Sentences with phrase «culture has taught»

You might also want to consider what your culture has taught you about power, beauty, gender, sexuality, constructing whiteness, and race when viewing this exhibition.

After all, pop culture has taught us that cats love fish more than any other food.

Our media and culture has taught, or at least implied to most of us, that dogs and cats are natural sworn enemies.

Culture has taught us to feel embarrassed of our bodies and periods, but together we will change that.»

This means throwing all food rules out and unlearning much of what diet culture has taught about what you «should» or «shouldn't» eat.

Moreover, like answer A, answer B leaves you with nothing to say to the other guy, who now tells you that his culture has taught him to value building a master race.

The girls go to prom expecting the typical sexual experience pop culture has taught them to want, but they end up finding out the real thing is different for each of them.

Not exact matches

«This is deeply ingrained bias and years of culture that have long taught men to speak up and loud and with authority and the rest of us [women] to listen when they do so.»

«In our celebrity focused culture, a young star like Emma Watson has the power to amplify important social messages,» says Katie Hood, a senior fellow at Duke University who teaches a «Women as Leaders» course and who recently became executive director of the anti-domestic violence One Love Foundation.

«It was our first time,» says COO Meredith Bronk, «and we believed we could simply teach the culture, and that we could expand [it], through periodic presence and messaging without having someone [on - site] who lived it.»

Yiorgos Allayannis is one of many superstar teachers at UVA - Darden, and his evolution shows how the school has made teaching an integral part of its culture.

Ridge passionately speaks about how creating a culture of trust (not fear), respect, and candor has been transformative: «Leadership is about learning and teaching.

In our culture, many people have been taught - either directly or indirectly — that it's not appropriate to express negative feelings.

He said, «The dumbing down of America is manifested in the culture deprivation of our academia that have taught these kids the lies, media that have prodded and encouraged and provided these kids lies.»

But countries like the U.S. and U.K are falling behind, and experts say it could have more to do with culture than teaching.

Do you have a strong company culture that can be taught and replicated as your company expands?

In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

One of the long - term factors that has left our culture unable to understand the kind of claim being made by Hobby Lobby has been the failure of so many churches to teach that business is a vocation.

HOWEVER, the Jewish culture and language views «teachings» as having the most authority.

It is INDOCTRINATION that allows you to toss away the words of Jesus (who supposedly is G - d) and take on the teachings of MEN that allow you to cast dispersions on Jesus» religion and culture so ignorantly.

Besides, he seems to have plenty of people who have up close and personal experiences with what the purity culture teaches and what it does, to glean insight from.

Were the Catholic Church to change its teaching and practice, they say, the dam holding back the libidinous urgencies of a licentious culture would collapse completely.

heres a holiday that has maintained its meaning thru - out the ages, why... the JEWISH have reverence for the past, its lessons and people that taught them, the events that shaped the jewish culture... most of the rest have nothing worth remembering besides there past and since thats not held with any amount of importance the future looks bleek at best... we are what we are because of yesterday, and tomorrow doesn't exist if today becomes our deathbed!

You'd be sitting there and some black woman is singing a beautiful black spiritual, and you're holding hands with an ex-con on your left and a cultured lady who teaches French on your right....

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Their lived experience of the effects of contraception, abortion, divorce, and infidelity on their generation has made them passionate about the need for our entire culture - not only Catholics - to embrace the challenge andauthentic freedom embodied in the fullness of the Church's teaching on marriage, family, and sexuality.

He had to teach them that there was only one God, a spiritual being who did not resemble human beings, and this could only be done by keeping them as far apart as possible from other peoples and cultures.

I've come to the conclusion that Christian teaching in the current spiritual climate I have experienced doesn't always match with what happens in practice in Christian culture and that Christ wasn't a Christian.

If the history of Christianity has taught us anything it is its ability to assimilate culture, other religions and science into its dogmatic fold.

I'd also love to hear what other «good moral teachings» were in Christianity that persuaded her that couldn't also be found in dozens of other pre-Christian or non-Christian cultures.

The Church's teaching on sexuality seems puzzling to many people whose understanding has been clouded by the corruption of a culture that practises and glorifies sex without commitment or even deep feeling, a culture in which the most lucrative internet business is pornography.

The area in which schools should have a very significant role to play (and where perhaps some Catholic schools currently underperform), is the promotion of a culture in which young people understand and engage with the Church's key teachings relating to sexuality and the inherent dignity of human life.

Women of all cultures have much to teach black men about theology and the human struggle to be free.

If you claim that hindu's or muslims or buddhist's are not serving the right God and therefore will spend an eternity being tortured just based on the fact they were born into a certain culture and taught a different religion by their peers, I don't think that would qualify as a «choice».

The Board strongly accents the importance of spiritual formation for a faithful celibate life, a life made more difficult, even heroic, in a culture that teaches that sexual relations are essential to having a life at all.

While many Christians in the past have acted directly contrary to those very clear biblical teachings (i.e., the Crusades, etc.), others have actually appealed to those very teachings in fighting the tide of a culture that would demean humanity (i.e., MLK, William Wilberforce, the Confessing Church's stand against the Nazis, etc.).

To omit it is to miss the basic teaching of Christianity, one that has had a huge impact on Western history, thought, and culture — including, of course, Western art.

Christianity does indeed have its own culture, its own intellectual tradition, its own liturgy and songs, its own moral teachings and distinctive ways of life, both personal and communal.

It means that television, which has become the prime cultivator of our culture, is providing us with the myths, teachings and expressions of our religion, whether or not we recognize it.

If you want to educate the citizens about Islamic culture, perhaps you could use these days as teaching tools and head down to the schools and clear up some misconceptions people have — like the Jewish parents and Islamic parents did when I was a child.

The Judaism of that time, however, had no other arm than to save the tiny nation, the guardian of great ideals, from sinking into the broad sea of heathen culture and enable it, slowly and gradually, to realize the moral teaching of the Prophets In civil life and in the present world of the Jewish state and nation.

And I suspect it exists because we have created a culture in which Christians tend to see Jesus as a sort of static mechanism by which salvation is secured rather than the full embodiment of God's will for the world whose life and teachings we are called to emulate and follow.

Barth's theology marked a complete break with the adjustments to modem culture and Prussian political order that Bonhoeffer had learned from his mentors in Berlin, and it provided the staffing point for the Confessing Church, which absorbed Bonhoeffer's pastoral energies after Hitler's ascendancy made it impossible for him to continue university teaching.

After much study, prayer and thought I am convinced that the idea that only men are allowed to teach scripture, be a pastor, be an elder etc. etc. was a teaching that came about due to the status of women during a particular time and culture and continued because of the patriarchal system that most churches have continued to operate under.

Because our culture has for so long insidiously taught citizens that the good life is measured by their economic success and participation in the consumer society, it is small wonder so many believe that politics is a burden that conflicts with their pursuit of what really matters.

By no means are we contending that Catholics have been untouched by the corrosive atmosphere of our present culture, but the Church has not stopped teaching the ideal of marriage that is the bedrock of what we find beautiful in family life.

Because we don't have the capacity and time to teach them about everything, we teach them the tools on how to separate right from wrong and know this is something in culture that you don't have to follow and this is something that you should adopt because it is aligned with your religion.

The anthropologist Anthony F. C. Wallace, in a little known classic on social change and culture, teaches that major transformations of thought and behavior happen in a society when a society discovers that a once common set of religious understandings has become impossible to sustain.

Constantly attempting, as he tells us, to bracket from his scientific method of investigation «faith - knowledge» and to «prescind» from the teachings of the church, he nevertheless» in as naive a fashion as one can imagine» fails to bracket the «knowledge» he has imbibed from the political culture around him, knowledge which assures him that our society has been mistaken in its exaltation of the individual.

They then link their interpretations to the sciences they teach, to the culture in which they live, to the expressed needs of their students, and (often preconsciously) to the metaphysical questions that the religious traditions of India have posed for centuries.