Sentences with phrase «messages from the culture»

We hear much the same message from culture - warring Christians, and from secular conservatives who covet Christian votes.

Early in my own recovery process I began to realize the wrong messages I received about sex growing up — messages from my culture, my family and from my peers.

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Once a month, a new thread would be posted where listings were welcome — a departure from the general «no self - promotion» culture of many eBay message boards and groups.

Right from its opening sentence («One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit,») the book's message resonated with a public outraged by a rash of corporate scandals and feeling deceived by the failure of American forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

What I'd like us all to take from «wm» is a conviction that conservative pop culture studies have to attend to the impact of the medium as well as of the message, or better said, since McLuhan can't be fully right, that we must grapple with the popularity as well as the culture of pop culture.

But they had all built loyal ranks of followers well beyond their social networks — they were evangelical Christian leaders whose inspirational messages of God's love perform about 30 times as well as Twitter messages from pop culture powerhouses like Lady Gaga.

There were no sons for my parents to rely on in their old age, to provide for their retirement, and then to care for them; that was the message I heard directly and indirectly from family and the extended «aunties» and «uncles» who were not blood relatives but connected by ethnic heritage, culture, and language.

I don't know the driver and am not free to judge her, but her display did cause me to reflect on how many Christians engage the broader culture, and how disconnected it often seems from the central Gospel message that the God who made us and loves us is about the business of making all things right.

When a culture is preoccupied by fear of the dark powers which rule the world, one will find especially the message of release from that fear.

In discussions of the «indigenization» of the church in non-Western cultures one hears that the New Testament itself is a particular indigenization and that the gospel message needs to be extracted from first century «cultural clothing» to be re-clothed in that of another age.

Contrary to common opinion (at least in the evangelical / charismatic circles I was immersed in) I don't see that as a fatal weakness but a strength, removing the message from the brittle confines of times and places and cultures long gone and into the realm of resilient timelessness.

If the trends shows us anything, it's that finding hope from spiritual torment through the church and the promises of God is a message that culture needs — even if that is a scary thought for some people.

I mean, communicated from a divine source by Jesus Christ as God, through inspired prophets and wise men, apostles, teachers, the writers of the books of the Bible, councils of church leaders, popes, and so on, in such a way that the message has been transmitted in human language, clothed in the external forms of human thought, given, indeed, in the characteristic language and thought - forms of particular nations and cultures, but at the same time in such a way that its essential content has been unaffected by the human mind's fallibility, ignorance and feebleness of apprehension.

Our «first naivete» is surely the condition of being in some sense «called,» but unable to distinguish the authentic message from the reality - apprehensions of our culture or from the dogmatic and ecclesiastical framework in which we hear it.

Racist hate - mongers like Farrakhan and Cokely and their genocidal messages, far from being stigmatized and isolated on the political fringe, have — through the intervention of the political left, the tolerance of the civil rights establishment, and the acquiescence of the liberal center — become part of the culture itself.

But the message of Ecclesiastes and the church's traditional wisdom about death need to be heard, especially in our death - denying culture (and especially in Lent, though not exclusively then) The memento mon are gone — from our lives, from our culture, from the church in our time.

But if it has any message for modern man, if it has any place for him to stand and fight against the demoralizing and tyrannizing structures of a culture that has been severed from its true secular responsibility to serve human need, then those Christians who know this must speak and act.

Passages that were originally written for groups of people, and intended to be read and applied in a community setting (the nation of Israel, the various early churches, the first followers of Jesus), have been manipulated to communicate a personal, individual message... thus leading the reader away from the original corporate intent of the passage to a reaffirmation of the individualistic, me - centered, and consumerist tendencies of American religious culture.

Christopher West finds the most attractive part of the great Pope's message to be a call to liberation from the disordered life that he and so many people who have grown up in our sex - saturated culture have entered into.

And college football's internet culture, including the amateur detective work that ranges from plane - tracking to social media decrypting, sprang from message boards.

I am certain that Rest, Play, Grow will be the go - to guide for confused and exhausted parents who are receiving mixed messages from professionals and the culture - at - large about how to raise their children.

Maxwell, a clinical psychologist, helps parents figure out what they want their children to know about sex, and helps them contradict the messages children receive from the media and our culture about sex and sexual promiscuity.

All we can expect, I'm afraid, from the N.F.L. and its players are, at best, the same mixed, muddled and contradictory «Do as I say, not as I do» messages that Morey tried to sell us this week along with a subtle and often not - so - subtle reinforcement of exactly the kind of play through pain, take it like a man, macho culture that is such an integral part of the N.F.L.'s culture and, frankly, for its mass appeal.

It became obvious that someone needed to do something to help parents navigate the confusing messages we get from our culture: «If you pick them up, you'll spoil them.»

However, this represents poor scholarship on Badinter's part, because seriously, these sorts of small - time, topical online communities and media sources are simply a response to the dominant messaging from real power sources in our culture.

A School Food Working Group (SFWG) brings together individuals from across a school to look at its food culture (what it teaches about food, the food it serves, the messages children receive about food), and develop a plan for improving it.

A School Food Working Group (SFWG) brings together individuals from across a school to look at its food culture (what it teaches about food, the food it serves, the messages children...

In modern terminology, this translates to a woman «listening» to the definitive messages from magazines, television, and movies (a.k.a. mainstream culture) as the ultimate determiner of beauty.

Today, sites like Facebook and Twitter are used for everything from instantaneous messaging to organizing activists, even while the more digitally savvy candidates are trying to leverage widely - read pop culture sites like Buzzfeed to create viral content that offers a level exposure that was once unimaginable.

The message to all the well - connected lobbyists and legislators who have benefited from Albany's pay - to - play culture is clear: the party is over.»

We identified individual - level diurnal and seasonal mood rhythms in cultures across the globe, using data from millions of public Twitter messages.

Three years ago, a distraught message from a teen to Anthony Aveni, an astronomer at Colgate University who specializes in meso - American culture, led him to write The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012, a book that investigates and discredits the 2012 scenarios.

Create a culture in which supervisors do not feel pressure to immediately respond to emails and messages from their superiors while meeting with their employees.

The «preliminary message» from CDC, he adds, is that «we need a more sensitive culturing method.»

The message was meant to be an interstellar postcard from our culture, and included pictographic figures of our planet, our solar system and even the recipe for DNA.

From the Soko Glam community, I received so many messages from women and men from all ages and cultures who decided to try the Korean skin care routine and saw their skin — and confidence — transform for the betFrom the Soko Glam community, I received so many messages from women and men from all ages and cultures who decided to try the Korean skin care routine and saw their skin — and confidence — transform for the betfrom women and men from all ages and cultures who decided to try the Korean skin care routine and saw their skin — and confidence — transform for the betfrom all ages and cultures who decided to try the Korean skin care routine and saw their skin — and confidence — transform for the better.

One of our clients was very interested in meeting someone cultured, but she wasn't getting a lot of messages from guys who were into museums and art,» says davis.

If you go to one of numerous groups dedicated to foreign languages or foreign countries / cultures, there will be a great number of single, young, and good - looking ladies from Ukraine and Russia, and your success rate to meet a match on VK will be considerably higher than writing messages to the women found by the user search function.

Meet singles in your area for friendship, dating and romance, photo personals, instant messages, chat and As readers might be able to tell from my articles, I find online dating to be interesting both for its methodology and how it has transformed our culture.

The visuals are beautiful, but still don't distract from the lack of a message regarding our own society's obsession with nostalgia - driven pop culture and dependency on technology is excessively apparent.

In inviting you to observe each island's quirks and rituals, Dragon Quest 7 sends a positive message about embracing other cultures, conveyed by an excellent localisation that works hard to distinguish each settlement from the next.

Especially now with message board fan culture, fans can get a single unofficial image from set and overanalyze it.

Incorporating writing from a completely different culture that speaks to the same aspect of the human condition sends a powerful message about inclusion and diversity.

People in public education unwittingly destroy school cultures all the time by treating educators as interchangeable cogs, transferring principals and teachers without regard for a school's approach and operating assumptions, by creating one - size - fits - all mandates that suggest a school's distinctiveness is a nuisance, not a value, and by sending mixed messages and edicts from the central office until people are burned out and resentful.

They determine the messages that radiate from the pillars that form the school's culture.

, And yet there is a hard message delivered amid all these feel - good attributes: about our reaction to others who differ from us, whether they are members of our own family or another culture.

Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

Themes of friendship, forgiveness, rivalry, trickery, bravery, and courage can be compared and contrasted with folklore connected to students» cultures, and from other parts of the world, to explore the concept of central message.

Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters by JoAnn Deak, Ph. D. (Hyperion, $ 23.95, 320 pages, ISBN 078686768X) deals with overcoming the obstacles particular to girls as they struggle with body image, self - esteem, intellectual and physical growth and other issues while getting mixed messages from contemporary culture.

We may be from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds, but together, we can raise our voices and share one life - saving message and literally save millions of pets on this one day.