Sentences with phrase «by teaching the community»

Writer / director Sebastian Gutierrez follows up 2009's Women in Trouble with Elektra Luxx, which continues the further adventures of a retired porn star (Carla Gugino), pregnant with a recently deceased rock star's child, who makes ends meet by teaching a community college sexual education class.

These educators share what it's like to work as a teacher, the top education issues being discussed by the teaching community, and the latest trends and ideas in effective teaching.

Lecture topics focus on local wildlife species and promote wildlife conservation by teaching the community about the beauty and value of our wildlife here in San Diego.

Jibrell teaches a grassroots response to drought and water scarcity by teaching community groups, especially women and youth, to build small rock dams.

In a school context this is often well understood by the teaching community as they are working with the students regularly in an academic, pastoral and ex curricula way.

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Johnson, whose father was a radar tracking engineer and mother was an IT specialist, was teaching computer courses at a community college in Manassas, Va., by the time he was 10.

Ridge describes how a focus on the servant leadership principles of values, learning, teaching, growth, and community can lead to enhanced performance by helping people step into the best version of themselves.

Herrera says her ethically minded stance was influenced by her father, who had family and friends in the manufacturing industry and taught her the importance of supporting low - pollution factories that were considerate of their surrounding communities.

The university has a clear strategic direction — «Eyes High» — to become one of Canada's top five research universities by 2016, grounded in innovative learning and teaching and fully integrated with the community of Calgary.

The Forum for Growth and Innovation is a community for practitioners familiar with the predictive theories taught by Professor Christensen at Harvard Business School in his signature course Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE.)

Taught by respected and knowledgeable experts and driven by real - world challenges, Rotman Executive Programs aims to develop a community of leaders.

No less important, he said, the Catholic Church also claims an «authoritative teaching authority not made by other Christian communities, and certainly not by the NAE.»

Such exploration should be undertaken within a community and tradition that provide necessary correctives by reference to the rule of faith (regula fidei) and teaching authority (magisterium).

Moreover, it is demeaning to suggest that Paul VI affirmed the Church's classic position on marital love and procreation (which had been held for centuries by virtually every Christian community until the Anglican Communion broke ranks at the 1930 Lambeth Conference) because he was afraid that changing the traditional position would unravel the entire body of Catholic moral teaching.

«teachers,» and «apostles»; who managed the staggering influx of widows and women into the Christian community by providing guidelines to ensure that Ephesian churches remained distinct from the pagan cults of the day, but who still expected trained women to prophesy, to teach, and to lead.

-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

there you go some facts for you to learn instead of violence and propoganda taught to you by your community and parents

That love is not some vague feeling or looking after people in our community, important though that is; it is by following Christ's teaching, living out as closely as possible the manner of His perfect loving, that we attain heaven: «He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.»

Indeed many of the challenges facing the family in the modern world are probably symptoms of the mostly uninformed rejection of this beautiful teaching, held as truth by the entire Christian community until the 1930s.

Same goes for theologies that suggest the poor are poor because of their sins, that if only the sick had more faith or gave more money they would be healed, that the tsunami or the earthquake or the flood that devastated a community was clearly the result of God's wrath on its gay inhabitants, that we can stop rape by teaching women to cover up better, that sex before marriage makes a person «broken» and «unwanted.»

But Mathison is right that it is impossible (and unwise) to study the Bible all by itself, without reference to what others in the community of Christianity have learned and taught in our own day and throughout history.

This further suggests that, whilst we are primarily nourished spiritually by the scriptures and teachings of the community of which we are a member, we can find inspiration in the writings of other traditions.

Once, my chapel lecture was boycotted by the Bible faculty who believe that Scripture prohibits women from preaching or teaching men, even while whole communities embraced the Gospel through their female graduates.

And so I conclude this month of posts with a prayer written by four of the contributors to this series (Anna Broadway, Dominique Gilliard, Corey Widmer, and Natasha Sistrunk Robinson), a prayer modeled after the way Jesus taught us to pray, a prayer for me, for you and perhaps your church community:

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

The hymn was taught to me by Harvey Sindima, author of Community of Life: Foundations for Religions and Political Transformation (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

A silent plea may even be coming from the separated communities: preach to us and teach us, directly and by name.

They have been taught» by words, and more importantly by silence» that religion is basically an emotional response, either to good music, effective preaching, or a feeling of belonging to a community.

Think you are wisely right to have your concerns but let me Guide you to ask which branches of Islam handles each mosque you know of and find out more about their mentality and they call for since not all branches of Islam are of danger, but you mentioned some thing which make me feel that there is a possibility that you got the most redial branch of all Islam branches... This branch is taking advantage of the presence of non harming Muslims to expand it's redical teachings by offerings or force turning Islamic communities from normal to most redical of all... do not favor to give the name of that branch but sure you will find it if you look for it...

As Paul recognized in the Christian Church the marks of the supernatural Messianic community, in so far as it was the Body of Christ, so John teaches that knowledge of God and eternal life are enjoyed by those who are united to Christ.

Note that his chief work is not teaching or healing but the calling of a distinctive community to bear witness to God by making known His «name.»

It is not defective nor in need of guidance by any other claimant, although other «faith communities» may possess some or even many of the truths taught by the One True Church.

In this he said, that in an individual case, a couple might judge that they were excused from observing the «concrete directive» (viz. not to use contraception) if they judged that by following the Church's teaching there would be a danger to the essential value of the «community of love.»

By centering this article on communities, I have not mentioned, for example, those who taught me most about how — as distinct from what — to think theologically and historically: Robert L. Calhoun and H. Richard Niebuhr of Yale, and Paul Vignaux of Paris.

It can not be otherwise in a community that lives by the teaching of Vatican II: «Any act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities or of extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and man himself.

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.

With the coming of the Gentiles to Utah, the political direction of the state has, of course, passed from the church as church, but even today the economic and social life of the Mormon community is still to an amazing degree determined by the principles taught in their sacred book.

The aim was consciously ecumenical, following the directive laid down by Pope John XXIII for the Church to make clear its teachings in those essential matters so as to make itself more understandable to the separated Churches of the Orthodox and the ecclesial communities of the Reformation.

The early Church made no attempt to distinguish between the words the earthly Jesus had spoken and those spoken by the risen Lord through a prophet in the community, nor between the original teaching of Jesus and the new understanding and reformulation of that teaching reached in the catechesis or parenesis of the Church under the guidance of the Lord of the Church.

If the original grandeur of Islam is to be regained, the Islamic community must reorient their total life by strict adherance to the Qur» anic teachings and enunciations by the prophet Muhammad.

Wherever they are being taught, by whatever methods and with whatever preconceptions, theological students are everywhere being asked to enter into long and serious conversations with the persons and communities of the Old and New Covenants of the Bible.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

In the face of opposition among the Muslim community itself, Wahhab and his teachings were sympathetically received by the local Dir» iyah prince Muhammad ibn Sa'ud and his family in 1745.

Working out of his small, cluttered office at Adrian University, where he teaches political science, the seemingly indefatigable Khan stepped into the role of public intellectual for the U.S. Muslim community after 9/11 with incisive articles such as «Memo to Mr. Bin Laden: Go to Hell,» which was picked up by more than a dozen news agencies around the world.

In the late»70s 55 percent of Americans would allow books by homosexual authors in public libraries, 62 percent supported gays» right to lecture in the community and 49 percent supported their right to teach in a college.

Some Rabbis had jobs, but many of them were supported by the community to teach 4 - 5 times per week in the synagogue, and also go around and help people, provide counsel, etc..

This is odd for a people who have been taught that we must confess our sin by being trained by a community that has learned how to name those aspects of our lives that stand in the way of our being Jesus» disciples.

«When Americans are able to live by their convictions, to speak openly of their faith, and to teach their children what is right, our families thrive, our communities flourish, and our nation can achieve anything at all.»

It's hard to argue that Paul's statements there are meant to be universally applied when so many women from scripture are honored by God and praised by their community for teaching and exercising leadership.