Sentences with phrase «as alternative communities»

In it she «explored both the sexism of the Jewish tradition» and the contradictions she felt at the time «between Judaism and feminism as alternative communities.»

Not exact matches

The product he pitched — a system to streamline website donations as an alternative to paywalls — ultimately fell through, but not before he'd immersed himself in Halifax's small but tightly knit entrepreneurial community.

While reverse osmosis is touted as a cheaper, lower - energy alternative to large - scale distillation, Carlsbad's $ 1 billion construction project is a reminder that such plants still may not be practical for every water - scarce community.

Taking into into consideration how few alternatives are currently available to address this situation, not to mention the consequences of inaction being so dire if left to continue unabated, it's hardly something that anyone can afford to dismiss too lightly, not just here in Australia, but every community the world over, as well.

Guru.com's proposition holds that free agents (or «gurus,» as the company likes to refer to them), who lack the community and other trappings afforded workers in traditional office settings, will glom on to a site where they can create an alternative to the watercooler.

EDAR offers mobile protection to give homeless people a roof as a low - cost alternative solution to a widespread community problem.

But in the past three years, the GRE has been marketed to the business school community as a viable alternative.

Family Office Networks was founded in 2014 by the Schneider Family Office as a community for families to share information about potential investments, including private equity, venture capital, alternatives, and real estate.

The alternative digital currency has long - faced accusations from prominent members of the crypto community, such as Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, of being nothing more than a Ponzi scheme.

Crowdfunding represents an emerging financing alternative for SMEs to raise funds through the collection of small contributions from the general public (known as «the crowd») using the internet and social media to leverage the power of online communities to extend a project's promotion and financing opportunities.

Alternative sentences such as house arrest, electronic surveillance, and community - based work programs keep minor offenders tied closely to the very things that motivate most people to straighten out: their families, jobs, and communities.

Fresh wineskins, as faith communities experiment with alternative worship rituals.

(12) The consumer orientation of electronic culture and the expansion of widely advertised and available alternatives has brought a shift away from a committed and sacrificial relationship to organically - integrated communities towards one where as individuals we construct our own individualised networks characterised by tentativeness and usefulness.

God calls forth a «countercultural community of discipleship» which is «called to embody an alternative order that stands as a sign of God's redemptive purposes in the world.»

So long as the right tries to defend them without offering a broader ecology of a deeply integrated and formative community — something broader, for example, than the long - standing defense of «family values» that denigrates the idea that there is a relationship between the family and the village — it can offer no real alternative to liberalism.

Community groups such as SPUC, LIFE and the Good Counsel Network are some of the agencies who provide alternatives to abortion including social, material, psychological and spiritual support for the woman during pregnancy and afterwards.

I debated whether to engage a post that is just as disturbing as the title suggests, but after speaking with an editor and several writers at The Gospel Coalition, as well as some of my gay and lesbian friends, I've decided it's important to offer an alternative to the attitude presented in this post and, perhaps more importantly, to explore / discuss how Christians ought to respond when we encounter homophobia in our own faith communities.

I propose a common alternative, that we view people as persons in community.

They have not conjured up a vision of an alternative society based on «dignity» and «community» that would include the now - excluded poor as equals.

As a prophet and renewal movement founder, Jesus called his hearers into «an alternative community with an alternative consciousness,» to use Walter Brueggemann's illuminating phrase (The Prophetic Imagination [Fortress, 1978]-RRB-.

Christian theology can tap into these and offer them up as resources for the community life of the nation - state as living alternatives to the vision of Hindu nationalism.

I think sometimes the alternatives out there either are or seem too few (this is more of an issue in a sparsely populated area as there will be fewer churches, and some communities are just more traditional).

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

If we applied a biblical perspective in assessing new technology, and if the same amount of energy and resources had been devoted to the development of inter-personal and community - based communication as have been devoted to technological communication, we may have achieved a richer more satisfying alternative way of living together.

After a transitional essay «In Favor of Syncretism» (7), there are three informative and challenging essays on the «base communities» (8 - 10), and then three concluding essays (11 - 13) that profoundly explore an alternative way to view the church as «A Sacrament of the Holy Spirit» with «Charism as the Organizing Principle.»

«Shared moral reasoning as a basis for community cohesion is the alternative to radical individualism which has led us so far on a path that is clearly divisive and inimical to a cohesive society.»

They point to the urgent task of building an alternative view of society where all human beings live and experience as «persons - in - community, m various forms of daily social life.»

Yet even as the Congo Basin and other tropical forests around the world face mounting threats, a promising alternative has begun to emerge: the devolution of forest management to local communities.

The «Lazy Samoa», a creation of the The Post Punk Kitchen, is known in the vegan cookie community as the alternative to the popular Girl Scout Cookie.

Around the globe, organic farmers, consumers and facilitating organizations have been developing alternative and complementary tools to third - party certification such as Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) initiatives.PGS and CSA are similar in their overall objectives of improving livelihoods of organic... more

«As part of our strategic development plan, we're focused on building restaurants in vibrant communities with a diverse customer base where there is a real need for alternatives to traditional fast casual food,» said Giardino Gourmet Salads co-founder and board member Kenny Lugo.

Virginia Hunger Solutions works to increase participation in school breakfast programs throughout the Commonwealth by promoting alternative breakfast delivery models, such as Breakfast in the Classroom, and innovative public policies, such as the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP).

Overall the reports indicate that participation in school breakfast programs continues to rise, due in part to the success of breakfast - in - the - classroom and other alternative breakfast models, as well as the growth of the Community Eligibility Program.

Even some police officers question its effectiveness, citing alternative methods such as knife arches, monitoring movement around them and building long term collaboration with community members as being more constructive.

Backing for The People's Port project comes from the workforce, the local MP, the community and even famous songstress Dame Vera Lynne, as well as Unite - yet the PDCT is set to launch an expensive publicity campaign proposing its alternative, which will see Dover vulnerable to privatisation, the union warns.

Or as belonging to an alternative European community of Nordic states promoting a set of values more consistent with the social - democratic...

DrugScope also welcomed the Council's decision that community orders should be considered as a realistic alternative to prison for drug dependent individuals, and questioned once again whether using the criminal justice system to respond to offences of drug possession was «the most effective way to reduce drug - related harms both to individuals and the wider community.»

This last policy would leave individuals and communities «unaided to meet the challenges, using charities as some cut price alternative to government, instead of partners in a shared enterprise», he argued.

Silver's lawyers maintain in their sentencing memo that Manhattan Federal Judge Valerie Caproni should consider «a term of rigorous community service — whether as an alternative to incarceration, or as a component of an appropriate below - guidelines sentence» due to his age and poor health.

I also know that my role as publisher of an alternative weekly is not to ensure that everyone only reads what makes them happy and comfortable but to be an open window to view the reality of our community and the people in it, both the beautiful and the ugly.

The community sentences were often justified by supporters as a better alternative to the high number of short prison sentences.

There was a short period of declining prison populations from 1981, when fines, community sentences and cautions were increasingly used as alternative punishments.

Today's initiative is designed to help communities provide positive alternatives as well as peer mentoring schemes.

Mark, who will be among the conference delegates asked to endorse a ballot for a national strike over cuts to jobs, pensions and pay, said: «As a rep I witness firsthand how the government's cuts are affecting people and communities, so as well as cycling I'll be campaigning for the alternative along the waAs a rep I witness firsthand how the government's cuts are affecting people and communities, so as well as cycling I'll be campaigning for the alternative along the waas well as cycling I'll be campaigning for the alternative along the waas cycling I'll be campaigning for the alternative along the way.

The First Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama has called on the Ghanaian Society to encourage community service with effective supervision for minor offences as an alternative to imprisonment to help reduce congestion in the prisons.

Attendees can choose from an impressive variety of workshops that range from hands - on cooking demonstrations, learning how to compost food scraps to reduce landfill waste, conversations about getting healthier foods at bodegas and neighborhood stores, and learning about food - coops and community supported agriculture as alternatives to existing food systems.

If elected, Mr. Giardina pledged to evaluate current law enforcement programs and policies for interdiction and intervention; support 12 - step programs for addiction recovery; double the number of children and teenagers involved in after - school and sports programs sponsored by schools and faith and community - based groups; establish mentorship, apprenticeship, and internship programs that link East Hampton's youth with year - round homeowners and those who visit seasonally; create a volunteer program for those in recovery to be reintegrated into the job market; triple the number of police, firefighters, educators, and medical personnel trained to administer Narcan, and investigate the establishment of an easy - access residential treatment facility available as an alternative or supplement to incarceration.

As the Interstate 81 viaduct through downtown Syracuse comes to the end of its useful life, the state's alternatives are down to two options: the viaduct reconstruction or community grid.

In our 50 years of providing alternatives to incarceration and of helping those released from incarceration to build positive lives in the community, the Fortune Society has been saddened by the damage done by treating young people as though they were adults.

He reiterated the union's support for alternatives to state receivership for struggling schools, such as transforming them into community schools as New York City is doing as part of its School Renewal Program.