Sentences with phrase «text about hope»

Not exact matches

Our Lord warned enough about the experts of his day who loved long tassels, and who swore by the gold of the temple rather than the temple, to stay us from placing too much hope in ritual and texts to save lives.

The original text is reprinted here in the hopes that it will shed further light on the widespread reflection on caritas and economics about to be requested by Benedict XVI's upcoming encyclical

«Our texts say not a word about what it means to be a good person or to serve God's will in these extraordinary situations,» concludes critic Ruth Schwartz Cowan in her book Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening (Harvard University Press).

Further, people with such different attitudes as those I have mentioned are united in a common inability to listen with complete objectivity to what the texts teach us about the faith and hope of primitive Christianity, without mixing their own opinions and the views that are so dear to them with their interpretation of the texts.

The text continues to hold on to the temple as a central source of hope for Israel, but it also knows that temple hope is profoundly problematic because it makes assumptions about God's availability which crowd God and can not be sustained.

Perhaps this book does the most that any text about liberation theology can do: it invites us to consider what it would mean to have that hope — both for the poor and for all of us.

«I'm hoping the data opens a discussion about preachers» eschatological beliefs, why they hold those ideas, and how congregants and faith leaders can better understand the biblical texts,» he said.

Students (I hope) learn about the value of interrogating everyday texts and practices and thinking about how the «fluff «on tv or in the media might be worth taking seriously.

His statement is unclear about whether he hopes to stay at the university, but parts of the text suggest he does not.

This gives the tool about 32 million negated sentences to work with, and Yu hopes that more journals will allow BioNOT to access their full text it in the future.

You've exchanged emails, perhaps have had lengthy i.m and text conversations about your hopes, dreams, and fantasies.

Which means, if you're hoping to have casual sex don't be shy about sending that flirtatious text or message.

Then they frame their thinking about it by choosing an angle of approach depending on their purpose — what they're hoping the text says or accomplishes.

Introduce students to this award - winning story about hope and promise and encourage them to analyze the text by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this instructional guide for literature.

The nonfiction article is about Hyenas from National Geographic and the fiction texts are Pinduli by Janell Cannon and Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull.

Our hope was that the books and videos would bring the classroom into the home, enabling students to practice oral language at home with a familiar text and share their predictions about the story with their families.

By introducing and researching teacher - led book discussions of ethnic literature, we hoped to investigate alternative texts and contexts for teachers to learn about the cultural foundations of literacy in their own and others» lives.

The most obvious outcome we can hope for is that students will end up knowing more about their social and natural world from reading informational texts — and that could have a positive effect on their reading comprehension.

Ask students to respond to the following questions, citing evidence from the text to support their answers: • In an interview about the book, Joseph Bruchac says of Wolf Mark, «I hope it both entertains and teaches a lesson.»

And about the print analysis, I didn't understand some of the text for the first log quadratic curve graph, and I'm hoping it's a mistake rather than my failure to understand.

Like my other watercolours and text pieces on the North Montana Plains, a real place which I never visited, «Interstate» is about regret, imagination and hope.

Sometimes I see really interesting looking pieces in Art21's blog entries, and then I scan through the whole text hoping to read about them, but they are never mentioned.

KB: Shifting gears a bit, I was hoping to talk to you about text in your paintings.

I hope to add new text about once an hour.»

After contemplating what to do about a recent text I received from The Question Mark, I ultimately decided to respond with a simple «Great — hope you have a nice Thanksgiving.»