Sentences with phrase «by community practice»

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And this year I plan to lift up the many businesses that have figured out that doing right by their workers ends up being good for their shareholders, their customers, and their communities, so that we can spread those best practices across America.»

Developmental lending as practiced by IBC involves providing financial services (primarily loans) to aboriginal people who, for a variety of cultural and / or financial reasons, are alienated by mainstream lending institutions; approving loan applications on the basis of typical financial considerations while taking into account the potential for positive social or community outcomes; and evaluating social outcomes resulting from the loan portfolio over the long term.

This is confirmed by Morrow Sodali's 2018 Institutional Investors Survey, which reflects the growing interest of the investment community in corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices.

Betty & I ™ Fresh Juice Truck, LLC will at all times demonstrate her commitment to sustainability, both individually and as a firm, by actively participating in our communities and integrating sustainable business practices wherever possible.

Lethbridge and surrounding communities are dealing with an increase in overdoses by incorporating cultural practices into their opioid strategy.

She empowers her community to improve their lives by promoting healthy living, physical activity and / or positive play in her profession and practice.

«We urge the administration to not impose these tariffs and to work with the business community to resolve the real and justifiable concerns raised by Chinese trade practices.»

Interviewed by Gord Bowes of Hamilton Community News for a story relating to Hamilton public school board's practice of holding «caucus» meetings prior to going into public sessions, November 24, 2011.

The foundation said it learned of such practices by way of community members who are, in fact, not fully supporting prayer.

The New Testament itself testifies to the persistence of pagan practices amongst the early communities and patterns of socialization by believers that brought them into contact with pagans on a regular basis (for example, 1 Corinthians 8 and 10).

As for the suggestion by the Society for Christian - Jewish Co-operation that an interfaith committee advise on revisions, he referred me to a statement by the burgomaster of Oberammergau dated May 13, 1960, which asserted that all matters pertaining to the play are entirely the business of the community of Oberammergau, that the Society for Christian - Jewish Co-operation had overstepped its bounds, and that if revisions became necessary Oberammergau would consult only the church, the poets and the experts in theater practice.

It is so obvious that: a) those held in slavery were human beings (a biological category); b) all humans are by nature persons (a philosophic category), that is, beings with inviolable worth that ought never be treated as means to an end; and c) the evil practice of slavery was not a private matter - the whole community is harmed because we are all communal beings by nature, in solidarity with those who are treated unjustly.

Thus contemporary attitudes and practices of play will not only direct our inquiry into theological and biblical sources; they will themselves be challenged and redirected by the insights gained by the Christian community in dialogue with 18 - 23.

Thank you Jeremy for allowing my message concerning adoption to be posted above, the voice of adoptees critical of adoption practices is rarely allowed to be heard outside the adoptee community, especially by abandoning mothers and adopting parents.

The motivation for this pastoral practice is clear: it is the belief that the love generated by a spiritually coherent community is greater than the sum total of the love emanating from its individual members» lives.

But the praxis model does not work well in the interaction of diverse communities informed by different experience, different practice, different theory and different horizons of meaning.

For example, if one understood by the church simply the historically given communities with their multiplicity of beliefs and practices, the view of theology as the articulation of the church's faith would lead to a plurality of theologies that could hardly escape the recognition of their relativity with respect to historical factors.

However, if the subjects of study are concrete networks of human practices by which communities of faith attempt to respond to God faithfully, and if they are practices which mediate an understanding of God, then the movement of theological schooling is more like an engaged meditative gaze than it is like problem solving.

Christians who seek to live from and toward the basileia theou find that they have personal, existential, psychological, and spiritual needs that are not always met by their participation in community with other Christians or by spiritual practices developed in these communities.

It is sustained by the virtues inculcated through the preaching and teaching and practices of discipleship that characterize the life of the Christian community.

We must get out of the pews, and step down from the pulpit, and learn Scripture together by discussing what it says with one another, and putting it into practice in our communities.

One of the consequences of the focus on the role of interpretive communities has been a renewed appreciation for the forms of interpretation practiced by Jewish and Christian communities before the rise of modern biblical studies during the Enlightenment.

* By enthusiastically and persistently advocating justice as restoration as a universal response to evil and compassion as a community norm and the practice of hospitality and generosity as a personal norm.

Specifically canonical criticism is concerned with how scripture's final form was created within a believing community and how the meanings created by that final form continue to guide the reading practices of the community.

3:2 - 3), but he is determined that this error not be repeated in the interpretative practices of the new community of faith constituted by the trust of Jesus.

The expressions and ideas In the Odes clearly show that they belong to a period prior to any systematic development of Christian doctrine and practice and they were the first attempt by a Christian community to express its new found faith.

But now the original sense of pilgrimage as a concretely physical spiritual practice is being recovered by broad sections of the Christian community and by people beyond the church's walls as well.

The ancient claim that man is by nature a political animal and must in and through the exercise and practice of virtue learned in communities achieve a form of local and communal self - limitation — a condition properly understood as liberty — can not be denied forever without cost.

For me, when I realized that there was a spirituality that was developed by the early church — by the same community that wrote the New Testament and would naturally understand it best — and that this spirituality had been practiced unchanged by believers in every culture and time, I had to be there.

In light of this, can it be agreed that a study of theology that takes place, as at Steubenville, alongside a firm spiritual practice (Mass, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, traditional Marian and other devotions) and a clear moral stance (students living celibate lives supported by households and communities) is a necessary part of a strategy for Catholic theology?

Bringing it closer to home, the people with whom I regularly eat the Lord's Table are a community; in fact, the community is constituted by that practice (among others).

So, for instance, if it is not clear to the readers of my work that my writing is done by an Episcopalian Christian, I will have failed to practice this virtue — which, of course, includes my making clear at which points the materials I study or engage seem to me false, noxious, or incomplete; just as it includes my making clear when and in what ways it seems to me that the materials I engage are true, have taught me something I didn't know before, or may be of use to me and my community in its search to apprehend and incarnate the gospel.

Plain persons are those characterized by everyday practices such as sustaining families, schools, and local forms of political community.

The move coincided with a white paper circulated by Chinese authorities that said religious communities in the country should «adhere to the direction of localizing the religion, practice the core values of socialism, develop and expand the fine Chinese tradition and actively explore the religious thought which accords with China's national circumstances.»

, that those who think they must think for themselves will need to undergo a transformation amounting to a conversion if they are to understand «that it is only by participation in a rational practice - based community that one becomes rational.»

Despite the condemnation of such practices by the Catholic Bishops Conference of India, casteism still persists among Christian communities.

A divinity school or seminary community is defined by its practices in a double sense.

Indeed, whether we look to the teachers of ancient Israel or to the Platonic academy or to Augustine at Cassiciacum or to the medieval university or to Pico's disputatious Florence or to the small colleges of early nineteenth - century America, we find learning flourishing in communities formed by the conscious practice of spiritual virtues.

Community development is practiced by many nongovernmental organizations including church groups, but it is overshadowed by the top - down development programs of the World Bank and by transnational corporate investments.

In India, theology, ethics and social theory as critical sciences are not widely developed, and topics treated by these fields appear in local communities primarily as confessional commentary, caste practice or expressions of communal interests.

As we live in communities shaped by these practices, we will experience anew what it means to be forgiven — and forgiving.

To date, no one knows how many other children may have been sexually victimized by this offender at his medical practice or within his community.

To live and practice the way of love as modeled by Jesus, one step we can take is to stop our evangelism strategies and techniques, and start living the principles of the Kingdom within our communities.

On the other hand, I see a much more dynamic relationship between the inherited worldviews of these communities and the traditions presently practiced by them.

2:14, 18 - 20); a community which practices covenant by the new forms of Torah, knowledge and forgiveness (Jer.

As has been defined by Arvind P. Nirmal, religion, for me, is a «symbol - system» that not only reflects the world - view of the adherent community in talks and rituals but also has a profound influence on the very value - system of the community.9 And since the data consists mostly of observations by others I would pick up cultic practices like festivals and related rituals.

That dynamism is not the dominant pattern in middle - class black churches is a virtually undisputed fact, empirically verifiable by any unbiased investigator in most communities where middle - class blacks practice religion.

In advocating the use of donors and surrogates, he says that «rather than undermine family, these practices present new variations of family and community that could help fill the void left by flux in the shape of the American family.»

the community of holiness is the community within which the Christian character is both nurtured and expressed by the practice of distinctly Christian virtues — faith, hope and love» (71).

Ms Sanders said: «It highlights a number of areas of good practice by professionals and community and voluntary organisations who worked with the family in London and Wolverhampton.