Sentences with phrase «as traditions go»

My family was definitely team gingerbread cookie as far as traditions go, but the whole experience of sugar cookies is too fun to be left out during this time of year.

As the tradition goes, Google will release the next Nexus flagship alongside the Android M release sometime around the end of the year.

And as tradition goes, the artist compiled a soundtrack of sounds inspired by the possibilities of Morocco and the OFF / GRID collection.

But as tradition goes, a smartphone's actual user experience can be rather different than what the specs would suggest.

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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.

«As you build an environment in which not everybody is going to be together every day in the same space, it became this folklore that made you familiar with one another,» Whitehead says of the tradition.

With just a few days to go until Thanksgiving, I've been practicing my annual tradition of marathon - watching cooking shows as inspiration.

In business, we have a terrible tradition going back at least as far as Frederick Taylor (yes, the «Taylorism» Taylor) that jobs are things done by employees, but designed by their so - called superiors.

Some blame the lack of a catalogue - buying tradition in Canada, but demand clearly goes unfulfilled here: Four in 10 dollars spent online goes abroad, meaning a large portion of spending isn't going back into the Canadian economy, at a time when the retail industry is on rocky footing and facing new competition from foreign rivals such as Target Corp..

On Maundy Thursday, Pope Francis chose not to hold the customary foot - washing in one of the main churches in Rome, as is tradition, but went instead to... More

They especially fear any discussion that goes to the principles of the tradition, preferring to live as best as they can with whatever compromise is worked out.

And not go deeper in new ways of praying, but actually return to old historic practices that are rooted in our historic Christian contemplative tradition and my sense here, in the Sacred Enneagram is that as we come to terms with what our type is, that actually gives us a clue of what it looks like to nurture a deep, contemplative spirituality.

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.

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.

So, just because of the situation that someone was born into, in your example a person born to Muslim parents in a different part of the world than you, where that person took on the religous traditions and practices of their parents (as many of us do when we're children), and just never had an opportunity to learn about christianity and Jesus, again only because of where they were born... you contend that person is going to «burn» in an eternal lake of fire?!

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Only strategy Christians has to do is fight for what ever Tradition is going on for years by co-ordinating within the different Christian sects as well as DISPLAYING MORE NATIVITY SCEANS AROUND THE NEIGHBORING HOUSES OF ATHEIST FOLLOWERS especially near the leaders houses for for sure, yea I mean purely private property.

However, it could be an immense struggle to go it alone, without the Church [Tradition], the Bible and the Magisterium, as the Bible describes for us.

But as time went on, Wright says, «reason» became known as an entirely separate source of information, «which could be played off against scripture and / or tradition.»

It is likely that this grew steadily as something freely embraced and the later rupture of traditions between East and West reflected the diverse practice that went on earlier.

They would encourage us to go where scripture led, using all the tools available to us, and being prepared to challenge all human traditions, including the «Reformation'traditions themselves, insofar as scripture itself encouraged us to do so.»

At the same time it must be recognized, as we have already observed, that Mark's theology likewise went back to the primitive tradition for its basic structure.

He did not know how to go on as a Jew until he met such Christians as Roy Eckhardt and Paul van Buren, who modeled for him both radical faith in God and critical fidelity to tradition.

It reflects the theology of those who thought of Jesus exclusively in apocalyptic terms, and were prepared not only to go through the tradition and substitute «the Son of Man» for his simple «I,» but also to insert appropriate quotations or paraphrases of their favorite apocalyptic texts in order to give his life its appropriate setting — as they assumed — and his teaching its proper interpretation.

There is, therefore, in principle, no tension between going back to Wesley and locating him as simply one figure, however impressive, in the ecumenical tradition.

I suspect because it is required to keep the belief going otherwise you would have to call in to question everything you believed in and that is a very deeply painful road — so most interpret it as a «test» rather than your brain working rationally because it is scary to go against tradition.

«Many of these are believed to be Christians as it is a common tradition for families to go to a local funfair to celebrate the birth of Christ after their Easter devotions,» reports the British Pakistani Christian Association.

But he went much further, arguing that Christian philosophy, like that of Aristotle, should be empirical: it should proceed from what can be grasped by the senses — and not, as the Augustinian tradition held, by what can be grasped purely by the Mind.

In other chapters, Wuthnow examines further significant questions, such as who goes to church or not, why different religious traditions are gaining and losing members, faith and the Internet, recent trends in religious beliefs and spirituality, the role of families in faith formation, and generational differences when it comes to religion and public life.

Exotic as their background may be, all these critics of the present are part of a tradition that goes back continuously to the beginning of the settlement of America.

In fact I'm only going off of the rabbinic and Christian traditions as well as scripture itself.

With this in mind Christians rightly turn to biblical authors who go beyond stewardship to stress a just treatment of animals; to Orthodox traditions with their emphases on a sacramental understanding of nature; and to classical, Western writers such as Irenacus, the later Augustine, Francis of Assisi, and the Rhineland mystics who stress the value of creation as a whole.

Though stimulated by an encounter with Zen, the speculations that follow go well beyond the perspective of Zen, though not necessarily beyond those of other, more theistic schools of Buddhism such as the Pure Land traditions.

The tradition has been appealed to by journalists and politicians, as if it were common knowledge, as a basis for making (or denying) the claim that the war in the Persian Gulf should go on.

Now that I am back home in New York, I try not to insist on a particular human lifestyle or language or tradition, all of which can go rotten as they become useless or out - of - date.

The scientist as much as anyone else is dependent on the tradition of the scientific community, on its especial authority, responsibility and methods of going about its scientific tasks.

Both the prophetic tradition as renewed in Protestantism and process thought remind us that justice is always to be transcended, that it is always to be gone «beyond.»

Though populist impulses go as far back as the colonial era, the contemporary tradition was born with the fiery rhetoric of William Jennings Bryan in the 1890s.

As tradition has it, God led him to the top of Mount Nebo and showed him all the land from Dan in the north to Judah in the south, and then said, «I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there».

The job of a Christian preacher, he said, is to «proclaim the given gospel to the given world,» The given gospel — that is to say, the gospel which has come to him from the Christian tradition which he represents and for which in his preaching function he speaks; the given world — that is to say, men and women in their actual concrete situation, with their interests and worries, their concerns and their problems, And the two are to go together, so that the gospel will be heard and (one hopes) accepted by those who hear its proclamation as directly relevant to their own lives.

But in recent decades there has been an increasing tendency to try to go behind this, to reconstruct the traditions and writings as they existed before they were incorporated...

He went up, John says, «not publicly, but almost in secret,» as if he wished to observe without being observed, taking the temperature of feeling in metropolitan circles.2 But «when the festival was already half over» he was moved to address the crowds in the temple.3 What he said so incensed them that he was in danger of being lynched.4 In the Fourth Gospel this episode is made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostility.

But in recent decades there has been an increasing tendency to try to go behind this, to reconstruct the traditions and writings as they existed before they were incorporated into the Bible in their present form.

However I saw not a single mention of the important tradition affirming Moses as the author; though there was a suggestion that some parts went back to Abraham.

· Whilst tradition in England has people carrying Palm branches in imitation of Christ's triumphal procession into Jerusalem, in Italy they usually carry olive branches and strew their churches with bay leaves, so that the Palm Sunday Procession leaves the most delightful smell, as those walking by crush the leaves as they go.

The names that they go under today are merely a matter of tradition as none are signed in any way.

So we have to take from the traditions as well as from modern developments certain values which do justice to the wholeness of human existence and find a new way of going forward fighting against both the traditional and modern injustices.

He figured that if he was going to serve the system, it might as well be one with a long history and some kind of respectable tradition.

Consequently Simpson deplored the crudely materialistic view of resurrection that has often dominated the Western Christian tradition, and went so far as to say that «If the Body of Christ had been cremated, His Resurrection - Appearances must have assumed much the same characteristics of physical identity as those which the Evangelists report.

’42 In addition, he not only transmits to us the early tradition that Christ «appeared to Cephas», but tells us elsewhere that some time after his own conversion he went «up to Jerusalem to get to know Cephas ’43 and «stayed with him for a fortnight».43 Since Paul and Peter are likely to have discussed all the important aspects of the Christian Gospel together, we can take Paul's testimony as the equivalent of first - hand testimony by Peter that Jesus had appeared to him.