Sentences with phrase «role as a missionary»

In her current role as both missionary and writer, Mrs. Elliot in a sense perpetuates the career pattern of her distinguished father, Dr. Philip E. Howard, president and editor of The Sunday School Times.

This new rule and our new role as missionaries and enforcers of equality, diversity and inclusion will have unintended consequences.

Candidate with a nursing diploma and thorough experience in conducting health, hygiene and spiritual workshops seeks a challenging role as a missionary nurse in a reputed hospital.

Not exact matches

Volunteer groups should not provide employment to local gringo wannabe elites — or northern missionaries living in the South — who act in the name of the poor but actually erect barriers to true encounters because such encounters would threaten their privileged role as interlocutors.

By the members of the Synod embracing their role as a band of joyful missionary disciples, we here in Southeast Michigan will be strengthened for our vocation «to be all in» with the New Evangelization, to have full confidence in the power of the Holy Spirit to heal and transform, to put uncompromising trust in the Lordship of Jesus over every time and place.

The WCC's Bangkok Conference cited above rightly urged missionary agencies to «examine critically their involvement as part of patterns of political and economic domination, and to re-evaluate the role of personnel and finance at their disposal in the light of that examination.»

This was originally Wilhelm's role when he went over to the country as a missionary, but when he lived amongst the Chinese and observed their ways of life, he realised they shared a spirituality and philosophy that he believed, by the end of his life, was more preferable to the Western way of thinking and living.

It's not a great film, but it looks beautiful, is well - acted (Jeremy Irons is excellent as the passive senior missionary, Robert de Niro as a reformed mercenery and Ray McAnally as a papal representitive and smaller roles for Aidan Quinn, Ronald Pickup and Liam Neeson) and then of course comes the pièce de résistance, one of the greatest contributions to cinema of one of cinema's all - time - greatest contributors, Ennio Morricone.

The pace of missionary expansion increased considerably after the first Anglo - Chinese war (known as the First Opium War, 1839 - 1842) with Christian missionaries, working under the protection of Western powers, playing a major role in Westernizing China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The show, about «dual images of the Caribbean as a utopic place of pleasure and a land of deviance and illicit activity,» explores the role of iconic figures ranging from pirates to missionaries.

This photographic essay entitled Genesis [Je n'isi isi](2016), explores the early role of Christian missionaries and the Church in paving the way for Colonialism in Africa, as well as the lingering effects of syncretic religions on the postcolony.

I do not accept the transformation of my role as a lawyer into a missionary and enforcer.