Sentences with phrase «learn as a culture»

It's also about learning some of the skills we are continuing to learn as a culture and it therefore gives kids a level of self - reliance that will set them apart from their peers who never have the opportunity to have these kind of experiences.

If we hope to reduce future attacks, these are the main lessons we should learn as a culture.

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As a consultant, Teasdale often is hired to help leaders figure out how to develop better relationships, increase employee engagement and create a culture of learning and innovation.

Some of the key insights, like long - term thinking, continuous learning, and simplified company structure, all serve as building blocks for his startup's culture, he said.

As a consultant, I was traveling the States and learning everything about American culture.

«As someone who has a fascination with learning about other cultures, New York was the perfect place for this next chapter.»

In many indigenous cultures I have learned about, community members who want more resources than they can personally use are viewed as suffering from some kind of mental illness.

But, the benefits of a learning culture are real, especially as the modern workplace demands continuous learning to keep up with ever - changing business needs and technologies.

And lastly, number five: The culture of schooling really relies on extrinsic incentives to motivate learning — carrots and sticks, As and Fs.

We want to learn all about them and invite their families into our culture as well.

Working together around common values and learning how to communicate as a family in order to reach a shared goal are key pieces of creating and maintaining a healthy family culture.

«Each period, whether a day, a month, a year or longer, represents an infinite number of possible learning opportunities, revealing more and more about correlations, hedging, law, regulation, culture, sizing positions, trading versus holding, activism, bankruptcy law and practice, government action and political impacts on investing, organizational realities and growth, as well as the kind of personal characteristics that are required to do this job well.»

In regards to your comment «the fact that you even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views», we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped preserve the knowledge of prior centuries, but perhaps you are unaware of the contribution of Greek civilization to Western culture and the «Age of Enlightenment» in late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etc..

Or... you can put asside your prophecies of doom & gloom, praying and hoping for God to smite all the yellow, black & brown people who don't believe the way you do anyway, and attempt to make peace with your neighbors, not by converting them at swordpoint, but accepting them and learning about their cultures and traditions and give them as much respect as you want them to show you.

I suspect the «overwhelming» empirical evidence you claim will slowly be refuted as we learn more about ancient american cultures.

But, to my surprise, I learned through my reporting that as Christianity finds its place in Chinese culture, its adherents are less defined by how they cope with state - sponsored adversity.

Romney spent 2 years in socialist Europe, living out of France as he learned the socialist welfare system, the culture and its business and politics.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

Human learning is not so much an activity in culture as an inevitable and omnipresent effect of culture.

The people whose interpretations of experience we are studying are not Trobiand Islanders, but Jews of the first - century Mediterranean world; to understand how they interpret their lives, we need to learn as much as possible about the properly historical realities within which they lived: the social and symbolic worlds of Roman rule, Hellenistic culture, and a variegated Judaism.

... In terms of church culture, people learn this prayer by heart as children.If you tweak the translation, you risk disrupting the pattern of communal prayer.

In the Abbasid period Muslim culture became society - oriented, with emphasis on such subjects as the sciences and engineering and architecture; but no contradiction was felt between these fields and religion, for all scholars combined religious knowledge with mastery of other fields of learning.

In the same way, as the culture around us changes, the Church must learn the language and speak it, at the same time offering a «counter-cultural culture» that is different from the culture of the mileu (but not so different as to be inaccessible).

as a non-muslim who knows little about muslim culture (i don't really know any muslims, actually, so beyond what i know about the basics of the religion, i don't know anything about day - to - day life), i've really enjoyed learning new things about people.

Such an oversimplification ignores the biographical, religious and political realities running through the history of Christian missions during the «great century» and long before, as missionaries have, in the name of Jesus, striven to understand and learned to respect the particularities of the cultures to which they have come.

I embraced their culture, learned their language, the basics to get by and I felt I earned their respect as a result, I was welcomed into their homes, to their weddings I felt none of what you felt.

Using as examples what he saw as the crusaders» thuggish disruption of the equilibrium between civilized Islamic and Eastern Christian lands of the eastern Mediterranean, and their destruction of Byzantium, which they had originally set out to assist, thereby allowing the Ottoman Turks to subjugate half of Christendom, Runciman sought to show how civilization — any civilization — is imperiled once high culture, reason, learning, and moderation are challenged by violent greed and ignorance.

Jeremy, I realize that your thesis here presents theology as distinctive and «based to some degree on out culture, worldview, and what we have learned / experienced thus far in life» Yet, for those who are living in Christ (and not themselves), this is not (no longer) so.

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.

Watching these guys try to learn the ins and outs of Christian culture is about as funny as any movie got in 2014.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

She had already learned how to forge a conservative alliance between traditionalist Catholic and evangelical Christian women, and she deftly enlarged the coalition to include Mormon and Orthodox Jewish women in a decade - long battle in which the stakes, as she defined them, were the home, the family, and traditional faith and culture.

The learning characterizations of anyones» personality traits are peer - based personalisms that stay put come adulthood or are revised as Time progresses depending upon one's upbringing within their social cultures.

There is much to be learned about ancient Hebrew culture from the OT, but as for actual, factual history?

What is most distinctive about us as an animal species is that all of our vital functions have been qualified and transformed by patterns of behavior we have learned from the culture into which we were born.

As ancient humanity slowly accumulated its knowledge, the early cultures learned to accommodate themselves to the forces and pressures of the natural environment.

As Christians in the U.S. learn to live with many different voices and cultures, one of the greatest needs in theological education will be to form persons in symbolic biculturalism — the ability to move and flourish amid various symbolic patterns.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

Young children automatically learn the implicit rules of their culture as these are reflected in their parents» pattern of approval and punishment.

To become socialized, to be grown up, to be acculturated, means that we have learned enough of the codes of our own culture so that we can function as do other adults in our world.

Those that have stepped foot in other cultures — whether domestic or international — know how much we have to learn as products of each of our unique upbringings and worldviews.

A Harvard student will not so much be taught to read Shakespeare as learn how to «read» him, which means understanding the «dynamics of culture» encoded into his poetry and plays.

Even with respect to a particular category of cultural activities, as regarding learning, the state, the arts, contemporary values, popular culture, business, leisure, and so forth.

If our account of alienation as a repeating process is reliable, then the American Catholic institutions of higher education are nearing the end of a process of formal detachment from accountability to their church, and instead of exerting themselves to oblige that church to be a more credible patron of higher learning, they are qualifying for acceptance by and on the terms of the secular academic culture, and are likely soon to hand over their institutions unencumbered by any compromising accountability to the church.

As several cultures learn from one another, there are growing elements of commonality among them.

As I have a heart for missions work abroad, I think I have developed a joy of studying other cultures and learning how to live, as a Christian, within theAs I have a heart for missions work abroad, I think I have developed a joy of studying other cultures and learning how to live, as a Christian, within theas a Christian, within them.

To be able to minister as effectively as possible, foreign missionaries must really do their homework to learn the culture, and then continue to grow in that knowledge and understanding.

god is not real, the GLOBAL flood never happened, and jesus was just a delusional schizophrenic in a long line of delusional schizophrenics who left him a legacy of delusions to base his off of... The legacy is known today as jewish mysticism, jesus was after all a jew and he grew up like every other jew did — by learning his culture and history of his people — they keep records, RELIGIOUSLY!

Bonhoeffer regarded himself as responsibly involved in learning how the coming generation is to live in a new culture.