Sentences with phrase «accepting community for»

The BB People Meet has created a peaceful and accepting community for plus size single men and women to meet each other and mingle.

It has created a peaceful and accepting community for plus size singles to meet each other and mingle.

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Take some tips from Charles Bonello, cofounder of Grand Central Tech, a community of startups and partners that breaks from the traditional accelerator model by providing accepted companies free office space in New York City for a year without requiring equity.

The Dogecoin community is known for its philanthropic campaigns; some of the world's largest charities have started accepting Bitcoin donations as well.

Two factors will be key for that decision: the behaviour of price expectations and whether or not the community accepts a decline in real purchasing power over the resources whose price has risen.

February 19, 2016 — Popcorntime Community Edition, The most recent of Popcorntime's open - source reincarnations, is up in full force, and the developers are accepting bitcoin donations for their trouble.

Tapping into a new and innovative digital currency community in which bitcoins can be earned and saved by users across the globe, the Kings have begun to accept bitcoins in the Kings Team Store through a simple checkout process, and will offer fans the ability to pay online for team merchandise and tickets by March 1.

My hope is that a few people will have a good laugh and maybe a few more will take it seriously enough to investigate for themselves the Bitcoin scaling debate instead of accepting the slavish dogmatism coming out of the Core community.

One is for the crypto community to continue publicly condemning such behavior, while in private accepting that nothing can be done about it.

Stock traders have had to go through this for many decades, and there is absolutely no reason to believe that the IRS would accept anything less from the crypto community.

In light of this, it is not enough for government bodies and policies to be more accepting of Chinese capital and immigration; a discussion needs to be had at the public level between local communities and newly - immigrated Chinese - Canadians as well in order to facilitate the acceptance and integration of new - comers into our diverse Canadian culture.

«We received countless requests from the community to add support for litecoin, and we knew it was already accepted by Apple on the App Store, so for us it's a perfect fit and makes the most sense right now,» Anthony Di Iorio, founder and CEO of Jaxx, said in a statement.

A Muslim community that feels accepted as true Americans and is encouraged to enter the mainstream will be the best OFFENSE FOR homegrown terrorism.

Largely I would echo what Christine has already said about the way in which we feel accepted within our community, but if you'll bear with me for a little bit, I'd like to attempt to explain to Trey in particular what I see as the difference between this type of acceptance and the attitude of the many Christians who view homosexuality as sinful such as what you have encountered with your sister.

I stand opposed to prostituion because it's also not an ethic 95 % — 98 % of the world accept as legal (or good / productive for their societies / communities).

I would not have been able to accept the kind of community that I now find myself so immensely grateful for.

Which in turn means that the sustaining and strengthening of those communities — or, in MacIntyre's terms, those «traditions of moral inquiry» — must be a major task for anyone who accepts these arguments.

The scientific community, for the most part, accepted Copernicus» theory, but the church took a long time to come around.

I believe in nationality; not in terms of race or of divine commissions for world conquest, but simply thus: mankind inevitably organizes itself in communities according to its geographical distribution; these communities by sharing a common history develop common characteristics and inspire local loyalty; the individual family develops most happily and fully when it accepts these natural limits.

In her new book, For the Love, the author and speaker encourages readers to live out of grace, and to use grace to accept criticism and give correction in the context of loving community when needed.

While we do accept Guest Post Submissions for the Redeeming God blog, we are moving away from publishing guest posts from random contributors, and are instead focusing on building community within our regular readers.

The 1938 report Doctrine in the Church of England says that «every individual ought to test his or her belief in practice and, so far as his or her ability and training allow, to think out his or her own belief and to distinguish between what has been accepted on authority only and what has been appropriated in thought or experience».23 Such an emphasis has to allow for variety of belief and view within the community.

If the concepts of relational power and aesthetic value are accepted as more adequate categories for understanding human experience than those arising from substance metaphysics, then we must obviously change our images of ideal personhood and ideal communities.

And the gay community makes it almost impossible for anyone who believes they are gay to accept what scripture says about their sexual behavior.

For me, better still is to find the peace that passes all understanding in communities that live by counter-imperial values, where one is accepted and loved regardless of one's usefulness or even moral standing, and where one is freed to love others as well.

Now our calling is to love and accept people one - on - one, caring for them where they are... We're joining our community in a different culture war — one that attacks poverty, crime, addiction, and pain.

The Christian community for the most part accepted the Jews» holy book.

In the end, and perhaps inevitably, the community's quest for pleasure triumphed over its theological scruples in firmly demanding that the mythical lovers be accepted as unambiguously adulterous.

That is, they have set aside the traditional understanding of God as a unique spiritual substance in which all three persons somehow share and have moved to a more contemporary understanding of God as an interpersonal process or a community of three coequal persons.1 In effect, they have abandoned the Aristotelian world view in which individual substance was the first category of being and have accepted (even for the doctrine of God) a process understanding of reality.

In accepting public funds for rendering public services, church - related agencies take on responsibilities to the public that reach beyond the church's faith community.

Who does, and who does not, belong to the community for which we accept common responsibility?

In Girard's words: «The metamorphosis from peaceable citizens into raging beasts is too terrifying and too transitory for the community to accept it as issuing from within itself.

Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self - understanding as standing for mission and service to the whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single social or cultural community since it consists of people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation with the people of similar background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a human right (ref.

I have repeatedly related the story of how the Constituent Assembly came to accept the inclusion of freedom of religious propagation in the clause on fundamental rights of religious freedom in response to the Indian Christian community voluntarily giving up the communal representation proposed by Britain as safeguard for the Christian minority.

The meaning and power of this Sacrament is for many Christians realized for the first time when they have passed through the crisis of personal failure and have discovered the accepting and sustaining community.

Reasons given by Unitarian Universalists there for leaving other churches were along the line of «couldn't believe dogma, but wanted community» (ex-Methodist), «could not accept Jesus myth» (nominal Episcopalian), «my wife and I could not reconcile the Christian theology with a rational approach to life» (nominal Presbyterian).

Some charities may think the government link a great deal, but Ms. Arrison suggests they think again: «By accepting responsibility for a program dictated by government agencies, charities will slide down a slippery slope with the end result being they will be regarded as civil servants — not as part of a vibrant community that voluntarily strengthens civil society.

Maybe it takes people like Kate Kelly, who fight for truth within a community that is not ready to accept that truth, to make change.

In those communities there are «rules,» like the famous one devised by St. Benedict and still in force in the religious order he founded, This rule allows for considerable diversity yet establishes a remarkable unity among those who accept it.

By accepting from Austin and Holmes an overly sharp distinction between law and morality, by largely abandoning the search for the common good, and by permitting individual liberty or equality to trump most other values, mainstream American law may have had a part in fostering a set of cultural conditions inhospitable to communities of memory and mutual aid.

In faith we judge for ourselves as a community of Christians, even if the truth we come to know is not the currently accepted «truth» of a particular congregation, denomination, or culture.10

Accepting the heterogeneity of its members, the congregation takes upon itself a synthesizing activity for the world at large and strives to develop a paradigmatic fellowship, a foretaste of the ultimate community of all humanity.

The authors would still allow doctors to decline to assist suicides — for now — but only because that practice is not yet accepted generally within the medical community.

In the Far West, a mental health center has established a panel of fifty qualified community professionals who accept patients for individual and group psychotherapy after screening and evaluation at the mental health center The center pays a small fee to the panel members and retains responsibility for the patient's total treatment program.

«As a pastor, the Word of God tells me in James that the true religion that God our Father accepts is to speak forth and to stand and to fight for the orphans and the widows,» he told CT. «And that gives me a mandate as a pastor, to challenge corruption, injustice, and poverty within my community.»

Having bargained away their tax base and accepted low wages for their labor, many communities reap relatively few benefits from the foreign investment, however, and are left with no evident way to repay the loans contracted on the.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

Shafiq, chief executive of the moderate Muslim organisation the Ramadhan Foundation, had actually received death threats for accepting that sexual abuse of vulnerable underagewhite girls was a phenomenon of particular concern to the «Asian» community: «In the early days», he says, «the Asian community thought the exploitation was all made up, just BNP propaganda.

Mr. George H. Pruette, Jr. (Director of Public Affairs, Advertising, for General Motors) says that «General Motors believes that positioning our advertisements in an environment of exploitative sex and gratuitous violence which violate the accepted standards of a community is not in the best interests of either the Corporation or to the sale of its products.»

To anyone familiar with the history of Western biographies of the Prophet, with its long tale of vituperation and certainly of totally reckless distance from the attitudes of Muslims as a community of persons, it is particularly striking to have a scholar write explicitly in the awareness that he is writing also for a Muslim audience, and take pains to write in a way that they can accept.