Sentences with phrase «of cultural things»

«It was important to me to be able to still do the kinds of cultural things that I like to do, the kinds of volunteer things I like to do,» she added.

There are a number of cultural things happening in Bentonville.

Italy holidays offer plenty of cultural things to do for all ages, worth leaving the all inclusive for.

«It's actually oddly literal for our trailer's purposes — and I think a lot of the cultural things we're dealing with in Wakanda are in the zeitgeist in the African American community.»

This time of year, with all of the cultural things happening at once, is my favourite.

And to really too start to look at different cultures because, a lot of other cultures don't use as much wheat or they use it in different ways, and so there are a lot of cultural things too that really were like, «Wow, this is good.

Edwardo In fairness, that works for all other kinds of cultural things as well.

There are a lot of cultural things back in those days, the early days of Christianity, things which we really won't know or understand, regardless of how much we study them.

I do think, for women, it is kind of a cultural thing across the board to be kind of people pleasers.

It's like complaining or asking why US game developers like to make so many games about white guys with guns: it's kind of a cultural thing.

Reducing per capita consumption is all going to require big attitude changes towards materialism, and this is more of a cultural thing.

Not exact matches

These are things that are important to us as a culture and as a society and I only want to align myself with brands that have the same kind of cultural beliefs that I do.»

While it's impossible to share all there is to know about cultural transformation, the following are a handful of things that will absolutely crush any attempt to re-imagine and re-invent a business.

THE Perth Cultural Centre has been transformed this week with tents, decorations and various spectacles as part of the Awesome International Arts Festival for Bright Young Things.

American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead famously said, «never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.»

In the process, it's also given a spit shine to what's always been popular about the city, such as its music, food and other cultural assets, leading to a reawakening of all things New Orleans.

«It's one thing for a marketer to try to predict if people like Coke or Pepsi,» he said, «but it's another thing for them to predict things that are much more central to our identity and what's more personal in how I interact with the world in terms of social and cultural issues.»

Based on the above, UKTI commissioned the ECR program in combination with the PIB service to, among other things, allow companies to employ foreign - language - speaking students at U.K. universities and other British institutions of higher learning to address issues related to language and cultural barriers that companies may face in entering particular foreign markets.

The term refers to a civil, legal contract in terms of government and something spiritual for churches and other religious groups (and yet other things for other cultural groups).

The dispensationalism to which the two of them subscribed had long served to reinforce a strong sense of cultural marginalization, viewing the truly faithful as a cognitive minority existing on the margins of the dominant culture, waiting for the Lord to «rapture» them out of the increasing cultural mess before things got drastically worse.

It's dated, but worth reading as it helps Christians understand the power of humor in doing all the things listed above: embracing spiritual correction, speaking truth to power, eliminating cultural prejudice and deconstructing religious cliques.

This time I think I am laughing at myself for some of the things I adhered to strongly (and can at least still be tempted to adhere to) either of my own volition or through cultural influences.

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the problem is that ppl read the bible thats been translated, if you realy want to know what was said youll need to study hebrew... every letter has a meaning... every word isnt a perfect fit for english,, theres nuances and cultural differences that youll find,,, its a whole new thing to go back and look at the bible through hebrew eyes,,, they arent required to look like us,,, were supposed to look more like them,,, yashua was a jew,,,, all the apostles were jews, yashua was sent to the lost sheep of the house of israel, not the gentiles, paul took it to the gentiles, and he never stopped being and living as a jew, the laws are very viable today, but they do nt give salvation, thats what yashua did...

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There are a number of hard - to - figure things about the Japanese, and perhaps, building on top of distinctive cultural traits regarding sex and love that go way back, the 21st century Japanese really have become erotically....

It's always difficult to discern how things * could * sift out and where they * could * end up while you're right in the middle of such radical cultural change.

He also knew that very often they were in that situation because the good things in life were taken away from them by those who are powerful in society who amassed for themselves economic, political and cultural supremacy at the expense of others.

Which returns us to the particular crisis of our time: the fact that current ideologies of religious, ethical, cultural and political pluralism do not provide the universalistic principles whereby we can state with clarity and confidence that some things are just plain wrong.

Remember that cultural issues need to be considered when reading the methodology of things like «church» in the NT.

In part because of his unpredictability, his site is the go - to blog for all things political and cultural.

Our interpretation of Scripture depends on many things — temperamental tendencies, cultural conditioning, life experiences, etc. — besides context which is not always easily discerned.

However it solicits a further normative question: What types of speech and action in the practices constituting the array of Christian congregations seem to you the inquirer to be, in their cultural content, faithful, and what ones unfaithful, to the Christian thing?

As everyone knows, there is a tremendous cultural struggle going on in national politics, manifested in disputes over abortion, capital punishment, gun control, crime, welfare, affirmative action, gay rights, school prayer, and other kindred things, many of which have a subtle racial dimension.

Not only does the pluralism in question characterize past and present construals of the Christian thing and their respective social and cultural locations; it also characterizes particular theological schools, the practices that constitute them, and their respective social and cultural locations.

Although the cultural - linguistic system of Christians is very different from that of Buddhists, in dialogue Christians appear to gain the ability to see some things they had not noticed before, and the same seems to be true for Buddhists.

Paul does many of the same things in his letters, using a genre and language that was common in his day to subvert the prevailing cultural views of the day about Caesar worship.

Religion is a personal thing and choices should be respected as part of cultural tradition.

Might it be time to find your place among followers of Jesus who concentrate on following Jesus, loving others, and helping those who need help rather than among those who spend their time worrying about «marital cultural traditions» and similar things?

There are some cultural things going on here with the act of baptism, and the fact that family members and servants usually followed the religion of the head of their household, but again, the most straightforward way of reading these texts is that more than one person believed, and those that did believe were baptized.

Pixley charges Whitehead's thought with three things: (1) that it is «at the very least... open to appropriation for counterrevolutionary purposes;» (2) that «Justice shines by its absence» from Whitehead's list of five cultural aims as the measure of civilized life; and (3) that Whitehead's philosophy contains within it latent counterrevolutionary tendencies.»

It will surely survive the present storms of cultural and social change, though it is difficult to say just when things will look better instead of worse.

The easiest thing to grasp about the City of God is that it is not the City of Man — that is to say, that all existing moral - political authority is all - too - human, and that every individual represents some promise, some meaning, some destiny far beyond anything that can be represented in the economy of an actual political - cultural world.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

The «vision thing» seems a cultural value which reflects the intrusion of the corporate and business culture into our church and parachurch agencies.

A great thing about Robinson, of course, is that she's not only written novels, but lots of essays — philosophic, theological, cultural, and political — for those of us who have that prosaic learning style.

The reality of things, which must be at once independent of any interpretation and yet connectable with other interpreters, regardless of cultural selectivity, evaporates inexorably.

Mark Edmundson is a professor of literature who has said some interesting things about the quarrel between philosophy and poetry, as well as the larger cultural implications of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.

As the new literature about «theological education» began to grow during the past decade it quickly became clear [l] that for some participants the central issue facing «theological education» is the fragmentation of its course of study and the need to reconceive it so as to recover its unity, whereas for others the central issue is «theological education's» inadequacy to the pluralism of social and cultural locations in which the Christian thing is understood and lived.

Notice how, inside and outside the Church, people are loudly denunciatory of the evil behavior of their political, religious or cultural opponents, and yet, when the same thing is true of their allies, they are muted or even found attempting justifications for the behavior.