Sentences with phrase «one's sabbatical year»

Converted by a 1968 sabbatical year at Oxford to radical opposition to the Vietnam War, Braaten elaborated an eschatological ethics that sought, without succumbing to secular utopian schemes of violent social transformation, to «baptize the concept of revolution.»

Otis College of Art and Design is committed to awarding an appropriate number of sabbaticals each year.

So yes, after 7 days I will know exactly if I will take one sabbatical year from Arsenal.

... But I never got to take it because it was only offered every other year and... the professor who taught it went on sabbatical the year I was going to take it.

There Daniel was told explicitly that Messiah would come 69 «sabbaths» (that is, 69 sabbatical years — a total of 483 years) after the decree was given to rebuild Jerusalem, which at that time lay in ruins after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had destroyed it.

Speaking about the sabbatical year, God warns the Israelites, «But the land must not be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is mine; you are but strangers resident with me» (Lev.

Shortly after the sabbatical year, Hopewell had summarized his findings and ideas in a series of essays which he shared but did not publish, since he felt that such a collection would not improve the fragmented state of church studies.

He spent his sabbatical year, like an anthropologist in a primitive village, omnipresent in the two churches, attending meetings, worship services, and parties, talking to members, sifting documents and publications, observing patterns of community life.

I first became aware of the structure of the narratives that express world view several years before the discovery of my cancer, when I began during my sabbatical year to study congregations systematically.

What I found in Corinth (the name I have given elsewhere to the town whose two principal churches — Baptist and Methodist — I spent my sabbatical year studying) is that most of the stories I heard in a particular congregation were similar in genre.

Using the actual words of church members recorded during my sabbatical year and after, the four categories as negotiations for world view are illustrated below.

Lewis Ford spent a sabbatical year in Claremont in the late 60's, and we shared our concerns.

My fascination with Ukraine began in 1984, during a sabbatical year at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Especially important was a sabbatical year at Union Theological Seminary (1974 - 75) when I participated regularly in the discussions of the New York Feminist Scholars in Religion launched by Carol Christ.

The community I call Corinth, 1 the town in which I spent my sabbatical year, has changed during the last thirty years from a rural, rather backward county seat town into a satellite community for a large metropolitan area.

18:23 - 35), in the parable of the dishonest manager (Luke 16:1 - 9) to his proclamation of the sabbatical year.

That was, says Trocmé, the sabbatical year, the year for freeing slaves (Ex.

Was the revival of the sabbatical year and the year of jubilee a feature of Jesus» prophetic ministry?

When you consider the division of land in ancient Israel, God's instructions concerning the year of jubilee, the sabbatical year, and the laws about gleaning, as well as the description of the early Church in which participants «had everything in common,» you could make the case that the ideal society is one in which wealth is shared.

Three years later she and Hall moved to his grandmother's house in New Hampshire for what they thought would be only a sabbatical year.

But my husband just came from a board meeting at which he chatted with a professor who spent his sabbatical year in Botswana.

According to Bush and Dekro, reinforcing this sense of stewardship are the Jewish cycles of work / acquisition and rest / restoration — the weekly sabbath, the sabbatical year and the half - century Jubilee Release that are detailed in Leviticus 25:1 - 13.

A sabbatical year gave me the opportunity to do some additional study while teaching at Serampore College, India, and later at the Near East School of Theology, Beirut.

The invitation to participate in this series came as I was putting the finishing touches on a sabbatical year spent studying — and that means doing — the arts.

It was in 1987 when I was doing my sabbatical year in a research center and my main responsibilities were to visit tequila companies and offer solutions to improve the process.

For mid-career professionals, the fellowship has special potential: «It can structure a sabbatical year, allowing scholars to develop new research projects and apply mature scholarship to real world policy problems.»

In Judaism there is a custom called the Shmita, a sabbatical year occurring cyclically every 7 years when the land is allowed to rest; those who observe the Shmita are promised a bountiful harvest afterward.

In the middle comes, the younger days, comes something called adolescence, the wonder years, and somehow my childhood in idyllic Northfield, Minnesota, and that sabbatical year, we were at Berkeley, California, all that was great.

The Gift of Time: Benefits of Teacher Sabbaticals Kathleen Modenbach faces the end of a sabbatical year and her imminent return to the classroom.

In this column, educator Kathleen Modenbach faces the end of a sabbatical year and her imminent return to the classroom.

My sabbatical year afforded me time to learn how to use PowerPoint, HyperStudio, Site Central, and many other multimedia programs.

There are times when I miss being in that environment, however I have had the benefit — with the exception of my sabbatical year a few years ago — of being in schools every single year since leaving teaching.

I decided that the best way to take advantage of my sabbatical year was to «practice what I teach» in a Mexican high school far removed from the Minnesota winter.

The Fellowship allowed Stinson to spend a sabbatical year in Ann Arbor during which she studied at the University and reevaluated her career options.

Let's look at a very simple example where Sue works for 10 years, contributes $ 10,000 per year to her RRSP (with no taxes being deducted at the source) and then decides to take a year long sabbatical and withdraws all the money from her RRSP in her sabbatical year.

If we pretend that Sue has no other income during her sabbatical year the 102,000 will appear to be taxed at her average tax rate, but it is still taxed at various rates and part of her income will be taxed at her marginal rate.

She is spending her sabbatical year at the University of Florida as part of a research project to develop a data collection and reporting protocol for animal shelters in Seoul.

Whether you want to take the family to Europe, register for a pricey cooking class, arrange a sabbatical year or achieve any other expensive bucket - list experience, it's best to strategize.

Named after their place of origin, where the artist took a sabbatical year from teaching in 1962 - 63, these paintings embrace dark silhouettes that establish a haunting effect, allowing for a more direct relationship between the viewer and the painting.

Between these books and keeping up with breaking news on WUWT the rest of my week is gone... Good thing I'm on sabbatical this year but keeping up with Climategate and the IPCC scam revelations has really hurt my productivity.

«We've had a few really good winters,» he said in an interview from Geneva, where he's on a sabbatical year.

That was more of a sabbatical year.

«Breakups and relationship difficulty were a common reason students came in for counselling, probably a leading reason right after depression and anxiety,» says Melanie Banka Goela, who is spending a sabbatical year away from the counselling chair.

Despite my work - related goals for 2014, this year turned out to be a sabbatical year.

While at Western Michigan University, Ms. Sparks spent a sabbatical year with the department of public health in Battle Creek, Michigan, doing home visits with public health nurses.