Sentences with phrase «been a tradition now»

Thanksgiving in Belize is our tradition now, which is why our dinner table figuratively and literally grows larger each year!»

I have been celebrating Christmas with my husband and his family since I was 16 years old and I fully consider these to be my traditions now too.

Not exact matches

The North American tradition of presenting diamond engagement rings has now spread to China's massive middle class too, and, after taking a hit during the recession, the American luxury economy is rebounding.

Now, following pushback from broadcasters and event sponsors, that tradition is starting to fade, and progressive activists are delighted that women are no longer being treated as objects.

The fact of the matter is when you talk about central banks, you're talking about powerful institutions rooted in their own management styles and tradition (even if the latter has just now seen a very unusual break) and it's not likely that one person can radically change things, even if he or she wanted to.

Now this is not to say that we should assume there is no value in teaching and tradition.

All that time in the air, he says, gives him a chance to focus on the «big picture» for his brand, which is now available in nearly 10,000 bars, restaurants, and clubs in the United States and abroad, and to embrace different culinary traditions.

Opinion: Alberta's ban on B.C. wine is a declaration of war — and Canada's political tradition suggests that's where this is now headed

and are continuing the tradition of providing the finest quality men's shoes which has made Dack's famous across Canada», said Marc Labrosse, CEO of Matthew Dack Footwear Ltd. «We updated the brand and logo, renewed the manufacturing agreement with Dack's UK partner, and our strategy is now to focus on e-tailing to sell our fine shoes everywhere», continued Mr. Labrosse.

«We acquired exclusive rights to the Dack's brand and are continuing the tradition of providing the finest quality men's shoes which has made Dack's famous across Canada», said Marc Labrosse, CEO of Matthew Dack Footwear Ltd. «We updated the brand and logo, renewed the manufacturing agreement with Dack's UK partner, and our strategy is now to focus on e-tailing to sell our fine shoes everywhere», continued Mr. Labrosse.

On Christmas morning, they eagerly open their presents from their grandmother in what is now a very special family tradition.

You can also now donate bitcoin directly to Giving Tuesday Canada, which is helping to carry on this tradition for credit card and digital currency users alike.

And now that our daughter is older, that tradition continues.

U.S. Episcopal Presiding Bishop Edmund Browning, commenting on Keshishian's speech, agreed with the analysis, and went on to declare the just war tradition dead: «If Augustine arid Aquinas were alive now, and had to contend with the smart bomb, they would be pacifists.»

Unfortunately, we have taken being «right» to the extreme and now any minor difference in our belief's or tradition's is a cause for division and strife.

If thoughtful members of both communities become adequately aware of the moment they now occupy in history, and are prepared to reexamine their respective traditions for the resources there to be developed, then the Jewish - Christian relationship has a significant chance of becoming something more enriching than it has ever been before.

Missouri's long tradition of confessional orthodoxy resists such absorption, but styles of evangelical piety alien to the Lutheran tradition are now widespread in the Synod.

I choose not to have my kids being brought up with that tradition now, which is sad.

now if these beliefs or traditions are good or bad is another question.

The question which now must be addressed is whether the same can be said of the characterizations of God in the two traditions.

Carl Braaten is still a member of the ELCA, though he thinks it a church in which the actual Lutheran tradition «is now marginalized to the point of near extinction.»

I agree when you are show casing narrow minded traditions in church, and I am all for that, but now you are removing one of the most clearly attested teachings of the NT.

We shall now argue that a great deal more than mere approaches to panentheism can be found in the Indian tradition.

''... increasingly drawn to high church traditions — Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, the Episcopal Church, etc.» Your vaunted BS meter should be glowing red by now.

Evangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodation to modernity.

I am hopeful that now, in our encounter with other great religious traditions, we will respond creatively and transform ourselves again through the encounter.

In his stunning new book Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Harvard University Press, 1983), Harold J. Berman argues that the roots of modern universalistic principles of law, morality, science and scholarship derive from essentially theological insights which are now in peril of being lost by neglect.

The underlying tradition in the Gospel of Mark, and its view of Jesus, is fundamentally Palestinian — this all historical critics now recognize.

The Hebraic tradition is alive and well, now standard fare for Christian homeschoolers.

The only limitation of this Catholic tradition which I now believe to be important is that the pattern of relations it emphasized did not include relations to the land and to the other creatures with which we share it.

Now what Mark sets out to do, on the basis of the current tradition, already and indeed from the beginning interpreted by faith on the basis of experience, is to show that Jesus, instead of becoming Messiah at his resurrection, was already Messiah during his earthly life.

Now that this has been cleared up, please stop all of the warped customs and traditions that you started b / c for some reason, you thought they would appease me.

Although the Church has preserved a tradition as a patron of the arts for more than a millennium, and the great mediaeval cathedrals in particular have portrayed Christianity through their paintings, sculptures, and perhaps especially their windows, Catholic teachers are now refocusing on literary, cultural and artistic beauty as a conscious resource for the transmission of the faith.

There has undoubtedly been a break in the twentieth century with the tradition of romantic love which arose in the later phase of medieval culture, flourished in the «courts of love» in the fifteenth century, gave birth to the literature of the romantic movement, reached conventional respectability and domestication in the nineteenth century, and now seems out of date.

We are now challenged by traditions from around the world which accent dimensions of Christian understanding that grow out of the sufferings and victories of the downtrodden.

That too is part of our tradition, and if we can find no sustenance there, our prospect is even darker than it now seems.

Kaiser Verlag, 1960; ET by D. M. G. Stalker is now available as Old Testament Theology: II The Theology of Israel's Prophetic Traditions; Edinburgh and London Oliver and Boyd, 1965.)

Other religious expressions and traditions were almost forced off the air totally by these (now) wealthy conservative Protestant organizations.

For them the critical rhetoric may simply reinforce the narrow individualism and concern with self - interest that is the underside of the old American tradition, but now with few ethical restraints, because the older social justifications have lost their legitimacy.

It is now the job of the Ordinariate, he believes, to bring Englishness back to Catholicism «with a deliberate emphasis, always, on reverence, beauty and a robust, unchanging tradition that transcends time».

That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

Even now the case is not iron - clad — nothing in this area can be — but we would claim that it is reasonable to assume a basic (Aramaic) saying which belongs to the earliest strata of the tradition and is used by Luke.

We discussed above the general probability that Thomas is independent of the canonical gospel tradition, and now we must return to the point with specific reference to Luke 17.20 f.

We have reviewed the three outstanding types in which love has been grasped in the Christian tradition, and we have now to ask what this history means.

Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1) bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper form of connection between beings who become human persons in relation, and 4) the experience of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»

That is the work ahead for those of us who have escaped the 20th century's more horrendous forms of violence but who now find the forces of cruelty working within our own traditions.

We are heading now toward new traditions that balance individual with institutional well - being.

The now beleaguered non-neo-conservatives in every tradition may find that something like an analogical imagination is at work among us all, The need — my need and theirs — is to find better ways in the future of articulating that imagination and that strategy in both theory and in practice.

The illusion that the now is either so insignificant and commonplace as to be unworthy of study, or that it is so well known anyhow — without analysis, critical reflection, or even systematic observation — as to be beneath serious notice, has become all too characteristic of a theological tradition that knows perfectly well that we can not understand either God's grace or man's sinfulness without in some fundamental sense understanding the other first.

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.