Sentences with phrase «know other cultures»

Elizabeth enjoys backpacking and exploring the natural wonders of Oregon, getting to know other cultures, and gardening.

Ultimate Surf Holiday Guide to Bali — The complete guide and handbook for a gnarly surf vacation in beautiful Bali Universal Traveller — Tim wants to travel to every single country, meet people from all over the world, get to know other cultures and show the people that the world is a better place.

Visit as many different places as you can to get to know other cultures, people, landscapes, food and ways of living

I love to travel and getting to know other cultures.

The key to informed citizenship is getting to know other cultures — and valuing them.

I am easy going, passionate about all what I am interesting in, friendly, musical, like to travel and to know other cultures

I love to listen to other languages and get to know other cultures aaaand I love to go swimming.

Looking forward to make new friends from diferent countries, to know other cultures

The best moments are the episodes of sharing and getting to know other cultures better and adapting to some of their values.

Yes because as we all know no other culture ever names their children after religious figures (Jesus, Peter, Paul, Joseph, Mary, etc...).

Not exact matches

In the eras before the current disposable culture, when a piece of furniture became no longer desired, it most likely would have been turned into some other useful item

No matter which culture you hail from, Istanbul will show you the other side.

«If your employees are engaged and care about the company and its culture, and feel like they know what's happening», says Fradin, «then they become an advocate for the company — recruiting other people, talking positively about it, writing a review on Glassdoor.

Several disgruntled former employees have expressed concerns about «groupthink» being ingrained in what is widely known as a hyper - liberal company culture value system where expressions of other views are not welcome and can lead to being ostracized or being shown the door.

All those religion books that were written thousand years ago by people who had no idea about other cultures or how could they make sense one thousand years later are no better than cartoons.

I knew many Muslims had no respect for other cultures, now they're taking to destroying their own heritage.

They were not known to other cultures of the time.

when you live in America, knowing that the culture here is very superficial and most things are based on looks (and not just here but other countries as well) you can't be surprised that people will find a fully bearded woman strange.

But if we are talking about just the age difference and in their particular culture (if in fact the numbers that you gave are accurate, and I admit that I don't know one way or the other), then I don't know how, in that culture that there was anything wrong with it.

It does become culture just to turn up at church on a Sunday; you can go through worship time, sing the songs, and then you're out the other side without even knowing it.

However, in what is probably the oldest book of the Bible, Job, living in an ancient culture that knew nothing about space or planets, asserted that God hung the earth on nothing (1500 B.C.) or, in other words, the earth free floats in space.

No, obedience to such laws are for peace and harmony in society and culture as we live life with other human beings.

-- some missionaries may have a lifestyle that is more common to their home culture than appropriate, but I know many others that have made financial and personal commitments that impress me and should not be ignored; I think we should continue to honor that — the reality of the $ 10K that we all would want to invest in local evangelists often is only available after a «loo - see - visit» (or more) from a Western missionary who returns «home» for fundraising; that maybe sad, but is the reality — one serious issue to address in the African churches is the «colonialism» that is imposed -LRB-!)

Throughout history most of what was known about a people came from accounts of travelers or from persons who, though resident within the group, were paid to do some task other than observe its culture.

How can we know if it loves or hates, is caring or cold, prehends without loss, or offers us a lure other than those we get from the culture which gives us our conscience?

If we recall Kitchner's hortatory words spoken just five minutes before, we can go to our dreams knowing that this is what our very own culture does better than any other — it defines the ultimate human quest.

That's exactly why you don't know much about other religions cultures... etc and do not respect them at all.

By contrast, our culture is unified by a canon, which is passed from one generation to the other in the highly organized ritual known as formal education.

My college, St. Olaf, and other Lutheran colleges and universities represent a third Niebuhr model that has had its own successes, but is less well known on the national scene: «Christ and culture in paradox.»

A conservative student, well versed in Burke and Tocqueville, knowing his Kirk and his Berry if not yet his MacIntyre, exhausted by the culture wars, seeks common ground with students on the other end of the political spectrum.

Christianity is no different, as Colin said, they even stole other myths from other cultures.

Yet, in the less spectacular cases that take place under more normal circumstances, the equivalent selfishness, acting in one's own interest, no matter what damage is done in the process to the other, is considered somehow acceptable in our so very «civilized» culture.

Later he realized that, on the one hand, he had done them a serious injustice, and that, on the other hand, every form of Christianity is no less closely bound to the particularities of culture than are these other religions.

Adultery (and many other no - nos) were frowned upon by numerous cultures long before — and far removed geographically — from the Middle Eastern Hebrews.

@Uh «Adultery (and many other no - nos) were frowned upon by numerous cultures long before — and far removed geographically — from the Middle Eastern Hebrews.»

Why do people still believe such ridiculous myths that are no different from any other culture of that time period?

No, because the end justify s the means and you have already made up your mind that you are right about Jesus and there can be no other truth, and it's never about learning more about different people and cultures and religions, it's about making sure anyone who is different knows you are a Christian which is the only sensible way to live and anyone who is not like you is either converted, attacked, pitied or dismissed as a fool who awaits eternal damnation.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

I know some people are going to go apoplectic about «moral equivalency», but my point is to show that we are not always objective in evaluating leaders in other cultures, places and times.

The development of such a comprehensive view has long been a need, for it has become clearer and clearer as we have become familiar and involved with a constantly widening horizon of different musical aims and practices, that the old «common practice» theories of harmony and counterpoint could no longer be overhauled or extended, but had by necessity to be replaced by a way of description and analysis that treated the «common practice» of Western music from the late seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries as only one instance of a much wider musical method and practice that could be applied to all of Western music, from its origins to the present, as well as to music of other cultures.»

«Scripture's male - female prerequisite for marriage and its attendant rejection of homosexual behavior is pervasive throughout both Testaments of Scripture (i.e. it is everywhere presumed in sexual discussions even when not explicitly mentioned); it is absolute (i.e. no exceptions are ever given, unlike even incest and polyamory); it is strongly proscribed (i.e. every mention of it in Scripture indicates that it is regarded as a foundational violation of sexual ethics); and it is countercultural (i.e. we know of no other culture in the ancient Near East or Greco - Roman Mediterranean basin more consistently and strongly opposed to homosexual practice).

Many people we know think it mostly has to do with religion, politics, conservative positions on «culture war» issues, and an odd assortment of other things.

If all cultures — groups of people who never knew others existed much less communicated with them — all realized there is a Supreme Being then what does common sense tell you?

Not to mention the 120,000 years before that humans have lived on Earth or the other parts of the World, that included 99 % of all cultures and civilaizations on Earth 2,000 years ago that JEsus gave no indication of even knowing about.

But for now, does it concern you to know that baptism was (and is) practiced by other religions in other times and cultures?

The readers of First Things, I know, are eagerly awaiting further reports by this writer from the wilder shores of American feminism and other battlefields of this country's culture war.

Modern intellectual culture assumes the «fact - value dichotomy» so easily, in fact, that the future relations of piety and intellect at Union will undoubtedly involve some mighty wrestling to keep the two intimate with each other, no matter how insulated some of our university colleagues prefer them to be.

kudalk No, that much is true, but they did consider it a magical place (imagine two rings of islands, one inside the other, otherwise surrounded by water... likely they could not conceive that this is a natural formation for volcanoes), and was a center of culture and art.

«That said, if the churches do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.

It did have me thinking when I realized I knew and have met many people from israel and other middle - eastern cultures who were white and thought to myself, maybe it's not unrealistic at all.