Sentences with phrase «other book study»

If you've attended other book study meetings this year, please join us!

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He also earned his master's in English lit from Yale University, but abandoned his Ph.D. studies there after booking a beer commercial in»87 led to other auditions.

They read books, watch documentaries, study educational materials and talk to others who can give them more information.

Bachelder's story, documented in her book, Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others, is the most compelling case study to showcase the power of servant leadership to reinvent a company from the inside out.

The author of a book called The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence has studied the shop for decades and built a mini-industry of lectures and workshops that aim to help other businesses emulate its success (past clients have included TD Bank, BMO and the Cactus Club Cafe chain).

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

The book is a series of case studies that describes how a small number of CEOs have used cash generative businesses as platforms to drive massive returns for shareholders by directing excess cash opportunistically between large stock buybacks, special dividends and acquisitions of other businesses.

Matt Hall, cofounder and president of Hill Investment Group, introduces his 2016 book, Odds On: The Making of an Evidence - Based Investor, by stating that: ``... the evidence - based movement has been studying market data and academic research to identify the groups of stocks and other investments that provide better odds of long - term success.

If lets say some students of a certain class flunk the Maths test but most others passed it, does it mean the students who failed did not study their Math book properly and there is something wrong with the Math book?

if you are small minded enough that you need a book written by MEN to tell you how to be a good person, then you are not in any position to comment on other books that other small minded people study to help them become good people.

After his death, a number of other books, dictionaries, and grammar manuals in various languages were found in Jefferson's library, suggesting that he studied additional languages beyond those he spoke and wrote well.

Study the book, report on the book, have other people interpret the book... repeat... for 8 years or more.

«Some books are more important than others» (TRL 10), says Bennett, and these should be studied with care.

The more I have studied the bible, and believe me I have spent years studying it and other religious books, the more I see this as a hangover from primitive days when our ancestors had no scientific knowledge and had to imagine gods to explain things.

the three religions may have all started in Genesis with Abraham, but they don't end up in the same place... if you want the study the differences in the religions, look to the book of Revelation on one side and islamic end - times / last day studies on the other hand... the big difference between Islam and Christianity is the mirror image of the end time personalities mentioned in Revelation...

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

Then I was studying the King James Version, how it was translated from other existing versions, and how much scholars believe was deleted (much of it being the Apocryphal books found in the Catholic Bible).

What a furor was created when first, under the influence of the scientific spirit of the times, men began to study the Bible critically just like any other book.

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Princestudies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin PrinceStudies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

Not all the literatures studied in this book fulfill all these conditions, notably the Chinese who do not attribute their authoritative writings to divine origin, but in most other respects they are like the rest.

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There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.

No I have not «studied» any other religious books except the bible, but I have casually looked at several.

The bible is one of the most well known books in the world, has been translated into more languages than any other book, and has been studied extensively.

The author of Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity, she holds an M.A. in religious studies from Arizona State University and has written for The Atlantic website, Books and Culture, Paste, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, Christianity Today, Beliefnet and other publications.

So, do you want to study and teach Daniel and other apocalyptic books of the Bible?

I have studied many religions, read numerous books attended many services to learn, but I have always been a Catholic... and this person is not of religion that I know of, he attended the muslims day of prayer and not any other..

And to love God and love others, you don't need Bible studies and sermons, books and podcasts, or Reverends and Ph.D. s.

Along with Anthony Appiah and other current writers about the university, she acknowledges the intrinsic value of study (her most recent book on the topic is titled Not for Profit), while ultimately defending the value of liberal arts as essential for social and political progress.

There are many wonderful truths for us in the book of Hebrews, but if you want to get firmly grounded in doctrinal truths for the believer you need to be studying Paul's other epistles (Hebrews may have written by Paul too).

Read John's gospel then read / study the book of Romans and then Paul's other epistles.

If you go to the book of revelations, read a couple documents and study a little in some documentary's you will find out that the translation is corrupt, infact they destroyed for other reasons, BUT in Tobias you will still learn that the old testomant does not approve of homosexuality, also in Leviticus, as well as Romans, and 2nd Corinthians, and a bit more passages, use google, it might help.

Although these essays were written over a span of time and for different audiences, they are held together by K.Cs deep and passionate concern for justice, peace and the integrity of creation, This is a book that should be read and studied by churches, grassroots people, policy makers, theologians and others who are seeking to create a world that is safe for all.

Other examples include excellent book length studies by Jorge Nobo, John Berthrong, and John Lango.

In quite different ways, so have such other widely read books as Charles Wood's Vision and Discernment: An Orientation in Theological Study [3] and Max L. Stackhouse's Apologia: Contextualization, Globalization, and Mission in Theological Education.

For a listing of Professor Crossan's studies and those of other contemporary historic Jesus scholars, see Historical Jesus Theories, earlychristianwritings.com/theories.html — and the titles of their over 100 books on the subject.

In the last years of his life his influence was further underscored in that others began to write books about him — a trend that was to intensify after his death so that now we see a steady stream of theses, monographs and studies coming out each year, though we still await the authorized biography to be done by his old friend John Howard Griffin.

Others of my generation who had also grown up in legalism regarding or abstention from alcohol perhaps, and so were exploring their emancipation with micro-brews and homemade wine over thick theology books and bible studies and hymn - sings.

They give up their old friends, interests, desires, hobbies, and tastes, and instead hang out just with other Christians while studying an ancient book and speaking an arcane language that nobody else understands.

I draw my conclusions on a complete study of the bible and cross references back to Daniel and many other books within the Bible.

-- There is no other book on planet earth that has been studied, contested, analyzed, scrutinized and critiqued than the Holy Bible.

My humble advise to you is to go and study the history that how, when and who wrote these chapters and what type of time it went through and then say that if there is any statement in this book is the real time statements of Jesus PBUH... please be honest with yourself... and don't do anything to please others but only you... and make sure you are convince with this study... whats the difference btwn what is in this book and what was written in a book last year when a Hindu claim himself as God and millions believed in him and still they believe even after his death by being ill... no one asks if I take a human as my God then how could he be ill or eventually be dead?

They studied and treated it not as scripture, but as any other book.

The study of great books is usually contrasted with the use of textbooks and other technical books.

How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland Ohio (NY: AA Big Book Study Group, 1997), pp. 6, 71, 138, 157, 235; and the «Great Physician» reference to Jesus Christ was in common use among other Pioneer AAs, by their New York mentor Dr. Silkworth, and their Oxford Group friends.

In fact, it was Anne herself who specifically recommended in her journal and teachings that one should read a book about the life of Christ each year, and study the Gospels, Acts, and the other church epistles daily.

This inspired me to start studying up on Judaism in earnest, and I've learned quite a bit from books by Rabbi Wayne Dosick, Anita Diamant, and other Jewish writers — Orthodox to Reformed.

That book of thirty thousand couplets and his other mystical writings are widely studied in modern times by the intellectuals of Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.

It is also true that preaching that re-creates the experience of arriving at a conclusion would for the minister differ from his own study in all the ways that private experiences differ from those shared with others and in all the ways that people differ from books.

Critical thinker, You study a little science and suddenly you feel you have it figured out, Your meaning of life and the after life is based on other men's hypotheses, Yet it makes such good sense to you that you make a life choice based on it, then you stand up and criticize a person whose made a life choice based on A holy Book written 2000 years ago, When it comes down to it how are you any different, Your choices based on science which changes daily and theirs on the prophets.