Sentences with phrase «radical life experiment»

Strong - willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn't sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experiment — a year of biblical womanhood.

«It's easy to mock these radical life experiments as inauthentic, but Evans at least had a didactic purpose.»

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There was in some communities a practice of having all things in common, and there was practised for a time in some groups what Charles Williams has later called «an experiment in dissociation», the living together of men and women with a complete renunciation of sex.12 But these radical experiments never became normative for the churches.

At the conclusion of his book, he challenges his readers to a one - year experiment of radical living where they pray more, read the Bible more, give more, serve more, and attend church (or small groups) more.

As a thought experiment, imagine that a tyrant who is both a health freak and obsessed by the cost of health care seizes control of your country and enforces radical changes to people's daily lives.

The Source Family was a radical experiment in»70s utopian living.

Thus began the one - child policy, the world's most radical social experiment, which continues to irrevocably shape how one in six people in this world are born, live, and die.

Asawa's life encompasses many stories with timely echoes: of a woman artist who came to prominence before the first wave of postwar feminism, of a Japanese - American who went from finishing high school at an internment camp to Black Mountain College, one of the most radical of all American experiments in arts education; of an artist whose oscillating career has typified the vagaries of the artist's life in America.