Sentences with phrase «reading culture by»

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To start taking steps towards building organizational accountability I suggest reading «Change the Culture, Change the Game» by Roger Connors and Tom Smith.

But the man remains determined to change the Tropicana culture by peaceful means, which is why employees are now required to read Ken Blanchard?s Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service.

He mentioned he had just read one of my articles (one of the first ones I had written for this column) and was fascinated by the correlations I made between the culture of the U.S. special - operations community and building high - performance teams in the business world.

Even if your company has a strong mission, a learning culture with smart people to learn from and lots of growth opportunities, it's very difficult to know what it's like to work there by reading your job listing and looking at your marketing website.

She jumped before she was pushed and she implemented an expense disclosure policy that, like ball bearings underfoot, created chaos by exposing the PC government's culture... Continue reading →

In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

Read books and posts by authors of another race or culture.

The story of Rasputin may almost be read as another Russian novel, written not by any single author but by the culture as a whole.

NP, I am still so baffled by the culture in my church that I read your blog like a women who has lost her water bottle in the desert.

By my reading of both the human condition and our current culture, a project like Hart's is more important to the status of religion in public life than, say, arguments for a natural law.

«Touch not those who can read the scriptures in the original languages» (but are disconnected from the culture by millennia, btw).

I haven't mentioned Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald, edited by Welty biographer Suzanne Marrs and Macdonald biographer Tom Nolan (the most touching collection of letters I've read in years), or the latest volume in The Complete Letters of Henry James, or Catherine Lampert's superb Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting (which the painter Bruce Herman will be writing about for Books & Culture), or James Curtis's fascinating and beautifully produced William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come.

To disregard this surrounding culture is to nullify much of the Bible's spiritual meaning by reading into it what is not there but is imputed to it from the thought patterns of a different day.

I see humans read the Bible as if it were written originally by modern day americans using modern day English... one has to remember that the Bible was written from a Jewish culture of 2000 plus years ago..

What is most read by most Catholics are the diocesan newspapers, which are as various in quality as is the Church and the culture that they reflect.

Anyone with their wits about them who reads scripture and prays and is genuinely humble will see that many of the issues which push people into «camps» - especially but not only in the U.S. - are distortions in both directions caused by trying to get a quick fix on a doctrinal or ethical issue, squashing it into the small categories of one particular culture.

For the early explorers, and certainly for those in Europe reading their first reports, the specificity and detail of America's native flora and fauna, and even more, its aboriginal Indian cultures, which by 1492 had already completed a long and distinguished history in this hemisphere, were swallowed up in a generalized feeling of newness which replaced that specificity and detail with the blank screen of an alleged «state of nature.»

But it thrilled me to read smart, relevant, and often sharp - edged essays and reviews written by men and women who think faith matters: matters for our political system, matters for our culture, matters for our souls.

Culture I recently read Jonathan Price's «Culture by Subtraction» (February) and thoroughly enjoyed it — not least because it grants the rather respectable name of «cultural habit» to what has so far been called my countrymen's «arrogance»!

A book that one can barely escape reading on the way to earning a seminary degree is Christ and Culture, by H. Richard Niebuhr.

Partly because the Bible was not allowed to be read and studied by the average person, the church and culture entered into what is now known as the Dark Ages.

By contrast, in literature class we read poetry and fiction, and in social science we study the subjective beliefs of various cultures from a naturalistic perspective.

I think God knew this, and so provided us with a book that could be read and studied by people of all cultures throughout history (this is one of my presuppositions).

I'll try not to fan out too much as I ask my question: I'm reading a book by pastor Jonathan Martin in which he discusses the fact that, in our current culture, fame and notoriety are treated as necessities, while obscurity is considered the kiss of death.

Orthodox Readings of Aquinas by Marcus Plested Oxford, 272 pages, $ 99 The Greeks never had any interest in Latin culture: This was true in the classical period and was inherited by the Church Fathers (the interest of the Greeks in St. Gregory the Great is the exception that proves the rule).

I was especially dismayed by his reading of my assessment of the real contributions of evangelicals and Roman Catholics in U.S. public culture; my point (more an aside, really) was simply that, for various reasons, they can not replace the kind of service to civil society that the mainline provides — not that they do no service at all.

I encourage the curious to read «The Greatest Show on Earth» by R. Dawkins for the remarkable tale of our common history... something quite different from the often insidious tribal codes of caste and culture.

It is fundamental to any adequate understanding of Ricoeur to note that his phenomenology is so constructed as to be open to the «signs» generated by «counter-disciplines,» and indeed to read the meaning of human existence «on» a world full of such expressions generated by the natural and social sciences, as well as in the history of culture.

Many allusions to German culture and history in his work are likely to go unrecognized by the first - time American viewer, especially anyone who has not read some of the growing critical literature on Kiefer or the excellent guide by Mark Rosenthal to the Kiefer exhibition now touring the United States.

But if we read our culture through these theories with a myopic view to the global village master image of globalization, we also misapprehend the critical view that McLuhan proffered and we also ignore his wake up call to the masses that are numbed by their very globalizing technology.

The truth is the modern Bible was put together hundreds of years after Jesus lived and died by priests who wanted to put in only those things THEY thought should be read by others according to the culture of the time.

As important as it is to seek out better ways of reading the Bible, I think we have to start by deconstructing a bit, and Smith does a good job of addressing what has become a troublesome hallmark of American evangelical culture — biblicism.

A Year of Papal Caritas Which of us predicted, reading the sermon delivered after the death of Pope John Paul by the then (but only just) Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, with its frontal attack on relativism and the secularisation of modern culture, that the secularists would come to respond as violently as over the last two years - in England, then in Madrid and Germany - they have done to this Pope's steadfast anti-secularism?

Charismatic culture is often good at telling people things, but if we are genuinely responding to God's initiative in Christ and by his Spirit, a vital part of our growth in Christ comes when another accompanies our exploration, praying deeply and reading the scriptures with us, and reflecting faithfully with us on the areas in which we struggle.

Reading Wesley J. Smith's book, Culture of Death, this weekend, I was struck by how he was describing in the realm of medical ethics precisely the same anti-culture that I have observed in the realm of sexual ethics.

I read a great book over my holiday by Chuck Klosterman, IV, which is a collection of his essays on pop culture.

After reading your article about the culture of Penn State one year after the Jerry Sandusky scandal (We Are Still... Penn State), I had to express how disgusted I was by the photo on page 65 of a Nittany Lions T - shirt that reads SCREWED VS. TATTOOED.

But I just finished reading two books about what's happening on college campuses now — American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus by sociologist Lisa Wade and Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus by feminist and social critic Laura Kipnis — and I actually do feel quite blessed that my college days are long past.

Then, while sitting in the chair at my hairdresser, where much of my reading on popular culture occurs, I stumbled upon an article by Turkish author Elif Shafak in this month's Vogue magazine.

When I try to think of the ultimate pop culture icon for modern day parenting, the image that instantly comes to my mind is a mother reading a worn - out paperback copy of Baby and Childcare by Dr. Benjamin Spock (probably given to her by her mother!).

Inspired in part by the adventurous spirit that fuels the culture of action sports, the show weaves the adrenaline... [Read more...]

As a culture, it's easy to get bombarded and let open - ended play time for our children slip by as we worry about whether they're reading by age three, holding a pencil correctly by age two, and counting to 100 by age four or even involved in dance, music, and t - ball each and every week.

ALL human beings with a properly working circadian rhythm wake naturally during the night, and in many cultures this was accompanied by rising from bed and participating in nighttime activities such as socializing or reading or whatever.

You might enjoy reading «Our Babies Ourselves: How Biology & Culture Shape the Way We Parent» by (Cornell anthropologist) Meredith Small.

The report on the 9th September by the Sunday Mail Medical Correspondent Jo Macfarlane titled «Complaints culture is bleeding schools and hospitals dry» made very interesting reading from the point of view of MRSA Action UK.

Mr Crone and Mr Myler's statement reads: «Just by way of clarification relating to Tuesday's CMS [culture, media and sport] select committee hearing, we would like to point out that James Murdoch's recollection of what he was told when agreeing to settle the Gordon Taylor litigation was mistaken.

At 7 p.m., Declaration 17 will host a public reading by signatories of the «Declaration of Independence in Opposition to the Policies and Practices» of Trump, a document signed by hundreds of concerned citizens, Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W. 64th St. and Central Park West, Manhattan.

The development will also feature community programing through an onsite Activities, Culture, Training (ACTS) Center and a brand new Pre-K for All facility that will be operated by the New York City Department of Education (DOE)... Read More

While the prime minister employs ex-Mail features writer Liz Sanderson as a special adviser to promote her agenda via features pages and magazines not read by political junkies, the culture secretary has appointed Charlotte Griffiths as her media adviser.

The more you Google the poem, he says, the less you hear it: «Much of what's most subtle and valuable in culture... is too blurry to be read by machines.»