Sentences with phrase «practice cultures for»

Indigenous people and local communities have been practicing their cultures for centuries without the need for incentives.

Not exact matches

You can do this through striving for ethical business practices and encouraging a culture of volunteering within your business.

These are just some of the best practices, adapted appropriately for each company, that build a culture of high performance, breed innovation and, most importantly, produce a significant impact on bottom - line performance.

A meeting scheduling service is an important tool for changing the culture of meetings in the office because it enforces best practices and new processes with software.

Uber has been under fire for months for its management practices and company culture.

Despite taking heat for its corporate culture and business practice, Uber remains the most popular ride - hailing app.

SAN FRANCISCO — In the second major shake - up in a week, a top Uber executive has left the ride - hailing company as it comes under heavy scrutiny for its workplace culture and its business practices.

We provide a format for family meetings that is interactive and meaningful in supporting the family's culture, opportunities for multigenerational decision - making practice (such as a multi-gen investment committee), and skills development to enhance listening and communication within the family.

Tom is also a two - time author, including How Clients Buy: A Practical Guide to Business Development for Consulting and Professional Services (2018) and Bread and Butter, a critically - acclaimed book that describes his work at Great Harvest and how he and his team created a nationally recognized corporate learning community and culture of best practices using collaborative networks.

We set the standard for servant leadership and model the behaviors and practices that need to take place for culture change.

Dan Denison defines workplace culture as «the underlying values, beliefs, and principles that serve as a foundation for an organization's management system as well as the practices and behaviors that both exemplify and reinforce those basic principles.»

Not only is there a different skill set between search for a business model (or in my case collaborative literacy program model) and executing that model, there's a different skillset in documenting, training, and codifying the culture and practices of that model.

Except for the fact atheists share no common belief, moral tenets, history, culture, texts, goals, holidays, traditions, practices, places of gathering, or hierarchy...

Pastors cite «context» and «culture», saying it was a practice for then and not for now.

Breeders, a film by the Center for Ethics and Culture, investigates the growing practice of surrogacy: «Surrogacy is fast becoming one of the major issues of the 21st century — celebrities and everyday people are increasingly using surrogates to build their families.

All I got out of this is that Chad thinks slavery is just fine under the right scenarios and that there was no need for the state or a moral authority (like, say, god) to point out that alternate labor scenarios, as practiced in many cultures, might be preferable.

It was Arendt's remarkable ability to face the double tradition from which she emerged with a sharp - eyed focus that characterizes much of her work: its generosity for the practice of democracy and her fierce determination to explain for herself as well as for others the failure of her former culture to endure despite its qualities.

We do not advocate accommodation to culture; we regard Scripture as the sole ultimate norm for doctrine and practice.

If «believers» aligned their right beliefs with right practice, fewer church members would look elsewhere for critically important discussions about caring, inclusiveness, open dialogue, ethical decision - making, and shared doubts in the context of a disturbing contemporary polarized culture.

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)

Eventually the Church moved to the forefront of abolition because we understood this truth: Just because the Bible contained instructions about how to treat slaves in a context and culture where it was acceptable to hold slaves does not mean slavery is a godly practice or part of God's intended purpose for creation.)

By contrast, those responsible for ruling, the «philosopher kings,» were to be «cultured» in a way that formed in them the «philosophical virtue» that was grounded in knowledge of the Good itself and not, as were the guardians» virtues, simply trained into them by custom and practice.

The exercise is supposed to teach us tolerance and respect for the values and practices of other people and cultures, and also to see that sometimes, bad thigns must be done for the good of everybody else.

That God allows Himself to be the scapegoat for our sin is seen partly in the fact that the practice of «scapegoating» is found, not just in Leviticus 16, but in all cultures and all religions throughout history.

«and the any way was the Jewish removed from society culture and their business practices that were damaging the German economy from recovery after Versailles Treaty... would that have been a better excuse for Hitler wanting to kill the Jews?

We live in cultures in India which have permitted the most outrageous traditional practices, with no regard for what this does to the innermost psyche of individual women and to their communities.

They are just practicing ceremonies and customs that have been in their culture for thousands of years.

This is not to say that a secular criminal - justice system should embody, for example, a theology of grace, but it is not too much to ask that a culture's symbols of ultimate justice and life's sanctity inform its ideals and practices.

For me, when I realized that there was a spirituality that was developed by the early church — by the same community that wrote the New Testament and would naturally understand it best — and that this spirituality had been practiced unchanged by believers in every culture and time, I had to be there.

This term, now a numinous one, denotes what Michel Foucault would call a discursive formation or practice, an activity, that is, for which there is a definite institutional and theoretical place in the culture, an activity that now has a fairly lengthy history and that has produced its own bureaucratic organizations, organs of publication, and professional experts.

The development of such a comprehensive view has long been a need, for it has become clearer and clearer as we have become familiar and involved with a constantly widening horizon of different musical aims and practices, that the old «common practice» theories of harmony and counterpoint could no longer be overhauled or extended, but had by necessity to be replaced by a way of description and analysis that treated the «common practice» of Western music from the late seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries as only one instance of a much wider musical method and practice that could be applied to all of Western music, from its origins to the present, as well as to music of other cultures.»

«Scripture's male - female prerequisite for marriage and its attendant rejection of homosexual behavior is pervasive throughout both Testaments of Scripture (i.e. it is everywhere presumed in sexual discussions even when not explicitly mentioned); it is absolute (i.e. no exceptions are ever given, unlike even incest and polyamory); it is strongly proscribed (i.e. every mention of it in Scripture indicates that it is regarded as a foundational violation of sexual ethics); and it is countercultural (i.e. we know of no other culture in the ancient Near East or Greco - Roman Mediterranean basin more consistently and strongly opposed to homosexual practice).

Whereas, earlier, it had been believed that the Aryans found only peoples of relatively undeveloped culture, now it is known that at least some of these early Indians had developed the arts to a high degree, that they even had a kind of hieroglyphic writing, not yet deciphered, and probably an equally well developed religion which, suppressed for a time, gradually reasserted itself and greatly modified Vedic religion, gradually transforming it into the Hinduism as practiced in India today.

The other extreme is an uncritical accommodation to corporate culture, assuming its practices are fully consistent with God's intentions for the world.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

If we understand baptism as a «full identification» then passages like Romans 6:4 can have meaning and significance for all people in all cultures at all times; not just for the segment of the world that practices burial.

But for now, does it concern you to know that baptism was (and is) practiced by other religions in other times and cultures?

Apologising for the scandal, the executive director said the probe will examine the charity's culture and practices, before making recommendations.

Those in the «second culture» have been practicing this maneuver for a long time.

The relation between the study of ancient Near Eastern cultures and the practice of preaching, for example, needs to be given theological articulation.

Alternate frameworks for collective living in India must be in the business of detecting the elements of distinctiveness (even if through difference) of Dalit and Adivasi culture and religion, which are inscribed into the communicative practices of the community, in order to represent its collective identity to itself as well as to the nation - state.

At other times they adopt a «Christ above culture» attitude, for instance, in adopting the prevalent American attitude that «business is business,» while adding to it higher spiritual practices.

It is not necessary for certain ideas to have evolved, as is evidenced by other cultures (not to say in any way that they are wrong, however, there are practices that oppose the morals ingrained in us by the society we live in) so could a parent raise perfectly good children without the bible, in this day in age, probably yes, but you must recognize, that much of what they will be teaching will come from their society, adn quite honestly I'm not sure honoring your parents, and not killing are such a bad thing.

It was practiced in nearly every culture and every religion of the Middle East to symbolize death to the past and full identification with a new way of living for the future.

A.E. Medlycott points out that the value of the report of Theophilus is its evidence that by the middle of the fourth century India or its adjacent territories had indigenous, worshipping congregations ministered to by local clergy, with customs such as sitting for the Gospel, that were well adapted to the Indian culture though divergent from accepted western practice.

Cultures in India have permitted the most outrageous traditional practices, with no regard for what this does to the innermost psyche of individual women and to their communities.

It requires what might best be called «theology of culture,» theological reflection on critical implications of cultural change for congregations» practices, and it calls for envisioning possible constructive reshaping of a congregation's practices insofar as they are ways in which the congregation tells its story in and to its host culture.

When Mary Magdalene was about to be stoned to death for adultery (widely practiced in some cultures) Jesus point - blank asked everyone there, «He who is with out sin, let him cast a stone...» One by one, they all slunk away.

For example, the Bible is frequently quoted in support of opposition to portrayals of sex and violence in the media but not often to challenge the practice of western media corporations destroying poorer indigenous cultures by selling cheap western entertainment that under - cuts local programming, even though protection of the poor is a strong biblical message.

I have zero sympathy for the outdated religious practices of this tribal culture.