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December 31, 2016 • It's time again for our annual collection, in no particular order, of 50 wonderful pop - culture things from 2016.

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From celebrating the big things to enjoying the little things, building a strong company culture that inspires both teamwork and friendly competition isn't rocket science and needn't deplete revenues.

It's less an age thing and more a culture thing that depends largely on where they've been and where they're coming from, and actually how they were raised.

«The hardest thing for non-traditional exit strategies is the culture on campus,» says Jonathan Lyons, who graduated from Wharton in May.

Those who get the most out of travel learn the mental agility to see things from the perspective of both their own culture and the one they're visiting.

In this candid conversation, Shopify's Harley Finkelstein — one of the most influential and innovative young business leaders in Canada today — shares his experiences scaling Shopify from a scrappy startup to a world - leading provider of commerce solutions, covering, among other things, the key operational, strategic and culture components that differentiate truly great businesses from those that are merely good.

Complex is the intersection of all things pop culture, from hip - hop to sneakers, and dominates the male market of 18 - to 24 - year - olds with 55 million monthly viewers.

They've wanted a lot of different things, from more press to a better corporate culture.

The main things to think about are: how your business understands and adopts technology, and whether your company culture encourages ideas to be shared, tested and learned from.

The best thing about being a part of a global network of employees is gaining exposure to a wide range of diverse people from different cultures and seeing and hearing what things are like in other places.

From whirlwind celebrity romances to your best friend moving halfway across the country to be with a guy she's known for a month, the phrase «love makes you do crazy things» is never more true than in our current culture of immediacy.

'» Asked to paint a picture of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as «on the cover of Business Week as a model success story... the Fortune most admired top - ten list... the best science and business graduates want to work here... people on airplanes rave about one of our products to seatmates... 20 consecutive years of profitable growth... an entrepreneurial culture that has spawned half a dozen new divisions from within... management gurus use us as an example of excellent management and progressive thinking,» and so on.

One thing that separates a civilized man from a terrorist is that the cultured man will not do anything to win.

The bible is merely a reflection of stories from other cultures re-packaged to make them more easily digestible by the masses as things shifted to a new power base.

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

I differ also from the various middle positions, which hold that there are some good things in this culture (like greater freedom for the individual), but that these come at the expense of certain dangers (like a weakening of the sense of citizenship), so that one's best policy is to find the ideal point of trade - off between advantages and costs.

We've grown accustomed to an instant - gratification culture where we hold the reigns and can switch from one thing to the next, the second something gets too boring or too difficult.

On the other hand Muslims who obviously hate the west and all things western so passionately should be actively encouraged to go back to Muslim - dominated countries where they can practice their faith in deep purity free from corrosive Western cultures and freedoms.

Hitler attached himself to so many things, from the occult to sci fi, to embracing other cultures that he felt might have had the keys to victory.

A third would be common thread from shamanistic cultures to religions of today is the notion of a spirit; that every natural thing also has a spirit.

It's a poignant commentary on porn culture from the last place you'd expect it, a PG - 13 comic book adaptation that's trying to be all things to all audiences.

The bible can only be interpreted by itself and context in which it is written, some things changing with culture and others that reach across every generation and time span from eternity to eternity.

We present below some reflections upon faith and culture from New York based First Things magazine.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

Our culture as a whole suffers from it... we don't produce things, we consume things.

I don't know the driver and am not free to judge her, but her display did cause me to reflect on how many Christians engage the broader culture, and how disconnected it often seems from the central Gospel message that the God who made us and loves us is about the business of making all things right.

We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)

A robust theology of heaven for our time would attempt two things: It would articulate the yearning beneath the culture's preoccupation with heaven, and it would seek to address this yearning with the hope that arises from the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

They censor words because a few in our diverse melting pot of culture may get «offended,» but sheltering them from these «offensive» things only serves to further divides between us.

Once you extricate yourself from that culture, after a while you begin to realize that the things which were such hot...

Hopefully some of the things picked up from pagan culture, such as buildings, can be redeemed and at the same time not consume our values and mission.

This article focuses on clothing, meat, and holidays which from the standpoint of contextualizing the Gospel for a different culture is a good thing to do but the real issues a Muslim will have, or should have, are not being addressed.

Don't think this religious / atheistic culture war thing is quite as pronounced where I come from....

Rather than hearing secular culture on its own terms, Christians are tempted to lift from it only those things that are congenial to their particular traditional viewpoint.

IMO we should get over our differences and should take advantage of the possibility of learning things from other cultures.

I love NYC because people like to preserve the good things about their own cultures, and there are many ethnic enclaves here, but we all seem to borrow the good things from the other cultures, and there are many.

His lamentable and perhaps only serious error seems to be the one thing the general culture still retains from him.

The only thing that prevents powerful Godly community from breaking down the barriers between culture, economic class, race and age is our own selfishness.

Now if you book actually said ONE thing which did not concur withe the culture it came from, we might have to take notice.

Reading news from a different culture means you get the story from a totally different perspective — which is always a good thing.

From personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupFrom personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupfrom Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupter.

These are churches that refuse to lurch around the secular landscape seeking the next big thing progressive Christianity might pluck from the culture or invent on its own.

If we may imagine a group of readers, from many different cultures and with various intellectual presuppositions, coming fresh to the New Testament, we shall expect them to respond to that literature in many different ways and to reach various conclusions as to its meaning and worth; but on one thing I believe it is fair to expect them to agree: «Here,» they would say, «is reflected a new and distinctive communal life.

The readers of First Things, I know, are eagerly awaiting further reports by this writer from the wilder shores of American feminism and other battlefields of this country's culture war.

«Unless you mean that when you meet someone from a culture you have heard dangerous things about you should treat them differently until they prove they are worthy of trust... and which I think is really impossible to do and be fair for a majority of people...»

There are things we can learn from the culture.

Scott: I think that one of the things Mary Ann and I have learned along the way, and which has further separated us from the mainstream culture, is the realization that we can always make room for one more.

... I was becoming... open to learning things from people of a different culture concerning what biblical Christianity should look like in their culture.

It is not necessary for certain ideas to have evolved, as is evidenced by other cultures (not to say in any way that they are wrong, however, there are practices that oppose the morals ingrained in us by the society we live in) so could a parent raise perfectly good children without the bible, in this day in age, probably yes, but you must recognize, that much of what they will be teaching will come from their society, adn quite honestly I'm not sure honoring your parents, and not killing are such a bad thing.

interesting topic.A lot of damage was done in south africa by white missionaries.they didn't come to bring messiah they came to bring western culture into africa.there are so many beautiful things about indigineous cultures that have been robbed and destroyed.so as a follower of messiah i tend to stay as far away from «missionary» work and i just try to listen to people's stories.