Sentences with phrase «story of children as»

We can contrast these experiences with the classic biblical story of children as a cause for sorrow, which follows immediately after Hannah's story.

Quietly told and expressively illustrated, the story of the child as a budding naturalist is charming on its own, but the photo on the last page opens it up through a well - chosen image that illuminates the connections between childhood dreams and adult reality.

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As a child, I often filled in these blanks with my very active imagination, and my poor mother would have to refute yet another wild story of mine about how I'd come to live with my family.

As the fact - checking site Snopes wrote in 2016, the illegitimate child story was a resurfacing of a 1992 story that had disappeared after it was reported that a DNA test failed to establish Clinton as Williams» fatheAs the fact - checking site Snopes wrote in 2016, the illegitimate child story was a resurfacing of a 1992 story that had disappeared after it was reported that a DNA test failed to establish Clinton as Williams» fatheas Williams» father.

Dino Sajudin's story of an out - of - wedlock Trump child raises even more of those questions, as well as the question of just how many payoff deals Trump or allied institutions like AMI have made.

Definition of a fairy tale: «a story (as for children) involving fantastic forces and beings (as fairies, wizards, and goblins).

maybe you should go back to school... you can believe ant stupidity you want... but it is indeed a source of wonderment as to why you nutcases believe in fairy tales and even children realize when they are 8 that santa clause and the tooth fairy are just stories... we really are incredulous that you continue to spout your nonsense... we are actually trying to help you not sound completely ignorant of reality!

The story becomes even more tragic, though, when the trail of evidence leads him to Dave Boyle, a boyhood friend who was molested as a child and has been acting strangely ever since the recent murder.

I asked her what she thought of that story and she, as a child, was able to evaluate her own lived experience of the world and respond, «that sounds fake».

What is amazing to me as I read columns like this and stories that are sympathetic to killing disabled children and / or support eugenic infanticide, is that we once understood such acts of murder to be an unequivocal evil.

Tolkien says it best: «It is the mark of a good fairy - story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the «turn» comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art... In such stories, when the sudden «turn» comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through.»

As metaphor the story of Adam and Eve can easily be interpreted as the way that mankind must mature, by disobeying God, just as children become adults when they make their own decisions instead of believing everything that dad and mom saAs metaphor the story of Adam and Eve can easily be interpreted as the way that mankind must mature, by disobeying God, just as children become adults when they make their own decisions instead of believing everything that dad and mom saas the way that mankind must mature, by disobeying God, just as children become adults when they make their own decisions instead of believing everything that dad and mom saas children become adults when they make their own decisions instead of believing everything that dad and mom say.

Spare me the tired recitations of your silly book of magic and fairy stories... keep in mind, that vile little tome instructs parents to murder disobedient children and speaks of zombies as if they were real.

It's a simple story, but one that beautifully captures the heart of the Easter story: a God who enters our winter world as a child and, on a tree, with nailscarred hands and feet, brings the spring so that we too may join him in his own garden one day.

THAT fact, ie the fact of the child as a sign, NOT the method of the birth, was the point of the story.

As the organization grew, Johnson felt a hunger to step out and share his story with people who are uncertain, or ex-Christ-followers, struggling with belief in an age where evangelicalism seems to have given up its core values in the name of bringing alleged child molester, Roy Moore, into the Senate.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the latest of the Narnia Chronicles to hit the big screen, is not so much a children's story as a film about growing up... More

And these books don't serve up blind patriotism nor are they revisionist in scope — the stories put a human face on some of our most tragic moments and failures as a nation like Japanese internment, the plight of home children, residential schools, flu epidemics, wars, child labour, the Halifax explosion, the Acadian expulsion, and so on.

The Whole Story series of the classics are the ones I always check out of the library, as their sidebar definitions, explanations of seldom used words, illustrations and interesting tidbits, not only intrigue, but make a classic story accessible to children who might otherwise become confused by the terminology of a different timeStory series of the classics are the ones I always check out of the library, as their sidebar definitions, explanations of seldom used words, illustrations and interesting tidbits, not only intrigue, but make a classic story accessible to children who might otherwise become confused by the terminology of a different timestory accessible to children who might otherwise become confused by the terminology of a different time era.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

it's in buildings like these that children are systematically mentally abused as parents and priests brainwash them with bronze age fairy stories and the threat of eternal fire and torment if they don't believe.

For my own children, in this video - gaming age, what those fictional children get away with is simply unimaginable, except as the stories themselves seed the imagination, and the lives of the characters work their way into the life of the real child, enlarging that child's world.

However, while highlighting the poor quality of life of children in stories such as Oliver Twist and Little Dorrit, authors at that time did not follow today's pro-abortion attitude — namely that it is cruel to let children be born into squalor.

Universal in its appeal, the story has become a favorite of millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever.»

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

The deepest truths can only be expressed in poetry, myth and symbol as some of the most successful authors of children's stories have realized.

We had the nicest most sincere nuns teaching us when I was a child — apparently I was one of the «lucky ones» as there are so many stories about the «mean old nuns» wrapping knuckles with rulers and more.

Consider the extensive indoctrination children receive in school about the past; or perhaps more important, consider how powerful the motion picture industry is as a source of stories about the past.

Teaching children a bible story as actual fact, instead of a religious representation, is just as ludicrious.

This dilemma, it seems to me, calls for reflection upon all those old fairy tales in which the bolder of three unrestricted wishes manages nevertheless to screw things up: reading those stories as children, with considerable incredulity, we thought that in the same situation we would surely do better.

Growing up, I never would have told you that I was abused but, as I recalled some childhood stories humorously to some friends as an adult, I've realized mid-story that I was telling a story of child abuse.

Whether he dealt with women, children, or slaves, whether the persons in need were Jew, Roman, Syro - Phoenician, or Samaritan, whether he associated with «respectable» people or social outcasts, whether he was illustrating true neighborliness by the story of the good Samaritan or declaring the principle of divine judgment on the basis of «as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren» — all persons were of equal and supreme worth to him because he saw them through the eyes of God.

Relying on intelligence dossiers prepared meticulously by his UDR commanders, he prepared intensively, making several dry runs by following the bread delivery van in which Hackett would ultimately die; he blocked out the reality that the target might be a family man with a pregnant wife and child awaiting his return home from work; he avoided reading the papers or listening to TV reports over the next days, because the stories tend to make a real human being out of what had to be thought of only as «the target.»

the belief on the existence of the devil was concieved by theologians of the past thousands of years, there was no other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.

Virgil's Aeneid even fitfully rivaled the Exodus of the Children of Israel as an archetypal story of flight into the wilderness in order to found a new city.

Even though Lewis stated that his stories were conceived as «holiday fiction» for the amusement of children (perhaps primarily for the amusement of the child in him), again we return to the question «Was there more to his stories than that?»

I like to think that those apologists who endorse the view of god as an indiscriminate killer of children and infants will be judged for their lack of compassion and their embrace of such defamatory stories.

And in Buddhism, the story of Gautama's Great Renunciation — in which he abandoned home, wife, and child is presented as an exemplar of the kind of detachment essential for enlightenment.

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.

As for the conclusion of Aidan O'Neill QC, that schools will be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff who refuse to use stories or textbooks promoting same - sex marriage and that parents who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will have no right to withdraw their children from lessons, does that sound at all unlikely, given the cases of the Strasbourg four, which were considered by the European Court of Justice in September?

As we toured the stateof - the - art youth facility, he explained how the play areas are themed around specific Bible stories — there's even a stream of water which, at the touch of a button, divides down the middle in Red Sea style, for children to pass through.

And in the case of this story, if the RCC hadn't spent the last several decades inst.itutionalizing se.xual abuse and conspiring to cover it up and protect the offenders, or alienating folks with their stance on reproductive rights and birth control which is decidedly misogynistic and has contributed to the spread of HIV and other STDs, or if agents of the Church hadn't kidnapped and effectively sold thousands of Spanish, Irish, Australian and American children from the 1940s to as recently as 1987 — then folks wouldn't be leaving the Church in droves and you wouldn't be seeing stories like this one either.

We've internalized those things in the form in which we learned them, as stories suitable for children, and very few of us ever examine them anymore.

A shelf full of books — eight novels, seven collections of short stories, three memoirs, and 11 works for children, to be exact — explore the same theme as his recent novel Shosha: the theme of cosmic exile, wherein God has forgotten his graciousness.

easy answer they started scaring the poop out of them as children with nightmare stories of eternal punishment along with discouraging them to question what they were being taught.

parents or priest taught you some comforting stories from Greco - Roman Palestine as a child, you might like to reflect upon the overwhelming enormity of the claims you are

(The Indians, too, like stories of beautiful princesses and brave noble princes, just as English and American children do.)

He tried to take his evangelistic campaign to Spain instead, but, as even children know from the familiar story of the whale, he wound up in Nineveh after all.

If the divine mystery is present in a special way among the poorest and most misused of his or her children, as the biblical images and stories — from the slaves in Egypt to the official lynching of Jesus — constantly remind us, then allegedly religious people who insulate themselves from the city are putting themselves at considerable risk.

The theater has received glowing reviews for its staging of such plays as Merchant on Venice, which turns Shakespeare's play about Christians and Jews into a story about Muslims and Hindus, and Golden Child, by David Hwang, about the cultural clash between Christian missionaries and the Chinese.