Sentences with phrase «at facing history»

At Facing History we're inspired by Marley Dias.

Before joining the ReImagining Migration Project, Strom was the Director of Scholarship and Innovation at Facing History and Ourselves.

Mitra Best is the Chief Innovation Officer at PwC and an Advisory Board member at Facing History.

Julia is Managing Editor of Communications and Social Media at Facing History.

Filmmaker Beth Murphy and Educational Activist Razia Jan to Lead Discussion at Facing History Community Conversation

Six years ago, while researching the history of the atrocities at Facing History and Ourselves as an intern, I noted the tension between these extraordinary acts of violence and how utterly ordinary the perpetrators were.

Below are two examples of letters written by students Prince Taylor and Luis Santos, during their senior years at the Facing History School in New York.

McGonigal will launch the start of the game as the keynote speaker at Facing History and Ourselves» Community Conversation event in Boston, sponsored by the Allstate Foundation.

«Integrating the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation's expansive collection of partisan materials into Facing History's thematic framework for the study of the Holocaust will deeply complement our existing resources,» said Brooke Harvey, Director of Content at Facing History.

John Amaechi OBE shares his story with students, teachers, and community members at the Facing History and Ourselves 2014 New England Benefit Dinner.

Maureen Loughnane, Facing History's Executive Director in Chicago, tells a powerful story from her days as a student that helped steer her, ultimately, to work at Facing History.

Media contacts who wish to attend or speak with someone at Facing History should contact [email protected] or call 617-735-1619.

John Amaechi OBE shares his story with students, teachers, and community members at the Facing History and Ourselves 2014 Chicago Benefit Dinner.

While many people head to the United Kingdom to visit Big Ben, sneak a peek at Buckingham Palace, and savor afternoon tea and scones, Whiting, who teaches at an international school in Malaysia, was off to join 26 educators from around the world at Facing History and Ourselves» annual international seminar.

She performs at the Facing History and Ourselves 2013 «Stand Up, Speak Out» event.

San Francisco Bay Area teens explore ways technology can be used for social justice and community engagement at Facing History's first ever Civic Hackathon hosted by Brocade.

Employment at Facing History and Ourselves means joining a dedicated and diverse staff committed to the intellectual, moral, and ethical development of young people.

Careers: Find out more about careers and internships at Facing History.

This is a photo of her own blackboard wall, from her office at Facing History headquarters in Brookline, Massachusetts!

Calee is an English Language Arts teacher and an advisor at the Facing History School (FHS) in New York City.

We at Facing History are so pleased to announce the winners of our first annual Facing History Together Student & Alumni Upstander Scholarship Contest.

At Facing History, we have learned that history often provides a needed distance from which we can illuminate the present and inform more productive civic dialogue.

And she'll continue to push so that more students are exposed to the kind of work being done at Facing History.

As Adam Strom, director of research and evaluation at Facing History and Ourselves, told International Education Policy Program (IEP) students last week, the important aspect of teaching history to students is making a connection to their lives.

Not exact matches

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned self - ruled Taiwan on Tuesday that it will face the «punishment of history» for any attempt at separatism.

After tweeting Friday that «trade wars are good, and easy to win» — a statement that flies in the face of both economics and history — he took a shot at European critics Saturday, saying: «If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S.»

I was able to balance what I knew of their history, their system and the support they provide to their franchisees to ensure the system worked, instead of taking the franchise's words at face value.

More than at any other time in our history, Americans are faced with the challenge of saving and investing well for their own future retirement security.

While Madigan would have Illinoisans believe it would only be a tax increase on the rich, recent history and Illinois» spending problems dictate the middle class would face tax hikes under a progressive tax system — where income is taxed at increasingly higher rates, rather than the current flat rate of 4.95 percent.

At the same time, we don't see any reason that the investing environment we face today is materially different than what we've faced throughout our history, and our Funds» historical returns speak for themselves.

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneAt first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneat least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneat this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneat the whim of the gardener.

Then, too, we have to face the question whether there can be any point of contact between the Christian view of things, and the way educated men look at the world and its history today.

For it then becomes apparent that this accumulation of features, bewildering at close quarters, does in fact outline a face: the face of Mankind gradually acquiring the knowledge of its birth, its history, its natural environment, its external powers and the secrets of its soul.

With that discovery it becomes impossible even for a moment to take seriously either a realistic metaphysics according to which metaphysical propositions state our empirical knowledge of the categorical characteristics of reality, or an idealistic or psychological metaphysics according to which these depend upon the way in which the human mind as such is always and everywhere constructed... We must start again at the beginning and construct a new metaphysical theory which will face the facts revealed by history.

The Christian heroism (and perhaps it is rarely to be seen) is to venture wholly to be oneself, as an individual man, this definite individual man, alone before the face of God, alone in this tremendous exertion and this tremendous responsibility; but it is not Christian heroism to be humbugged by the pure idea of humanity or to play the game of marveling at world - history.

I am also conscious of the courage with which you have faced difficult moments in the recent history of the Church in this country without fear of self - criticism and at the cost of mortification and great sacrifice.

There is no race that hasn't faced slavery at somepoint in history!

«Maybe we are facing a new and different kind of epoch in the church's history where Christianity will be characterized more by the mustard seed, where it will exist in small, seemingly insignificant groups that nonetheless live an intensive struggle against evil and bring the good into the world - that let God in,» he told Peter Seewald in an interview for the book, «Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the End of the Millenium.»

Our theology warns us not to accept Stout's liberal democracy at face value, and our sense of history suggests that things are not as bad as MacIntyre and Hauerwas make them out to be.

Neither Alt nor Albright was prepared to take the biblical account of Israel's origins and early history entirely at face value, yet both saw it as a rich source of historical information.

«He takes scriptural imperatives at their face value and believes this is the only instruction and command God has given him - unmediated by history, unmediated by understanding, unmediated by human experience.

The Daily Mail: Sikh soldier makes history as he guards Buckingham Palace wearing turban instead of traditional bearskin Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace yesterday also offered a glimpse into the changing face of Britain.

For if the theological task can be defined in terms of facing the tension between the old and the new, then it is only to be expected that both the speed and the extent of the change, in which we are at present all caught up, will inevitably bring changes in theological expression greater than at any earlier period in Christian history.

When Wach started teaching at Leipzig in 1924, the discipline of the history of religions (Religionswissenschaft), still in its infancy, faced serious dangers.

If we look at the history of Christianity, the early church was also faced with a vast amount of plural voices as well — the various cults of the barbarians, local deities, and mystery religions.

In a word, history had brought Judaism face to face with an unavoidable antinomy — a God at once national and universal, deity of a special people and yet God of the universe, lord of a particular temple and yet everywhere accessible to prayer, pledged to the ultimate victory of his purged and redeemed people and yet the savior of all mankind.

I understand that they have said that (in probably one of the greatest doctrinal about faces in history) but when you look at the official Catholic Catachism, it is still riddled with references to Adam and Eve, Noah and the other cast of mythical characters.

The double saying has no earlier history in the tradition; the point at issue is the question of repentance in face of a challenge, certainly a major concern of the message of the historical Jesus; the references to the queen of the South and the men of Nineveh are vividly apposite and absolutely in accord with Jesus» use of unlikely good examples in his comparisons (the Good Samaritan); and the element of warning in the saying coheres with a major aspect of the message of the parables.

Hence, his deep concern for burying once and for all both God and church in order to align his loyalties fully with Christ — the symbol for the sacred at work in human history — as he is becoming present «in every human hand and face.»

Christianity has always faced both external and internal problems at every period in history.