Sentences with phrase «more a culture thing»

It's less an age thing and more a culture thing that depends largely on where they've been and where they're coming from, and actually how they were raised.

Not exact matches

What matters much more is whether the team culture encourages two things.

If you're more of a culture nut and the mountains aren't your thing, the city is also host to the Sundance Film Festival.

«Now there is more of a culture of people thinking, «Hey, you should talk about these things even if they are rumors,»» says Floodgate's other cofounder, Ann Miura - Ko.

Again, it appears that things are more complicated than our authenticity - worshipping culture might suggest.

Certainly many entrepreneurs could learn a thing or two by injecting more of it into their company cultures.

Treating each other well, being respectful to each other, building a culture you actually want to live in, these are all things that make people happier, and in the end, more productive.

The daylong event, titled «Culture Shock,» focused on the societal effects of disruptive technology, including advanced robotics, 3D printing, the internet of things and more.

They've wanted a lot of different things, from more press to a better corporate culture.

«While there are many things we need to change about our culture, I believe that making Uber a more diverse and inclusive workplace is key,» Hornsey wrote.

So while we could hire a bunch more people to do a bunch more things, that kind of rapid expansion is at odds with our culture.

Additionally, some things inside its workplace need to be fixed, such as multiple reports of a sexist culture, engineers and managers sabotaging each other, and more.

However, it's often even more about other things: being part of a community, being surrounded by inspiring people, and to broaden your horizon with different cultures and stories.

From whirlwind celebrity romances to your best friend moving halfway across the country to be with a guy she's known for a month, the phrase «love makes you do crazy things» is never more true than in our current culture of immediacy.

The bible is merely a reflection of stories from other cultures re-packaged to make them more easily digestible by the masses as things shifted to a new power base.

The older I get, and the more I study the Word of God, alone The more I can not soatmch «christian» books.I am finding that I am more interested in the original languages (Hebrew, Greek) that the Word was penned in (via the Holy Spirit) before it was «translated» and the cultures and customs of that day.Knowing these things really open up The Scriptures.

Anyway, we in the West live with the philosophical and theological tradition of analyzing and then polarizing things that cultures with more holistic paradigms would keep in paradox.

This is all the more relevant in light of the current discussion about Christianity and culture First Things has stimulated.

There is a dissatisfaction in the young people of today; there is an inner drive, quite undefined, which looks for something much more, for something bigger than life, wider than the world, larger than culture and higher than man - made things, which their formal education has not given them.

«We live in a culture that uses promises to excite our desire for things, keep us distracted, and leave us dissatisfied, so that we want more!

We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)

The best way to protect America is to warmly welcome law abiding citizens of any faith, such a rare and wonderful thing about us, something we can hold up as unique and special, something that does nt provoke but binds loyalty.Being different, more accepting and loving than the ugliness found in anti-Christian cultures, is our greatest strength.

This once would have been my critique of the church in Australia, but things have changed as our culture has become more secularised and selfish.

But beyond a vague allusion to «getting things right on broader matters of culture,» he offers not a clue about what that something more might be, by what means we might know it, or how it would cure the defects he sees in natural rights reasoning.

Isn't it more likely that everyone has the same feeling, but that they frame it differently in their respective religions or cultures, like we do other things?

It certainly is good to have finally found out that Christianity is nothing more than just tradition, ritual and culture and that all the things which the Bible says about God and prayer are not true — God does not speak to or lead or guide or direct anyone or put thoughts in anyone's mind or show them signs or speak to their heart or mind or tells them what to do or calls people or chooses people or has a plan for people's lives whether they are in an altered state of consciousness / transcendent state or whether they are in an unaltered cognitive state.

Our second - place essay by Ben Woodfinden examined First Things editor R. R. Reno's argument that «the Judeo - Christian culture spurned today will become more appealing as the weaknesses of the secular project become apparent.»

If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?

And the further interesting thing is that the forms of religion that are more bizarre or alien to modern Western «scientific» culture — astrology, occultism, Zen, yoga, Sufism — appeal to the «intelligentsia» and so ironically tend to cluster about our contemporary university centers (the remaining seats of that culture).

It is a small book, and the supporting sociological evidence is mainly referenced in the footnotes, but Greeley does propose evidence that, among other things, Catholics have, compared to non-Catholics, a significantly higher appreciation of the arts and high culture; they have more satisfaction and fun in sex; they better understand the uses of leisure; they have a deeper and more stable relationship to family and community; they have a greater respect for the life of the mind, with educational achievements reflecting that respect; and they understand the nuanced connections between freedom and authority.

If one culture or group of people looks at the laws of another culture or people, whether it is the 10 laws, the 600, the 6000, or the 60,000, and says, «It sort of worked for them; we'll do the same thing,» they will end up treating each other more miserably than any other culture.

Let them blend new sciences and theories and the understanding of the most recent discoveries with Christian morality and the teaching of Christian doctrine, so that their religious culture and morality may keep pace with scientific knowledge and with the constantly progressing technology... Thus they will be able to interpret and evaluate all things in a truly Christian spirit,... and priests will be able to present to our contemporaries the doctrine of the Church concerning God, man and the world, in a manner more adapted to them so that they may receive it more willingly.»

From personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupter.

James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe disagreed fiercely over the reach and power of the culture wars, but they agreed on one thing: These wars are fought by politicians and pundits far more than by ordinary Americans.

That our culture and the Court have come to accept the moral liceity of both contraception and sodomy does not show that the «essence» of human sexuality and marriage have changed — indeed, what is essential to something can not change, belonging as it does to the nature of the thing — but that our prevailing sexual culture has grown ever more unnatural, irrational, immoral, and destructive of human flourishing.

Scott: I think that one of the things Mary Ann and I have learned along the way, and which has further separated us from the mainstream culture, is the realization that we can always make room for one more.

His principal concern was with building a healthy and unified mainstream culture to which socially progressive Christianity might make a contribution.10 Today o there is much more awareness that «culture» means different things to different people: Often people define themselves against the mainstream culture by defining themselves in terms of a sub-culture.

Niebuhr's categories would help them think more clearly about their actual approaches to various aspects of culture, but we can not impose on them an agenda that seems to say that this is the most important thing they should be thinking about.

And it would be more than justice in those sorts of cultures for all the adults to die for allowing such things to happen to the children, and furthermore, it could be construed as merciful to put the tortured children out of their misery.

When we see things growing in people and culture that shouldn't be there, or see a lack of things that should be growing, we should think, «This soil needs more Christ - like influence.

As more parents express concerns about the consumerist and hedonistic youth culture that their children are exposed to in mass media, they naturally favor schools that filter out its worst elements and focus young minds on worthier things.

1989 was the same summer that Spike Lee's race - relations film, DO THE RIGHT THING came out, I had just read Malcolm X's Autobiography for a class, my IVCF chapter was more and more seeking to explore the implications of «multi-ethnicity» for campus ministry, and as a college radio DJ I had been exposed to more of the best rap than most white suburbanites — that is, a number of threads came together for me at that time to allow me to be a right - on - the - sidelines spectator of the rap youth culture phenomenon.

And, as our culture becomes more aware of science, there are fewer and fewer unexplainable things.

It's impossible to grow up in a culture so obsessed with sex — and unbiblical ideas about it — without two things becoming very apparent: Sex is far more powerful than we imagined, and...

The longer I work with cultures, the more I am convinced of two things: First, cultures are really resilient.

«There are few things more telling about a culture's cuisine than street food,» said Chef Chris Santos, who is credited with turning the Lower East Side into a premier dining, nightlife and cultural destination over the last decade with his establishments Beauty & Essex and The Stanton Social.

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Our Food Editor Andy Baraghani has a thing for European - style cultured butter: More fat (about 84 percent versus 80 in American varieties) and less moisture result in a denser, creamier butter that doesn't dilute any flavors — and who doesn't want that?

On LA dining culture: «LA has an openness to it, a youth or whimsy, that allows a bit more creative freedom to do things that aren't as conventional as in a more historic, established city like New York or San Francisco.

Family meals are an important part of the day in any culture, but with today's busy lifestyles, we are more often grabbing things on the go and rushing to finish the meal with the minimum of dishes to wash up afterward.