Sentences with phrase «set of stories by»

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We are starting to get more details on what it was like on the set of «Solo: A Star Wars Story» before original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired by Lucasfilm over creative differences, and Ron Howard took over.

One entrepreneur's story of how he gained a long - term customer by going the extra mile to set himself apart from competition.

«This novel is set in the near future and tells a horrifying story of a government takeover by an ultra-extreme religious group dominated by men and supported by their passive wives.

One of them was the mid-1990s hit Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler, in which the author, a Brazilian CEO, describes running a democratic, open - book company in which people set their own salaries.

What it's about: Set adjacent to the story of Jesus, a Jewish prince named Judah is sent to slavery by a Roman friend, regains his freedom, and plots revenge.

In retelling the story of Kierkegaard's short career, Garff set himself two goals: «to reinstall Kierkegaard in his own time,» and to separate the facts about the man from the myths created by his several self - depictions.

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

The volume is also divided into two separate stories, set a century apart: a long first - person narrative by a Handmaid in Gilead is followed by «Historical Notes on «The Handmaid's Tale,»» a fictive academic commentary by the urbane male editor of the anonymous woman's tapes discovered in the late 21st century, decades after Gilead's fall.

Set in a timeless desert unfettered by any particular time period, Habibi tells the story of Dodola and Zam, two orphaned slave children who find love and security in each other.

To see belief not as a set of beliefs but as a story, an experience of coming to belief, means that theological reflection ought itself to be shaped by the story, take to itself, both in form and content, the story.

Ever since the publication in 1903 of Wilhelm Wrede's famous book on this subject, The Messianic Secret in the Gospels, scholars have been compelled to take seriously the thesis it set forth, namely, that the whole conception of the secret Messiahship is an intrusion into the tradition, either read into it by Mark or at a late pre-Marcan stage in the development of the tradition, and not really consonant with the story of Jesus as it was handed down in the earliest Christian circles.

Rather, the setting of my story and the congregation's portrays my own body and that of the local church essentially in human terms, but my factual portrait of the world is darkly shaded by the tragic inevitability of God's inexorable plan.

In the following two chapters, I shall examine more precisely the various forms that parish stories assume and show how by observation and inquiry one can explore the setting of a congregation's narrative.

The setting of the empiric story shows an often anomalous world in which signs of the sacred are belied by their link to folly and injustice.

Telling the story develops the identity and mission of a congregation by establishing the setting of the story of a local church, its picture of the world; narrative proclaims corporate nature.

Set in the Holy Land in the first century, it tells the story of a young woman joining a new social movement led by Jesus of Nazareth - and the 43 - year - old portrays the Messiah himself.

You seem to have highlighted particular sins as though some are worse than others all sin leads to death not just the big ones because we all are sinners.All have gone astray none are righteous.I believe the worst sin is pride idolatry is the first commandment we set ourselves as Gods.Regardless of what the sin is, our hearts are condemned by our pride.It wasnt the sin of homosexuality or sexual deviance that destroyed sodom.It was there pride and it is one of our biggest stumbling blocks in our christian walk or it certainly was for me.We look at the story of the adulterous woman and we think adultery is a terrible crime but the story is for our benefit to show that we all are sinners that Jesus does nt condemn us but came to save us.And when Jesus says go and sin no more he was not only talking to the woman but everyone else that was around judging her for her sin its a universal message that we all need to see that we all are condemned because of our sin that Jesus came to save us and that we turn from our sin and follow him.Because he is the way the truth and the life.brentnz

In 1984, after Farrah Fawcett played in The Burning Bed, a TV drama that told the true story of a battered wife who ended thirteen years of marital torment by setting fire to the gasoline - soaked bed of her sleeping husband, a number of copy - cat assaults occurred across the nation.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

Without even recounting the crucifixion, Bell presented such vivid images of the patterns of sacrifice in the ancient Near East (the cultural setting for the sacrifice of Isaac) that by the time we got to the story of Jesus, our hearts and minds were connecting the dots.

And though, as I have said, this is a worldwide story, it centres on Ireland, for reasons we will go on to discuss, the most immediate of which was the publication last year of the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse set up by the Irish government at the turn of the century.

onwards since it brought the much needed encouragement in their frequent periods of persecution by setting forth a story of ultimate victory.

In the surrender of faith we allow ourselves and our consciousness to be shaped by a set of revelatory images and stories.

By surrendering to and immersing itself in the images and stories of a faithful God revealed as self - emptying love, the desire to know is set free to seek reality or truth.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

In the biblical stories, local problems require setting out anew - perhaps leaving the place of oppression, as with Moses, or figuratively «leaving» by reorienting our minds, as did the captives in Babylonia.

The predominant setting of the stories in the south, together with linguistic peculiarities which only a Hebrew scholar would detect, indicates that the writing was done by somebody in the kingdom of Judah.

The major aspects of parish story already examined, setting and characterization, depict features of congregational life that — though by no means immutable — usually remain the same over long periods of time.

The text is by no means complete, despite the fact that more than one set of tablets has been found containing the story, for most of the tablets have suffered some breakage; but its main lines can be discerned very well.

By establishing the setting of the story of a local church, its picture of the world, narrative proclaims corporate nature.

Set in the schlock district of rakishly decorated motels built in the 1950s to house Disney World around Orlando, and Kissimmee, Florida, the story follows families who have fallen below the minimum score to rent an apartment and are stuck in a cycle of poverty that includes living indefinitely in cheap rent - by - the - night rooms that have long since fallen out of favor with tourists.

I do nt unsually comment on these grab attention stories but this one I got to let go of something... I do nt care if it's Muslim, Catholic, Methodist, Bhuddist, or whatever fly by night belief you want to have in OUR great country (thats right it's all ours) you have that right but get one thing straight... if you come on MY property and steal something thats mine, imma shoot and call the police... you bring something to MY property thats not mine imma shoot and call the police... you set whatever it is on fire on MY property imma shoot, call the police and the fire department and I promise you you will get a chance to bask in the glory of your religion.

One of the most remarkable parallels is the story concerning Sargon I, king of Assyria about 1200 years before Moses, who was said to have been set in a basket of rushes, its lid sealed with bitumen, and cast into the river, from which he was rescued by a «drawer of water.»

My review of a book that reports the story of a man who died in 1940 does not in any way purport to compromise what, in 1965, Blessed Paul VI set down in Nostra Aetate, especially no. 4: «In her rejection of every persecution against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel's spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.»

The deuteronomic historians — we will use the symbol DH for them — set all of this in a four - member formula by which the individual stories of the judges are introduced and linked to one another.

When we recognize the original point as that of the contrast between the handful of seed and the bushels of harvest, and when we set the parable finally in the context of the proclamation of God acting as king in the experience of men confronted by the message and ministry of Jesus, what is the significance of a story about a Palestinian peasant who sows handfuls of seed and, despite all the agricultural vicissitudes of that time and place, gathers in bushels of harvest?

In a famous scene in The Brothers Karamazov by the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 81), the story is told of a general who deliberately sets a pack of hounds on a boy who had accidentally injured one of them.

A religious end or aim is defined by a set of practices, images, stories and concepts which has three characteristics.

Is it, as popular piety would have us believe, the story of an innocent man set upon by a gang of corrupt officials and a mindless mob?

I really loved Emma's story of childhood bread and chocolate by the sea — that has to be the best setting for breakfast.

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Story and Photos by Dave DeWitt The setting was perfect: Rancho de los Caballeros, a dude ranch and spa set on 20,000 Sonoran desert acres outside of Wickenberg, Arizona.

Acqualina Spa by ESPA, the first ESPA - branded spa in the United States, provides guests with an exquisite 20,000 - square - foot, two - story tranquil sanctuary of excellence and relaxation set in a class of its own offering 11 multi-functional treatment rooms and an extravagant private spa suite for two, along with the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful outdoor terrace complete with a spa pool, heated jet pool, and Roman waterfall — all set against the gorgeous backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean.

He sets the tone and the fact that the whole team's passing accuracy of just 75 percent was down by over 10 points from the previous Premier League game against Swansea tells a stark story.

Bryan claimed he was not the weak link of Team Hell No, and set about proving this by destroying every single competitor he met up with, most notably Randy Orton, who has a larger part to play later in Bryan's story.

Looking at First Down Rate (% of drives resulting in at least one first down or TD) and Available Yards Rate (yards gained by the offense / total yards available based on starting field position) is in line with our move toward bigger - picture stats, but they tell essentially the same story we've set up above: the Hoke offenses got worse and worse with very little fluctuation in even the most specific stats.

A breast cancer advocate honors his mother and other breast cancer patients by sharing the story that set him on an unexpected mission of support.

Advocacy A breast cancer advocate honors his mother and other breast cancer patients by sharing the story that set him on an unexpected mission of support.

If all low risk women were being cared for by midwives in out of hospital settings, we would see better outcomes, healthier mamas and babies, and women would be able to tell their birth story with confidence that they had control.

In fact, several of the following stories were written by former volunteers who taught Ezzo's materials in church settings.