Sentences with phrase «illiterate when»

Our culture may be largely illiterate when it comes to the Bible, but many people are still familiar with those words from 1 Corinthians 13, used in what feels like every wedding service.

@bill: You seem to be a bit illiterate when it comes to art.

Any Israelite would pick up on it, but we do not, mostly because we are illiterate when it comes to the Old Testament.

You know someone's really illiterate when the corrections list is larger than the original content.

Yes, the United States is largely illiterate when it comes to managing their personal finances due to a confluence of overspending and underinvesting.

Not exact matches

Still, Williams attributes his success in large part to an unusual mentor: an alcoholic, illiterate janitor named Willie Turner, whom Williams worked with at Leonard's Department Store in Burbank, Calif., when he was a teenager.

Please don't assume I'm illiterate (or in earnest) when I write!

Most Likely to Help Us Find God in the Everyday: Jennifer Fulwiler with «Praying Like You're Illiterate»» I don't know how long I sat there soaking up each aspect of the icon, but when I was finished I felt as enriched as if I had read chapters of sacred theology.

For example, black pastors question how the Society for the Study of Black Religion really can understand the religion of blacks when absent from this group are black preachers who minister to those who are unemployed, underemployed, addicted to alcohol and drugs, illiterate and apathetic.

For example, the study of Homer is postponed until secondary school, after the student has learned to read competently, when in fact it was intended for illiterate audiences and shared with them orally for centuries.

I discovered this lack of community when I taught in a fine small suburban liberal - arts college; my otherwise delightful, intelligent students were almost illiterate in group experience.

Within six years after landing, the Puritans established a college, the first in America, in order «to advance learning and to perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.»

What makes you think that a monk who wrote the bible 1000 years ago (when most people were illiterate) knows anything more about a man named Jesus who lived 2000 years than we do today, when we all can't even agree on where President Obama came from today?

You illiterate noobs get on here and attempt to interpret the Bible for others when you can barely write a simple sentence.

At a time when most slaves in French Saint - Domingue were illiterate, Louverture was well - read enough to accuse his rivals of practicing «Machiavellism» and Napoleon of hounding him as the Romans hounded Hannibal.

When someone teaches something that is contrary to your view, rather than take the time to understand their perspective and then deal with it logically and Scripturally, and maybe even correct your own view in the process, it is much easier to just call them «biblically illiterate» and move on.

Which happened when I sat in an Atlanta public school room tutoring three illiterate sixth graders or when I heard stories of refugees who'd suffered loss of home, family separation and violence or when I stood at the U.S. - Mexico border in Tijuana and looked at the endless crosses adorning the wall with the names of those missing or lost after they headed north to the United States.

In the Middle Ages, when most Christians were illiterate and lacked immediate access to Scripture, artists transmitted biblical stories and theological truth through images that everyone could read.

As a teacher you could probably agree that when it comes to art, as a country, we are almost illiterate.

I'm a non-believer... (thank god)... but reading all these comments on this religious nonsense is amazing... I get it when third world illiterates regurgitate the scripture... but for the rest of humanity it's pure science fiction... can't beat it... it's a real money maker... let's take money and tax exemption out of the religious equation especially for the mega churches... and we'll see how long it lasts... anybody got a stop watch...

The question I always ask when the issue of biblical illiteracy comes up is: why, after decades of people sitting through week after week, hour after hour of sermons allegedly done to educate Christians on scripture, do some make a case that there is a «crisis» of Christians being biblically illiterate.

All of these bodies shared with Massachusetts Bay Puritans the dread of leaving «an illiterate ministry to the Churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the Dust.»

So, with alleged «Banking Zuwo» judges, can the NBA, or the CJN for that matter, beyond obdurate legalism, defend the conduct of judges allegedly warehousing huge cash at home, when they are not some illiterate Idumota traders mortally scared of the banking system?

He tweeted: «When will this pot - bellied illiterate, this filthy sodomite, this one - legged ritualist and this ravenous beast stop killing people in Imo?

What ASUU is demanding in terms of allowance is a mere pittance when compared with what the illiterate «legislathieves» are appropriating to themselves on an hourly basis.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Peter Gordon, a psychologist at Columbia University in New York, says that even illiterate hunter - gatherers deal with probability when making decisions about which trees are likely to yield fruit, for example.

But, if you write to her boring illiterate short letters, then she will just be confirmed in her opinion: «I was right when I decided not to waste time on this idiot.»

Screenwriter Ehren Kruger's latest illiterate piece of crap (the degree to which his script for the legitimately effective The Ring was doctored is now the stuff of Hollywood legend) addresses these and other pressing plantation - era questions when he deposits snowflake buttercup Caroline (Kate Hudson) into the heart of bayou country, deep in Angel Heart Louisiana, where every phonograph spins a Dixie Cups platter and every cobwebbed attic has a secret hoodoo room.

When a wandering Phiona stumbles across Robert's Sports Ministry Outreach program, their fates are instantly, interminably intertwined; this struggling family man will coach up this young, illiterate girl into one of the continent's premier female chess players.

The multiplicity of ills facing our nation's public schools can depress even the most optimistic.How can we be hopeful when we have 30 million illiterate children?And it is no longer just the well - being of our poorest children that we need worry about; our top - performing public schools are no match for the international competition.

The percentage of fourth - grade suburbanites who are functionally illiterate in 2011, the same levels as it was in 2007, when the U.S. Department of Education began breaking NAEP data by location of school and district.

The percentage of fourth - grade suburbanites who are functionally illiterate in 2013, a mere one percent decline from both 2011 and 2007, when the U.S. Department of Education began breaking NAEP data by location of school and district; 39 percent of fourth - graders in suburban districts read at Proficient and Advanced levels, a mere one percent increase from both 2011 and 2007.

But time — along with the fact that half of all fourth - graders on free - and reduced - cost lunch in suburban schools are functionally illiterate — has proven that integration on its own doesn't deal with the systemic problems of low - quality teaching, shoddy curricula, lackluster leadership, and cultures of low expectations (especially for poor and minority kids) that plagues American public education even when those kids are put into suburban middle - class schools.

With Mudbound I had six voices to choose from; when I got tired of being an educated middle - aged white mother of two, I could become a young black soldier or an illiterate farmer or a charmer with a drinking problem.

However, when these lowlifes write their illiterate, threatening notes, using «girly» is like fingernails on a blackboard to me!

The computer illiterate end user is far better off when he doesn't need these tools, apart from the question if it's legal or not to use them.

Obese and illiterate Biddy has more emotional intelligence than Quincy, whose normal brain development was shattered when her mother's boyfriend hit her with a brick when she was six.

When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to «get a life» by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves.

During the Middle Ages, when most people were illiterate and women were seen as having little value, Hildegard transformed the world around her through her music, her scholarship, her preaching, and her visions of the face of a female God.

When you read blog posts and articles about people calling for lower eBook prices, remember that this is not a call to a universal 99 cents price point, but a wake - up call for the fat cats in the NY publishing houses, who still believe that having an illiterate like Snooki «write» a book is a better idea than giving an actual writer a chance.

How can you take an article on readers seriously when it's so illiterate?

I may be able to write but when it comes to the services Steve offers I am totally illiterate.

Maybe I'm just PC illiterate — I recently joined the PC Master race — so maybe the problem is just me, but I spent a good 15 - 20 seconds pressing buttons on my mouse and keyboard, practically mimicking that scene in Zoolander when Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller were trying to operate a computer until I figured out that «F» was the enter key.

There's nothing more powerful than the artist painting what's going on in the world around him and the fact that artists are seen to be as powerful as soldiers, with their paintbrush using a visual type of propaganda, especially when most of the population were illiterate.

With tar sands project, Canada looks like a scientifically illiterate high poverty desperate country trying to go after the dirtiest forms of energy when it does not have to.

When I was seruptitiously DUMPED from the poll, I assumed it was because I had destroyed the intended purpose of the poll... which was intent on proving that Christian conservatives (who don't «believe» in CAGW) are scientifically illiterate.

Question for climate illiterate: When I look at the above carts I see negative number on the left hand side.

When a ship does not have to dock for months on end, it can lead to cruel and inhumane confinement for countless poverty - stricken, illiterate workers who were forced into signing contracts that they did not understand.

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