Sentences with phrase «as kind of a community»

Xerox copies of the portraits have accumulated over the years in the window of Dog Eared Books on Valencia Street in San Francisco's Mission District, where the artist used to work, and where the window has served as a kind of community board for loss and remembrance.

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We're driven by the community, and as a result we're kind of a business and a community service also.

«There has been significant debate surrounding the FDA letter that KIND received, as many in the nutrition community rose to KIND's defense,» said Joe Cohen, SVP of communications at KIND in a statement to Fortune.

«We're not seeing the kind of growth and scale - ups, and if we can solve that problem we'll also keep our most talented in Miami by using entrepreneurship as a tool for community building,» says Matt Haggman, the program director in Miami for the Knight Foundation, which committed a $ 2 million investment to help bring Endeavor to the city.

Beyond being an incredible song, its chorus became a rallying cry of protesters in the United States — «a kind of comfort that people of color and other oppressed communities desperately need all too often: the hope — the feeling — that despite tensions in this country growing worse and worse, in the long run, we're all gon» be all right,» as Slate culture writer Aisha Harris put it.

In many indigenous cultures I have learned about, community members who want more resources than they can personally use are viewed as suffering from some kind of mental illness.

It's very well known in the startup community as a kind of Reddit for new products, featuring Q&A's with founders, videos and a front page where people can upvote products they like the most.

If Starbucks sought to create a new kind of community space in an increasingly alienated world, and Lululemon promoted physical fitness and yogic mindfulness as paths to personal empowerment, Luvo's social mission is even more ambitious.

Women are the superstars of this kind of collaborative philanthropy, and the importance of well - connected catalysts is growing as legions of new donors arrive on the scene, with many looking for guidance and community.

Usually tax exemptions are given to charitable organisations, as such establishments provide some kind of public service and are beneficial to the community as a whole.

«As an association whose Members are intricately woven into the fabric of their local economies, we are incredibly well positioned to connect local communities to global opportunities, even in an environment that may not always seem conducive to this kind of collaboration.

In this year's list of Social Media Marketing Influencers there are many people who demonstrate this kind of helpfulness and I am encouraging those influencers as well as our community of readers to nominate up and coming social media marketing leaders.

«I think Alberta, rightly or wrongly, is often viewed as this kind of big, bad oil place and all we want to do is sell our oil and we don't care about our environment and communities.

As they were saying to the Muslim community, if you voted for Sanders, you have to understand Hillary Clinton is crazy, she's a murderer, she is terrible, all kinds of horrible, horrible things, about Hillary Clinton.

To be sure, there are those (such as the three hundred plus self - described «lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied activists, scholars, educators, writers, artists, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers,» including such notables as Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kenji Yoshino), who have already signed on (quite literally) to the proposition that there are no reasons of principle (or valid reasons of any kind) for conceiving marriage or the equivalent as a two - person relationship, as opposed to a relationship of three or more individuals (triads, quadrads, etc.) in a polyamorous sexual partnership.

I have to deal with these kinds of questions at my church though because they know I go to a Metropolitan Community Church as well.

I've really appreciated your work over the past year as I've gone through my own transition and found the kind of community that promotes health rather than just covering up the ugly in my life.

But hopefully, Dr. Mielnik concluded, as NaPro Technology become more widely available at clinics like Gianna «women will «vote with their feet» about the kind of health care they want to receive» and send the message to the medical community that treatments that do not treat the underlying problem and which suppress, destroy, or bypass their naturally - occurring cycle are no longer acceptable to them.»

What kind of witness could we be to our communities, as fragmented as they are by race and class and economics and politics, if the very makeup of our congregations signaled the «manifold wisdom of God» (Eph.

Our desire is to create the kind of online community that would be known as a collaborative dream center.

Community of the kind Christ desires can only occur with another when He is shared as more necessary than breath amidst all persons present, whether they be the person «giving» or the one receiving — Christ must not be fore - fitted to some other monstrous conceit that is paraded as «communion» and «fellowship» — the common bane of our religious activity.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

Maybe that is the kind of community we have become as a nation, but there are many communities in this nation that are not resigned to going along.

Such a meal would not be the same as the Eucharist, but at least it would express the kind of community that that meal has.

There is no other group of people in the world today causing the kind of death destruction and evil as the Muslim community.

Usually, my first reaction to these kinds of messages is to get defensive and frustrated by the fact that critical thinking, compassion, and honesty are so often presented as liabilities to faith within the conservative evangelical community.

As a very simple illustration in human communities, it is obvious that athletic teams strive to develop this kind of aesthetic relation of mutual support among their members.

The religious vision from which Attic tragedy emerged was one of the human community as a kind of besieged citadel preserving itself through the tribute it paid to the powers that both threatened and enlivened it.

Orthodoxy is being able not only to repeat the same teachings but also to show their relevance to the new context.2 Other individuals, on the other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions of the human community's search for some kind of meaning, an accumulated source of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its life and activities.

In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

Mental health professionals in the church or temple and community can be recruited as leaders or co-leaders (with the clergyman) of groups, and to help train lay leaders for all kinds of groups — e.g., supportive, growth, inspirational, study, and action groups.

Whether Rama or Ravana ruled, whatever political authority structures came into being or disappeared, they had but minimum impact on the life of the various village communities; they continued to live in some kind of internal self - sufficiency according to their different traditions, with Custom as the real King.

One formulation is offered by John Paul II in his 1995 encyclical Ut Unum Sint: «Insofar as these kinds of elements exist in other Christian communities, the one (unica) Church of Christ has an efficacious presence therein.

Because general hospitals, unlike most mental hospitals, were under many kinds of administrative auspices (churches, community funds, self - perpetuating boards, as well as public agencies), the advance in chaplaincy service within them has had to take a variety of financial patterns.

Under the influence of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and New England transcendentalist James Marsh, Allston regarded the artist as a kind of seer for the community.

not only do so - called «leaders» have to just become a part, but the other members of the community (whatever kind of community it is) need to accept the so - called «leader» as a part.

As we seek to form a community transformed by the radical life and work of Christ, these are the kinds of moral concerns we need to address.

Although it might be claimed that Dewey was simply giving democracy a religious dimension and seeing it as some kind of final spiritual community, the point I want to emphasize is that for Dewey democracy is a moral ideal for this life, an ideal that we are still far from attaining.

(3) The first major part of the body of the Gospel of Matthew, chapters 3 - 11, into which the text of Q is largely compressed, was composed as a kind of rationale or justification for the Q community's having held out so long in its exclusively Jewish orientation.

Let us illustrate this point of view toward which our whole discussion has been moving by looking briefly at the sacraments of the Church, the Christian meeting of death, and the Christian life of active service as expressions of the way which is enclosed in the grace of this kind of community.

More work in the line of H. Richard Niebuhr's still suggestive notion of a «confessional» theology that authentically re-presents a particular community's vision of reality without rendering that vision merely private strikes me as the kind of direction to pursue.

most churches represent the community in which it is found in many respects if the community is multi-disciplinary in it's religions — then multi-disciplinary churches, as well as many other churches of all kinds, can be found there are real differences in the religious atmosphere and realities in the USA compared to the Mid-East the seperation of church and state is taken fairly seriously — and — from what i have seen so far — is a good thing for most

In a way, we are like Merton who are living as kind of hermits out in the world, many of us in isolation from other Christians and church communities.

I'm sure it started long before any kind of recorded history as a sort of group reinforcement of «community values» — but that would have been before ho - mo sapiens got its start.

Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.

This gaffe further convinced many Hispanics present that Trump is either unprepared to serve as president (surely he would have developed some standard response for this kind of question) or simply uncaring about the Hispanic community.

As John Snow, a professor of pastoral theology, points out, the Christian family was seen in the New Testament as an agent of the coming community of love and justice, a new kind of «kingdom»: «Its goal was not to make a house a home for a family but to make the world a home for humankind.&raquAs John Snow, a professor of pastoral theology, points out, the Christian family was seen in the New Testament as an agent of the coming community of love and justice, a new kind of «kingdom»: «Its goal was not to make a house a home for a family but to make the world a home for humankind.&raquas an agent of the coming community of love and justice, a new kind of «kingdom»: «Its goal was not to make a house a home for a family but to make the world a home for humankind.»

Churches can marry people in the religious sense and as far as the secular world is concerned we can all go to having the kinds of community property and power of attorney rights that are already available to anybody who wants them now.»

«Faith communities around the country must host these kinds of conversations,» an energetic Mexican woman declared as we dismissed everyone to break down tables and take photos.

«I've kind of just opened my mind and allowed it to not forget all the things I learned as a kid, but also be open to other ways of thinking, but still carrying that tradition of love and respect for each other, and wanting peace, and wanting a community that's safe and just where we all take care of each other and care about each other.»