Sentences with phrase «in communes as»

During the hippie days of the late sixties and early seventies some people tried a different way of live in communes as did the utopian communities in the 19th century.

Not exact matches

Jo Freeman spent much of the 1960s living with her activist peers on communes — including a stint as part of a women's liberation collective in which everyone had equal say and stature.

This resonates deeply with me as someone who communes with nature on a daily basis in the boreal wilderness.

As for me, I want to know and commune with a being that, in my belief system, created me and died for me.

Poets like Wordsworth see the human person as capable of communing with the whole of reality, or at least with aspects in a deeper, more profound way.

I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.

Today, we accept, sometimes even admire, communes, divorcées, and spinsters — and make provision for them in our laws of taxation, property, and zoning as well as in our pastoral, diaconal, and pedagogical ministries.

It calls the disciple to live, at least part of the time, as if he or she were already in the next world, a world where all share freely and constantly commune with God — in short, a life of love.

As I've grown older, I've seen many things in «Christendom», I've seen communes (come and go in failure).

To «see» in this sense is to commune with and to enjoy the world as it is.

The form in which the answers to these questions have come is not so much that of systematic treatises as of concretizations of alternative philosophical models: the open classroom, gay marriages, tire commune, house churches.

At a time when individualism was still, generally speaking, obscuring the fullness of traditional catholic teaching on this mystery, he wrote: «When Christ comes to one of his faithful it is not simply in order to commune with him as an individual;... when, through the mouth of the priest, he says Hoc est corpus meum, these words extend beyond the morsel of bread over which they are said: they give birth to the whole mystical body of Christ.

We commune with those who believe in the actually presence of Christ in the supper and the actual forgiveness of sins received in it, as promised in the witness of the Bible and the words of Christ.

My journey went via evangelical Christianity, studying with Jehovah's Witnesses, study of other mythologies, studying some in the mystical traditions and studying and communing as best I could with nature.

It is popular in some circles to envision the afterlife as a parliament of world religions — where Jesus and Buddha and Shankara and Muhammad and Confucius and Mahavira and Moses, along with shamans, bodhisattvas and spirit guides of all descriptions would converse and commune together.

When poverty is chosen, when it is a voluntary status, undertaken for some moral or religious end, it is often a state of joy rather than of suffering, as in the case of Thoreau at Walden, the Peace Corps worker, or the inhabitant of a rural commune.

As a day, and no more, it reminds us first to protect ourselves from AIDS, and from communing too closely with others in the process, while at the same time it assuages our guilt at being one of the lucky ones by encouraging us to «remember» the saints of AIDS, about whom we know almost nothing but that they had it.

Many people in the scientific communes here do call this inner cosmos as being atomic in nature.

Our faith in Christ sees the Incarnation of God in human form as securing a definitiveness to the human being; while the human physical make - up is open to a degree of change - such as getting gradually taller - a species able to commune with God in virtue of being made up of body and soul will not mutate into a new one.

But you feel peace when you pray / commune with the notion of «God» in your head — for certainly you don't talk or do things together as most people in real relationships do.

But Mazzini's significance, as Luigi Salvatorelli has pointed out, is in his effort to reestablish the spiritual unity of the Italian people that had been draining away ever since the time of the medieval communes.

Too few and too late in the coming two decades, several did try to respond, particularly to Melancthon who had a continuous project of an Agreed Statement, his Loci Communes, an attempt at a summary of the central themes of Christianity as understood by the Wittenberg theologians, set out in such a way that papal theologians might be likely to read them sympathetically.

Rohan spent time living in his father's sprawling home on Hope Road in Kingston, a place described in Timothy White's 1983 biography of Bob, Catch a Fire, as «a religious hippie commune, with an abundance of food, herb, children, music and casual sex.»

• Sited in the commune of Decines - Charpieu, 10 km east of central Lyon, the stadium is part of a complex spanning over 50 hectares and featuring a training ground for OL as well as hotels and office buildings.

A few decades ago, home birth in the United States was mostly limited to insular religious communities like the Amish and to dedicated members of the counterculture like Gaskin, whose husband founded The Farm as a commune in the 1970s.

In his own remarks, Gov. Obi who described the pilgrimage as «rewarding spiritual journey, exploring the history of salvation», said it afforded him the time and opportunity to commune with God.

Personally, I think that Cameron is at his strongest when he identifies quality of life as a major dirving force; the largest single component of this is freedom - the freedom to choose to work long hours in an investment bank or sit in a hippy commune strumming a guitar.

Others believe in telepathy, have communed with fluorescent raccoons, and championed vitamin C as a cure for cancer.

Great thinkers such as Einstein seem to commune with nature in ways not easily understandable.

As you will read, Eliezer lives among cults, throws himself into workshops, visits hippie communes, enrolls in personal transformation trainings — and all the while, cites the inconsistencies and flaws in the various ideologies of each scene.

moved to a hippie commune in 2011 and made a lot of new friends and gained some new rainbow family.found myself and who I am.learned to be a better person love people for who they are.want to travel to rainbow gatherings as well as other such events.hope to find someone to share that life with.

It's a striking combination of analysis and creative innovation that communes with the past and present, uniting them as a beautiful, absurdist tone poem about the struggles facing those dealt less fortunate hands in life.

It looks like as though this group has the solidarity that would protect them from a breakup, but the success of one of their troupe leads to envy by the others and, given that the winner of an audition by a Saturday Night Live type TV program called «Weekend Live» is the two strongest performer in the Commune, things start to look bleak for the other five.

As if filmed through a thin veil of delicate lace, Michael McDonough's cinematography saturates this religious commune in a glow that renders black (the colour of evil) into a less threatening palate of charcoal and grey.

Part verité, part freakout fantasy, it follows a group living in a commune house as they must decide whether to marry into the very society from which they have rebelled, or else just to disappear in a puff of smoke along with the end of their era.

As Jack, an dying ex-hippie and environmentalist living in isolation with a daughter (Camilla Belle) who's developed a secret, incestuous love for him, Day - Lewis exudes both a gentleness and a sense of loss, speaking of a former commune with a wistfulness that suggests someone who never really gave up the dream of the «60s even as he watched it diAs Jack, an dying ex-hippie and environmentalist living in isolation with a daughter (Camilla Belle) who's developed a secret, incestuous love for him, Day - Lewis exudes both a gentleness and a sense of loss, speaking of a former commune with a wistfulness that suggests someone who never really gave up the dream of the «60s even as he watched it dias he watched it die.

That's where Frank the Bastard finds itself, since despite having a mysterious title and a mysterious premise (a young woman confronts her past when she returns to the creepy commune she grew up in), the movie just spins its wheels as it looks for the dullest way to finally admit the pitiful details of its mystery plot.

Worse than that is when McCarten tries for mawkishness, as in a sequence of Churchill communing with the common man.

But when Jill learns the Harmons are moving and taking her only friend with them — she kidnaps Laila kick - starting an outlandish cat - and - mouse adventure as the Harmons enlist a slick P.I., take off in hot pursuit through the desert of New Mexico, pop into a love commune, confront a gun - wielding loan shark and conquer their fear of parenthood all in this madcap adventure!

Trine Dyrholm as «Anna» in The Commune She won Best Actress in Berlinale a year ago for this new film from Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration, The Hunt, Far From the Madding Crowd).

Don't Think Twice — which the 38 - year - old wrote, directed, produced and stars in — follows a sextet of improvisers called the Commune as they play comedy shows for packed houses (but for no money) and dream of making it onto SNL surrogate Weekend Live.

We've seen many horror and suspense films with cults as the backdrop, either on - site at a commune or pulling strings in some shadowy or supernatural way, but there's never been one quite like The Endless from directing duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead.

Holly Hunter is odd and fascinating as an American self - help guru in a makeshift commune of damaged women, and David Wenham is unreliable as the closest thing this community has to an enlightened authority figure, and it's not very close.

In the guise of Marcy May, she acquiesces to the whims of calculating commune leader Patrick (John Hawkes, Winter's Bone), accepting his words of wisdom as gospel.

The film stars Elisabeth Olsen in an extraordinary, nuanced performance as Martha, who, after escaping from a sinister cult, attempts to re-assimilate herself into contemporary society by staying with her estranged older sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) and her fiancé Ted (Hugh Dancy) at their lake house in New England, but Martha begins to worry that members of the abusive sect she managed to run away from are plotting to bring her back to their corrupt commune.

On the run from a scorned lord (Nick Offerman, «The Founder») that wants him dead for messing around with his wife in the manor bedroom, Massetto finds himself at the commune at the invite of Father Tommasso to work as the resident handyman, but with one stipulation — he must pose as a deaf - mute in order to not stir up the provocative pot within the compound.

The ethereally beautiful 18 - year - old first came to the attention of many as Sarah, one of the women in Patrick's commune in «Martha Marcy May Marlene.»

Mike Birbiglia writes, directs, and leads as Miles in Don't Think Twice, about an improv comedy troupe called The Commune.

A film I saw very early in 2014 that still feels like I only saw it yesterday, A Spell to Ward off the Darkness follows a quiet, unnamed man (Robert A.A. Lowe) as he tries out three completely different lifestyles: living on an Estonian commune, living alone in a Finnish forest, and fronting a black metal band in Norway.

Sadly, we're deprived of footage where Erik Killmonger is in his Golden Jaguar armor, but as a trade - off, we get to see actual black panthers in the Djalia, the Wakandan realm where Black Panthers can commune with Panthers of generations past.