Sentences with phrase «other communities experienced»

Seven other communities experienced a more than 25 percent growth in charter school enrollment between 2010 and 2011.

«Over a four - year period, Turnaround Arts schools in other communities experienced on average a 12.6 % improvement in reading proficiency and a 22.5 % improvement in math proficiency.

Not exact matches

Bringing over 10 years of experience in Silicon Valley, Burns will engage a global community of climbers on the brand's commitment to thoughtfully designed technical equipment, outerwear and sportswear for use by climbers and other people going to the mountains.

In addition to providing courses, FutureLearn offers a community of learners, with students communicating with each other to enhance the experience.

In general, the social platforms studied provided some significant benefits on the average, particularly in the areas of emotional support from others, awareness of others» experiences, self - expression, self - identity, and community building.

Smart retail stores sponsor live events, peer - help sessions, and customer demonstrations to create great experiences and opportunities for people to feel community with others that they could never find online.

He added: «One of the things we found super exciting is the mindset [that] you are open and connected to each other, layering experiences, building community.

There is a sense of community and teamwork that I haven't experienced at other companies.

His advice: Lean on your support system and reach out to other entrepreneurs in your community — many of them have likely experienced similar emotions.

There is a strong community of owners who all work together and support each other with the same goal of spreading the Pure Barre experience across the United States.

The experience was so illuminating — «I felt so grateful to work at a place that offered these opportunities,» she says — that she started thinking of other ways the firm could connect physical and mental wellness with community improvement.

The tech community specifically is tight knit - rather than the «watch your back» mentality I've experienced on the west coast, Raleigh is much more about embracing others and working together as a unit to move forward rather than going after each other to advance.

And because we have inside knowledge of the medical community, we feel that we can lend that part of our experience to help others,» said Jill.

As part of this campaign, I will develop a backer - only community where you can share your experiences, meet and learn from other backers, and interact with me and our entire team during the writing and research process of my next book.

They also developed a community in the form of a forum that allowed other over 40 moms to share their experiences and offer each other support.

Language, culture, and community support from locals and other expats all can have a dramatic effect on the quality of the expat retiree experience.

We connect with entrepreneurs in those communities through Seven Peaks hosted events and forums, where entrepreneurs share experiences and learn from each other.

To others, flourishing communities experience significant economic growth and stability.

Not only will you benefit from the other members» knowledge and experience, you'll also gain a reputation for being involved in the local business community.

Pure Barre Riverside was born out of her passion and prayers to help others experience the life - changing technique and community.

«Houston and other nearby communities have experienced devastating loss and destruction, and we feel compelled to do our part to support relief and rebuilding efforts,» said Tad Taube, chairman of Taube Philanthropies.

It's also a community where individual «indie hackers» come together to share their experiences, give and receive feedback, and rely on each other for support.

I do find what you have mentioned about TLS in other communities however and perhaps it would be my experience if I were to be involved now.

The other, and surely the most significant arena where abstract philosophy must interact with concrete experience, is community life — where principle and practice come together on a personal, human scale.

The experience led Rachel — a therapist from St. Paul, Minnesota — to research how other queer women from non-affirming Christian communities have related to the church and how they've maintained their faith.

Lutherans believe that we experience God's law as the driving force behind the demands that human beings impose on each other as they live in community.

The new disciples, whether with Jewish or Gentile backgrounds, found in the Christian community not only a transforming experience of divine grace but a sustaining experience of human fellowship, and, in whatever other ways this fellowship functioned, it was bound to express itself in corporate worship.

If, however, instead of correct belief about God's self - revelation in Christ, experience of the living God present by the power of the Spirit in Jesus Christ is at the heart of Christian fellowship, then the Christian community becomes a circle of friends who strengthen each other in their search for deeper awareness of divine reality and love.

OR, might God choose to reveal truth through the experiences of a people who tried to be true to him, certain moral principles, failing again and trying again, people looking for universal truths and communicating them to their children generation after generation, orally and through writing things down, organizing themselves into communities and societies, aiming for justice, teaching each other, defending their families, lives, cities, and governments.

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

When I visited her community, one of the other sisters told me about her experiences with their patients.

But the conceptual characterization of community is an extension of the concrete experience of physical community, just as the common eternal object used to characterize the nexus is derived from the physical feeling of entities - requiring - each - other.

They are learning what it means to follow Jesus into the world, to experience true community with other believers, to read Scripture in a new light, and to serve others out of love rather than compulsion.

It is also necessary to insist that any pattern of development for the tribals and others who still have cultures and communities predominantly based on the primal vision of undifferentiated unity, world - as - nature and cosmic spirituality, should introduce differentiation and individuality, historical dynamism and secularism gradually and without violently tearing down but grafting on to the stabilities of traditional spirit and patterns of life and living followed by them In fact from my experience, I have found that modernized educated tribal leaders are the worst offenders in this respect.

Indeed, it was Fosdick's influence, along with that of Walter Rauschenbusch and other advocates of the social gospel, that led me to experience considerable alienation from the evangelical community during my years of graduate study on secular campuses in the 1960s, when I joined protests against racial injustice and marched against the Vietnam war.

I don't want to be sad so that after my life is over, people will jump to the conclusion that it was because of all my trials, my poor finances, my negative community experiences, my confrontations with other leaders, and my apparent lack of visible success.

For our ethical considerations on peace, peace - ministry, conflict resolution, Christians may profit from reading the Old Testament, our Holy Scripture, as a witness to the experience of a people in war and peace with other nations and as a reflection on what peace requires of the community.

Unless there be some cumulative and progressive development of the community of freedom, equality, and love among men it is impossible to give any adequate account of our common experience of sharing in the spirit and insight which comes to us from others.

Writing Searching for Sunday forced me to consider that perhaps real maturity is exhibited not in thinking myself above other Christians and organized religion, but in humbly recognizing the reality that I can't escape my own cultural situatedness and life experiences, nor do I want to escape the good gift of my (dysfunctional, beautiful, necessary) global faith community.

In future posts we will look at various other ways we have sought to be the church in the community, will give examples of other people we know who are being the church in their communities, and will encourage you to give examples from your experience.

However, I've found that having mentors talking me through it, as well as a community of other people experiencing deconstruction and those who have endured it, invaluable!

To conclude: Luther — and in our own time several others, notably (I would say) Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Simone Weil — insisted that the truly indispensable mark of the church is (in Luther's language) «the mark of the holy cross»: that is, that the disciple community must experience in real and concrete ways the suffering of the world that is the anthropological background of the gospel of the cross.

In reviewing different metaphors and images of the atonement in the New Testament and the works of Brunner, Aulen, Luther and others, the author posits that the best approach is through an understanding of God's reconciling love as seen in Christ and as experienced in disclosure, suffering, communication and community.

The topic for the night was that most of us try to improve ourselves by climbing the moral ladder, but to really experience community with God and each other, we need to climb down the ladder back into the failures and stinkiness of life.

I suspect, in some cases I know, that those Christians who espouse a pluralist or inclusivist position, who reject the notion of salvation in no other name, have personally experienced the truth and the light that is discerned in Buddhist or Hindu or Confucian or Islamic communities.

A hermeneutic of revelation must give priority to those modalities of discourse that are most originary within the language of a community of faith; consequently, those expressions by means of which the members of that community first interpret their experience for themselves and for others.

In the ecumenical discussions and experience, churches with their diverse confessions and traditions and in their various expressions as parishes, monastic communities, religious orders, etc., have learned to recognize each other as participants in the one worldwide missionary movement.

On the other hand, to celebrate the integrity of the tradition, its documents and declarations, to give impetus to the continued reflection of the church on issues of contemporary meaning and value, is to experience the renewing power of being a part of a community of faith, of having an identity which transcends the anomic character of «doing your own thing» and going it alone.

I can testify from my experience as a pastor that flunking in the School of Communion has grave consequences, not only for an individual or for one's family, but for all the other communities of which the family is the basic cell.

In other words, these biblical stories, which are not self - conscious literary creations but genuine emergents from the experience of a religious community — these stories are attempts to express an understanding of the relation in which God actually stands to human life, and they are true in any really important sense only if that understanding is correct.