Sentences with phrase «community practice as»

Back then, religious freedom advocates warned that «many of the claims made about the Jehovah's Witnesses practices could also be made of other religious communities practices as well.»

Not exact matches

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.

Our ability to compare and contrast compensation practices as well as focus on trends across sectors is the top resource for the investment community and their portfolio companies,» said Jody Thelander, President & CEO, J.Thelander Consulting.

As the Belt and Road Initiative moves forward, countries and local communities more directly in the initiative's path could learn from Latin American countries» labor practices.

The Company is an equal opportunity employer committed to complying with all state and federal fair employment practice laws, as well as maintaining a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community.

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.

At my startup, I had even been careful to implement the «best practices» as described in the Lean Startup / Customer Development communities.

We're aware of two studies of nonprofit board diversity that found that diverse boards are associated with better fundraising and social performance, as well as with the use of inclusive governance practices that allow the board to incorporate community perspectives into their strategic decision making.

Yet advising the global community and nations» political leaders not to advocate forgiveness, as Gutmann and Thompson do, unwisely partitions inner virtue from political practice.

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.

Under these beliefs, members of the lesbian, gay and transgender community could be practicing Mormons as long as they are celibate.

The fact of sin and the assurance of punishment, the sense of wrong and the practice of vengeance, the ideal of justice and the power of religion — all were operative forces but no one of them primarily concerned the individual; he came under their sway mainly as a member of the community.

As a group, they might want to also go out and put into practice what they have learned in Scripture to meet the physical, emotional, and psychological needs of others in the community.

The 1938 report Doctrine in the Church of England says that «every individual ought to test his or her belief in practice and, so far as his or her ability and training allow, to think out his or her own belief and to distinguish between what has been accepted on authority only and what has been appropriated in thought or experience».23 Such an emphasis has to allow for variety of belief and view within the community.

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.

As superior of the Oratory, he would oversee Smethwick, Harborne, the new workhouse, the ragged school, the Oratory school, his writings, his help for the poor, and his daily community practices, which included waiting at table, hearing confessions, baptising and marrying.

* 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.

He sees pilgrimage not as a single practice but as a collection of practices: community, hospitality, communion, friendship, worship, prayer and encountering strangers.

As established, culturally supported religious practices and traditional communities have weakened, many people feel the need for some way of dealing with their inner stress and emptiness.

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.

Community and Scriptures have been brought much more closely together in practice and in theory than was the case in the older view of the minister as preacher.

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.

... initiatives... that are already being put into practice... in Institutes of Consecrated Life and in Societies of Apostolic Life, as well as in groups of the faithful and in new communities; 4.

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?

Our community allows for people of all faiths and both celebrates and practices the Golden Rule as a spiritual and human duty.

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.

I have argued that theology and theological education must be conceived as a transformative discursive praxis that critically reflects on the concrete historical — political configurations and theological practices of Christian communities which have engendered and still engender the exclusion and dehumanization of «the others» of free born, educated and propertied men in Western society.

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

«As a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country.And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community.As a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country.And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community.as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country.And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community.as everyone else in this country.And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community...

A canonical approach, in Brevard Childs» words, «interprets the biblical text in relation to a community of faith and practice for whom it served a particular theological role as possessing divine authority.»

Billboards will not upset the religious one's knowing only the weak one's will move out behind it... at least that will filter out hypocrites from their communities... Normally youth do start as non practicing to their religions as atheists or agnostics but there is a time or an exprianced moments come in to their life when they start to become into practicing and stronger in faith...

For example, in the early 1930s, cities practiced redlining as an effort to keep people of color out of new suburban communities.

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.

Perhaps you could participate in any one of these practices as a small group of friends or as a faith community, too.

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

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.

Christianity is most redemptive as a force in the world when Christian churches focus their energies on building formative Christian communities that are rooted in the idioms and practices of biblical faith.

Alternate frameworks for collective living in India must be in the business of detecting the elements of distinctiveness (even if through difference) of Dalit and Adivasi culture and religion, which are inscribed into the communicative practices of the community, in order to represent its collective identity to itself as well as to the nation - state.

Something that is often described as «retainer sacrifice» that was practiced in ancient Egypt (and possibly other ancient near eastern communities), wherein the King, if he died, they might also kill his family and servants too, so that they could be with him in the afterlife.

As I learn to play it (a focal practice), it engages me with the larger tradition of music and the community of musicians.

But its persuasive power came from the correspondence of its piety and practices (such as group confession) to traditions already present in those African communities.

If a Christian congregation is not only an intersubjective community but an interrelated set of practices, then it is materially rooted, as we have seen all practices are.

Yes, we can study Scripture on our own, but whatever we think we learn must be measured against what others have learned and taught as well, and must be lived out and practiced in a community.

Yet if there is such a thing as truth in our beliefs and practices, then ignoring those truths is not an expression of mercy, but a form of spiritually damaging confusion — dangerous for the individual, and dangerous for the believing community as a whole.

We have already noted earlier that when compared with the commonly accepted religious practices of the day, the Christian community of faith took on an everyday, almost secular appearance, not unlike such a contemporary movement as the Rotarians.

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.

But God's success increases as we study, practice and persevere with all the tools of our faith: from the Bible and our own experience to the written reflection and experience of others to communities committed to bringing God's Kingdom to earth.

As a community of faith gathers to read, hear and study sacred texts, as it sings hymns of praise and confesses its sins, and as it practices acts of hospitality, compassion and justice, it learns and relearns how to receive and embody God's trutAs a community of faith gathers to read, hear and study sacred texts, as it sings hymns of praise and confesses its sins, and as it practices acts of hospitality, compassion and justice, it learns and relearns how to receive and embody God's trutas it sings hymns of praise and confesses its sins, and as it practices acts of hospitality, compassion and justice, it learns and relearns how to receive and embody God's trutas it practices acts of hospitality, compassion and justice, it learns and relearns how to receive and embody God's truth.

Whereas many Christians treat such prayers as mere formularies, Jones urges that in these and other practices Christian communities «receive their shape, their patterns of formation and transformation, and their processes of discernment.»