Sentences with phrase «as traditions for»

I see no a priori reason to assume that «religion» has an essence or that the great religious traditions are well understood as «religions,» that is, as traditions for which being religious is the central goal.

I make Grandma's homemade molasses cookies every single Christmas as a tradition for my own children.

I had no idea about the red envelopes as a tradition for the Chinese New Year.

Boysenberry Festival at Knott's Berry Farm has quickly developed as a tradition for us each spring.

Growing up my mother had pumpkin pie as a tradition for Thanksgiving every year too, but she didn't eat it.

I had no idea about the red envelopes as a tradition for the Chinese New Year.

Not exact matches

Rather than meet in a pub, per longstanding Irish tradition, the two men laced up their sneakers and went for a run, a picture of youthful energy as they discussed shared concerns about climate change, NATO, and Europe.

Despite criticisms against religion, every major faith tradition in the world has core principles and values that can serve as an anchoring ethos for entrepreneurs and leaders.

«Part of it is the nature of working with creative people that are looking for an outlet to express it not just in their work, but as a way of showing affection for their co-workers and having fun,» explains Bluebeam's Chief Human Capital Officer, Tracy Heverly, about the tradition.

For her first Christmas as First Lady, Melania Trump designed a decoration theme that serves as an ode to the past: «Time - Honored Traditions.»

All was good for decades, as the tradition of buying diamond engagement and wedding rings took off just after the Second World War, when newly employed GIs were told «A Diamond Is Forever» in a clever marketing campaign by South African miner De Beers.

Prince William broke protocol by picking Harry as his best man for his wedding, but Harry won't do the same if he wants to stick with tradition.

«The ancient Romans had a tradition: Whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: He stood under the arch.»

While many viewers complain about NBC's tape - delay tradition, the network maintains that the practice is better for ratings as NBC claims female viewers (who actually make up the bulk of the Olympics» audience) watch sports differently than men do, with women investing more in coverage showing athletes» journeys to the games than in the actual results.

Named for two significant figures in American history — President George Washington and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee — Washington and Lee is steeped in traditions, including the school's honor code, which allows students such freedoms as scheduling their own exams and taking them without supervision.

As people's tastes widen for all things handmade and delicious, the old traditions of cheese making and aging have become big business.

In an April, 2003, speech, Harper defined social conservatism as «respect for custom and traditions (religious traditions above all), voluntary association, and personal self - restraint reinforced by moral and legal sanctions on behaviour.»

Especially during Ramadan, the traditional month of giving, all entities big and small do their part for the community, often without publicity, as is the Islamic tradition.

While it is encouraging to see the high level of support from Chinese companies, for whatever reason, the unfortunate truth is that not all leading domestic Chinese companies are able to serve the one belt, one road as they are constrained by traditions, culture, and language barriers.

It may be a fine Canadian tradition in our perpetual political cycle for opposition parties to promise transparency and openness as they attack a tired government which has tossed both overboard, only to come to power and be accused of the same.

As the only licensed producer applicant in British Columbia's renowned «Golden Mile», our 290 - acre facility in the South Okanagan Valley is celebrated for its ideal climate conditions, honoring this region's tradition of excellence and a family legacy that has grown here for more than 120 years.

Beyond the special visit of Senator Collins, highlights included: • Intense and probing pre and post-dinner conversations about the economy and the world on the deck (along with wonderful wine and hors d'oeuvres — part of the tradition is that each participant ships several bottles of excellent wine to share with others) • Participation in a financial forecast survey of key factors for the upcoming 12 months as well as a review of the prior year's financial forecast survey — including distribution of funds that the prior year's attendees «bet» on the accuracy of the forecasts.

Now Yellen takes over the tradition, which adds an additional challenge to the job as financial markets try to interpret every answer for signs of the Fed's direction.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

When Americans who are respectful of tradition speak of religion as a synonym for theism, they limit their use of the First Amendment to defensive purposes only.

Being aware of thinking through the basis and traditions of what we believe was essential to develop a framework for the situations that we knew that we were going to face as Christian leaders.

Isn't this what so many of us don't like about people who use religious tradition as a means for explaining their behavior... they're not CONSISTENT?

We have known for over 200 years that the bulk of the Bible's claims are nothing more than Jewish tradition and folklore and that the Jesus as represented in the NT is nothing like the real Jesus who lived.

Moreover, we share as Americans, despite our differences, overlapping cultural traditions that can be a rich resource for the articulation of a common good.

Rather, he should be addressed as his «coppingoutness» for breaking tradition and leaving his post while still alive.

And while it may be wrong to ironize a song - and - dance number that seems intended as a nice send - off for a venerable actor and a semi-venerable character — still one notes that the whole tradition of the musical spectacular is a tradition of lavishly bankrolled excess.

To seriously entertain the possibility that the Christian tradition may hold some of the answers for which they are looking would be to go backward, even though for most of these writers it would be going back to where they had never been except as children with a Sunday School impression of Christian doctrine.

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.

Or... you can put asside your prophecies of doom & gloom, praying and hoping for God to smite all the yellow, black & brown people who don't believe the way you do anyway, and attempt to make peace with your neighbors, not by converting them at swordpoint, but accepting them and learning about their cultures and traditions and give them as much respect as you want them to show you.

Too many priests simply want laypeople to submit to church authority and tradition, and too many laypeople regard Orthodoxy as nothing more than a collection of rituals from which they pick and choose what works for them.

The Christian tradition is full of those who have suffered death and persecution as a result of their faith and, in some cases, for no discernible reason whatsoever.

This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

Allowing for the remarkable contrasts, Ker believes he can still trace at least one theme through the work of all six of his subjects, a theme that has little to do with the obvious «motifs» of English Catholicism such as «aestheticism, a love of ritual, ceremony, tradition, the appeal of authority, a romantic triumphalism, the lure of the exotic and foreign, a preoccupation with sin and guilt.»

I can't speak for James Kugel, who as I observed in my essay tends to overdraw the contrast between what we can reliably know historically (as opposed to the often agenda - driven projects of modern critics) and the ways in which the Bible was read in the earlier traditions.

Just as we no longer have a code for the proper treatment of slaves, even though it's laid out specifically in the Bible, so we no longer adhere to other archaic thinking and traditions.

Those concerned with Luther thus have little reason for concern with tradition, which — as «scholasticism,» «mysticism,» or «traditional dogma» — serves mostly as a foil for Luther's «discovery.»

For Hart and the traditions from which he draws, it is a gross anthropomorphism to speak of God as «a person» or «personal.»

As with the mystical tradition in general, the danger is that the Pentecostal mystical experience becomes a mere escape from the world rather than a preparation for a purposeful reinsertion into the world.

By the sixteenth century — the age of Shakespeare — a well - established tradition of self - examination existed, as is evident from the many guides to the spiritual life for those who would assay it.

If she was hired as a gift wrapper for the holiday season, she would have also expected to decorate packages with Santas, elves, pagan seasonal symbols like holly, and probably a lot of things that refer to the Christian tradition of Christmas — angels, doves, 3 wise men and stuff like that.

It was Arendt's remarkable ability to face the double tradition from which she emerged with a sharp - eyed focus that characterizes much of her work: its generosity for the practice of democracy and her fierce determination to explain for herself as well as for others the failure of her former culture to endure despite its qualities.

Popular christmas traditions in north america are so far removed from christianity, I don't see how folk can cite religion as grounds for offense.

The fact that I attempt, very carefully, to show how a Christian public philosophy needs to take into account the contending views of various Christians» as well as our entire liberal / conservative political tradition» does not weaken my appeal for something more fully, integrally, and distinctively Christian.

If I were advocating for unqualified blessing of same - sex unions in the church, I would hope that I'd have the humility and charity and intellectual honesty to grapple with Scripture and the church's tradition in a way that didn't dismiss it as simply «homophobic» or hopelessly benighted.

The Baptist tradition, as shaped by American revivalism in the Great Awakenings, has generally leaned toward Arminianism, a modified version of predestination proposed by Jacob Arminius (d. 1609) that allowed a greater role for human cooperation in salvation.