Sentences with phrase «for teaching matters»

The Spoken Word annual poetry event is the culminating activity for Teaching Matters» writing curriculum, Writing Matters, which offers 5th through 9th grade teachers powerful new ways to approach writing instruction using 21st Century technology tools.

LaMonica is a senior educational consultant for Teaching Matters.

As an educational consultant for Teaching Matters, Stacy provides educators with tangible strategies for empowering and engaging the readers within their classrooms.

Currently, she serves as a Senior Educational Consultant for Teaching Matters and a Clinical Professor in Elementary and Special Education for Northern Arizona University in undergraduate teacher education with an emphasis on student - centered, project / inquiry - based learning that is accessible to all students.

WHAT: The Spoken Word annual poetry event is the culminating activity for Teaching Matters» writing curriculum, Writing Matters, which offers 5th through 9th grade teachers powerful new ways to approach writing instruction using 21st Century technology tools.

This story by William Heller, Professional Development Facilitator for Teaching Matters in New York City describes the impact a data - informed leader can have on a school designated as a «School in Need of Improvement».

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It keeps everything in perspective for me and teaches me that everything is important, no matter the size.

«He's taught me to be more charitable and to never do anything in business, or life for that matter that you wouldn't want published on the front page of your local newspaper.»

A tension arises between West's incredibly positive understanding of sex and the body and his teaching that sex in itself or anything else of this world, for that matter can never fully satisfy.

It is one thing to offend by speaking truth, that'll happen, but any other type of offence is unnecessary and against the teachings (which show God's heart on the matter) in scripture for those who claim to «know Him».

Maybe they can move the old Arch Bishop who covered it up out, make him a cardinal, then make his replacement a cardinal for gladhanding the victims and sweeping things under the rug... then plead poverty and go about a few punitive church closings to teach the lay parishoners not to stand up to them no matter what their crimes... like they did here in Massachusetts.

I speak out against your ilk and any other group for that matter when they attempt t use their belief to dictate rights... LGBT rights; women's rights; education rights (in a secular country, no single religion has a place in the school system - teach about one, teach them all - fair is fair).

Now as a Christian I follow the new testament, and so striving to be Christ like as a Christian I accept everyone for who they are, I love them and do not presume to know the right way for them to live their life, instead I simply open my arms to others and know that all people of all faiths are just fine it doesn't matter to me what you do with your life all that matters is the way that you do it... that was my understanding of christs teachings anyways

The college of bishops in union with the Bishop of Rome, and bishops individually, are thought to have a special charism for teaching on matters of «faith and morals.»

If it is evident that Christians are not held to fulfilling the most momentous vow they will ever make to another person, young people and others may be forgiven for thinking that the churches are not entirely serious in their moral teaching about other matters, especially those related to sexuality.

A true Christian makes prayer a daily matter (1 Thess 5:17), in which Jesus taught them to pray first and foremost for God's name of Jehovah to be sanctified by means of his «kingdom».

In upholding the prohibition against artificial methods of birth control, the encyclical dashed the hopes of many believers for a change in church teaching — hopes that had been raised when the National Catholic Reporter leaked the news that the lay and clerical members of the hand - picked papal commission studying the matter had voted decisively to support the limited use of artificial contraception within the context of marriage.

For that matter, my teaching and preaching had never seriously floated the notion that people ought to be as devoted in body, mind and spirit as that little Albanian nun.

Through the sufferings of your incarnate life reveal to us, and then teach us to harness jealously for you, the spiritual power of matter.

To claim that the Republican Party (or any political party for that matter) represents the holy, radical teachings of Jesus Christ is just plain ridiculous in my opinion, perhaps even blasphemous.

If the matter were not so serious, it would be a cause for amusement to see The Tablet attribute to this survey a definitiveness which it denies to the actual Teaching Office of the Catholic Church.

Biblicism falls apart, Smith says, because of the «the problem of pervasive interpretive pluralism,» for «even among presumably well - intentioned readers — including many evangelical biblicists — the Bible, after their very best efforts to understand it, says and teaches very different things about most significant topics... It becomes beside the point to assert a text to be solely authoritative or inerrant, for instance, when, lo and behold, it gives rise to a host of many divergent teachings on important matters.»

As I filled out the questionnaire, time and again I answered: «No, they are not, but they have never been taught these teachings,» or many others for that matter.

Once you embrace the idea that there is no possible way for anyone to know any truth beyond what they have been taught, you can focus on what really matters; helping your fellow man, making the world a better place than how you found it and teaching your kids to do the same.

This statement stands out to me: «But Jesus taught lucidly that Jewish requirements for purity — varied cultural traditions — do not matter before God.

But Jesus taught lucidly that Jewish requirements for purity — varied cultural traditions — do not matter before God.

Or, for that matter, might God be accepting and rejecting the worship of individuals scattered about in a number of religions despite what their organizations teach?

The teaching of the Church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the Church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.»

For quite some time I taught a public - affairs course in a nursing home; its subject matter was the daily or Sunday newspaper.

In her 1992 book The God of Thinness, Mary Louise Bringle similarly denounced the Christian diet industry for «feeding off the facile conflation of fat and sin (and forgetting that the traditional teachings of the church condemn consumptive behaviors but say nothing about cosmetic matters of body shape and size).»

But the fires of hell seem to have been quenched; or at least they do not figure very largely in contemporary thinking, nor, for that matter, in contemporary preaching and teaching.

It matters not what religion you profess to believe in, for they all taught man to cherish one another.

It is not a matter of his neglecting others out of a love for something genuinely high, not a matter of over-doing it, not a matter of not intuiting the lesson I'm guessing our Ralph Hancock teaches in his The Responsibility of Reason.

For he [Mark] had neither heard the Lord nor been his personal follower, but at a later stage, as I said, he had followed Peter, who used to adapt the teachings to the needs of the moment, but not as though he were drawing up a connected account of the oracles of the Lord: so that Mark committed no error in writing certain matters just as he remembered them.

That is, when men had learned to understand God as a person and his will as a body of moral teaching, they continued to recognize his supreme importance for human life, but his actual present effectiveness became a matter of belief rather than of immediate apprehension.

Where the Council was not teaching on matters of faith and morals, such as where it was describing contemporary conditions or offering recommendations for renewal, its statements are to be received with respect and gratitude but are not necessarily flawless in either their factual accuracy or their prudential judgment.

So I decided to preach a sermon about the Unpardonable Sin, and what I believed the Scriptures taught about God's love and forgiveness for us — no matter what we say or do.

1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the gap between teaching and the reception of teaching are typically the same people who have for years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.

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.

For the Epic was popular, and if some teaching matter could be incorporated into it, it might get attention which it would otherwise fail to receive.

Agents of the state can teach your children how to have sex, give them condoms, put them on the pill, give them the morning - after pill if it doesn't work, and take them off for an abortion if that fails - and all without you having any say in the matter or necessarily even knowing about it.

The aim was consciously ecumenical, following the directive laid down by Pope John XXIII for the Church to make clear its teachings in those essential matters so as to make itself more understandable to the separated Churches of the Orthodox and the ecclesial communities of the Reformation.

Philosophical religion, however, was another matter entirely, for many things the philosophers taught were compatible with Christian theology.

Jesus said the whole world is lying in the power of satan and that he is god of this system of things, the ruler of the world, and that he is misleading the entire inhabited earth so if you just worship the god of this world, no matter which religion, it is satan, «for a little while longer» but he also taught his father's name was to be called on to resist this creature so use his name «Jehovah» if you want results or serve «the god of this system», «the ruler of this world» (see 1 John 5:19, Rev. 12:9 - 12, John 8:44,45,14:30;!

For those who are rigid, dogmatic and absolutist, it does not matter whether you are in the tenth century or 21st century, you must live according to the literal teachings of your religion.»

They may find that they object much more to Jesus» followers than his actual teaching If anyone illustrated a willingness to lay down his life for his beliefs it was John Galt (and for that matter Ayn Rand).

And, therefore, the expectation must not be cherished that, save for modest and obvious instruction about voice, pace, organization, and such matters, preaching as a lively art of the church can be taught at all... Disciplines correlative to preaching can be taught, but preaching as an act of witness can not be taught.

The Encyclical Ut unum sint lists among the five still controversial areas: «I) the relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matter of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God,» and «4) the Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the Pope and the Bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith.»

Such naïveté is now impossible, for Freud taught us what the Bible knew — that the closer one gets to matters of decisive significance for the self (in this case, God), the less able he is to think disinterestedly.

No good purpose is served by concealing this fact, as is often done today when things that are really incompatible are combined by the following type of over-simplified reasoning: that whatever in early Christian teaching appears to us irreconcilable with the immortality of the soul, viz. the resurrection of the body, is not an essential affirmation for the first Christians but simply an accommodation to the mythological expressions of the thought of their time, and that the heart of the matter is the immortality of the soul.