Sentences with phrase «by facing history»

This collaboration brings restored, Holocaust - era violins to the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, where, in only their second trip to the United States, the instruments will be the centerpiece for a range of programming, including special concerts and teacher workshops led by Facing History.

A randomized controlled study with 9th and 10th grade students in 60 high schools has proven the efficacy of the materials provided by Facing History and Facing Ourselves:

Presented by Facing History and Ourselves, The Allstate Foundation, and The Hold On To Your Music Foundation at The Orpheum Theatre on Tuesday, March 7th

See examples of letters written by Facing History students.

Presented by Facing History and Ourselves, The Allstate Foundation, and The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage on Wednesday, March 1

Human Rights Activist, and Founder of the Equal Justice Initiative BRYAN STEVENSON to Discuss Memoir Just Mercy At Free Community Conversation Event Presented by Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation, and Arts Emerson and the City of Boston on Wednesday, December 9

Those schools that submit an application may be contacted by a Facing History staff member for a phone interview following your submission.

They're hosted by Facing History staff and special guests, who've included award - winning authors and filmakers, Holocaust survivors, innovative scholars and community leaders, and veterans of the American civil rights movement.

Presented by Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation in partnership with The News Literacy Project

Teachers and students students exchange accounts of their experiences through projects such as the mobile museum and joint seminars facilitated by Facing History staff.

The material in this lesson originated in a research project conducted by Facing History and Ourselves between 1996 and 1998.1 During those years, a group of researchers and Facing History staff studied the impact of Facing History on 8th grade students in an urban / suburban community near a major metropolitan area.

Then, introduce students to this unit by asking them to read the «Letter to students» written by Facing History's Executive Director, Margot Stern Strom, and the director of the Memphis office, Rachel Shankman.

A selection of books that will inspire you are hand selected by Facing History's Director of Library Services.

On October 26, 2014 Nate Leipciger was honoured by Facing History and Ourselves at an event in Toronto.

Coined by diplomat Samantha Power and popularized by Facing History and Ourselves, an «upstander» is a person who has chosen to make a difference in the world by speaking out against injustice and creating positive change.

The following resources are designed by Facing History staff to assist Jewish Educators.

Presented by Facing History and Ourselves in partnership with the George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom, the Give Bigotry No Sanction project, is anchored in George Washington's 1790 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island — a foundational document of religious tolerance.

Presented by Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation, in partnership with ArtsEmerson on Wednesday, December 20

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy of civil service is honored in this reflection by Facing History's Program Associate, Taymullah Abdur - Rahman.

Not exact matches

By this point, for the first time in its history Microsoft was facing the prospect of a decline in its core business.

The challenge faced by the aerospace industry in keeping track of tens of thousands of different parts came to light when it emerged after last month's fatal explosion that some airlines do not keep track of the history of each individual fan blade within an engine.

This past January, for the first time in its history, Germany faced a symbolic milestone by covering around 100 % of electricity use with renewable energy, and for 2017 it produced with renewable sources 36.1 % of total power consumption.

The Middle East has been riven by conflict, the European Union has been struck by crisis after crisis, and America is facing one of the most controversial presidential election contests in history.

Facing the very different challenges posed by the sexual revolution, we can learn from this sad episode in the Church's history.

It doesn't matter to me whether this is «correct» exegesis — either the Bible finds some way of adapting to the modern notions of morality, or it gets left by the wayside on the ever growing dung - heap of rejected holy texts of human history — in my opinion, that's the historical moment we are currently faced with.

He's making a fool of himself in history and losing face by doing it.

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

Gratitude to God requires that we live not by evading the real nature of existence, not by denying the violent character of nature and history, but by facing reality as best we can, finally affirming the whole of life in all its sorrow and pain as a great gift.

«A face is in large measure formed by those common and uncommon human transactions which are the substance of history.

For though we were His enemies, and He had the only «just cause» in history, He did not seek to defeat His enemy by putting us to death, but by facing death Himself.

By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (RoBy «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Roby virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.

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.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

These things are only disputed by those who are willfully ingnorant to history and facts as they directly fly in the face of fairy tales found in the bible.

For his part, Sam's father, overwhelmed by the responsibilities of being a single parent and his apparently unlimited liability in the face of Sam's seemingly interminable dependence on him, lived his life as though his identity were simply that of the man whose son has an appalling medical history, whose wife has committed suicide, who alone is responsible for caring for his almost unmanageable son for the rest of his life.

«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.»

In literary history the hero has often been a figure who acts for us, who stands in our place in the face of danger and by superhuman powers overcomes on our behalf.

David J. Bosch has described the controversies as a crisis «more radical and extensive than anything the Church has ever faced in her history «21 By the early 1970s there were serious misunderstandings between the Evangelicals and the Ecumenicals.

Can you become possibly the first Christian in history to identify ONE CRIME or SIN committed by ALL the fetuses and embryos on the face of the planet that justified God's killing them?

«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 idea that «our nation was founded on christianity by christian forefathers» is just flat our wrong and a bold faced lie about our history.

This book, which on its face seems to have been motivated by the old - timer's urge to reminisce by means of the biographical genre, is actually a fine work of history, and in the end its author is unafraid to suggest that the work of history is itself an enterprise of devotion, a kind of spiritual work.

This testimony in the face of failure asserts that victory when it is achieved by the oppressed is God's gift even if it is won by taking control of history through resistance.

And so we see this is what we have precisely done by reading the news; now facing the 6th mass extinction event in the planets history and accelerating climate change which we severely underestimated.

This allows us to face the challenges of our time soberly, neither despairing of the possibilities of justice in public life and thus withdrawing, nor seeking to take command of history by embarking on grandiose ideological projects that encourage us to assume godlike powers over human affairs.

Pope Benedict: «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.»

Faced by an almost incomprehensible amount of material always contained in the most complex linguistic, political, and social contexts, the history of religions has moved ahead in the attempt to mark out its own responsibilities and contributions.

I have always understood myself as duty - bound to intellectual engagement in the great choices of history and first of all in the great choices faced by my country.

Sometimes they were chronicles, histories of the world, poems, romances, but the majority were religious, booklets about Saints, or on the Art of Dying, instructing one how not to despair when faced by the tally of a lifetime's sinning; one should remember the repentant sinners in the Bible.