Sentences with phrase «changed by our culture»

But I think it is inevitable that we will be changed by our culture.

This argument was made in criticism of Newbigin (1983) and is relevant to Newbigin (1986), who emphasizes Christian religion as dogma which confronts culture to change it but is not itself changed by that culture.

Not exact matches

«She lived, as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men,» she said, and her words sparked emotions of anger and, at the same time, the motivation to fight for change.

In my company's culture change process, clients begin by formalizing their team's organizational constitution (purpose, values and behaviors, strategies, and goals).

It's unclear whether the macho culture at Yahoo was ever significantly changed by Carol Bartz.

No offence to Snookie, by I for one am ecstatic for this rapid change in culture.

«You create this culture by putting people in charge of a problem, not a product; reinforcing again and again that you're all working in a market where assumptions change and that's okay; releasing products early to get initial feedback and adjusting accordingly.

Ford's (F) miracle worker saved the company without resorting to bankruptcy or bailouts by doing what previous leaders had tried and failed to do: change Ford's risk - averse, reality - denying, CYA - based culture.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

To start taking steps towards building organizational accountability I suggest reading «Change the Culture, Change the Game» by Roger Connors and Tom Smith.

But the man remains determined to change the Tropicana culture by peaceful means, which is why employees are now required to read Ken Blanchard?s Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service.

From the C - Suite to marketing to customer service and beyond, a newly adaptive corporate culture, defined by digital technology and bold leadership, is fundamentally changing business.

According to a 2013 survey of more than 22,000 business executives by the Katzenbach Center at Strategy &, most leaders understand the key point I just mentioned — that culture plays a critical role in achieving great financial performance - and successfully leading and managing change.

But our culture is not haphazard, it's by design - it's what fuels our ability to be nimble, adapt to change and defend those who can't defend themselves.

As the new media — blogging, Facebook, Twitter, and so on — surge in popularity, David is positioned perfectly to explain what's going on to an audience understandably caught in culture whiplash by the speed of change.

It's all superficial until we see leaders actually changing company cultures by making hard decisions, leading uncomfortable conversations — and firing those who are unwilling to include everyone.

By empowering your team to take responsibility for their own work, your leadership focus changes to support each employee in a culture that brings people together and inspires productivity.

In part, that's likely because Parker finally took their concerns to heart and is taking action to change Nike's culture by dismissing what he seems to believe were the most problematic executives at the company.

The pace of change in our economy and our culture is accelerating — fueled by global adoption of social, mobile, and other new technologies — and our visibility about the future is declining.

«Looking ahead, while the industry faces headwinds and an accelerating pace of change, we believe we are well positioned to deliver long - term shareholder value by leveraging innovation, our values - based culture which supports strong client relationships, and prudent capital and risk management.»

Reflecting back on the World Series victory reveals a concerted effort that began years ago by the new owners to change team culture.

In 2010, Start - Up Chile was created by the Chilean Government (Ministry of Economy & CORFO) with two main intentions: to change the nation's culture towards entrepreneurship and to position Chile as the hub of innovation for Latin America.

The religious conservatives, beset by this sea change in the secular culture, might have been expected to retrench into their conventional media stereotypes: authoritarian, emotionally uninvolved husbands and fathers, a rigidly patriarchal family style, deeply gendered domestic roles that kept women at home» plus, as Wilcox puts it, «high levels of corporal punishment and domestic violence.»

Nonetheless, she is surely correct that conversion narratives (such as, most famously, Augustine's Confessions) are of little help in plotting these social changes and that Christianity was indeed influenced by the values of aristocratic culture.

Either way, what is required of us is not a drive to change an entire educational culture but a patient, self - assured carrying on of the tradition that has been handed down to us by our mentors.

Cultures change, and I suspect that by the time this young Messiah is an adult, the stigmas of names will be less a factor.

The proliferation of communication technologies, the changing structure of everyday life (due largely to technology), the growing complexity of family life, the changing understandings and norms of sexual conduct and the expansion of consumer culture (as evidenced by unprecedented levels of consumer debt) are only a few of the conditions that present pastors with new kinds of demands.

The bible can only be interpreted by itself and context in which it is written, some things changing with culture and others that reach across every generation and time span from eternity to eternity.

One might look, for example, at From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate, by neoliberal Protestants Don Browning, Bonnie Miller - McLemore, Pamela Couture, Bernie Lyon and Robert Franklin; Gender and Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World, by evangelical Protestant Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen; and Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics, by Catholic Lisa Sowle Cahill.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

The most important change embodied by progressives is a shift from a basically positive relation to culture to a basically critical one.

``... a new culture is foreshadowed in the turbulence and spiritual confusion of [our] times... our certainty of imminent change is based... upon the worldwide breakdown of established social order and traditional culture;... nowhere more marked or more disastrous than within that civilisation... that goes by the name of Christendom.»

A culture, even one of long duration, is modifiable by human effort under the impact of a new ideology — witness the radical transformation of China under Communist influence or the other revolutionary changes now taking place in the Orient from an emergent nationalism.

Because of changing U.S. demographics, American food is defined less by hot dogs and apple pie and more by the cuisines of a multitude of cultures.

For Babin, the changes brought by electronic communication constitute the development of a new culture which present those of us educated within a literate world with a radical challenge.

While external legislation and laws are important, are we not a people who really believe it is only the inward change brought about by the power of the gospel that really transforms lives and culture for eternity?

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

Because if I do say it, though it can be true in a sense, this is not a truth by which I myself can be penetrated: otherwise I should either have to go mad or change myself» (Culture and Value, amended second edition, edited by G. H. von Wright [Oxford University Press, 1980]-RRB- Is «filth» too strong?

The religion itself was not created by the influence of any culture at all which is why i follow this religion, especially since the Quran has not been changed ever.

However diluted and reinterpreted by Hellenistic culture it may have been, Christianity changed the evolution of the ancient world.

So the account of Noah in the Bible gets retold over and over again among many different cultures and societies and by the time you get it, the gist of the story is the same but some of the details have changed because someone somewhere decided to add an angle to the story that fits their belief in their god.

The German theological world has been far less shaken than the English - speaking world by the changes in academic culture of the last decades: feminism, the hermeneutics of suspicion, the dismissal of truth - claims as disguised assertions of power.

There are a few main explanations: 1) long term failure in leadership by the Irish Catholic church, and connected with this, the awful Jansenist culture; 2) Europe — or rather, political interference from European Community institutions; 3) American money; 4) the claim of the «Yes» campaign that the Referendum was won by «the stories,» that is, the constant appeal to emotion and the complete refusal actually to think about the legal consequences of passing such a change not merely into law, but also into the Irish Constitution, the foundation of that law.

Whenever you believe in something without evidence, believe that this thing is ordained by the most intelligent being in the universe, and that no amount of reasoning or discussion can change your mind about it, then you make a culture war completely inevitable.

There again Michael you are confusing Roman culture and Greek culture... there is not fact and verifiable to your claim only random hypothosis motivated by an emotional sinful culture to change Jesus» words... instead of proof texting take all the text together they all condition that marraige is between man and woman... and unless you can have babies your arguement is futile.

Unlike the idea of culture as a consensus - forming social phenomenon that resists change, the postmodern spirit is more impressed by the lack of consensus in cultures and by the dynamics for social change that already exist in cultures.

It's important to remember that we got where we are today by peacefully protesting and changing the culture in which we live, not by executing the seditious.

We have been changed by the consumer culture.

Sr Jordan James is inspired by some everyday reflections which foster a Catholic culture; Cyprian Blamires applauds a lawyer's defence of the bodily resurrection of Christ; Peter Hodgson is both convinced and alarmed by a distinguished scientist's analysis of the devastating effects of climate change.

Less, what if instead of thinking about our next vocational, world changing, culture making move — what if you and I took a serious inventory of how the people around us are affected by our lives.