Sentences with phrase «in the strange land of»

As David Novak puts it, «In this age of secularism both Christians and Jews must learn how to sing the song of the Lord God of Israel in the new exile (galut) in the strange land of contemporary society.

«In first grade,» Marie added, «the children may start by typing their name — letters they know very well and now need to find in the strange land of QWERTY.

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By the time we landed the next morning in Italy, I was genuinely disappointed to have to deplane, a strange feeling I'd never experienced in my years of frequent travel.

Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., is archbishop of Philadelphia and author of Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World.

As Archbishop Chaput observes in his Erasmus Lecture published in this issue («Strangers in a Strange Land»), the public reality of marriage gives its redefinition powerful «sign value.»

Leviticus 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, [and] all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name [of the LORD], shall be put to death.

And, in a very strange reinterpretation of American history, Huckabee declared, «I believe America is an exceptional country created out of the providence of God because of the prayers of people who, on their knees, begged for a place where they could be free and raise their children in the freedom to worship and to speak out and to protest, and where every person was equal to every other person in intrinsic value and worth and no person was worth more or worth less because of how much land they owned, what their last name was, what their occupation was and what their bloodline was.»

It mistreats no stranger merely because he is a stranger in a strange land, nor the infidel because of his infidelity, nor the enemy because of his enmity; nor is a near relative given special treatment in Islamic law because of his relationship, nor is a friend shown partiality for his friendship, nor is a Muslim treated leniently because of his adherence to Islam.

(Jeremiah 15:20) It is not strange, therefore, that when temple and altar were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and the exiles in Babylon, bereft of their sacrificial system, were in confusion, Jeremiah's faith was expressed in a message to them concerning personal prayer — anywhere, in any land, sacrifices or no sacrifices, the God of Israel was saying to his people, «Ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Isolated in their own land, they have been a small colony of troublesome strangers in the midst of a numerous and dominating people....

Moreover you may buy the children of the strangers who dwell among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall become your property.

When Abram next impatiently demands proof that he will indeed inherit the promised land, God enacts the awe - inspiring covenant - between - the - sacrificial - pieces and, in the eerie darkness, gives Abram some bad news: not he but only his seed will inherit the land, and then only after they have suffered four hundred years of slavery as strangers in a strange land.

From this fact arose all sorts of legal provisions — prohibitions against removing one's neighbor's landmark (there were no surveyors with compasses in those days or recorded deeds of landholdings), injunctions to bring the first fruits of the land as a gift to God, provisions for observing the harvest festivals, ordinances as to slaves and «the stranger within the gates.»

Or is it a blip on the screen of history, born of the Progressive era among minorities in a strange land, institutionalized in the New Deal, and now left in the dust by the neoconservative revolution?

9 By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

But one can sing in a strange land only so long before one begins to doubt the appropriateness of the tune.

Most faiths are minority faiths, held by only a small portion of the culture in which they are located, and to proclaim them is usually a case of «singing the Lord's song in a strange land» (Psalm 137), whether «the Lord» is the one described by Mark or by Marx.

After God instructs the Israelites to mercilessly slaughter all the strangers that they encounter (Dt.7: 2, 16), he tells them to «love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.»

That strange land in which hymn writers and other worshipers find themselves aliens is a period of social, theological and liturgical turmoil; Christians are discovering that they can not, as keynoter Peter Gomes said, «continue living off the dividends of the piety of generations long past.»

... But they dwell in Greek or barbarian cities according to each man «slot has been cast, and follow the customs of the land in clothing and food, and other matters of daily life, yet the conditions of citizenship they exhibit is wonderful, and admittedly strange.

They are sojourners, aliens in a strange land; their task is that of demythologizing and debunking all ideological idolatry (whether Marxism or capitalism, liberal democracy or conservatism).46.

You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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My all time favorite of his is An Ethic For Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land:.

It has always been about the adventure of being a Jew exiled in a strange land.

Thou didst create the earth according to thy heart While thou wast alone Man, all cattle, large and small All that are upon the earth That go about on their feet (All) That are on high That fly with their wings The foreign countries, Syria and Kush, The land of Egypt Thou settest every man into his place Thou suppliest their necessities Everyone has his possessions And his days are reckoned The tongues are divers in speech Their forms likewise and their skins are distinguished (For) thou makest different the strangers.»

And in the distant empire of Usa there is a strange custom that takes place once per year among the barbarians of that land, which occurs in the following manner.

Here's a quote from William Stringfellow's book, An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: ``... the basic conflict among all principalities remains, though it be subdued or concealed for awhile, because the only morality governing each principality is its own survival as over against very other principality, as well as over against human beings and, indeed, the rest of Creation.

The following is an excerpt from Archbishop Chaput's new book, Strangers in a Strange Land: The crime of the modern sexual regime is that it robs Eros of its meaning and love of its grandeur.

In his book Strangers in a Strange Land, Archbishop Charles Chaput argues for a much more holistic and active kind of puritIn his book Strangers in a Strange Land, Archbishop Charles Chaput argues for a much more holistic and active kind of puritin a Strange Land, Archbishop Charles Chaput argues for a much more holistic and active kind of purity:

It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

budgie, Robert Heinlein was often guilty of making finely - reasoned arguments for stuff he thought was dead wrong, and people mistake STARSHIP TROOPERS or STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND for his own personal beliefs.

and Leviticus 19:34 («But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God»).

By faith he was a stranger in the land of promise, and there was nothing to recall what was dear to him, but by its novelty everything tempted his soul to melancholy yearning — and yet he was God's elect, in whom the Lord was well pleased!

The Golden Rule also has roots in the two old testament edicts, found in Leviticus 19:18 («Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself»; see also Great Commandment) and Leviticus 19:34 («But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God»).

Bob, yes the law was not met by the people, and therefore this is why they have been driven to strange lands, this is where we get the exile of the 10 tribes until this day who were scattered to the four corners of the earth, warned to the people in Deuteronomy 28 - 30, of the blessings, and then of the curses.

It is easy to stand and prophecy that in the future there will be strange new religions, that people will do things foreign to our understanding, and swear that our gods will not be pleased... and be correct... because it is the nature of human beings to change, to modify our beliefs to fit our experience, to seek out new understanding, change the way we dress and do our hair, and unfortunately, it is in our nature to fight over stupid crap like land and religion.

You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt» (Deut.

Boston is aggressively Catholic largely because it is aggressively Irish, and it is aggressively Irish because its people have not quite overcome their sense of being strangers in a hostile land.

7 [Because of your detestable disobedience] your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; your land — strangers devour it in your very presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by aliens.

The best book ever on the book of Revelation and the American church is by William Stringfellow, «An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land»: http://amzn.to/2jLCUfP

Stephen Shoemaker writes that «exile was (and is) a time of captivity and chastening, of figuring out what went wrong and why, a time of gestations, of waiting, of singing the Lord's song in a strange land, a time of hoping in what we can not see.

And about economic realities — should the USA be so sensible as to re-direct the $ 10.2 million per day it hands the State of Israel (its military) to purchase more bombs, guns and weaponry to keep the Palestinians at bay and locked in prisons, or chased out of Palestine / Israel to so - called «safe havens», then I will readily agree to talk with anyone about economics and affordability of welcoming more strangers and people fleeing their land and homes.

Like this one: «Thou shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt» (Exodus 22:21).

But since we are citizens of heaven, this makes us foreigners and strangers in this land.

Because the East Indians were thrown together in a strange land and were forced to share tasks equally, divisions of caste and religion were soon dissolved.

We generally try to eat using less salt in my house because my son has one (strange looking, functional) kidney, and we live in the land of MSG (China)... so, I will definitely keep this substitute in mind!

This should have been a strange circumstance for a guy who's one of the two or three best college centers in the land to find himself in, but it was nothing new for Longley, who is candid about what he terms «my biggest weakness — inconsistency of mind - set.»

«They have never recovered and now find themselves in this strange no - mans land of existing on other peoples defectors and those that cant make their mind up.»

Notwithstanding failures to predict rising immigration on its watch, and Gordon Brown's disastrous «bigoted woman» gaffe, the Labour party is not solely to blame for the effects of the multiculturalism that makes many Britons feel like strangers in their own land.