We weren't leaders in our communities, but each of us had an important story to tell.
Not exact matches
Amazon's plan to build a second headquarters
in one lucky city across the U.S. is being met with some criticism from civic
leaders who are concerned the company won't do enough to help the
community it will ultimately choose.
«They don't have the money to support us, and the pressure to continue [growing coca] is fierce,» a
community leader in the isolated southwest municipality of Tumaco — a global hub for coca — said
in late 2016, after a deadly clash between state security forces and farmers protesting efforts to destroy their coca.
President Barack Obama has
not ruled out air strikes but he and top military
leaders have said the crisis
in Iraq can only be resolved through a settlement with
leaders of the country's Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish
communities.
«I don't want the IRS looming over our faith
leaders in the
community as they express their religious freedom,» said Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, the highest - ranking Republican working on the bill, told reporters when the bill was introduced.
I wouldn't be surprised if we see B2B thought
leaders cropping up on medium.com, big image - heavy brands creating a presence
in Google +
communities, and edgier corporations shifting into platforms like Reddit and Tumblr (which haven't yet been truly capitalized on).
«Global
Leaders has worked from a private office
in the Cohere
Community for the last 3 years, and we couldn't be happier.
Our analysis demonstrates that the limited number of North Korean
leaders and ruling elite with access to the internet are actively engaged
in Western and popular social media, regularly read international news, use many of the same services such as video streaming and online gaming, and above all, are
not disconnected from the world at large or the impact North Korea's actions have on the
community of nations.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP)-- Serbia won't help persuade Bosnian Serbs to cancel a disputed referendum that has challenged the international
community in Bosnia and fueled ethnic tensions more than two decades after the 1992 - 95 war, the Balkan country's
leaders...
The irony continues with the feting of Okotoks as the greenest
community in Canada by such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban»
community sits
in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose
leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change - denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that global warming science is «
not settled.»
This will,
in turn, ensure that entrepreneurs can truly live up to their potential to
not only grow their business and create jobs within their
community, but also develop themselves as capable
leaders and empowered individuals who will go on to create a lasting impact within their
community.
«
In a situation like this people turn to their faith
communities and their
leaders and their counselling services because it's difficult
not just to conceive the pain that people are going through but it's difficult to conceive why.
Emma Smith and her son stayed
in Missouri, stating that Brigham wasn't supposed to be the next
leader of the church, and reformed the church as the Reorganized Church of Jesus of Christ of Latter Day Saints, now known at the
Community of Christ.
Most likely, it reflects the old Ottoman millet system,
in which patriarchs were both spiritual and secular
leaders, expected to represent their entire
communities at the sultan's court (though Copts did
not, as far as I know, constitute a millet
in Ottoman times).
I refer to the way
in which religious
leaders and the
communities which they lead wear the mantle of v - ictimhood to cover their
n - aked moral failings.
For me (as for most of us
in the movement I think) it's always been about ideas and action and
communities,
not about any particular personalities or so - called «
leaders.»
And I speak up when a few vocal evangelical
leaders say hateful things about LGBT people or encourage bullying or condone misogyny because I feel like I have this investment
in the
community and it's important for those invested
in the
community to speak up when its
leaders are hurting our witness to the world... But I'm
not sure I can do that anymore.
One can start answering these questions by observing that the church's role as a
community of memory is being emphasized by thinkers like Maclntyre and Bellah and by many church
leaders precisely at a time when an increasing percentage of Americans are
not being born and raised
in churches, or if they are, they are.
Now imagine if the 90 % of the population also believed it was immoral or at least highly suspect
not to believe
in witches, that «In Wizards We Trust» was printed on your money, that community leaders made regular allusions to witches in their speeches and that you were regarded as «angry,» or «bitter» for being skeptical of the whole witchcraft thin
in witches, that «
In Wizards We Trust» was printed on your money, that community leaders made regular allusions to witches in their speeches and that you were regarded as «angry,» or «bitter» for being skeptical of the whole witchcraft thin
In Wizards We Trust» was printed on your money, that
community leaders made regular allusions to witches
in their speeches and that you were regarded as «angry,» or «bitter» for being skeptical of the whole witchcraft thin
in their speeches and that you were regarded as «angry,» or «bitter» for being skeptical of the whole witchcraft thing.
The purpose of
community, the purpose of our government, the purpose of our
leaders should be to call us to pursue common values and common good,
not simply
in the moment of extreme crisis but every day
in our lives, starting right now, today.»
Religious
leaders must maintain the doctrines of the
community, it is suggested, so long as such doctrines do
not get
in the way of the truth.
The British who colonized India had accepted the European concept of nationhood as constituted by unity
in blood and language, «ethnic purity and a single language»; therefore, they said, that «India is
not and can never be a nation... India is a collection of religious
communities... But the unfortunate tragic element was that this British interpretation of Indian history was also accepted by many of our national
leaders... So British interpretation plus the shortsightedness of our own
leaders,
not excluding the Mahatma, together resulted
in this dreadful phenomenon of communalism».
Have
leaders and congregants become so programmed by ecclesiastical tradition as to be sincere yet misguided
in a way that makes Christian
community and worship unattractive or even repulsive and
not just to people outside of the church.
At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked,
not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious
leaders of all faiths that from now on they would
not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is
not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has
not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists
in all religious
communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious
community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.
Church
leaders need to proactively show their members how to serve and who to love
in the
community,
not just preach and teach about it.
The construction of our mosques is protested, our
communities are profiled...» America's Muslim
leaders have
NOT issued a fatwa (official condemnation) of Osama bin - Laden as the Muslim
leaders in Spain, etc. have and a USA Today poll shows that 5 % of American Muslims (120,000 people) feel that violence against the USA is justified.
The trouble is that among the twelve million Christians left
in the Middle East, it is hard to find a
leader who does
not reflect the rage and desperation of a
community on its way to extinction.
Not too many women have a story of how their church
community called them out as a
leader long before they saw that gift
in themselves.
So when a black student at a Connecticut high school was disciplined
in 1996 for wearing pants that drooped (exposing his underwear),
not only did he claim a right to wear what he liked, but some
community leaders hinted at racism, on the theory that many young African - American males dress this way.
Bear
in mind that this is the law the religious
leaders, who directed the whole of Jewish
community life and
not only the religious life, enforced.
It is clear that our Personage could
not have known the vulgar class of immigrants for he lived either alone,
in complete solitude, or as a shepherd, or as a big merchant
in a caravan, or
in the high society with the
leaders of the
community.
Religiously it was jihad against evil society and the infidels
in America, an interpretation that was
not accepted by the majority of Islamic
leaders, theologians, and
communities the world over.
Religious
leaders, I think, face alternatives
not easily reconciled: to try to form
communities in which biblical imagery and ideas provide an alternative vision to our cultural ones, or to engage
in a process of mutual critique, edification, correction and revision of frameworks that are informed both by our religious traditions and by the sciences and culture.
I don't know if the problem is tithing so much as being able to teach people to be
leaders and take responsibility for the
community God has put them
in.
But they can
not fathom a
community functioning without an additional layer
in the flowchart — a human
leader, head, boss, truth - interpreter, guide, (pick your synonym.)
Which is to say, the
leader of the
community in this or that place acts as the designated «elder» and performs what can rightly be known as priestly functions, even if that particular word is
not employed.
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement
in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes
in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in the movement's history, including, but
not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham
in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political
leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat
in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in 1964; a battle over sex education
in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in Anaheim, California,
in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks
in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in West Virginia
in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently
in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in community after
community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency
in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had
in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and stat
in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
Well when churches stop hating women, the LGBT
community, non-Christians and anyone they may
not like and covering for corrupt and sick
leaders who have so many
in different ways, then maybe people won't be so angry at the Church.
In this text, Jeebus» «companion» is Mary Magdalene, and some say the intent was to say they were married, and if not certainly he kissed her a lot, and she was the leader of his followers, (much as she originally was in the Jerusalem community, before they intentionally turned her into a wh «ore, in order to marginalize her powerful position
In this text, Jeebus» «companion» is Mary Magdalene, and some say the intent was to say they were married, and if
not certainly he kissed her a lot, and she was the
leader of his followers, (much as she originally was
in the Jerusalem community, before they intentionally turned her into a wh «ore, in order to marginalize her powerful position
in the Jerusalem
community, before they intentionally turned her into a wh «ore,
in order to marginalize her powerful position
in order to marginalize her powerful position).
Many Neue members will be ministry
leaders, but you don't have to be a card - carrying church
leader to benefit from the resources and
community at Neue, you just have to have a heart to join the movement of the church
in a real and authentic way.
From Dawn: Given all the nasty rhetoric that has been aimed at the LGBT
community — and
in that sense, at you personally — by Christian and Christian political
leaders, what is it about Christianity itself that's so compelling that you haven't been turned off completely by so many of its messengers?
Powell: So much of what we think works to reach young people
in churches — loud music, fog machines, hip
leaders, trying too hard — doesn't matter nearly as much as driving to the essence of what it means to be a family - like
community centered
in Jesus.
«This organization has given me an opportunity to
not only get involved volunteering
in my
community, but also learn more about how to be a better
leader,
in my
community, classroom and on the soccer field, which I am hoping to bring to the University of Colorado.»
He added, «She is
not only a
leader in spreading the word of organic sprouted grains, but also
in her local
community.
With its motto of «
Not Just a Cup, But a Just Cup,» the company also has been a
leader in socially responsible business practices, «cause coffees» and
community support.
This La Leche League group is a special situation where all of the participants (except the school staff who drop
in and
Leaders) are
in their teens but this should
not suggest that teen mothers are
not welcomed at meetings held
in the
community.
But I am quite certain that without the help, encouragement and wisdom of the LLL
Leader and group
in my
community, I wouldn't have succeeded
in breastfeeding my four children, and I wouldn't have parented them the way I have.
If you live
in a
community that does
not have an LLL Group, please contact Joan Crothers, Coordinator of
Leader Accreditation for LLL of MA / RI / VT.
«They have got to reach out to younger people - mosques have got to become more accessible to young people, they have got to enable young British Muslims to become imams, or
community leaders,
in a way that has
not been possible now.»
My attention has been drawn to a video which captures the Member of Parliament for Dome / Kwabenya, Deputy Majority
Leader and Minister of State at the Presidency
in charge of Public Procurement, the Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo claiming
in the said video that the
Community Senior High School constructed and commissioned
in her constituency during the tenure of President John Dramani Mahama was as a result of her personal intervention with the World Bank, that the Senior High School was
not from the then NDC Government and that with the exception of the Dome / Kwabenya Senior High School project, all the other schools constructed during the previous NDC administration were executed
in NDC strongholds.