Sentences with phrase «cultural baggage»

There may be no such narrative available, or an advocated narrative may do more harm than good, e.g. if it picks up too much cultural baggage.

It celebrates congregations as layered communities thick with cultural baggage and tradition as well as promise and challenge.

If this is true, it follows that the most conservative method of doing theology is to go back into history to a time when the tradition of faith carries the least amount of cultural baggage.

But with a black President, many media pundits, racists, and white secular elites seem to shrug off his faith statements as arising from cultural baggage, not sincerely held beliefs.

The group exhibition Figure as Form features a variety of contemporary artists who engage with the history of the figure and all of its associated cultural baggage involving gender, race, and sexual identity.

«My ancestors would be proud of me, and if one day I get to have children of my own, I'd love to pass on this beautiful cultural baggage,» he said in an e-mail.

When we come to Christ the King Sunday, we have to acknowledge that we bring cultural baggage with us.

Then under the threat of heresy and schism this reflection crystallized into dogma, becoming no longer the object and goal of reflection, but a bit of permanent cultural baggage whose continued presence had to be explained and rationalized.

Rather than try to put spin on the old cultural baggage that is left over in the Bible, why not just admit that there is a lot of stuff in the Bible that is irrelavent.

(it's worth noting that it can take some time to get to the point where you're comfortable dating in the wild with herpes: ellie found that dating european men, who in her experience are less burdened by cultural baggage around herpes, helped her regain her confidence.

So, despite the way it chooses to carry its heavy cultural baggage, is Love, Simon a good movie?

I've made it my personal mission to (1) further games in the mainstream and expand their cultural influence and our understanding of that; (2) champion the voices of individual game developers and help to make sure the right people are heard though work like #AltDevBlogADay; and (3) «fix» some of the power - dynamics and cultural baggage in our industry so that we keep advancing and can adapt well to the real pace of change.

But the British painter of turbulent seascapes, John Virtue, has no such cultural baggage.

Such work carries with it very little cultural baggage except for the recent example of modernism, which championed the style.

These Old English words «syn» and «evel»... carry WAY too much cultural baggage.

But this sums up SO MUCH cultural baggage!

I don't think there is anything wrong with being demonstrative and have a deep love and respect for some of my wilder brethren, but it's really important to me that people can have deep, experiential encounters of the presence of God without being alienated by some of the cultural baggage we have in the South.

By this point, Science may simply be carrying too much cultural baggage to be convincingly reintroduced to the public.

The desert mind - set, and the cultural baggage it carries, has proven extraordinarily resilient in its export and diffusion throughout the planet.

Indeed, an excerpt from Rabid describes some of the underlying myths and cultural baggage these folks routinely attempt to leverage in their witch - hunt against free - roaming cats.

Not a malicious one, mind you, but it certainly carries some cultural baggage, making the announcement of a sequel at 2016's PlayStation Experience all the more surprising.

Where artists like Judd or Andre made use of industrial techniques and materials as an attempt to escape from the cultural baggage they saw weighing down traditional mediums, Koons chooses his materials precisely because of their baggage.

Most big organizations are so invested in minimizing risk, that truly disruptive ideas can never take hold.Strategically, pharma should build completely separate incubator type functions that are independent from the structure and cultural baggage of the parent.

Children are brutally honest when they come to a gallery, and this is one of their great forces: «They don't have the all the cultural baggage that adults have.

Their juxtaposition reveals the degree to which color informs response, specifically that darkness (with all of its cultural baggage) is seen as negative (here, literally) and menacing — the opposite of light.

Claydon reinterprets the objects, images and texts through which «cultural baggage» has been communicated and rewrites history as a series of «what ifs».

In Sui Jianguo's hands, however, stone is a material that exists independently of any cultural baggage.

United in their connection to the theme, these objects are props, but they're also vessels filled with political, social and cultural baggage.

We need to dislodge the issue from the burden of its cultural baggage — as Kahan says, «[clean] up that environment once it has been contaminated with polarizing meanings.»

These new business models will not be encumbered by existing organizational or cultural baggage and will be engineered for disruption from the ground up.