Sentences with phrase «live in communities rather»

The money was generally used to help pay for carers so people could live in communities rather than institutions.

He had come to believe that the full Christian life should be lived in community rather than by solitary anchorites.

As wider use of antipsychotics allowed people with schizophrenia to live in the community rather than a psychiatric hospital, they are often credited with bringing an end to the often inhumane asylums.

Not exact matches

MADD Coffee's love for humanity is not just found in their daily pledge to make a difference in the lives of their customers and the community through providing quality and organic coffee rather, it is seen also in their habit and act of giving.

I've really appreciated your work over the past year as I've gone through my own transition and found the kind of community that promotes health rather than just covering up the ugly in my life.

But how exactly does the Christian community live in this election season as a signpost of the kingdom rather than a pawn in a political power play?

Since God did not save us to individualistic lives but rather saved us into a community with Him in Christ, election is not only about individuals being saved.

What is possible for those who survive is to live locally and in community with others who have the same values rather than those of the self - destroying society around us.

«Hooker's insistence on «reason» was therefore not at all a way of undervaluing scripture,» says Wright, «but rather of ensuring that the community which based itself on scripture could have an appropriate healthy life and growth, not blundering forward as it were in the dark, but moving ahead by the light of reason, itself informed by scripture and in harmony with the natural law which stemmed from the creator God in the first place.»

What is now possible and will remain possible for those who survive is to live locally and in community with others from the values of God's Commonwealth rather than of the self - destroying society around us.

The very notion that a moral vision should be embodied in community life and relational obligations, rather than in the choices of any given individual, is a direct challenge to the ethic of expressive individualism that animates our popular culture.

My hope is this will communicate the message that all our congregations should be centers of compassion and care in the life of community, rather than simply pastoral chaplaincies serving only those who show up at our doors.

Hays shares Johnson's serious reservations about the much - publicized Jesus Seminar, which aims to find the real Jesus behind the texts rather than in the risen Lord witnessed in the life of faithful communities.

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

The factions, divisions, and lusts that were present in the community were further signs that some in Galatia were living according to the flesh rather than according to the Spirit.

In short, I would rather build community and dialogue and live in a society where abortion, due to the love ready to be given to any child and any mother, is not merely illegal but unthinkablIn short, I would rather build community and dialogue and live in a society where abortion, due to the love ready to be given to any child and any mother, is not merely illegal but unthinkablin a society where abortion, due to the love ready to be given to any child and any mother, is not merely illegal but unthinkable.

The gospel insists that human beings are the greatest good, and that everyone's needs are best met when we live in community, caring for each other rather than looking out for Number One.

It would be that the people of God from long ago understood (in God's great purpose) «function in being» far better than we; that men & women (and children) participate extensively with community life in Christ, doing so with some understood, intrinsic variation / rolls — Not because they must, but rather because doing so continues as God's ideal for His children.

Although sanctification in the life of communities and social institutions is not so clearly defined an experience as it is in the individual, Niebuhr said that old forms and structures of life may be renewed rather than destroyed by the vicissitudes of history.

It's a value system based on community rather than the individual, and holds that the honor of the community is more important than the life, health, or well - being of any one person or family in the community.

«I feel it's well worth living that life rather than presuming that at one point I'll detach from my earthly» = > Some days I would rather take a long bike ride than help someone in the community that really needs it.

It is this difference in God - as - concretely - known, rather than any differences in thought about his nature, which distinguishes the New Testament and the community which produced that literature and still cherishes it as the norm of its own life.

The latter is apt to be rather more aware of himself as primarily a person being professionally trained to fulfill a key - office, as an administrator, executive and leader in a vast and important department of the community life of the American people, than as a man on whom God has laid an arresting hand calling him out of that life in the first instance in order to be sent back into it on that basis to a ministerial and prophetic task.

I have found that on occasion I really sympathize with a friend of mine who feels that organizations of people are to be avoided as the plague; but I think that is peculiar of me, probably because I live in a rather close - knit community and sometimes find a «gold - fish» existence somewhat fatiguing.

To argue that the corporation's defining objective is «enhancing corporate profit and shareholder gain» leads, in his opinion, to unacceptable conclusions: «To say that a corporation's only goal is to make money would be to define the business corporation — for the first time in American or English law as I understand it — as a kind of shark that lives off of the community rather than as an important agency in the construction, maintenance, and transformation of our shared lives.»

Conversion is... not the joining of a community in order to procure «eternal salvation»; it is rather, a change in alliance in which Christ is accepted as Lord and centre of one's life.

Rather, it is a gospel of the free experience of God's engagement in the lives of God's people, which is freely and creatively expressed according to the particularities of various human communities, especially as represented by the Dalits and Adivasis.

First, I am not offering a prescriptive model but rather looking for resources to deal with the present predicament in India from the actual lived realities of specific communities.

The issue is rather what kind of people should we be — and what we do or do not do with our genitals clearly has a bearing on that — who bring to and can sustain the kind of sexual life appropriate to the purpose of marriage in the Christian community.

Even if everybody in America enjoyed excellent health care, decent housing, educational opportunities, and lots of consumer goodies, but the wealthy and powerful lived in gated communities and held the rest of us in disdain, we'd think our society sick rather than healthy.

There is every reason to believe that a life of material austerity, of pride and pleasure in the quality of workmanship rather than in the amount consumed, a life lived in a warm and supportive community, would be far healthier for our society, ecologically and sociologically, than our present dominant pattern of ever - accelerating consumption.

Rather, «the course of study is a course of constant conversation with members of a wide circle of men who live in community with God and with neighbors - before - God».

Down to the industrial revolution, the great majority of people lived in rather tight communities.

Vanier offers his experience of the L'Arche community where people live by the heart rather than in fear to show that living without barriers and in trust is possible and to demonstrate that God loves us for who we are and not for what we can do.

The task of Christian educators is not to develop an individual's potential (as if the world were not already developing all sorts of potentials in us), but rather to induct us into the faith community, to give us the skills, insights, words, stories and rituals that we need to live this faith in a world that neither knows nor follows the One who is truth.

When we move in this direction, and focus on comprehensive ways of life rather than on their specifically religious features, we can recognize that, alongside the traditional communities, there are new «ways» that have emerged in recent times.

Many factors in our society militate against depth relationships — the frenzied pace of our lives; the frantic pressures to get ahead which encourage using rather than relating to people; the constant mobility of many families which contributes to a rootlessness and noninvolvement in community life; the anonymity of megalopolis where people do not know the names of even those in adjoining apartments.

First, since human society always employs violence to enforce some set of standards, Christians» whom Christ called to live out a radically different form of community, one in which it is the crucified rather than his judges who is vindicated as God's Word» should simply take up the burden of civic order and abandon the Gospel where prudentially necessary because, you know, someone absolutely has to kill heretics, and so we should make sure the right heretics get killed.

But I am from the island and we have a rather large expat community living here, so that may well be where my mom got to taste that back in the 80's; however, we didn't have all these yummy variations.

I want the community I live in to support me in making healthy choices, rather than put obstacles in my way.

Rather than spending weekdays competing with twenty - five other human beings of their own age, in a natural community children spend their daily lives with old people, babies, and everyone in between.

Like most issues in life, gender disappointment is handled best within a trusted community, rather than stuffing it, hiding it, or pretending it isn't so.

«Rather than poorly serviced mono - estates bolted - on to market towns, we must plan for new neighbourhoods and community extensions which ensure that the housing provided offers a variety of tenure, with the provision of live / works spaces and local services, all in sustainable communities where people want to live and work,» comments Town and County Planning Association (TCPA) senior policy officer, Fiona Mannion.

But these community orders shouldn't be assessed by their value as a deterrent — that is, how much potential offenders are scared by them — but rather, by their ability to restore a person's ability to lead a productive life in their community.

Rather, we need policy attuned to the challenges people face in everyday life, bringing prosperity we can all share in — and we have to campaign as community activists, delivering those policies where they matter.

«We're trying to put our money where our mouth is and rather than stand on the sidelines and say «you've got to do better», [we're going to] actually try and do something better ourselves as part of our witness to Jesus Christ and his love and the way we live in these communities.»

He said that in his Tottenham constituency the professionals, like doctors and nurses, did not live in the communities where they worked and that as a result we were creating a compartmentalised society, rather than the «encounter society» he would like to see.

This half - life existence of graduate students can be minimized in a number of ways; pick a school and department that has a socially active graduate student body; bring a significant other with you to graduate school; attend a school in a major metropolitan area; live in a graduate dorm; find friends in more socially active departments; join a gym or go to the gym on campus; become involved in the surrounding community; suck it up and plan social events yourself for the uninitiated in your department; and finally desperately seek someone — anyone — who will halfway understand your life, i.e., make real friends rather than acquaintances.

Also of note, Dr. Hatzenbuehler points out, the community - level measure of prejudice does not rely on sexual minorities» perceptions of how stigmatizing their communities are, but rather was based on the prejudicial attitudes of all respondents living in that community.

Rather, this will integrate wellness coaching in and around our practice, addressing the wide range of needs among our patients and in our communities in areas ranging from nutrition and weight management to life balance, stress management and more.