Sentences with phrase «local stories of a church»

In studying those topics they learn about many a congregation's life, and they learn too that there are alternatives to the merely contemporary and local stories of a church.

Not exact matches

When she's not writing creative non-fiction, short stories, and poetry, Erin spends her time working on her Masters of Arts in Urban Studies online through Eastern University, fighting for the last carrot in the house with her two rabbits, Bug and Sage, and enjoying mentoring time with local youth both in and out of church settings.

Rather, the setting of my story and the congregation's portrays my own body and that of the local church essentially in human terms, but my factual portrait of the world is darkly shaded by the tragic inevitability of God's inexorable plan.

But Williams reports that being an observing participant is both possible and rewarding.3 Diligent members of a local church can learn a great deal about its language and story.

Tales in a local church tend to travel in packs: one good story evokes another, one member's account of an illness, for example, is usually reciprocated in kind.

Telling the story develops the identity and mission of a congregation by establishing the setting of the story of a local church, its picture of the world; narrative proclaims corporate nature.

It is in these events, which often seem to be parenthetical moments in church life, that the local church represents its participation not only in its own story but also in that of God.

Paradoxically, the church must diminish the particularism of its various local, regional and national histories, but at the same time include them in the stories it tells, reinforcing its own authority as it does so.

True story from a pastor friend of mine: apparently the day after his paternal great - grandfather's death, the local priest dropped by Granddad's house... and the first words out of said priest's mouth were, «how much money did he leave to the church?»

Marcus could read and write — though he could not write well, and had no inclinations to authorship, even in that publishing center of the western Mediterranean in the days of Nero — and so, as one of the few in the local congregation of Christians who could both read and write, he was commissioned to put together in his free time — probably late evenings, after the assembly of the Christians had broken up — the fragmentary translations of narratives from the story of Jesus and his teaching which were in circulation in the Roman church.

Each year, the WACC, which provides funding for communication development worldwide on behalf of churches throughout the world, is channeling less of its funds into large shortwave services and large publishing houses, and more into the development of small printing presses, the production of audiocassettes, local drama and music groups, and the use of communication forms indigeneous to the village life, such as story telling, puppets and mime.

Landry then helped the committee match its own story with its denominational heritage, noting where the people at Faith Church had cherished its sacred deposit from its total past and where it had gone its own way in the shaping of its local tradition.

A good myth, from the perspective of this study of parish story, would be one that leads us into the thick of local church characterization.

If through greater sensitivity to its stories a local church better discerns its constitution and mission, the effort of narrative analysis will have a significant result.

Understanding the local church story is subversive: this act of apparent self - reference brings to consciousness the symbolic forms and processes that bind together all humanity.

Both scientific theory and story address the future of a local church.

Through characterization, story reflects the specific configuration of moral choice and historical circumstance that identifies each local church.

By establishing the setting of the story of a local church, its picture of the world, narrative proclaims corporate nature.

For a fuller exposition of the consonance between the Zeus myth and the Wiltshire story, see James F. Hopewell, «The Jovial Church: Narrative in Local Church Life,» in Dudley, Building Effective Ministry, 68 - 83.

In his 1994 apostolic letter Tertio Millennio Adveniente, Pope John Paul II urged the faithful, both in local churches and at the highest levels of the hierarchy, to make a serious effort to recover those stories.

Two stories, one of Eros and one of Christ, occur in the local church.

Story may be more than the mere play of children or the protoscience of primitives; it may relate the essential negotiation of the local church in realizing its own identity.

Essential as abstractions are to the analysis of the congregation, however, a greater use of story is today required to round out an understanding of the local church.

In the plot of the local church the story of Christ weaves itself throughout the erotic narrative, sometimes accepting and affirming the church's story as it stands (thus linking Christ and Eros), sometimes teasing (or unfolding) the congregational narrative toward the promise of the kingdom, sometimes prophetically contradicting the erotic story by disputing (thus thickening) its development, and sometimes actually transforming congregational culture by twisting its plot.

SYNOPSIS: The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover - up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its -LSB-...]

«Spotlight «centers around the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover - up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

In «Spotlight» they recreate the true - life story of how the Pulitzer - Prize - winning team of Boston Globe Spotlight reporters in 2002 exposed the Catholic Church's systematic cover - up of widespread pedophilia perpetrated by more than 70 local priests.

Hoskins and Schaub, who had no inkling that anything was ever amiss at their idyllic high school, serve as ready - made characters through which «Keepers» director Ryan White («The Case Against 8») can sort through a story that is painfully tangled up in broader, awful details of ritual rape and a coverup by both church officials and local police.

When the story circulates about the church's kid gloves treatment of molester Father John Geoghan, the paper's editor - in - chief Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber, «Pawn Sacrifice»), newly arrived from The Miami Herald and not bound by local «traditions» or religious loyalties, assigns the Spotlight unit to dig into the story.

The story starts when the teacher announces that the local priest has asked Years 1 & 2 to provide a tree for the Christmas Tree Festival in his church but the tree has to tell the story of the nativity.

There was standing room only as 350 people crowded into the Uniting Church hall on Tuesday evening to hear Mick Dodson, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, and Barbara Nicholson, a local Indigenous woman, speak of the past policies of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families and to share stories of their own removal.