Sentences with phrase «lot of the traditions»

«A lot of the traditions and quirks of what we do are about fostering a sense of humor and individuality, so that we aren't taking ourselves too seriously, so that we can have frank conversations.»

Like a lot of traditions, though, that might be changing.

Especially with questions like «what is Church» and a myraid of other issues... It seems that our back grounds form a lot of our traditions and beliefs.

We throw church - hoppers under the bus, because they're defying a lot of the traditions we've always known.

There's a lot of tradition and attention to detail that comes with making a proper bagel, and those are the foundation on which National Choice Bakery has built its success over the past 21 years.

There's a lot of tradition behind these round cakes, too.

We have a lot of traditions that continue to fuel the brotherhood of our program.»

Over time, a lot of these traditions have gone.

Scholarly scientific publishing has a lot of traditions that are not transparent to the reader such as peer review or the non-payment of authors.

And frankly, I found a lot of the traditions associated with marriage to be pretty appalling.

As a young family we don't have a lot of traditions yet, but I'm hoping to make holiday crafting one of them!

For an art form that's barely a century old, film has a lot of tradition behind it.

It is when the top is opened that the 911 Targa comes into its own: a style icon beyond all fashion, with a lot of tradition — and even more future.

Simple but Artistic - New but with lots of Tradition - Close to the centre but away from the noise - Precious but Not Expensive - Spacious but Homey - Informal but Polite - In Florence but connected with the world

I try to do funny things and keep up a lot of traditions as well... it gives us all a break from the stress, something «warm and fuzzy» to look forward to.

We have a lot of traditions but making lots of cookies seems to say CHRISTMAS IS HERE!

Not exact matches

And at least a few of the 22 players on the roster join fans in the parking lot for a little barbecue, in the good old midwestern tradition of tailgating.

However, built on an innovation out of the private school tradition, a lot of high growth will come, he says.

I also know there is a lot more to the traditions of Easter that are based on the Seder then you probably realize.

If she was hired as a gift wrapper for the holiday season, she would have also expected to decorate packages with Santas, elves, pagan seasonal symbols like holly, and probably a lot of things that refer to the Christian tradition of Christmas — angels, doves, 3 wise men and stuff like that.

Lots of the «rules» of our comfortable Christian subculture are based more on tradition than the Bible.

While I agree that the church could definitely be less political and break with tradition in some areas, I think that a lot of this has to do with people hardening their hearts to the truth of the Bible.

Although these Abrahamic traditions share a lot in common, from their stories of shared ancestries, to their patriarchal roots, to various figures and prophets like Jesus, Moses, the Angel Gabriel, and so on, many understand these faith traditions as rivals.

Seems that maybe there was also a lot of translation that occured before the books even took written form, as these tribes had traditions of passing on information orally, before writing and scribing started to take hold.

Another church that comes to mind is Missiongathering in San Diego, which is associated with the progressive denomination The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), but which has a very evangelical «feel» to its worship because it attracts a lot of folks who come from evangelical traditions and enjoy evangelical worship but are looking for a church that welcomes LGBT people.

Thus the particular question that has been at the heart of a lot of our religious liberty cases in the past few years — the question of whether institutions in the corporate form are entitled to religious liberty — is not a new question for our political tradition, and the answer that tradition has often offered it is not always friendly to the cause of contemporary traditionalists.

I think a lot of religion is tradition based on experience and reaction, sometimes primitive and uninformed, and its hard to break free from that without upending families sometimes.

During that time, we studied the story of Joseph as it appears in both of our traditions — in holy text (Torah and Qur «an) and in commentary (midrash and tafsir)-- and also learned a lot about each other.

Hebrew traditions and Jewish faith of 3600 years ago did not provide a Levitical role for women [probably because they did not have time to perform a lot of ritual sacriices because they were busy doing all those jobs that feed and clothe a family.]

Sadly the bible warns about traditions of man, yet that is what a lot of them teach.

But if you say, «We're here with lots of questions, wanting to learn about religious traditions, wanting to think about the meaning of faith for our lives, and we hope you'll join us,» it turns out you can draw a crowd.

Their collective efforts were so luminous in one way or another that the keepers of tradition bound them together and called them sacred, declaring that no humans could have written them without a lot of divine help.

A lot of Muslims where I live in NYC don't show much respect for our traditions / customs, so why should we close schools for them?

I know there's a lot of diversity from your normal tradition.

What I didn't get round to doing when I set out: lots of exegesis, lots of historical theology, mastering the big texts of the traditions of the church.

I think those of us in the west have a lot of learn from your tradition.

While there is a tremendous amount of religious stability amongst some religious traditions, as shown by the steady blocks of each color flowing from one year to another, we also see a lot of movement in a short period of time.

Admittedly, David, it took me a while to get past the idea of the scriptures being free of error or myth, but perhaps what I find true about the lot of it was that it was important to some people to pass it down through an oral tradition and then through written tradition (alongside the oral).

I'm just beginning to dig into the Catholic understanding of sacraments but I believe there's lots of treasure hidden there that people from our tradition lost a long time ago.

There's a lot to unpack there in terms of religion, tradition, history, theology — but honestly, in the end, it doesn't matter what anyone calls me.

I've done a lot of meditation and exploring of different kinds of spiritual traditions.

I've been doing a lot of reading on church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more money.

The gang also calls Science Mike for a very creepy update about a newly found object in our galaxy, discusses Netflix spying on its customers, debates the merits of Christmas traditions and a lot more!

and found that «though various attempts have been made to combine the elements in differing proportions (RF9U4, RF4U7) or to concentrate on one or two of the elements, washing the others out, discomfiture has been the recent lot of Disciples as the tradition simmered in uneasy flux» («Formula in Flux: Reformation for the Disciples of Christ,» The Christian Century, September 25, 1963, p. 1163).

I hear a lot of tv pastors speaking and I think they have seen the truth in the word but they can't buck tradition or they'd be out of a job.

The book was insightful in many ways, and I learned a lot about the development of the Jewish Rabbinic tradition, but I am not sure that there are many hard and fast similarities between it and the developing Christian tradition.

Theirs is not a spirituality of manipulative power and strength, although there is a lot of it in Asian tradition as it is present in every other religious tradition.

A lot of my Muslim friends, especially the ones in the Middle East, are even proud of the fact that the Christian minorities in their countries date back to the first century, and have held on to their traditions.

I'm sharing this is to show that I'm not just talking from the sidelines as a bystander but as someone who has had a lot of experience and education in both traditions and still embraces a respect for each while feeling free to critique both.

I do not like this pope... to modern the church lost a lots of people after Vatican ii... he's the leader of the church but I don't think he understands how the church worked in the last 2000 years... that's why we need a European pope again they understand how dress when they read mess he's to plain... people want to see a pope in the old liturgical clothing the old Latin mass was great with the great pomp... the church can modernize but just don't give up the old I think traditions I think pope benedict understood that... he came from Bavaria where they still celebrating mass in the old baroque style he's the pope not just a simple priest... the queen of England understands that people want to see pomp pretty soon he will wear street cloth..