Sentences with phrase «marginal people»

Still other themes in wisdom literature find their parallel in the lives of marginal peoples longing for justice.

Waiting and hoping have been advocated as primary virtues to marginal peoples by comfortable church people who have not had to do much of either.

Duke Riley explores the struggles of marginal peoples who exist, perhaps forgotten, within larger encompassing societies, looking at such issues as the tension between individual and collective behavior, and conflict with institutional power.

Jesus» followers were so often marginal people.

The purpose of the ABS project is contacting as many marginal people as possible (and also groups of this kind of people), italian or foreign as well, which are using legal or illegal drugs, and also enforcing a network between the various subjects who are operating in the same territory.

How, though, does the average survivor» by Helmreich's account a politically average, even marginal person» perceive his new homeland?

He is silent on it, and you know full well he knew and associated with some of them as he did with other marginal people throughout his lifetime.

Dawn is only in a small fraction of Solondz's typically chapter - ified story, which follows an actual dachshund through the lives of the kinds of marginal people Solondz often favors.

«Million - dollar producers can't stand being around marginal people,» says Doug Schmitt, director of human resources at Bob Capes, REALTORS ®.

He had shed any romantic notion of the monk as a cowled figure padding about a cloister garden and had come to define the monk, as he did in a talk he gave just weeks before his death, as a «marginal person who withdraws deliberately to the margin of society with a view to deepening fundamental human experience» (cf. Asian Journal, 1973, p. 305).

I have rejected every form of institutional Christianity at this point in my life, because of its Empire mentality — they build their roads on the blood of the marginal peoples they disdain.

And by praying he acknowledges ignorance; the orthodox presume to know, whereas the marginal person is trying to find out.

For instead of a small land and a marginal people being the recipients of this news, the entire world has become a wide field for God's seeding.

It is an exceedingly appropriate biblical model for theologies founded in the suffering and oppression of the world's marginal peoples.

And by praying she acknowledges ignorance; the orthodox presume to know, whereas the marginal person is trying to find out.

Marginal peoples, barely surviving, can be found reaching for beauty as well as justice.

Merton sometimes took pride in what he regarded as the fact that poets and monks are marginal people.

The claim is staggering, but it is precisely the sort of unexpected thing that one should expect from the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, a God of scandal and particularity, a God at work on the margins of a marginal people.