Sentences with phrase «ancient stories»

While violence between father and son does not arise as it does in other ancient stories, violence does threaten whenever blessing is about to be transmitted.

These days, the atmosphere really does reflect human activity, and, as in our most ancient stories, our own behavior really is bringing disastrous weather down on our heads.

Who cares what the bible says, it is just a compliation of ancient stories told by people who thought the earth was flat.

Ancient stories about the Tower of Babel hold more truth than we give them credit for.

Listen to ancient stories as your Aboriginal guide from Nyanda Cultural Tours takes you on a journey through the wetlands.

All the better to see you withinvites us to delve into this shadowy world of ancient stories through the eyes of a diverse range of artists and art works.

From howling mountains to lapping ocean waves, the world of Moon Hunters is brimming with ancient stories and myths.

Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin and confession and the whole bloody business of sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the animals killed, all the trees cut down (for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each other and their «gods.»

as far as i'm concerned, any misunderstanding and misleading version of Jesus» ancient story caves in on itself after it is tested by true hearts, erased in time.

The myth is a very ancient story, one evident in the mythic patterns of many cultures and analyzed by Carl Jung5 and Joseph Campbell6 as the journey of the hero.

After this opening drama, we see Gramma Tala (voice of Rachel House, «Hunt for the Wilderpeople») scaring small children of their island by relating ancient stories of sea monsters and such; all except little Moana (voice of Auli'i Cravalho, a Hawaiian high school sophomore making her film debut), who is drawn to the sea, even as a baby.

Barely Lethal is directed by Kyle Newman, of Fanboys fame, and it has a similar low - level movie - nerd quality, using references to extremely popular films in order to make ancient story beats seem fresh and knowing.

Although writing workshops are tailored to meet school's or organization's specific needs, Stuart offers Keep the Pen Moving: How to Write Your Whole Life Long and The Hero's Journey: How Ancient Stories Still Live in Us.

Maybe you want to be an explorer, discover uncharted realms, find hidden treasures, piece together ancient stories and become known as a trailblazer this the brave new world?

The veteran New Yorker revisits ancient stories through new technology.

In ancient stories told throughout Polynesia, Hina appears in several different roles, including the goddess of the Moon, and as the demigod Maui's mother.

All the better to see you withinvites us to delve into this shadowy world of ancient stories through the eyes of a diverse range of artists and art works.This major summer exhibition is presented across all three levels of the museum and is accompanied by a catalogue and public and education programs.

Summer after summer, year after year, we fork over countless dollars to catch the latest iteration of an ancient story: the sky is falling; the Earth is dying; bring on the end of the world.

They could be traced to ancient stories and themes of many religions or other works of mythology.

These metaphors, still built into our language, help us see the point of the ancient story.

Drawing upon recent scholarship and literary analysis, Evans creatively retells our favorite Bible stories, explaining their contexts and possible interpretations, and then connects these ancient stories to our present - day ones.

What can learn from this ancient story?

Terrible Queen Jezebel of the Old Testament was a warning to women in my circles, the death knell for any woman in leadership, carrying the accusations and implications of female bitterness, manipulation, emasculation, power, idol - worshipping, hyper sexuality, layers upon layers of pet sins encapuslated in one woman's ancient story of Israel.

Jensen succeeds in her efforts because she understands that, in baptism, «visible images and actions, along with verbal recitation of ancient stories, prayers, hymns, all contributed to making an invisible presence more palpably sensed» (Jensen, Baptismal Image 3).

Moreover, this entire system is based on a collection of ancient stories that has been picked over, edited, and censored by the «leaders» of these factions so that the other accounts do not infringe or contradict what they have been promoting.

By virtue of this translation, we can understand the ancient story in a new way.

Lewis uses some of the ancient stories to tell the Oldest Story.

so do you believe it because you honestly think this ancient story happened, or do you believe it out of fear you won't be «saved» if you don't?

If you have ever actually read the bible and THOUGHT ABOUT it (key phrase there), you would question it too, rather than accept those ancient stories as facts.

I consider myself a Christian, and I am perfectly aware of the similarities between Old Testament stories and ancients stories told by other cultures in the same area.

Since absolutely nothing like those awesome and spectacular miracles have ever been documented outside the ancient stories in the Bible they can only be explained as just that.

Still, the ancient stories are obviously indispensable, for it is in their continual retelling that we find the informational constraints that give appropriate shape to our hope.

Lind argues convincingly that this is an ancient story, predating the work of the Deuteronomic historian.

A school of writers arose who turned the ancient stories of holy war into novellas.

According to Peter Enns, Paul often uses Adam and Eve as a way of «appropriating an ancient story to address pressing concerns of the moment.»

How can we stay faithful to what the text actually says and still find elements of this ancient story that are relevant to our lives?

Most people reading the ancient scriptures understand these accounts of hearing God's voice as miracles that really did happen but no longer take place today, or maybe as folkloric flourishes to ancient stories.

The startling reversal in the last line, in which the word God, spelled backward, is dog, utters the promise that time and grace can disgorge the massive need of men's souls out of their knotted negations, and find again a fierce salvation in the ancient story.

Indeed, is it conceivable that we shall ever discover an expression of the love of God more nearly adequate than the ancient story of God's sacrifice of his Son for our redemption, or that the enormity of man's sin will ever be more vividly disclosed than in the nailing of that Son of God to a cross?

But we also seek to engage the ancient story of Israel's deliverance from Egypt and to attend to the sacramental means of grace.

You could say that it is very disrespectful to the men and women who have worked very hard to give us all this knowledge and understanding of how things works over the last few centuries to still believe in these ancient stories.