Sentences with phrase «intellectual centers of our culture»

Marsden believes that «the free exercise of religion does not extend to the dominant intellectual centers of our culture.»

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Benedict on faith, reason, and culture; the president of the Catholic University of America, John Garvey, on the Catholic university; the poet Paul Mariani on the Catholic imagination; and Robert Imbelli on the Catholic intellectual tradition are among the writings that can be found in C21 Resources, an occasional magazine published by the Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College.

Despite the culture shock, she remembers Yale fondly as «an intellectual center of gravity» for speakers, scholars, and resident and visiting scientists.

Our educational culture provides learner - centered graduate education that nourishes the growth of individuals» intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual lives within learning communities, focusing on disciplines that will be central to the unpredictable nature of civilization in the 21st century.

Like the Staten Island educator at the center of this film, The Kindergarten Teacher pushes boundaries and crosses lines as it navigates its way through a tricky story of a five - year - old boy (newcomer Parker Sevak), who shows an unreal gift for poetry, and his teacher, Lisa (a career - best performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also one of the film's producers), who struggles in her adult - education class to be a poet as well, if only to add a bit of culture to a home life that offers her little by way of intellectual stimulation.

Morris has organized several exhibitions that explored issues related to feminism and its impact as a social, political, and intellectual construct on the development of visual culture — among them Decoys, Complexes and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s at the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, and Gloria and Regarding Gloria at White Columns, New York.