Sentences with phrase «cultural life as»

And corporations at times do actually protect and nurture elements of cultural life as part of their «community responsibility» efforts.

This is manifested in the economic life as the giant economic corporation, in the political life as the state bureaucracy and modern military organization, in the cultural life as the information and knowledge industry such as the universities and coqunication media.

Lewis - Carter's «above - and - beyond» philosophy extends to the children's cultural lives as well.

Not exact matches

On a broader level, he will be seen as just one of many who stood at the forefront of a broad cultural change, one that eventually affected the health and lives of millions of people.

Since work wouldn't hold the same social currency or cultural importance as today, intrinsic motivations and labors of love might become the benchmark of a life well spent.

That's no longer the case, as social movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo have thrust the power dynamics that she highlights in her own New York City classroom onto a cultural main stage, and made her work more accessible and understandable.

Thanks to Barcelona's many attractions as a place to live, including its healthy economy, cosmopolitan vibe, and rich cultural life, the city's startup scene has been impressively successful at attracting and retaining talent.

As a person who has dedicated over 20 years of my professional life in the pursuit of assisting clients in setting direction and driving change, I think that I've seen just about all there is to see when it comes to business and cultural transformation.

Air Force officials have cited «cultural issues» — such as training requirements and trouble maintaining a work - life balance — as reasons for the service's recruitment and retention problems.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

«Cultural issues that affect the quality of life and service for our airmen,» such as duties not related to flying and difficulties maintaining work - life balance, also appear to have driven fliers away, Grosso said.

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

In this article, the style of social interaction known as hygge is analyzed as being related to cultural values that idealize the notion of «inner space» and to other egalitarian norms of everyday life in Scandinavian societies.

Work has morphed into a twenty - four - hour fact of life, bringing its own set of standards and expectations when it comes to sleep... Sleep is ingrained in our cultural ethos as something that can be put off, dosed with coffee, or ignored.

If the best and the brightest Asian students see Canada as a preferred destination for higher education, chances are that they will in later life also see Canada as a preferred destination for commercial, research, cultural, and diplomatic partnerships.

Residents in the area point to great job opportunities, low cost of living, and exciting cultural offerings as reasons for their migration into the area.

Last month, the company hosted another full day, live - streamed event during the Fourth of July holiday in the U.S., which mixed product placement and cultural education as a way to engage Chinese consumers.

As for the latter, those worried about another Catholic slide into incoherence should have faith in the ecclesial experience of the last three decades, which has taught enduring lessons about how Catholicism can not merely survive, but flourish, amidst the cultural acids of post-modernity — if it holds fast to a dynamic orthodoxy lived with compassion and solidarity.

the problem is that ppl read the bible thats been translated, if you realy want to know what was said youll need to study hebrew... every letter has a meaning... every word isnt a perfect fit for english,, theres nuances and cultural differences that youll find,,, its a whole new thing to go back and look at the bible through hebrew eyes,,, they arent required to look like us,,, were supposed to look more like them,,, yashua was a jew,,,, all the apostles were jews, yashua was sent to the lost sheep of the house of israel, not the gentiles, paul took it to the gentiles, and he never stopped being and living as a jew, the laws are very viable today, but they do nt give salvation, thats what yashua did...

While evangelical Christianity in growing rapidly in mainland China, some statistics indicate that Catholicism is not doing nearly as well in a cultural environment in which many people are seeking answers to life's questions that go beyond consumerism.

He lives in two worlds: As a stand - up comedian he mocks Pakistan and its cultural and religious mores, but as a «good son» he fakes interest in the girls his mother causes «providentially» to drop by during visits home, and disappears into the basement «to pray» (i.e., play games on his phoneAs a stand - up comedian he mocks Pakistan and its cultural and religious mores, but as a «good son» he fakes interest in the girls his mother causes «providentially» to drop by during visits home, and disappears into the basement «to pray» (i.e., play games on his phoneas a «good son» he fakes interest in the girls his mother causes «providentially» to drop by during visits home, and disappears into the basement «to pray» (i.e., play games on his phone).

When the Cultural Revolution ended, it was as if my parents» generation had just woken up from a dream: It turned out the man they had worshipped as the Red Sun itself was nothing but a cruel and petty dictator who led a wanton and dissolute life.

To the cultured despisers of religion and Biblical morality, we say we love you, but we will oppose you — and with our COGIC friends we will strive not so much to defeat you in a cultural and political struggle as to open your hearts and minds to the life - preserving and love - affirming truths of the Gospel that reason knows and faith confirms.

As Fiorenza has observed, «Paul's advice to remain free from the marriage bond was a frontal assault upon the institutions of existing law and the general cultural ethos, especially since it was given to a people who lived in the urban centres of the Roman Empire.»

Whitehead proposed five cultural aims as the measure of civilized life: Truth, Beauty, Art, Adventure, and Peace.14 As we would say in Spanish, Justice shines by its absencas the measure of civilized life: Truth, Beauty, Art, Adventure, and Peace.14 As we would say in Spanish, Justice shines by its absencAs we would say in Spanish, Justice shines by its absence.

As Peter Balakian wrote in The Burning Tigris, Constantinople's Armenian community had been «the center of Armenian cultural and intellectual life» since the nineteenth century.

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

But it does mean that engaging with culture as Christians is a difficult prospect, especially as our lives become more and more inundated with cultural media and as culture becomes more and more secularized.

Following his lead, all Christians are called to love well across racial and cultural differences, choose to see the world from other people's perspectives, search for and extinguish inequality in the church and society, advocate for each other, esteem one another, and live as true brothers and sisters (Philippians 2:1 - 3).

In 1966, he created Kwanzaa to connect African Americans with their African cultural roots and to enshrine life affirming values into black consciousness: values such as faith, purpose, self - determination, and cooperative economics, to name a few.

As we do, we must also recognize that these unnecessary deaths are part of a cultural death — the death of blackness itself at the hands of life - denying, anti-blackness.

Furthermore, as paideia, theological schooling generates its own writings that are intended not only for use within Christian communities but also as contributions to the cultural life of the communities» host societies.

Nothing is new, not even the cultural shifts that, as Auden quipped, «hunt us out of life to play / at living in some other way.»

«Moore provides a primer on how our commitments to Christ and his kingdom (as opposed to our political, social, and cultural agendas) should shape not only how we live our lives, but also what our lives should say to a watching, listening world.

The naïve moralism in this area can be maintained only by ignoring the facts that inebriety is as much a symptom as a cause of the disturbed interpersonal life of the alcoholic, that alcoholism is a complex disease involving physical, cultural, and socio - psychological as well as moral factors, and that homelessness is in itself a complex phenomenon, not the simple product of excessive drinking.

All this means that the Church will often have conflicting understandings of what it means to live as God's people in a particular location or cultural setting.

As they seek to communicate the Gospel to their Muslim neighbours and friends, they will have a common linguistic and cultural background in which, and from which, to engage but they will also wish to transmit the uniqueness of God's self revelation in the living, dying, rising again and teaching of Jesus the Messiah.

That is to say, theological schools have characteristically acted in this regard as though they acknowledged a responsibility to be part of a larger public cultural life and to be accountable to its standards.

True, in former times life was often very narrow, as regards one's profession and marriage as well as the education of children and political and cultural activities.

The issue, rather, is the cultural hegemony that arises from living within an empire that rejects barbarians as alien and boasts of Roman cultural superiority.

Speaking at the San Antonio Conference, Lesslie Newbigin made reference to his own cultural background in these terms: «As I look back on my own life as a missionary in India, I realize now in a way that I never did at that time that I was not only carrying the gospel but that I was also a carrier of this so - called modern world - view which I now see to be breaking down because it is falsAs I look back on my own life as a missionary in India, I realize now in a way that I never did at that time that I was not only carrying the gospel but that I was also a carrier of this so - called modern world - view which I now see to be breaking down because it is falsas a missionary in India, I realize now in a way that I never did at that time that I was not only carrying the gospel but that I was also a carrier of this so - called modern world - view which I now see to be breaking down because it is false.

The character of this suffering moves theological attention to the social systems that shape our lives — economic, political, cultural — as well as to public events themselves (the Holocaust, programs and policies of economic austerity, military intervention, terrorism, ethnic nationalist expression, struggles for survival and freedom).

Pixley charges Whitehead's thought with three things: (1) that it is «at the very least... open to appropriation for counterrevolutionary purposes;» (2) that «Justice shines by its absence» from Whitehead's list of five cultural aims as the measure of civilized life; and (3) that Whitehead's philosophy contains within it latent counterrevolutionary tendencies.»

I have in mind conditions such as those of health, economic provision, education, cultural richness, environmental integrity, and the general patterns of associational life itself.

On the ethical and cultural side, they need to help the public as a whole to understand that the nihilism permeating contemporary life is the inevitable consequence of apostasy.

The process of globalization tends to bring about a homogeneity of cultural behaviours throughout the world, at least in certain aspects of life such as in food, dress, leisure, music, and sports.

The «communal tensions» between the groups were «of major importance in the life of the nation,» Herberg added, suggesting that they began non-divisive discussions about the limits of American democracy and allowed all 96 percent of Americans who identified as Protestant, Catholic, or Jew to have some social, political, and cultural recognition in America.

Some may consider it «shipwreck» that the cultural Catholicism that transmitted and sustained the faith in these United States as recently as two generations ago is on life - support.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

The hi - tech multimedia, dictated by the corporate powers and agencies of the global market, subjugate cultural subjecthood, cultural values, style of life, perceptions of beauty, and religious mystery in life, as well as ethnic, national identities of persons and community to the market wasteland of cultural life.