Sentences with phrase «liberating experiences in»

Growth groups can help make the power of authentic relationships — the people dynamic — a liberating experience in community after community for the greening of the world.

Leaving faith was the single most liberating experience in my life.

Not because anybody's evil, but just because of the way the world works, we've made it really hard for teachers and kids to have that kind of joyous, wondrous, liberating experience in a lot of schools and classrooms.

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He experienced it again in the late 1990s when he wrote a book that considered the potentially liberating power of Web 2.0 (before it was actually known as that).

And that's a shame, because attaining the state known colloquially as «inbox zero» is one of the most liberating experiences a person can have in the Internet age.

Well, the last time Americans had a president who was psychologically «programmed» to ignore facts that didn't agree with his beliefs, the USA ended up wasting $ 1T in an illegal war to «liberate» 100's of billions of barrels of Iraqi oil (as many as 1.2 M people died in the process due to violence, disease & starvation resulting from the conflict), nearly $ 5T was added to the U.S. federal debt, a man with experience as the Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association was put in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. subprime credit «bubble» expanded hugely & then imploded, wiping out some $ 14T in global wealth & destroying millions of jobs, etc..

This no doubt expresses the fact that many people have not been liberated and empowered or deeply touched inwardly by their experience in churches.

True, every man today who is open to experience knows that God is absent, but only the Christian knows that God is dead, that the death of God is a final and irrevocable event, and that God's death has actualized in our history a new and liberated humanity.

Let the contemporary Christian rejoice that Christianity has evolved the most alien, the most distant, and the most oppressive deity in history: it is precisely the self - alienation of God from his original redemptive form that has liberated humanity from the transcendent realm, and made possible the total descent of the Word into the fullness of human experience.

because the Christian lives in the fully incarnate body of Christ, he acknowledges the totality of our experience as the consummation of the kenotic passion of the Word, and by giving himself to the Christ who is present to us he is liberated from the alien power of an emptied and darkened transcendence.

Once we grasp the radical Christian truth that a radically profane history is the inevitable consummation of an actual movement of the sacred into the profane, then we can be liberated from every preincarnate form of Spirit, and accept our destiny as an occasion for the realization in the immediacy of experience of the self - emptying or self - annihilation of the transcendent and primordial God in the passion and death of Christ.

The vivid experience of a liberating love is so rare and precious that in our eagerness to retain it we may place ourselves in bondage to conditions, real or imagined, that we associate with it.

Some have negative biases toward small groups because of painful experiences with rebellious, partially liberated «group - ers» in their organization.

They will only be met when affluence liberates us more or less completely from concerns of this type in order that we might experience more leisure and give ourselves more fully to discretionary and recreational pursuits.

This eschatological consummation will be the death of the transcendent God, his self - negation by a total incarnation of actualization «throughout the total range of human experience, «18 his «kenotic passion» fulfilled in a «new and liberated humanity «19 — a humanity liberated from even the memory of God to become its own Divine Self.20

Freedom from believing in god is a wonderful liberating experience.

But I'll suffice to say that for me, being in that place was the most difficult, and liberating experiences I've had.

We may have some unique opportunities to liberate the Bible within the churches, and to release Scripture to act as a text of liberation within our communities and in our personal experience.

It was reading almost exactly the same set of documents back in college that opened my mind to the possibility and desirability of a Catholic social order, so I do hope this book will help others to have that liberating experience, too.

- poses the possibility of experiencing a defamiliarization of the reality structures of being - in - the - world and with it an actualization of a new self - awareness that is both liberated and liberating.

It liberates and exhilarates in ways few other experiences still can.

And for those theological students who first knew the faith only in authoritarian, biblicistic or pietistic forms, study of it by way of historical consciousness proves a liberating experience.

Give a (brave) listen to his album «Curse Your Branches» — the narrative inherent in the songs is hard, and then liberating, as he wrestles with the «coming out» journey from a wounded / wounding faith experience.

It is a matter of common experience that within restricted groups (the pair, the team) unity, far from diminishing the individual, enhances, enriches and liberates him in terms of himself.

Unless a man is unusually liberated from male prejudice and empathetic regarding the experience of being a woman in our culture, he had better not attempt to lead an all - women liberation group.

It provides the spiritual food for communities of exploited people who examine «their experiences of suffering to death» in light of structural causes and the liberating example of Jesus Christ.

If we can truly know that God is dead, and can fully actualize the death of God in our own experience, then we can be liberated from the threat of condemnation, and freed from every terror of a transcendent beyond.

Only by accepting and even willing the death of God in our experience can we be liberated from a transcendent beyond, an alien beyond which has been emptied and darkened by God's self - annihilation in Christ.

In other construals the advice would be, «Study religious experience» or «Reflect on liberating praxis,» or «Study Christian tradition (or at least the first five centuries of it).»

However, in the modern world we find the strange phenomenon of the Christian who is liberated from the fear of damnation, a Christian who apparently is incapable of experiencing terror.

In my experience, admitting a lack of certainty can be a strangely liberating and faith - building experience.

With one blow it pulverized the contradiction in that without circumlocutions it placed materialism on the throne again... One must oneself have experienced the liberating effects of this book to get an idea of it.

The New York Times: The Freedom of the Hijab Ayesha Nusrat, a 23 year - old Muslim woman in New Delhi writes about her decision to start wearing the hijab, and how that decision has been «the most liberating experience ever.»

It's a very liberating experience to get those family recipes back in your life!

Thus the changes in Germany haven't yet been an entirely liberating experience for Lange, who sandwiches training around an afternoon shift at a hospital.

These new experiences with men are part of the liberating experience of reaching the age where you realize that you don't need all of the «conventional» things that you thought you had to have in your 20's or 30's or you would just die alone and unhappy.

For me, it is always a wonderful and liberating experience to spend time alone, truly alone and independent, in nature.

Ruth, your experiences in Mongolia must have been so liberating, in a breastfeeding sense.

«There's a little concern about the unknown, but I think our experience in Connecticut is so powerful in terms of liberating candidates from endless dialing for dollars,» Demos president Miles Rapoport said.

Psychotherapist Nathalie Theodore adds that in her professional experience, pansexuality is the most liberating label for her clients.

You are going to learn how to shift out of fear, stress, separation and excessive control into a liberating way of being centered in awareness, gratitude, inner ease and the experience of flow.

To know exactly what my body had done in each training session to create the muscle fatigue and soreness I was experiencing during the challenge was so liberating.

It is also the kind of experience that generates faith in our chosen path, liberating sustained focus and energy to proceed.

The harmony we experience in nature, the at - home - oneness we feel when immersed in the divine miracle that is planet earth, made me think about how coming home to the natural world can liberate us from our culturally conditioned ruminations.

In modern times, developing a Jade Egg practice can be a very liberating and embowering experience as it offers women a path to heal themselves with love, awareness and consciousness.

New hair color is a liberating experience, and the color that you have in mind probably isn't considered that crazy anymore.

It's not ideal but you're in it now and you have two choices: the above despondent picture or the idea that, given a little time, support and conscious self - love, dating after divorce can be a truly exhilarating and liberating experience.

But the major dramatic thrust of this section is the change in Ronsel, who experiences what it's like to be both liberated and a liberator, also exploring a loving relationship with a white German woman.

Not exactly a shrinking violet, Smarzowski has established himself as a brutal realist with a taste for the ugly and the grotesque, with such movies as The Wedding and House of Evil presenting Polish experience in an unforgiving, and yet liberating way.

Once you put in the effort, the realism goes from daunting to liberating, especially, in my experience, with the new rallycross events, where you essentially need to flip off all the assists if you want to have any hope of success.