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It's been long understood that literacy is the foundation from which cultural revolutions are born, and the opening of Sajia Darwish's library is the first step in a multidimensional approach to support a reading culture in her Kabul community.

It all starts with parents who baby proof coffee tables, stairs, electrical areas and for the book - loving parents, baby proofing bookshelves to protect their baby and precious books which will come in handy when establishing a reading culture in their child.

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The organizations that do the best job of encouraging a culture of mastery are the ones with leaders humble enough to admit they don't know everything and constantly pursue growth — the ones who openly discuss the books they're reading, the classes they're taking and the areas in which they seek to better themselves.

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.

The culture community fit section in Amazon's request for proposals reads: «The Project requires a compatible cultural and community environment for its long - term success.

Our company culture is built on the understanding that we're all whole people, and we want to encourage people to share what's going on in their lives at work — pets, kids, hobbies, travel, food, reading, volunteerism — our team is wonderful at sharing their stories.

The more I read, the more I fell in love with the culture.»

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 historyIn 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 historyin 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 historyin 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).

And yet this is the first popular book on the topic since Christopher Lasch's 1979 bestseller, The Culture of Narcissism (a book still very much worth reading, in spite of its somewhat anachronistic theoretical framework, which draws heavily on Freudian psychoanalysis).

Dreher's book is a bracing read, reminding us that the life in Christ is a communal life and that it often requires us to live against the grain of the larger culture.

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.

The AFA statement read, in part, «Here at the Academy, we world to build a culture of dignity and respect, and that respect includes the ability of our cadets, Airmen and civilian Airmen to freely practice and exercise their religious preference --- or not.»

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

Read in conjunction with Coupland's other novels, Life After God is a compelling reflection on what it means to think and live theologically in our age in which culture is rapidly unraveling.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

In which I disagree with Candace Cameron Bure about «biblical» marriage:: I read Bure's comments about «biblical marriage» and I had to respond to that phrase in particular as she re-ignited the conversation in pop culture about what Christians really believe about headship / submission in marriagIn which I disagree with Candace Cameron Bure about «biblical» marriage:: I read Bure's comments about «biblical marriage» and I had to respond to that phrase in particular as she re-ignited the conversation in pop culture about what Christians really believe about headship / submission in marriagin particular as she re-ignited the conversation in pop culture about what Christians really believe about headship / submission in marriagin pop culture about what Christians really believe about headship / submission in marriagin marriage.

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.

In the graciousness of the book (something often lacking when people engage Emergent, no names but...), in its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reaIn the graciousness of the book (something often lacking when people engage Emergent, no names but...), in its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reain its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reain its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reain love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reain its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reain the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to read.

The following stories are, for those who «read the signs of the times», indicators that the witness of the Church, less and less welcome in the secular culture that surrounds us, has never been more important or necessary.

I'd read Romans and mourn the women, the wives submitting as slaves in a culture that ignored them, dismissed their talk as gossip, distrusted their authority.

But the convention of the «summer reading list» has become so thoroughly engrained in our culture that it seems appropriate to suggest four books - for - summer that will deepen any thoughtful Catholic's faith — and any thoughtful Catholic's perception of the challenges Catholics face today.

Says he: «What makes «Culture in an Age of Money» fun to read — at least for people who were not enamored of Mr. Reagan — is its refreshing candor.

Yet at every point it must be read in reference to the culture within which it emerged, so that its «situation - conditioned» and temporal elements may be seen in their true perspective.

But the very fact they are printed and read speaks of a distorted and twisted curiosity that is rampant in our culture.

His prolific writing, manifestly based upon prolific reading, elucidated issues of faith and modern culture, especially in the many areas where the latter has been undermining the former.

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.

First, he reads Paul's statement in 1:14 that he is obliged to Greek and barbarian as a reference to the Spaniards whom Paul hopes to evangelize: they do not share in the Hellenistic and Jewish cultures that Paul has heretofore been able to assume.

With electronic culture, he suggests, the resonance of sound has become the dominant mode of communication and conveyor of truth, rather than sight (as in reading books to discern ideas).

In fact, Piper can read about some of them in his Bible in the stories of women like Hagar, Tamar, Lot's daughters, and Bathsheba, all of whom lived in highly patriarchal cultureIn fact, Piper can read about some of them in his Bible in the stories of women like Hagar, Tamar, Lot's daughters, and Bathsheba, all of whom lived in highly patriarchal culturein his Bible in the stories of women like Hagar, Tamar, Lot's daughters, and Bathsheba, all of whom lived in highly patriarchal culturein the stories of women like Hagar, Tamar, Lot's daughters, and Bathsheba, all of whom lived in highly patriarchal culturein highly patriarchal cultures.

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.

We have seen that when the Bible is read against the background of the ancient mythological cultures, it is found to be pointing in a different direction.

Jesus referred to scripture and when those scrolls were read the people of day understood their meaning in context of their lives and culture.

angelis If the kids won't encounter these words in school (where they are supposed to get basic learning / guidance on society & culture), I wonder how it'll be like for them someday if they hear / read these «banned» words elsewhere?

It was through reading his works that I was first stirred from my religious slumbers and made aware of the unconscious despair that holds our culture in a veritable death grip.

I got caught up in «reformed» culture, reading dead guys and puritans and quoting John Calvin and becoming hyper spiritual.

due to racism, bigotry and ignorance, most modern historical books in the west do not or have not mentioned such historical facts bc for white men who compiled history books, any credit to any area east of Greece would have been too shameful, but again, when you read about ancient Persian culture and see it in action and look at their tablets and beliefs and artifacts and books, it's quite clear that the Persian Zoroastrian role is all over this....

How can we read about this veneer - like faith and not shudder as we compare it to the broad, wide and often equally shallow thing that passes for Christianity in so much of our culture and in so many of our churches?

A compelling aspect of Kilde's book is her reading of the buildings themselves in order to understand the religious culture that produced them: bold, confident, masculine and modern — yet slightly on the defensive.

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.»

Thus do great traditions end, and a culture that in living memory still read The Pilgrim's Progress and readily recognized quotations from Isaiah now watches Sex in the City and thinks Vanity Fair is a magazine.

Neither the White House nor the Congress seems interested in, or capable of, articulating such a doctrine, and it is not likely to come from a forum of formers who are reading from scripts that in the present political culture are, if intelligible at all, thoroughly implausible.

In between the photo dumps and product placements were some of the most honest, considered, and powerful essays I'd ever read, essays about things that really mattered: faith, doubt, feminism, race, mental health, addiction, community, friendship, mindfulness, grace and the unique joys and challenges of raising children in our highly - connected, yet increasingly isolating culturIn between the photo dumps and product placements were some of the most honest, considered, and powerful essays I'd ever read, essays about things that really mattered: faith, doubt, feminism, race, mental health, addiction, community, friendship, mindfulness, grace and the unique joys and challenges of raising children in our highly - connected, yet increasingly isolating culturin our highly - connected, yet increasingly isolating culture.

In my reading of Scripture, I see that God in Jesus Christ redeems all things ungodly, including humans, creation, holidays, cultures, etcIn my reading of Scripture, I see that God in Jesus Christ redeems all things ungodly, including humans, creation, holidays, cultures, etcin Jesus Christ redeems all things ungodly, including humans, creation, holidays, cultures, etc..

In writing these books Joanna Bogle has provided an entertaining and robust alternative to reading about celebrity culture.

When the Scriptures are put in historical and cultural context and read using reason, we realize the Bible was not intended to condone slavery in modern society but acknowledge it as a reality of the culture when the Scriptures were written.

It's actually been through working with Wycliffe that my perspective on Christianity and reading the Bible has been broadened as I've come in to contact with people from very different cultures, and I've realised how diverse the world is and that God is so much bigger than we often think, especially when we're in our Christian bubble...

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.

Marsden, in a speech at Austin Theological Seminary marking 50 years since Niebuhr had given the lectures there which later became Christ and Culture, argues that a careful reading reveals that «Niebuhr's five categories can he extremely useful analytical tools.»

Our reading for the day was a selection from Daly's second book, Beyond God the Father (1973), which decries a sexist cycle that has patriarchal cultures creating patriarchal divinities who then sanctify in turn the patriarchal cultures that gave them birth.