Above all, it helped to draw the Christian
community out of its isolation and to identify Christians as responsible citizens of the new Democratic Republic.1
Not exact matches
In a way, we are like Merton who are living as kind
of hermits
out in the world, many
of us in
isolation from other Christians and church
communities.
Connecting with other pastors» spouses will help bring you
out of isolation into a validating
community that can directly empathize with your feelings.
In human terms, this has a disastrous consequence for certain groups
of people like the tribals, scheduled castes, traditional fishermen and such other groups who depend on them to eke
out a living... They would also be torn away from their natural roots as well as from their
community and cultural ties - producing in them a sense
of isolation» (Quoted from ISA Journal Dec. 94).
There is certainly a
community of people
out there that look for work such as yours to support their
isolation from the main - stream.
By contrast, he says, Jesus created
community for its transforming power, «calling people
out of their loneliness,
isolation and alienation and into communion — both in the literal sense
of the
community of the table and in the extended sense
of communion, fellowship, friendship, mutual support and the challenge to work together.
A few months earlier there had been an outbreak
of smallpox in a nomadic
community north
of Merca, and health officials were sending suspected carriers to an
isolation camp in the hope
of stamping
out the disease.
The root cause
of mental health issues is part physical imbalance (e.g., chronic inflammation, thyroid dysfunction, autoimmunity, hormone imbalance, blood sugar dysregulation, chronic sleep deprivation), and part psychospiritual (e.g., history
of trauma, cognitive distortions, social
isolation, chronic stress, living
out of alignment with the way human beings evolved to thrive — eating real food, moving their bodies, sleeping in darkness, breathing fresh air, drinking clean water, seeing the sun, connected to nature, and deeply rooted in
community).
One
of the main factors was the
isolation of schools and
communities, particularly in coastal areas, where there were low wages, high worklessness, children not prepared for learning and children being moved in and
out of schools, she said.
Taken at a Sisters Day
Out workshop in Melbourne, aiming to reduce social
isolation, raise awareness
of family violence and promote
community safety.