Sentences with phrase «culture of acceptance»

Furthermore, the campaign seeks to work with stakeholders to develop and deploy anti-bullying programs in schools that establish a culture of acceptance.

School staff should work to establish a culture of acceptance to create a safe learning environment for all students, particularly those at greater risk of being bullied.

Best - selling book's message of acceptance and kindness inspires Vermont teacher Drazin to create a presentation for schools to raise awareness about disabilities and creating a culture of acceptance.

The Classical Academies» personalized learning approach - coupled with parent involvement in education - results in students who are excited to learn and creates a culture of acceptance.

She has seen first - hand this culture of acceptance and how it has helped her children become more confident learners.

Whether it's integrated arts, personalized learning, a culture of acceptance or parent involvement, students attending The Classical Academies are thriving and excited to learn.

It shouldn't be controversial to suggest that scientists ought to foster a culture of acceptance, in which it's OK to ask questions and own up to your deficiencies instead of hiding them behind a veneer of big words and nodding.

We need a culture of acceptance not tolerance....

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli recently audited the MTA and found what he said was «a culture of acceptance» of overtime pay.

When it comes to student development and creating this culture of acceptance, I believe the University of Calgary is really making headway.»

Not exact matches

«The culture of Ultimate Software is all about acceptance — not just in regard to differences in race, gender, or orientation, but also our individual personalities.

Amid economic turmoil, growing consciousness about environmental waste and widening acceptance of «takeout culture,» authorities in France are now trying to combat long - held stereotypes surrounding doggie bags.

Employees love the «crazy diverse» teams at this boutique hotel and restaurant chain where there's a «culture of inclusiveness and acceptance unlike any other.»

To those most appalled by the prospect of a President Trump, it's an ugly manifestation of America's bigoted id, or the triumph of celebrity culture over substance, or a product of a broken information ecology in which acceptance of facts is optional.

In light of this, it is not enough for government bodies and policies to be more accepting of Chinese capital and immigration; a discussion needs to be had at the public level between local communities and newly - immigrated Chinese - Canadians as well in order to facilitate the acceptance and integration of new - comers into our diverse Canadian culture.

I've tried to operate with the same attitude: even if Satan was in control of the finances, social acceptance, culture, buildings, religion, the world — everything — we'd be okay.

«Dear Society, If you think a woman in a tan vinyl bra and underwear, grabbing her crotch and grinding up on a dance partner is raunchy, trashy, and offensive but you don't think her dance partner is raunchy, trashy, or offensive as he sings a song about «blurred» lines of consent and propagating rape culture, then you may want to reevaluate your acceptance of double standards and your belief in stereotypes about how men vs. women «should» and are «allowed» to behave.

Use logic and reason instead of blind acceptance of 2000 year old myths, written by a primitive culture.

It's very difficult in a culture that has become so entrenched with relativism and the notion of tolerance being complete acceptance.

In the graciousness of the book (something often lacking when people engage Emergent, no names but...), in its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to read.

The reality of acceptance before God actually is in itself the grateful involvement in the enterprise of human culture, and always with particular and peculiar concern for the outcast and the suffering ones in the midst of that enterprise.

«The Lord has created this culture of love and acceptance, and the kids have responded.»

By mono - culture we mean the undermining of economic, cultural and ecological diversity, the nearly universal acceptance of technological culture as developed in the West and its values.

* worship God, who has never been, at any time for any reason, a capricious God of death, war, murder, destruction, violence, abuse, vengeance, hate, fear, lies, slavery, systemic injustice, oppression, conditional acceptance, exclusion, segregation, discrimination, shunning, ostracism, eternal condemnation, eternal punishment, retribution, sacrifices, patriarchy, matriarchy, empire, nationalism, only one culture, only one race or portion of the population, parochialism, sectarianism, dogma, creeds, pledges, oaths or censorship — and who has never behaved as a Greco - Roman or narcissistic deity.

But I wonder if our simple acceptance of this term, actually implies something inherently wrong with our culture.

But the excesses of the Romantics have led to the moral and intellectual vacuity of the hippy / new age culture with its acceptance of drug taking and general flight from reality.

This creates an environment where women supposedly need men in their life to assert dominance over them, which easily creates a culture of abuse acceptance.

The culture calls upon its religious institutions to bless the status quo and upon religion's educational institutions to nurture persons into acceptance of it.

But now he believes that Christians must forsake any hope of winning cultural acceptance if they want to affect the culture for the Lord's sake.

While its entrance and acceptance have often been facilitated by the prestige of the culture with which it has chiefly been affiliated, it is clear that it meets universal human needs.

Inviting a white supremacist to speak on MLK day and then supposing that a short tribute video will make up for it shows just how real and pervasive the «shallow understanding» and «lukewarm acceptance» King warned about remains a part of white Christian culture.

Writing in 1939 on the eve of the Second World War, Eliot said that the «choice before us is between the formation of a new Christian culture, and the acceptance of a pagan one.»

He invited tax collectors, traitors to their culture, and sinners to share the blessings of his table and to experience the acceptance which that sharing signified.

The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture of biblical literalism with its repudiation of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an acceptance of the contributions of science, of evolution and Freudian psychology, of a «higher criticism» of the Bible, of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and of a rearrangement of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gospel.

With the new «normalization» of homosexuality in the general culture, with the acceptance of that normalization by many priests and not a few bishops, and with consequences such as the sex abuse scandals, the Church simply can not afford to take the risks that were taken, frequently with the best intentions, in the past.

Since Roe v. Wade, three major cultural tipping points fueled popular acceptance of our culture of death.

In our culture, with the dominance of substantialist views, we tend not to know how to handle compliments and receive love and acceptance.

Altizer once said of Hamilton that he was the «first theologian to break through the barriers of Protestant neo-orthodoxy and formulate a theological acceptance of the death of God,» which he accomplished by «entering into an open dialogue with modern culture.»

The conquest of the political culture of the black community by the culture of the left has allowed someone like Farrakhan to gain an acceptance and support that far exceeds that of any comparable black demagogue in the past including Malcolm X, who in his lifetime, it should be remembered, was condemned and isolated by the leadership of the black civil rights movement precisely because of his rhetorical violence and racial politics.

While there can be no denying that in the past acceptance of the Christian faith implied a change in community and culture, it is certainly not a necessary corollary of such an action.

If our account of alienation as a repeating process is reliable, then the American Catholic institutions of higher education are nearing the end of a process of formal detachment from accountability to their church, and instead of exerting themselves to oblige that church to be a more credible patron of higher learning, they are qualifying for acceptance by and on the terms of the secular academic culture, and are likely soon to hand over their institutions unencumbered by any compromising accountability to the church.

Partly because of the growing acceptance, individualization and even romanticization of a «divorce culture» in America, approximately half of all first marriages — and at least as many second ones — do not endure.

Conquest had been followed by partial acceptance of the culture of the Mediterranean world as represented by the Roman Empire.

Because the selective nature of television is often overlooked, the diversity of American religious culture is in danger of being narrowed to that particular strand of religious faith which is now being promoted by television largely because of its acceptance and coherence with television's own social and economic goals.

Scholars who are Christians are trained by the dominant academic culture to keep quiet about their faith as the price of full acceptance in the academic community.

Before the coming of Islam to Indonesia the culture of the islands had been greatly influenced by many centuries of acceptance of Hindu and Buddhist culture.

Never Finding an Identity Young adults spent their late teens and early 20s basking in the freedom and acceptance of their culture.

The lower bar represents the degree of acceptance of heavy drinking as «normal» behavior in a particular culture or subculture.

It should also be pointed out that, in the areas to which Islam spread, the termination of one chapter of existence and the beginning of the new Islamic culture, with all that this change entailed in the forming of new relationships and acceptance of basic ideas, restored the vigor and revived the energies of nations which had been weighed down by age and tradition.

Scholarly acceptance of physical evolution suggested that culture, too, must have evolved, must have risen through stages on the way to modern times, each stage with its own religious orientation and style of life.