Sentences with phrase «other cultures of our world»

Can I trust the path of God that leads me to serve in other cultures of our world?

«O lord I thank you that I was born in the west for what I have learned from other cultures of the world about community and spirituality that I might take back to my own culture that has now a spirituality that though giving off a pseudo-Christian form of godliness often lacks any real power, masking arrogance and making it difficult to follow you.

Not exact matches

«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

Like so many other popular trends, they are the latest version of a long - standing part of American and world culture.

In this candid conversation, Shopify's Harley Finkelstein — one of the most influential and innovative young business leaders in Canada today — shares his experiences scaling Shopify from a scrappy startup to a world - leading provider of commerce solutions, covering, among other things, the key operational, strategic and culture components that differentiate truly great businesses from those that are merely good.

«He is wired into the pulse of pop culture like few others in the world,» says Coke's Kent.

But we need our Canadian leaders to recognize that this genuine interest and curiosity about the world on the other side of the Pacific needs to be encouraged and validated through more opportunities that allow us to engage with new peoples and cultures.

The recent New York Times exploration of the sexual world of the University of Pennsylvania claims that competitiveness and insecurity feed off each other to drive campus sexual culture:

You can't possibly hope to compare the oppression of women of Islam with any other culture in the world and hope to be called sane, can you?

Not for nothing do the folk cultures of the world abound with stories like that of the fisherman's wife who was accorded three wishes» and had to use the third to undo the other two.»

Today's raw recruits to the knowledge class seldom have a solid base of old world, old WASP, or any other culture to fall back on — and no coherent professional culture to embrace.

And if burying bin Laden at sea and in accordance with Muslim law satisfied Muslims and indeed the rest of the world that's conscientious of other people's customs or culture, than so be it.

«Multiculturalism,» a term that Donohue said embodies relativism, «in its most benign expression would be that we should come to appreciate other cultures and not just have one standard upon which we judge the rest of the world.

I find that most of my Christian friends who talk about homosexuality are either determined to not think about the issue because of tradition and fear or are on the other end and choose not to think about the issue because the pressure of contemporary culture (in our part of the world) is to equate my sexuality with the colour of my skin which is, in light of history, a silly equation but we should just adjust our understanding to accomodate.

Cannibalism isn't needed here because fortunately food is pleantiful (for some of us) I'm sure cannibalism has been / still practiced by cultures in other parts of the world (Thankfully)

The victory of the post-European techno - secular world and the universalization of its lifestyle and thinking have spread the impression (especially in Asia and Africa) that Europe's value system, culture, and faith — in other words, the very foundations of its identity — have reached the end of the road and have indeed already disappeared.

Rather, every culture is the product of the human spirit, as the spirit of man wrestles with its total environment and seeks to work out a satisfactory adjustment to the material world, to other men, and to such invisible powers as are believed to control its destiny.

For example, in the nineteenth century we of the West began to be aware of other cultures, of other peoples and civilizations around the world, in a way that had not before been part of our consciousness.

To what extent is our culture teaching the world the virtues of citizenship, self - control, care of others?

So much for Gopnik's argument that Chesterton's «national spirit» and «extreme localism» led him to his supposed anti-Semitism: they were, in fact, precisely what gave him his respect for other nations and other cultures, including that of the Jews, to which the world owed its knowledge of God, «as narrow as the universe».

Today, in many parts of the world, more original theologies are being developed such as liberation theology, black theology, Minjung theology, Dalit theology and various others - which are trying to respond to local realities and to take into account the cultures in which the Gospel takes root.

He seems to assume that Christian culture and politics in other parts of the world can be understood through categories derived from the past 200 years of Western liberal democracy and misses the fact that these communities have histories of their own.

The enemy, Satan, began his attempt to destroy God's people in the Garden of Eden, by also trying to corrupt the world (which led to Noah's Flood), by trying to destroy Israel with attacking armies, and by encouraging Israel to fall into idolatry by exposure to other cultures as well as intermarrying women from those cultures.

Because every culture prior — Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Indian — was controlled by a dominant religion that invariably described the world as a mashup of multiple deities nitpicking with each other.

These children are growing up with an awareness of the world, and it's the song of the church which is making them aware of other cultures and of other people.

Today's world man has become with no value other than his organs if sold or stolen... so what is happening only proves that we are imposing marketing the wrongs against the rights... cultures and beliefs are going down the drain with all those values, morals, virtues some how turning into commotion among cultures and beliefs turning against each other misunderstanding each other or unaware of cultures way of living and beliefs to ease communication mutual understanding as a nation of mankind and a nation of faiths.

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.

The periods of world history are divided into epochs, each of which is accentuated by the growth and decline of historical cultures and societies; in each of these shortlived tribal units have succeeded each other in the domination of a given region or section of the populated earth, either simply co-existing or vying with each other for temporary or semipermanent superiority.

The Judaism of that time, however, had no other arm than to save the tiny nation, the guardian of great ideals, from sinking into the broad sea of heathen culture and enable it, slowly and gradually, to realize the moral teaching of the Prophets In civil life and in the present world of the Jewish state and nation.

In a Western culture that is, on the one hand, insouciantly «nonjudgmental» and, on the other, determined to exact the last ounce of blood from those responsible for real or alleged crimes against humanity, Tutu represents a seasoned sensibility that combines both judgment and mercy as essential components in coping with a far from satisfactory world.

Yet it depended on selective attention to the social ills in the United States and ignorance of the complex relations between religion and culture in other parts of the world.

Christianity has become a genuinely multicultural world religion, thriving profusely in the idioms of other languages and cultures, marked by a lively cross-cultural and interreligious sensibility, unburdened by the heavy artillery of doctors and councils, and otherwise undaunted by the scandalous paucity of money, trained leadership, infrastructure and resources.

In this sense, man's culture is a sort of shadow - world which he has constructed and used as his way of coping with others of his own kind and with his physical environment.

Other people of other colors and other cultures also have the same perception of the wOther people of other colors and other cultures also have the same perception of the wother colors and other cultures also have the same perception of the wother cultures also have the same perception of the world.

One only has to think about the countless cultures around the world that developed gods independently of each other long before humans began to travel globe to realize that all gods are a result of mans ego, fear and lack of understanding.

With some entailment of that danger always implicit in superlatives, one may raise the question whether any other single contribution from whatever source since human culture emerged from the stone ages has had the far - reaching effect upon history that Israel in this regard has exerted both through the mediums of Christianity and Islam and directly through the world of Jewish thinkers themselves.

India never conceived of one single myth of the world's creation, as found in the Bible and many other cultures.

The American - led transition to a United States of the World means that «other cultures either have an American future or no future at all.»

Not to mention the 120,000 years before that humans have lived on Earth or the other parts of the World, that included 99 % of all cultures and civilaizations on Earth 2,000 years ago that JEsus gave no indication of even knowing about.

«In the world in which we now live, with fears about «The Other» - whether that be Sunni, Shia, Jew, Christian, Yazidi, Hindu or Buddhist - stoked and spread through social media, and amplified by those who would seek to suppress understanding, rather than promote it, there is an urgent need for calm reflection and a genuinely sustained, empathetic and open dialogue across boundaries of faith, ethnicity and culture.»

«Amazingly, children - at - risk from different parts of the world [who have] similar problems have more in common with each other than with other types of children within the same culture.

But in the Kingdom of God, we are not reliant on the world's culture to affirm and celebrate each other.

The real antagonism that characterises today's world is not that between various religious cultures, but that between the radical emancipation of man from God, from the roots of life, on the one hand, and from the great religious cultures on the other.»

National churches like the Church of England and other mainline Protestant denominations are losing ground in a world where nationality and culture are becoming increasingly flexible in the lives of most people.

Because of their long participation in a pluralistic culture and their friendly relations with the Jewish people and with Protestants, they were perhaps better equipped than Roman Catholics from any other part of the world to understand the significance and the importance of these two issues.

To become socialized, to be grown up, to be acculturated, means that we have learned enough of the codes of our own culture so that we can function as do other adults in our world.

This story illustrates that the world in which we live also lives in us; not only are we a part of cultures, sub-cultures, socio - politico - economic groups, families and other institutions, they are a part of us, constitutive of our very selfhood.

In other words, the humanistic and secular world is to be seen as the legitimate product of the ever - evolving Christian culture of the West.

Atheism has a long history of imposing their immorality on others, and have destroyed cultures all over the world, including the United States.

I have no problem with religion being taught in schools, in fact, I think it's important everyone have an understanding of different world religions because it will help people understand other cultures as well as see what leads some people to do the things they do.