
culture needs to change, Hyman says yes — that it could do a better job
of on - boarding
new hires.
Sales and marketing strategist Todd Cohen offered a
new way
of thinking
about making connections at the Shell Sponsored Sales
Culture Seminar at Summit & Salute.
But we need our Canadian leaders to recognize that this genuine interest and curiosity
about the world on the other side
of the Pacific needs to be encouraged and validated through more opportunities that allow us to engage with
new peoples and
cultures.
[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out
of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability
of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do
about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop
of success [24:15] Ray's
new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating
new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing
about Ray's
culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance
of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting
of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth
of the top 1 %
of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?
The pace
of change in our economy and our
culture is accelerating — fueled by global adoption
of social, mobile, and other
new technologies — and our visibility
about the future is declining.
Mr Ratra is passionate
about building stronger businesses, adapting and aligning company with
new technology and digital era, and maintaining everlasting
culture of customer centricity.
The user review platform is giving us
new ways to connect to our customers, hear their feedback
about our products and services, and strengthen our
culture of customer centricity.»
They work to secure media attention for their own work as well as for plant - based and
cultured meat companies, and they have been covered in more than 480 scientific and mainstream media venues.16 Little is known
about the impact
of these interventions on public opinion, though it seems that raising public awareness
of cultured products may be valuable, especially since the field is so
new.
Jacoby's occasion for recycling this tired truism is David Gelernter's
new book, America - Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our
Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats), which he thinks is short on arguments and full
of shrill right - wing clichés
about tenured radicals and rootless intellectuals.
'» Asked to paint a picture
of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as «on the cover
of Business Week as a model success story... the Fortune most admired top - ten list... the best science and business graduates want to work here... people on airplanes rave
about one
of our products to seatmates... 20 consecutive years
of profitable growth... an entrepreneurial
culture that has spawned half a dozen
new divisions from within... management gurus use us as an example
of excellent management and progressive thinking,» and so on.
The struggles
of these Christians among the mainstream who chose to speak out
about Vietnam illustrate well the
new setting occasioned by Protestant displacement in American
culture.
Kathryn Watson is an arts and
culture writer based out
of New York City, asking questions
about who we are and what we are becoming.
What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part
of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence
of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence
of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy
about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line
of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry
of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy
of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws
of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading
of the text represents a capitulation to
culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse
of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the
new creation that began at the resurrection.
Digital utopias disagree with those who worry
about scenarios
of worldwide cultural homogenisation, they see the emergence
of new and creative lifestyles, vastly extended opportunities for different
cultures to meet and understand each other, and the creation
of new virtual communities that easily cross all the traditional borderlines
of age, gender, race, and religion.
His support for the unborn resonated with Americans fighting the consequences
of Roe v. Wade: The right to life movement received a
new language and dimension when he first spoke
about a «
Culture of Life» in 1993 — significantly, during a visit to America — and two years later, described his full vision in his great encyclical, Evangelum Vitae.
That is the image our American ancestors saw when they thought
about planting the germs
of beauty and nobility in their
new culture.
Not only was the most primitive kerygma soon seen in the light
of the varied patterns
of thought found in wider areas
of the Mediterranean world, but the inevitable contacts
of the Church with the
culture of that world brought
new intuitions and perceptions
about the kerygma itself.
as a non-muslim who knows little
about muslim
culture (i don't really know any muslims, actually, so beyond what i know
about the basics
of the religion, i don't know anything
about day - to - day life), i've really enjoyed learning
new things
about people.
These make people try to safeguard their
culture in ghetto type relationships and structures, and / or to evolve
new cultural mixes that may at first seem merely hybrid, but in the longer term could bring
about new patterns
of relationships.
This difference is an extremely important one to note for the simple reason that the ideas
of the
new reformers enjoy an increasing appeal» their notions
about moral agency and the nature
of the moral life cohering so well with the views
about these matters that now are characteristic
of American
culture.
The challenge
of Islam, however, does force us to think in
new ways, particularly
about the relation between religion and
culture.
The working title
of Catholicism: A
New Synthesis was in fact Matter and Mind: A Timely Synthesis, the published title coming
about because he realised that this question underlies the whole contemporary interface
of faith and
culture.
The questions
about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability
of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods
of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and
new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this
new set
of powers in our public life; and ways
of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses
of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses
of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular
culture had thought it would have to take seriously!
It was easy for me, then, to become cynical
about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology
of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger
of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the
culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange
new land
of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the
new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.
The
New Delhi WCC Assembly (1961) rightly observed
about culture within the pluralistic context: The assumption that Western culture is the central culture, and that therefore «Christian Culture» is necessarily identified with the customs and traditions of Western civilizations, is a hindrance to the spread of the gospel and a stumbling block to those of other trad
culture within the pluralistic context: The assumption that Western
culture is the central culture, and that therefore «Christian Culture» is necessarily identified with the customs and traditions of Western civilizations, is a hindrance to the spread of the gospel and a stumbling block to those of other trad
culture is the central
culture, and that therefore «Christian Culture» is necessarily identified with the customs and traditions of Western civilizations, is a hindrance to the spread of the gospel and a stumbling block to those of other trad
culture, and that therefore «Christian
Culture» is necessarily identified with the customs and traditions of Western civilizations, is a hindrance to the spread of the gospel and a stumbling block to those of other trad
Culture» is necessarily identified with the customs and traditions
of Western civilizations, is a hindrance to the spread
of the gospel and a stumbling block to those
of other traditions.
Perhaps what's most interesting
about his
new book - The Difference God Makes: A Catholic Vision
of Faith, Communion, and
Culture (Crossroad, 384 pages,...
But have we learned (or relearned) anything
new about culture, society or our own methods
of engagement with the world around us?
Perhaps what's most interesting
about his
new book - The Difference God Makes: A Catholic Vision
of Faith, Communion, and
Culture (Crossroad, 384 pages, $ 26.95)- is the sheer fact
of it, for no one besides Cardinal George has both the talent and the ecclesial weight to attempt what he's after in the book.
For almost two thousand years Christians have been interpreting the gospel in terms
of what they knew
about the Old and
New Testaments, their own
cultures, their media, and their experiences.
In the summer
of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method
of demonstrating the bankruptcy
of our
culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a
New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel
about a good man.
And why are we giving the
culture of Washington
new powers
of life and death» making ourselves «God's Partners,» in President Obama's language» at a time when that
culture has proved itself so vague and so deluded
about all the issues
of life and death that have come before it: war, and embryos, and the unborn, and the weak, and the vulnerable?
In describing and accounting for the lives
of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance
of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy
of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise
of what has been called the
New Right out
of the ashes
of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election
of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was,
of all things, a Democrat; the rise
of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching
of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war
of values» by changing the
culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions
about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
«Our society and
culture are driving many to ask
new questions
about the meaning
of life and to re-examine answers that had long been taken for granted.
We must not hide our eyes from the fact that what we have called secularization is an entirely
new phenomenon in human history, that it has been brought
about by a number
of new factors in human knowledge, the more important
of which we have looked at, and that for these reasons a secularized
culture has come to stay, at least in some form.
In many cases, a large portion
of geographic America is often ignored or misrepresented by the
culture creators in
New York and L.A., who are mainly focused on telling stories
about young, abnormally beautiful people in large cities.
Growing this
new family was so central to the faith
of the early Christians it no doubt raised questions
about how to operate in a world where hierarchal boundaries were such a big part
of the
culture's sociopolitical dynamic.
They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic
culture» within the framework
of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a
new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body
of insights
about the nature
of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies
of the tragic dimension
of existence and disciplines
of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context
of their common sense
of historical responsibility and common human destiny.
Furthermore, the pre-modern science concept
of «the nature» has been slipping out
of our
culture's world - view for centuries, given the force
of new knowledge
about formality.
Later, God the Father takes on the form
of a Native American wiseman (Graham Greene), and leads Mack on a
New - Agey «healing trail to bring closure to [his] journey» — the most egregious example
of racial essentialism in a film that takes shallow assumptions
about foreign
cultures as its starting point.
Pope John Paul II is quoted twice, principally on the «spirituality
of communion» in Novo Millennio Inuente, and some relevant documents
of his are footnoted, but there is no reference to his writings
about the gap between faith and
culture, or indeed to his concepts
of the «
new evangelisation» or to his interpretation
of the evangelising
of culture.
The so - called «balanced approach» (a
new code word that means the exact opposite from what it would seem) sought by the president is most likely going to be all
about restricting guns and nothing but study on reigning in Hollywood for the
culture of violence.
I do not think Atheism is an entirely
new concept... I think there were
cultures that understood enough
about science to realize that the sun didn't rise and set solely because a god told it to, seasons didn't change because a god got bored
of one temperature, etc..
Rather than thinking
of culture as something implicit or taken for granted — as something
about latent normative patterns that can be inferred only from observing regularities in social behavior — the
new cultural sociology regards
culture as something tangible, explicit, and overtly produced.
But although Roncalli, unlike the present Pope John Paul II, had little interest in the nuances
of philosophy and theology, during his time in France in the «40s he learned to appreciate what the
new progressive theologians were saying
about the meaning
of historic Christian faith for men and women in the present epoch
of culture and civilization.
There was something
about capturing special moments during my exploration
of new cultures and terrains that I found irresistible, and the decision to keep finding
new things to shoot once I got home was completely natural.