Sentences with phrase «teaching culture as»

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The way Apple's unique culture continues to flourish and scale, even as the company grows to enormous size and valuation, is a testament to the way Jobs taught his team what matters most, so they could teach their teams, and so on.

«In our celebrity focused culture, a young star like Emma Watson has the power to amplify important social messages,» says Katie Hood, a senior fellow at Duke University who teaches a «Women as Leaders» course and who recently became executive director of the anti-domestic violence One Love Foundation.

This case can be used to teach how branding can be used as a tool for spearheading culture change — not to exercise influence without authority — and how businesspeople can effectively work with a design firm.

«She helped me to understand Canadian business culture, she taught me a lot about Indigenous history, and gave me some very helpful advice as far as working with Peavine Métis Settlement.»

Do you have a strong company culture that can be taught and replicated as your company expands?

As an American man of Asian heritage who grew up in Brazil, Lam also explains how an early influx of culture taught him valuable lessons he uses today.

Doctrine for the pluralists is the expression of Christian teaching as worked out by some appropriate theology and expressed in terms adequate to the culture of the day.

HOWEVER, the Jewish culture and language views «teachings» as having the most authority.

As a result, the story that they are teaching ¯ a story where Jesus is the protagonist, God is little more than one of Shakespeare's fools, and culture is the director ¯ is superficially pleasing but deeply disappointing.

The problem with the evangelical purity culture, as I see it, isn't that it teaches saving sex for marriage, but that it equates virginity with sexual wholeness and therefore as something that can be lost or given or taken away in a single moment.

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.

He had to teach them that there was only one God, a spiritual being who did not resemble human beings, and this could only be done by keeping them as far apart as possible from other peoples and cultures.

If I remember correctly the Lindsay Commission noted the teaching of history as the point at which rational and moral evaluations of traditional and modern cultures could be made most effectively.

I'm concerned for the victims of bad teaching and unhealthy church culture, as I'm sure Warnock is.

This came as an irony to me later, because our wanderlust culture impressed upon me that travel should teach you that life is not ultimately about you; and yet, I traveled for me.

Teachers, preachers, and others who devote themselves to the work of instruction can be saved needless frustration and disappointment if they bear in mind the weight of educational influences exerted by the culture as a whole, and if they take account of the prevailing cultural patterns as they plan their teaching.

The issue of self - defense came up, and Maxwell — a rape survivor — said that guns are not necessarily rape prevention and that, as a culture, we need to start examining cultural biases and teaching men not to rape.

As a culture, though, we teach about rape from the perspective that it happens in dark alleyways, committed by strangers.

I heard statements from my grandfather as far back as I could remember that homosexual practices were something the «white man» taught us and that it was a sign of weakness and weirdness in their culture.

If you claim that hindu's or muslims or buddhist's are not serving the right God and therefore will spend an eternity being tortured just based on the fact they were born into a certain culture and taught a different religion by their peers, I don't think that would qualify as a «choice».

I did not realize that as a practicing Roman Catholic I was in error by supposing that our Lord was wrong when he taught us that harboring lustful thoughts and intentions (now celebrated in popular culture) is a sin.

For others, the idea of sex carries a lot of anxiety and fear — as he or she tries to figure out what messages of sex are «real» between the portrayal we see in culture, the Church's teaching, and one's future spouse's expectations.

If you want to educate the citizens about Islamic culture, perhaps you could use these days as teaching tools and head down to the schools and clear up some misconceptions people have — like the Jewish parents and Islamic parents did when I was a child.

And I suspect it exists because we have created a culture in which Christians tend to see Jesus as a sort of static mechanism by which salvation is secured rather than the full embodiment of God's will for the world whose life and teachings we are called to emulate and follow.

In a similar way, Catholic teaching today, as notably set forth by John Paul II, strongly encourages the fullest possible cooperation among Christians in contending for a culture of life and of truth against the encroaching culture of death and deceit.

The early Catholic church taught (added) many of these «similarities» to get the current Roman pagan culture to worship Jesus and the Saints as basically the same as the Roman Gods.

Here I side with John Howard Yoder against the view prevalent among social ethicists today that the early church found Jesus» sociopolitical ethics, including his teaching on peace, irrelevant and was interested in his life, death, and resurrection only as the basis for justification by faith; that whatever ethics the church taught was drawn from Hellenistic culture, particularly Stoicism.

Leanne Van Dyk explores as an institutional model her seminary's decision to orient its teaching to «the newly emerging missionary encounter of the gospel in the cultures of North America.»

Within the context of special revelation, Niebuhr turned to two distinctive biblical teachings about man, man as creature and image of God, and used these two doctrines to clarify and substantiate his original assumption about man's paradoxical environment of nature and spirit, and to refute the competing anthropologies of modern culture.

The church just keeps reaching and teaching as the culture shifts around it.

I believe a movement is going on in the church, as well as in culture, art, music, and history that seems to fit well with the Mind of Christ as revealed through the life, ministry, and teachings of Jesus.

Missionaries, usually supported by a military guard, went beyond the borders of white occupation, persuaded the natives to settle down, and taught them the arts of peace and Spanish culture as well as the Christian faith.

If a boy is raised in a culture that teaches «Do not murder» as a moral imperative, that culture may give him the tools to understand his evil impulses and, one hopes, to master them.

So, what does this mean for Catholics, Mormons, Muslims, Orthodox Jews, and so many more who believe that their authoritative religious texts teach something the prevailing culture finds so unacceptable that they are no longer welcome within the mainstream context, even if they are (as Louie Giglio is known for) working to eradicate slavery?

Clement of Alexandria and Origen, as well as Augustine and Jerome, encouraged Christians to use secular schools, because they recognized the value of Hellenistic culture, provided it was subservient to Christian teaching.

If culture is the way people think and feel and behave as a people, and if spirituality is the way we live out the life and teachings of Jesus in this particular culture at this particular time, then the questions for thinkers, writers, theologians, and religious professionals must become: What cultural realities are challenging the Gospel now?

As human beings, we need rituals to mark time and space, to give order and pattern to communal life, and to teach us about our distinctiveness as a family, faith community, or culturAs human beings, we need rituals to mark time and space, to give order and pattern to communal life, and to teach us about our distinctiveness as a family, faith community, or culturas a family, faith community, or culture.

Constantly attempting, as he tells us, to bracket from his scientific method of investigation «faith - knowledge» and to «prescind» from the teachings of the church, he nevertheless» in as naive a fashion as one can imagine» fails to bracket the «knowledge» he has imbibed from the political culture around him, knowledge which assures him that our society has been mistaken in its exaltation of the individual.

«That said, if the churches do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.

Insofar as I promote a public philosophy designed to reinforce the authority of traditional culture, I'm necessarily «judging» those whose lives aren't in accord with that authority teaches.

The Food Network, and the prevailing culture of urban young adulthood, taught me to treat coffee, ethnic foods, and cocktails as well nigh sacramental.

As we covered in a previous article, these instructions fall smack in the middle of words to men and women about false teaching and angry disputing over ways the surrounding culture is creeping into the Ephesian church.

One of my greatest frustrations as a pastor and a writer is the widespread inaccurate teaching on forgiveness, both in mainstream culture and the Church today.

Especially offensive, it seems, are traditional Christian versions of such teachings, other than those Christian ethical teachings, such as special concern for the poor, that are already widely shared in the academic culture.

A Harvard student will not so much be taught to read Shakespeare as learn how to «read» him, which means understanding the «dynamics of culture» encoded into his poetry and plays.

I have no problem with religion being taught in schools, in fact, I think it's important everyone have an understanding of different world religions because it will help people understand other cultures as well as see what leads some people to do the things they do.

It is not necessary for certain ideas to have evolved, as is evidenced by other cultures (not to say in any way that they are wrong, however, there are practices that oppose the morals ingrained in us by the society we live in) so could a parent raise perfectly good children without the bible, in this day in age, probably yes, but you must recognize, that much of what they will be teaching will come from their society, adn quite honestly I'm not sure honoring your parents, and not killing are such a bad thing.

other words, as is the case with every rising class (Marx has taught this well), what is at work here is a combination of class interest and class culture.

Jesus teaches the sanctity and permanence of marriage so as to bring under judgment all the frivolity of our culture.

I would add that perhaps Paul's instructions that women should not teach or have authority over men (which would be a turn - off to outsiders in that culture), can serve as a reminder that women actually should be allowed to teach and have authority over men (in order to avoid our own set of turn - offs in the present culture.)