Sentences with phrase «human story at»
But I, Tonya, in no small part thanks to Robbie's fearsome performance, still maintains the raw, broken, human story at its center.
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Humans are story - processing animals, and we at Inc. hope a story like Mitra's resonates on many levels.
When Facebook made its most recent changes recently to the Trending Topics box at the top of users» News Feeds, its hope was to remove the bias that comes from having human editors decide if stories are important.
Director Jonathan Levine («The Wackness,» «The Night Before») and screenwriter Katie Dippold (2016's «Ghostbusters») were obviously going for an edgy «mom - com,» in which the men are idiots and a story of self - discovery is at the core (Emily helps Ecuadorian women form a human chain to take water from a well, which brings her to an aha moment).
This isn't a «distraction,» but gets right at core concerns about Trump and his ability to govern — the Daniels story is one of many warnings that suggest Trump believes that laws and policies that limit the behavior of ordinary humans simply don't apply to him.
«We have an infinite capacity as human beings to tell ourselves stories, and the most important one we tell ourselves is about ourselves,» says performance coach Jennifer Lea, director of client relations at Johnson & Johnson's Human Performance Instihuman beings to tell ourselves stories, and the most important one we tell ourselves is about ourselves,» says performance coach Jennifer Lea, director of client relations at Johnson & Johnson's Human Performance InstiHuman Performance Institute.
This community has as its core a mystery to the human experience, and a sense that story and imagery can persuade at least as well as logical, more strictly factual arguments.
Always with the schmutz of Jewish human - interest stories, but never a scathing look at the Nazi - like tactics used against Palestinians?
I applaud what he is doing and hope that he brings others to God throught the torture and bloody human sacrifice of his son (himself, actually) where he died (well, for a few hours anyway) for us all (at least so the story goes) so that we may live with him in heaven (a great place for which no evidence or photographs exist) until the end of time.
Even if there are elements of the story that we might grimace at, it still reflects the human heart for grace, love, acceptance, forgiveness, and being made new.
It might be helpful at this point to look more fully at a few novels that have attempted a parabolic portrayal of the story of the human experience of coming to belief.
The imitation theory of the truth of art has at least this on its side: in a sense a good story, a true story, is «true to» the structure of human experience.
The dog story is sweet — not really about religion at all, but a good reminder of the love in animals other than humans.
I'm down for some sci - fi philosophizing — gim me some Blade Runner, Moon or WALL - E any time — but on Westworld it comes at the cost of human stories.
it comes at the cost of human stories.
Because humans have not only spread to the limits of the earth but have also started to multiply at an alarming rate, the mythical story of the Tower of Babel is now being reversed.
For a time, that led scientists to look for archeological evidence that there might have been a great global flood at some time in human pre-history, before recorded history, when stories were passed down orally.
He, in fact, communicated through story in his own work, interpreting at length the story of Abraham and Isaac, and creating parabolic stories to convey his insights into the human condition.
What stands out in Luke are the depth of his human sympathies, his sense of wonder, amazement, and joy at the power of the gospel, his poetic insight which led him not only to tell the Christmas story in a way that captivates old and young alike after nineteen centuries, but also to incorporate such lovely poems as the «Magnificat» of Mary, Zachariah's «Benedictus,» and Simeon's «Nunc Dimittis.»
Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades — by the abuse scandals, by the ongoing horror stories of mid-twentieth century Catholic life in Ireland, by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it by the Lord, by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life — is a matter of self - imposed wounds, which Church authorities have an obligation to address.
«If the story of Jesus,» Kaufman remarks at one point, «provides significant insight into and orientation for today's human life and problems, christology can and should continue to have an important place in our theological reflection and our religious devotion; if not, it should be allowed to fall away.
This didacticism is redeemed from arid or smug judgmentalism by empathy, even for the destructive crusaders: «the historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at the witness that it bears to the limitations of human nature.»
During my time in El Salvador, Central America (1983 - 86), I was always thunderstruck when, after a group of U.S. visitors had spent a couple of hours listening to the stories of the Mothers of the Disappeared or to officials of the non-governmental Human Rights Commission, at least one earnest soul would take me aside to ask whether «we're going to get a chance to hear the other side of the story.»
The story of the fall, told in Genesis, is to be taken as something true of each of us, not as a historical account of how sin came into the world at a specific time and place in human history.
With this clue we can see that, whatever we may make of particular «miracles», the miracle - stories as a whole are saying precisely this: that where Jesus was, there was some incalculable and unaccountable energy at work for the dispersal of evil forces and the total renewal of human life; and that this was nothing less than the creative energy of the living God.
The whole story is, as it were, a love - story with God as the principal actor and the human creation called to participate in that adventure of Love at work.
That means he looks like a human, at least according to the Christian story.
See, that's what I mean by muddled... you humans took a little story, mixed it with some myths from earlier religions and decided I was this all powerful god with an all powerful father (that supposedly turns hair on the head as well as beards white if you look at him) that cared about each and everyone of you.
At one time, most Christians regarded this as factually true, but now most would regard it as a «myth» or a story with a deep truth about the human condition.
You mean the sooner you can cease being human at all, and forever... Not to worry, the fairy story will soon end.
So The Giving Tree can not be taken at face value as a story about human giving and receiving.
(CNN)-- The books and movies of the Twilight Saga have launched a firestorm of debate as to whether the vampire - human love story represents eternal love at its finest or glorifies misogynistic and abusive relationships.
But at another level, the story hints at a possibility in love somewhat brighter than the actual human (particularly the parental) experience of it.
Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.
The part in that one that always gives me chills is at the end when he is teaching the Hath and the Humans how to live peaceably now and he tells them to tell this story and to remember that he was a man «who never would» take up arms.
But I do know this: Whenever I enter into discourse or debate or conversation, and I see the person as fundamentalist or Republican or homophobic or antagonist or (fill in the blank) rather than a human being with stories and ideas and passions, I almost always fail at being a promoter of unity.»
see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...
At our best, we suffer all this contradiction gladly, in the faith that out of a multitude of human attempts to glimpse, to trust and to obey the Lord of history, that Lord is weaving together a story he means to tell.
Though he is spoken of anthropomorphically (as a being in human form) at some points in the Bible, particularly in the early «J» stories of the Old Testament, this is not the normal biblical understanding of his nature.
I believe the bible chronicles mankind and tells complete stories but doesn't intend to point scathing fingers at humans but only to guild them into a more balanced being, one that doesn't need to be forgiven because there is nothing to forgive.
Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz
If we look at the story of the flood in Genesis 6, we find mention of mixing of different types of beings, angels and humans, and a total perversion of the natural order.
CNN: My Take: 5 reasons Christians should love «Twighlight» Jane Wells, author of Glitter in the Sun: A Bible Study Searching for Truth in the Twighlight Saga, writes that the Twilight Saga has launched a firestorm of debate as to whether the vampire - human love story represents eternal love at its finest or glorifies misogynistic and abusive relationships.
Embarrassed at its cultural «irrelevance,» the church has sought to generalize its specific story into vague consensus values, to translate its concrete doctrines into something as airy as Percy's reverential regard for human life.
At the end of the story of Genesis God declares his purposes through a human voice.
Crites does not claim that reality itself is or has a story, but he places the presence of narrative at the very boundary of human knowing.
It consists in the fact that what we have here is not consecutive narrative, but simply individual stories — and these are told in the manner of the people — pious people, who marvel at God's doings rather than ponder over questions of purely human detail (§ 3).
«The historical mission of our times is to reinvent the human — at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life - systems, in a time - developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience... The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.»
My rule was always to look for at least three hooks in the actual story that was to be used for the cover: significance, human interest, timing.
In my opinion, taking either of those guys with to Puerto Rico would be done as a human interest story, akin to when the Marlins gave Adam Greenberg an at - bat in 2012 after his career was derailed when he was beaned in the head in his first career plate appearance years earlier.