Sentences with phrase «much about the culture»

It is not necessary to say much about culture in the sense of «polish» or good manners, except that this is an important asset to Christian character and a dangerous substitute for it.

I can say with complete confidence that while the two cultures are very different, effective rural pastors care just as much about the culture as do effective urban pastors.

Rigor is meant to be a synonym for high standards in the curriculum, but the word reveals much about our culture's attitude toward learning.

While Jarmusch mostly described it as a romance during the NYFF Q&A, that feels like only one facet of a layered film that says so much about culture and its erosion, idols, nostalgia, civilization's decline, and art.

For example, a student can learn much about a culture or time period by carefully analyzing its music.

We learned so much about culture / agriculture / architecture / personalities, etc..»

But I don't know much about his culture and

I have no quarrel with what you write here, nor with the part of CNightwing's post that states «much about our culture sucks and I wish Microsoft were not a force for evil within it.»

It also says much about culture and the general working environment — ask yourself what you will feel happiest in.

Not exact matches

As much as the solution depends on having procedures in place to handle ethical misconduct, it's really about the culture — what's accepted and what's not.

Though concerns about flying and airplane safety permeate popular culture, it's much safer to travel by plane than by car.

Much has been written about the connection between corporate culture and branding, and it should be thunderingly obvious by now that hiring people who don't share a company's values is, in the long run, a recipe for disaster.

But when it comes to the intricacies of daily life, have you ever stopped to think about how your daily routine compares with others around the globe and just how much culture influences your behavior?

Developing and protecting the culture is one of the most sacred parts of the SEAL experience, but if you listen to a lot of conversation in the business world, «culture» isn't much more than a soft buzzword that gets put up on a PowerPoint slide once or twice a year ten minutes after you talk about the corporate mission statement or annual strategic initiatives.

It's hard to know whether it's the result of simply having less money or a shift in culture, but Millennials don't care about brands and status anywhere near as much as earlier generations.

Employees rave about a culture where karaoke matters as much as contracts, and where lawyers take time off to accompany underprivileged kids to Disney.

Being personally responsible for creating a positive culture at a fast - growing company, it struck me how much we could learn from McDonough about building trusting and effective working relationships, given he did just that at a very high level.

When first starting out, most entrepreneurs are so obsessed with perfecting their product or service, they don't have much time to think about company culture.

I very much look forward to shooting this again and again — not just to learn more about the blade culture, but also to continue to hone the craft of being able to act on the fly and learn on the fly and communicate that in a way that is entertaining... or at least not sound like a fool.

We discuss micro and macro community, groupthink, the importance of mentoring and masterminds, being intentional about engaging the right culture and community, how to find true community, and much more.

GFI estimates that cultured meat could become cost - competitive with conventional meat in about a decade.42 The Open Philanthropy Project (Open Phil) reports that one of two scientists they spoke with who work on tissue engineering gave a similar estimate — though Open Phil themselves remain much more pessimistic about the timeline for the widespread commercial availability of cultured meat.43 We are not certain whether it is realistic to expect cultured meat to become cost - competitive with conventional meat within a decade.

A buzz is all about the city and there is so much history and culture about and it's cheap.

Novak is a disruptive factor in the comfortable cognitive worlds of Catholic, and much Protestant, thought about politics, culture, and economics.

Or... you can put asside your prophecies of doom & gloom, praying and hoping for God to smite all the yellow, black & brown people who don't believe the way you do anyway, and attempt to make peace with your neighbors, not by converting them at swordpoint, but accepting them and learning about their cultures and traditions and give them as much respect as you want them to show you.

I know much about the world and different cultures.

It's interesting that all humans from all cultures pretty much share the same ideas about what is right and wrong, good and evil.

We have far too many who aren't willing to stand for what is right and oppose what is wrong in our society and culture... This pastors «vision» sounds too much like the world John Lennon wrote about in his song «imagine» where there is no God and «no religion».

The people whose interpretations of experience we are studying are not Trobiand Islanders, but Jews of the first - century Mediterranean world; to understand how they interpret their lives, we need to learn as much as possible about the properly historical realities within which they lived: the social and symbolic worlds of Roman rule, Hellenistic culture, and a variegated Judaism.

I don't know much about the origins of sacrifice in human culture.

«Moving these «holydays» (how the etymology of that word says so much about what they were to our culture) represents a symbolic retreat of huge proportions; conceding the notion that the secular world and the imperative of its ephemeral commitments must now be considered more real than the way in which the divine has entered our history and shaped it.»

They were not very interested in feminism, not very sensitive to Christian anti-Judaism, not much interested in culture or in primal and Eastern religions, not particularly concerned about the repression of the body, and so forth.

We hear much about the «culture wars».

Paideia proved compatible both with the more social understanding of human personhood that marked medieval life and with the more individualistic assumptions about personhood that marked much Renaissance culture.

This type of analysis is very much a part of current concerns about how media manipulate, for example encouraging us to become more active consumers, creating unrealistic perceptions of a more violent world, and imposing American culture on media audiences throughout the globe.

I've thought about Frank the Gas Monster a lot over the past few years but particularly right now when the Duggar story is bringing a much - needed light onto the truth and consequences of patriarchal culture, particularly on women.

If they like self - referentiality and thinking deeply about sociology and culture as much as I think they do, they will find much of interest in this book.

DO N'T think you understand democracy if you think it's only about elections: it's about injecting as much of your religious culture and mindset which excludes freedom of thought, freedom of expression, political and religious pluralism, and human rights.

Women of all cultures have much to teach black men about theology and the human struggle to be free.

That's exactly why you don't know much about other religions cultures... etc and do not respect them at all.

The culture seeps into the church, bringing with it a religion without commitment; spirituality without content; aspiration and talk and longing, fulfillment and needs, but not much concern about God.

How can we read about this veneer - like faith and not shudder as we compare it to the broad, wide and often equally shallow thing that passes for Christianity in so much of our culture and in so many of our churches?

When we think about modern culture, we might naturally gravitate towards some of its «evils» (more on this in a moment), but there is so much good to point out.

This is very much like CNN having an article about womens» issues without consulting women, or writing about Hispanic culture from the middle of WASPville.

Each culture highlights certain features of the whole and learns much about that.

The upshot is the suppression of political debate about the common good, which is why thorough - going libertarians are such a destructive force in our political culture, perhaps as much so as contemporary liberals whose main vice is the serene smugness that assumes that all we have left is administration because everybody worth talking to already agrees with them about first principles.

I can't add much to this flood of advice except to submit, with humility, that in my view we don't have much choice about our fundamental emotional attitude; it is a matter of personal character (body chemistry and the close culture of family and schooling), but this need not affect our choice of creed and code if we have independence of mind.

One is that I was writing about the default neo-paganism of our culture, which, like ancient paganism, is not so much a creed as a stance.

What if we were just as much against colonization, imperialism, and war, as you are, and that when we told people about Jesus and His love for them, we let them maintain their culture, their identity, and who they were as people?

After much study, prayer and thought I am convinced that the idea that only men are allowed to teach scripture, be a pastor, be an elder etc. etc. was a teaching that came about due to the status of women during a particular time and culture and continued because of the patriarchal system that most churches have continued to operate under.

If you want to be «scientific» you also have to be agnostic about all the other gods, and about vampires, werewolves, dragons, ogres, leprechauns, and pretty much everything else from all the world's cultures and religions.