Sentences with phrase «for deeper community»

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito will call for a system to clear old warrants for nonviolent offenses and for deeper community involvement in citywide rezoning efforts tomorrow in her second State of the City address.

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Bitfinex is the world's largest dollar - based exchange for bitcoin, and is known in the digital currency community for having deep liquidity in the U.S. dollar / bitcoin currency pair.

In the past, reporters like Mike Royko, who wrote for The Chicago Tribune, and Jimmy Breslin of The New York Daily News and Newsday, had deep ties to their working class communities, Polgreen noted.

As our community in India has grown, I've gained a deeper appreciation for the need to understand India's history and culture.

For example, if you're a blockchain - based startup looking to grow awareness among investors and the crypto community, building up an influencer community on LinkedIn or forums, like Reddit, will allow you to establish deeper ties to your niche audiences.

Our open source technologies have attracted a community of millions of developers, administrators, and other IT professionals looking for deep visibility into systems and containers.

«Serving diverse communities has long been a focus area and priority for Wells Fargo, yet we know there's more work to be done, and it starts with gaining a deeper understanding of the experiences of diverse small business owners working with financial institutions,» said Lisa Stevens, head of Small Business for Wells Fargo.

Besides keeping an eye on our career site, we encourage you to read Let My People Go Surfing and The Responsible Company which take deep dives into our history, values, community and plans for the future.

SMUD, a community - owned, not - for - profit electric service provider in Sacramento, California, used its insight communities to develop a deeper partners...

«Guy has built empires, but is known for a deep devotion to his family, community and many supporters.»

The group has deep expertise in cryptocurrency market trends, platforms, and industry developments — and we specialise in delivering high quality ICO design and marketing campaigns for some of the top projects in the cryptofinancing community.

The Denver / Bolder area is one of several technology communities where angels and entrepreneurs have somehow developed a deeper appreciation for the importance of early exits.

The current uncertainties and lack of deep insight is leading to hit or miss tactical shots that do not amount to a clear rewarding social business strategy for both themselves and their social communities.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

Jesus is painted as an atonement by Paul — however — what that atonement actually means is truly up for deeper discussion since in the Torah that sacrifice (of the once a year for the community) was for all people there — for their sins committed in ignorance (or by accident).

Their work includes a Children's Centre, focused on single and impoverished families, a pilot micro loan program for education and business development, an ongoing partnership for home ownership within the community, and a deep local commitment to the spiritual growth, empowerment and development of the community.

Even if the outcome falls far short of the just and sustainable communities for which we hope, the interaction among the many groups involved, the deeper levels of reflection, and the heightened understanding would by themselves move the institution some steps toward the just and sustainable community.

Thank you for reading, for commenting, for our funny and deep and weird conversations on Twitter and Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram, for your emails and letters, for your support and critiques, for showing up to the events in churches and community centres where I stumbled over my words and hugged you a bit too tightly and likely cried, for buying my little yellow book, for your prayers for me and my family, for staying with me, really, for all of it.

This hasn't meant that deep relationships haven't happened in the church as David points out, but it has set up in many communities for a number of these complex reasons where friendships become utilitarian — from leadership on down — the fruit becomes that the friendships exist for the church.

Partnering with local leaders, World Vision helped the community build and maintain a better dam — a beautiful reservoir of deep blue beneath Hunu, capable of providing irrigation to ver 170 families and even stocked with fish for extra protein!

But life is not found here either, for sex is one human being sharing with another on the deepest level, and this is patently impossible when love and community are separated from sex or when one relates to a sex partner as a thing, as impersonal as a partner from a rent - a-body agency.

If, however, instead of correct belief about God's self - revelation in Christ, experience of the living God present by the power of the Spirit in Jesus Christ is at the heart of Christian fellowship, then the Christian community becomes a circle of friends who strengthen each other in their search for deeper awareness of divine reality and love.

In today's consumer - oriented, capitalistic culture, where people are used, abused and disposed of like nonreturnable soft - drink cans, where «liberation» has been invoked to justify selfishness, it may be that the time has come for the church to say again what it has always believed — that there is no way for individuals to «flourish» without the kind of communion and community and the permanent, deep, risky commitment that true Christian love demands — qualities that are perhaps best experienced in the yoking of a man and a woman in marriage.

For the Christian community carries the memory of Jesus deep in its heart.

Among the criteria used for selecting parishes: evidence of a joyful congregational spirit; innovative, thoughtful worship; scripture - based teaching and preaching; emphasis on a deep relationship with God; and attempts to boldly confront problems within the membership and the community.

I think Muslim community is in deep trouble for it's backwardness and poverty while we see nothing is being done to resolve that... do we no have any other more important things to discuss than Birthdays or which foot first or this or that?

They express deep yearnings for community and are passionate defenders of racial and gender equality.

His close relations with the Jewish communities of Buenos Aires and his frankly avowed contempt for the anti-Semitism of much of the Catholic far right went far beyond mere symbolic deference, and spoke rather of a genuine and deep reverence.

The community's decision to foreswear health insurance, trusting Providence for expensive medical care, may eventually tax even its deep pockets and those of its generous givers.

If one has never journeyed into the deep — prayed (which includes Scripture / theological study, faith sharing, adoration, spiritual formation / retreats, pilgramages, Mass, reconciliation, fasting, listening for God's voice, and more) on an ongoing fashion or done God's will (been obedient, patient, humble, unconditionally sacrificing, unselfish) to the extent that they understand what it means to be Catholic and God being your number one priority — that His Ways and those of His Church are not the ways of the world (trade vices for virtues) and that we are being called into communion with Him via love for Him and one another in our faith community and broader community — then it is no wonder some are lost or disillusioned.

Several months at L'Abri makes me hungry for community and deep conversations.

It is a small book, and the supporting sociological evidence is mainly referenced in the footnotes, but Greeley does propose evidence that, among other things, Catholics have, compared to non-Catholics, a significantly higher appreciation of the arts and high culture; they have more satisfaction and fun in sex; they better understand the uses of leisure; they have a deeper and more stable relationship to family and community; they have a greater respect for the life of the mind, with educational achievements reflecting that respect; and they understand the nuanced connections between freedom and authority.

Is it possible for a church community to go through weeks, months or even years of ceasing activity in order to come to a place of a deeper understanding of love?

How they empower women: Vi Bella Jewelry is centered on providing a path out of poverty for artisans and a deep desire to form a community for them that is encouraging and prayerful.

These include the respect in which they are held in the community, the genuine appreciation they receive for work well done, the privilege of being invited to be with persons in their brightest and darkest hours, the satisfaction of communicating ideas that are important, the security of being surrounded by people who have affection for them, and the deep sense of well - being that comes from self - investment in significant work which helps lighten the load of humanity and makes for a better world.

In some way, however limited, the church aims to be a community of persons in which there is deep concern for each as an individual but which understands itself as a church to be not just the sum of those individuals but a community in which together we can be more than we are as individuals.

Does the Body of Christ (the American Church) have an obligation to ignore Tony's «Debacle» (an attention - getting debate being staged) and try to draw Tony and the Christian community back into the deeper issues of lack of character, inability to honor God's authorities, abuse of financial power, church blindness, and using church events as a smoke - screen for evil actions?»

This would force the Jewish believer - in - Jesus to be ignored by his / her family, lose all credibility for bringing their family or community to Jesus, and create such deep conflict within the Jewish believer - in - Jesus that he / she may simply renounce Christ rather than lose their spouse and children.

Now, we can look to this passage as comfort for all the times we've felt rejected — by our community, by our loved ones, by our church — but I can't get through this one without a deep, uncomfortable sense of conviction.

Still, deep within you, there is this flowing river of love for this congregation and community.

In a beautiful meditation for the Osservatore Romano in 2000, «The Heritage of Abraham,» Pope Benedict (then Cardinal Ratzinger), explained the deep bonds the two communities share: «The faith witnessed to by the Jewish Bible (the Old Testament for Christians) is not merely another religion to us, but is the foundation of our own faith.»

Rob Parsons, chair of Care for the Family, said: «In our experience, the second deepest hurt of those who have suffered abuse is so often having nobody who will listen to their plight, or even sometimes a Church culture which will not allow the possibility that such things could occur within its community.

«He was a passionate advocate for his community, a parliamentarian who made his presence felt in our national life and a man of deep faith.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The focus of the discussion was the use of social sciences in theology, the rereading of the Bible from the perspective of the poor, the Christian communities in the struggle of liberation and the assumption of some elements of critical and Marxist analysis for a better and deeper understanding of the conflictual reality of the continent.

Therefore the religious person needs to be disciplined and equipped in body and mind for the task, with more calmness and mastery in the midst of peril and turmoil, more sensitivity and deeper insight into the bonds of interdependence that hold people together in rich community, a more passionate and richly integrated life purpose which can transmute the common things of daily experience.

If a church decided to go out and serve their community on a particular Sunday instead of meet for singing and a sermon, they might in fact bond together in a deeper spiritual way than is currently happening.

What is at stake here is the truth that deeper in us than selfishness is our vulnerability and need for community.

Although not fully sympathetic with everything that some of the «deep ecologists» or «Gaia theorists» advocate, these works stand, more than any other works I know, as theological manifestos for an American Green Movement — one book is in a more academic form for the university and seminary, the other in a more confessional mode for the church and community study group.

They believed that there were deep pathologies in the dominant Euro - American community that had enabled it to affirm slavery and segregation for centuries.