Sentences with phrase «about world culture»

Luck they landed in LAX of all places, where it was at least possible someone knew something about world cultures.

Use your imagination and these activities that teach your children about world cultures.

Teaching your kids about world cultures helps them appreciate the differences in people and their traditions.

Not exact matches

«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

«Culture fit» is a buzz term often thrown about in the startup world, but essentially it involves how an organization collaborates and communicates.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

Although focusing on organizational culture as a differentiator has become a more common practice in the business world, there are still many misconceptions about what culture really means and how to make it successful.

A «Culture Safari» in LA: The Foresight and Trends conference is all about getting out of the boardroom and into the real world.

When she's not writing about the world's greatest rock star - leader, Ellen McGirt is busy working on Fortune's raceAhead, a newsletter about race and culture.

Developing and protecting the culture is one of the most sacred parts of the SEAL experience, but if you listen to a lot of conversation in the business world, «culture» isn't much more than a soft buzzword that gets put up on a PowerPoint slide once or twice a year ten minutes after you talk about the corporate mission statement or annual strategic initiatives.

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.

In her twenty - plus years as an entrepreneur, Kim has had the opportunity to speak in front of thousands of people in the business, nonprofit and academic worlds about how to create a vibrant and rewarding work culture that enhances the company's bottom line as well as her coworker's and customer's lives.

Novak is a disruptive factor in the comfortable cognitive worlds of Catholic, and much Protestant, thought about politics, culture, and economics.

I know much about the world and different cultures.

Greek culture at the time recognized no single truth or code, allowing for a wide range of thought about the world.

I find that most of my Christian friends who talk about homosexuality are either determined to not think about the issue because of tradition and fear or are on the other end and choose not to think about the issue because the pressure of contemporary culture (in our part of the world) is to equate my sexuality with the colour of my skin which is, in light of history, a silly equation but we should just adjust our understanding to accomodate.

You wanted to take two years to wrestle with theology, with what you believe, you wanted to learn about our postmodern culture, about serving God in a new context and a new world.

It is true that Jesus said little about «the world» except to warn against letting its claims usurp the place of first loyalty to God, and had almost nothing to say about particular features of contemporary Jewish or Roman culture.

No, Mel Gibson and his dad are right about Jewish people, they have done everything in the last 300 years to corrupt White Christian Western culture and countries and are at the point where they can make Europeans extinct through there lies and deceit of multi-culturalism and multiracialism, every single even in the past 300 years has been manipulated by Jews in order to take control of the world, and they white christians as being the main obstacle to obtaining that goal.

We have far too many who aren't willing to stand for what is right and oppose what is wrong in our society and culture... This pastors «vision» sounds too much like the world John Lennon wrote about in his song «imagine» where there is no God and «no religion».

The people whose interpretations of experience we are studying are not Trobiand Islanders, but Jews of the first - century Mediterranean world; to understand how they interpret their lives, we need to learn as much as possible about the properly historical realities within which they lived: the social and symbolic worlds of Roman rule, Hellenistic culture, and a variegated Judaism.

Our ability to critique secular culture from an arm's lengths makes it easy to feel like we know absolutely everything about «that world out there» — that secular world — to know every bit of its brokenness, and just leave it there to fester.

«Moving these «holydays» (how the etymology of that word says so much about what they were to our culture) represents a symbolic retreat of huge proportions; conceding the notion that the secular world and the imperative of its ephemeral commitments must now be considered more real than the way in which the divine has entered our history and shaped it.»

And if we think this is easy, it is because we know nothing about the life of Christ, because we are so sunk in our materialistic culture that we have quite forgotten the meaning of God's work in us, quite forgotten what we are called to in the world.

In a world and a culture, sometimes in families and pasts and contexts, rife with lies about our very created and called selves, Almighty One, sweep the entanglements of our sin and those lies from our souls.

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.

This type of analysis is very much a part of current concerns about how media manipulate, for example encouraging us to become more active consumers, creating unrealistic perceptions of a more violent world, and imposing American culture on media audiences throughout the globe.

It requires leaders and teachers who can challenge us to think critically about our culture and what is going on in the world, as well as engaging Scripture in an active way, and living it out radically.

My friends and i go to a christian church and some of the Muslim students have gone with us just to see and learn for them selves what it is like instead of going off rumors and here say... Unless you have experiences something on your own you have no right to talk smack about it... The reason the world is the way it is is because people are to stuck up THEIR butts and THEIR way, to even try and become educated about anything else... im not saying convert or change your ways... But be educated about something before you talk because if your not you really look like a fool... ever religion, race, culture,... they have their good people and they have their bad people and you CAN NOT judge a whole race, religion, culture... off one group... that just being single minded!!!

It should be noted that the book was essentially written before September 11, and some last minute stitchings about what the war on terrorism might mean for the world and American culture do not sit well with the burden of his argument.

This is almost as bad as those shows where random people were asked about other world cultures («How many Eiffel Towers are there?»)

In this we can again distinguish the scientific and technological changes brought about in modern times, alongside a humanistic culture and the unification of the world under capitalistic globalization.

With close to 400 Confucian institutes established in different countries of the world, the PRC is serious about promoting Chinese culture.

When we realize Him to be all in all — to be the meaning and content of everything that all creation is about, then all the nonsensical issues that we make Christianity about (i.e., denominations, docrinal differences, Christian culture, saving the world... the list is endless) will fade away.

Less, what if instead of thinking about our next vocational, world changing, culture making move — what if you and I took a serious inventory of how the people around us are affected by our lives.

One only has to think about the countless cultures around the world that developed gods independently of each other long before humans began to travel globe to realize that all gods are a result of mans ego, fear and lack of understanding.

the culture might be, as may the people, but that can be said about many places in the world.

When we stop making it about everything that it isn't (a successful human enterprise, saving the world, denominational differences, a clean culture, etc.), and focus on Jesus as the all in all, then it will make sense.

If you want to be «scientific» you also have to be agnostic about all the other gods, and about vampires, werewolves, dragons, ogres, leprechauns, and pretty much everything else from all the world's cultures and religions.

Talk about women mutlitation... talk about wherever islam goes it destroys the host culture, look at Persia, Egypt, or Turkey once the center of christianity... most islamic states where delivered by war... look around you today... what you see all over the world is exactly what islam has been from DAY ONE.

The most remarkable thing about the international embrace of technology is that modern humanity has agreed with Christianity that we have a right, indeed a duty, to change the world — a notion many cultures do not swallow easily.

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Those who work in theological education are also aware, however, that we must also avoid intellectual or spiritual tourism — the tendency to explore the range and quaintness of the world's wondrous variety without asking about the truth - claims of various cultures, without attempting to discern the relative justice of alternative social practices, or without seeking commonalities that may overarch multiple lands and religions.

Not to mention the 120,000 years before that humans have lived on Earth or the other parts of the World, that included 99 % of all cultures and civilaizations on Earth 2,000 years ago that JEsus gave no indication of even knowing about.

«In the world in which we now live, with fears about «The Other» - whether that be Sunni, Shia, Jew, Christian, Yazidi, Hindu or Buddhist - stoked and spread through social media, and amplified by those who would seek to suppress understanding, rather than promote it, there is an urgent need for calm reflection and a genuinely sustained, empathetic and open dialogue across boundaries of faith, ethnicity and culture.»

We can choose to live this way, but then we also have to relinquish any notion of being agents of change in our culture; and we have to accept that the world will not care about what we have to say.

Rodney Stark wrote an amazing book called «The Victory of Reason» where he argued that something like the Enlightenment is only possible in a monotheistic culture where a belief in a Creator leads to a belief in a created order, which in turn leads to the possibility of an orderly set of observations about the world that we today call «Science.»

In order to have a good understanding about the world and its myriad traditions and cultures, one has to be open, flexible, and tolerating.

Finally, there is increased anxiety concerning climate change — with some environmentalists demonising human beings, consumer - based Western cultures castigating poorer nations for their waste and pollution, and little attempt to think more profoundly about what a more ecologically - aware approach to our world may demand from such societies.

But have we learned (or relearned) anything new about culture, society or our own methods of engagement with the world around us?