Not exact matches
More
than that, a non-provocative political discourse is vital
to carry messages effectively
to other cultures; Trump's childish use of capital letters and exclamation marks («SAD!»)
It's also a great way
to gain hard intel on how
other cultures do business, what's different about overseas markets, and how
to sell
to those from a different background
than your own.
But some companies have worked harder
than others to earn their reputations as hotbeds of bro
cultures.
The entity that built the Valley and gave birth
to its
culture of collaboration and experimentation was none
other than Uncle Sam.
Conversely, a
culture of «no - ego doers,» or a
culture that focuses more on the craft
than on the glory, tends
to be one that invites candor, collaboration, and a sincere sense of pride for
other team members.
To the four founders quoted below, company
culture means more
than exposed brick walls and
other trappings of coolness.
[05:50] Do it for passion, not for money [06:10] The importance of innovation and marketing [06:30] Start with a mission and finding how
to add value [06:50] Joe Gebbia's trajectory over a decade [07:10]
Culture is the ultimate element
to building your brand [07:40] Namale Resort [08:00] Finding a way
to do more for
others than anyone else [08:45] The beauty of competition [09:15] Don't just advertise, become the expert [09:25] Value - added marketing [09:40] It takes 16 impressions
to inspire buying behavior [10:10] Do something where marketing isn't marketing [10:30] The 17 - year old kid in real estate [11:35] Find a way
to stand out from the crowd — the trash strike example [14:10] Authenticity plays a critical role [16:00] Building reciprocity with your customers [17:00] Double the value you add [17:20] Bringing innovation and marketing
to the forefront [18:35] Innovation can mean raising your price [18:55] What innovation really means [19:25] Changing the way something is perceived [20:55] The man who was copying Tony constantly [22:00] Does change happen in a second?
«What's going on is that many CEOs, COOs, GMs, and
other executives haven't figured out that sales and marketing alignment is more about
culture, philosophy and business orientation
than it is about marketing providing sales with leads, marketing messages and sexy product brochures and sales selling enough so everyone, especially those in marketing, gets
to keep their jobs.»
the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their
culture and people have contributed less
to man kind
than any
other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them
to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons
to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant
to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that
other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the
other, and yiddle
to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.
And one of the great things about living in a global village is being able
to enjoy the delights
cultures other than...
The gospel can not be preached in any
other language
than its own: a language deeply shaped by the Sacred Scriptures, a language that has been revealed and received and is not
to be recast when the
culture suggests that the Church do so.
But in terms of priorities, focus, and direction, assumed evangelicalism begins
to give gradually increasing energy
to concerns
other than the gospel and key evangelical distinctives,
to gradually elevate secondary issues
to a primary level,
to be increasingly worried about how it is perceived by
others and
to allow itself
to be increasingly influenced both in content and method by the prevailing
culture of the day.
The generation that has lost one out of five of its members
to abortion in this country seems
to be more poignantly aware
than any
other of the tragic cost of the
culture of death as well as the ever - present urgency of the need
to confront its lies courageously.
How could husbands in that
culture, understanding the chiastic sandwich structure and thus grasping Paul «s true message, have understood anything
other than that they were
to raise their wives out of their lowly position into a glorious one?
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.
Too frequently the attempt is made
to teach Christian morality without foundations
other than the ordinary assumptions of our
culture.
It is, rather, the child
to which a confused
culture regresses, defiantly declaring that there is nothing
to fear or
to revere
other than Me.
-- some missionaries may have a lifestyle that is more common
to their home
culture than appropriate, but I know many
others that have made financial and personal commitments that impress me and should not be ignored; I think we should continue
to honor that — the reality of the $ 10K that we all would want
to invest in local evangelists often is only available after a «loo - see - visit» (or more) from a Western missionary who returns «home» for fundraising; that maybe sad, but is the reality — one serious issue
to address in the African churches is the «colonialism» that is imposed -LRB-!)
The most rebellious thing a person can do is NOT go along with prevailing
culture, and by getting tattoos for no real purpose
other than consanguinity with that
culture is really
to miss the entire point of the gospel.
Throughout history most of what was known about a people came from accounts of travelers or from persons who, though resident within the group, were paid
to do some task
other than observe its
culture.
Ideally they also learn and practice
other languages
than their own; their holidays are used
to gather knowledge and understanding of art and
other cultures, rather
than just sunning on a beach.
I've seen this in my own life as my frustrations with the conservative evangelical
culture in which I grew up cause me
to dismiss its proponents with more anger and disdain
than those of any
other faith.
Personally I see more value in appealing
to human decency and modern
culture than to attempting
to make the moral views of iron age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of
other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.
If we recall Kitchner's hortatory words spoken just five minutes before, we can go
to our dreams knowing that this is what our very own
culture does better
than any
other — it defines the ultimate human quest.
Modern Indian translators in the North Eastern and
other parts of India are influenced by the tribal
culture to bring different cultural languages in translations
than the original.11 As Nida says, «there is every reason
to believe that the revision (of the translated Bible) will be greatly welcomed by non-Christians with a Hindu cultural background.
Missionary work
to «save the heathens» who use a different word
to praise God, any word that is different
than their own... even though the
other peoples and
cultures don't speak English and have their own words of prayer... How many churches respected
other cultures and how many do now?
Their economies should be labor intensive rather
than energy intensive; produce more durable goods
to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua -
culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and
other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.
The life of the mind, pursued in this way in partial isolation, though in the company of my wise, gentle, and practical wife, has proved so rewarding that the loss of theaters, concert halls, opera houses, and all the
other temples
to high
culture that I left behind in the city is more
than compensated by what I have gained.
A monument
to the importance of that achievement for the history of the Slavs is the very alphabet in which most Slavs write, which is called Cyrillic, in honor of Saint Cyril, the ninth - century «apostle
to the Slavs,» who, with his brother Methodius, is traditionally given credit for having invented it... Not only among the Slavs in the ninth century, but also among the
other so - called heathen in the 19th century, the two fundamental elements of missionary
culture for more
than a millennium have therefore been the translation of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, and education in the missionary schools.
«More
than any great Christian leader before him,» Niebuhr observed, «Luther affirmed the life in
culture as the sphere in which Christ could and ought
to be followed; and more
than any
other he discerned that the rules
to be followed in the cultural life were independent of Christian or church law.»
The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt
to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological language and thought forms of the Greek
culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on
to suggest that some concept
other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.
Mintz attributes this pattern
to the fact that children and youth now have very few ties
to adults
other than parents and teachers, and even fewer opportunities within the broader
culture to demonstrate and exercise their developing maturity.
Until the day when the One Cell had broken into small divisions, where each thinks he is the righteous more
than any
other, so here it is it went multiplying
to unend
to becoming
to suit each
culture and race???
Today's world man has become with no value
other than his organs if sold or stolen... so what is happening only proves that we are imposing marketing the wrongs against the rights...
cultures and beliefs are going down the drain with all those values, morals, virtues some how turning into commotion among
cultures and beliefs turning against each
other misunderstanding each
other or unaware of
cultures way of living and beliefs
to ease communication mutual understanding as a nation of mankind and a nation of faiths.
Much more recently Eldridge Cleaver has pointed out that the splitting tendency in American
culture, which we have traced back
to the early Puritans, tended
to make the white man a mind without a body and the black man a body without a mind.20 Only when the white man comes
to respect his own body,
to accept it as part of himself, will he be able
to accept the black man's mind and treat him as something
other than the living symbol of what he has rejected in himself.
What we can honestly state is that the religious approach is more likely
to be successful in our particular
culture than is any
other.
Ampontan has some nice juxtapositions, jumping off Victor Davis Hanson among
others, highlighting the
culture - and - mores - rooted FACT that Greece, Southern Italy, Detroit, and urban Britain are simply more difficult and troublesome places
to live
than Germany, Northern Italy, Switzerland, and of....
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.
Later he realized that, on the one hand, he had done them a serious injustice, and that, on the
other hand, every form of Christianity is no less closely bound
to the particularities of
culture than are these
other religions.
Even though it feels like a drop in the ocean, Unpopular
Culture (SPCK) was written for such a time as this —
to help
other young people trying
to find their place in a world that is harder
to understand
than ever before.
I think that God may have been whispering His truth
to other cultures and generations
than just the Jewish one, so that when Jesus came, He could be seen as the fulfillment of their hopes, dreams, and myths.
This claim, however, is open
to the decisive objection that it could not be true unless human
culture and history were radically
other than we must suppose them
to be.
Furthermore, since our
culture is roughly divided 50/50 between men and women, and man who has more
than one wife is not acting in love toward all the
other men who also desire
to have a wife.
When consistently loving, humble people who clearly live for more
than our
culture offers are repeatedly, publicly bullied and harassed, when charities and schools are fined and marginalized, and when the good and the forgiving turn the
other cheek and get slapped hard across that one too, this conversation will start
to look different.
«In the world in which we now live, with fears about «The
Other» - whether that be Sunni, Shia, Jew, Christian, Yazidi, Hindu or Buddhist - stoked and spread through social media, and amplified by those who would seek
to suppress understanding, rather
than promote it, there is an urgent need for calm reflection and a genuinely sustained, empathetic and open dialogue across boundaries of faith, ethnicity and
culture.»
This, too, is difficult in a
culture in which it is more common
to blame
others than to accept responsibility for failure.
This tentative model for understanding the causes of problem drinking is offered in the report of the Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism: «An individual who (1) responds
to beverage alcohol in a certain way, perhaps physiologically determined, by experiencing intense relief and relaxation, and who (2) has certain personality characteristics, such as difficulty in dealing with and overcoming depression, frustration, and anxiety, and who (3) is a member of a
culture in which there is both pressure
to drink and culturally induced guilt and confusion regarding what kinds of drinking behavior are appropriate, is more likely
to develop trouble
than will most
other people.»
Similarly, when one examines the treatment of slaves encouraged by the biblical writers, it is decidedly more generous
than that of
other cultures... although the categorization of slaves as property, the use of slaves for reproductive purposes, and leniency regarding beatings, remains troubling, or «needing further movement,» according
to Webb.
Because of their long participation in a pluralistic
culture and their friendly relations with the Jewish people and with Protestants, they were perhaps better equipped
than Roman Catholics from any
other part of the world
to understand the significance and the importance of these two issues.
More
Than Faithful Presence Charles Colson Hunter and I Agree on
Culture Making (He Just Doesn't Seem
To Know It) Andy Crouch Faithful Presence Is Not Quietism James Davison Hunter Two other resources are worth considering: Ken Myers interview with James Davison Hunter Mars Hill Audio (Volume 101)» How Not to Change the World» Andy Crouch Books & Culture (May / June 201
To Know It) Andy Crouch Faithful Presence Is Not Quietism James Davison Hunter Two
other resources are worth considering: Ken Myers interview with James Davison Hunter Mars Hill Audio (Volume 101)» How Not
to Change the World» Andy Crouch Books & Culture (May / June 201
to Change the World» Andy Crouch Books &
Culture (May / June 2010)