Sentences with phrase «things become traditions»

Not exact matches

As people's tastes widen for all things handmade and delicious, the old traditions of cheese making and aging have become big business.

The worst thing that can happen to an authentic spiritual / religious Tradition is for it to become a civil religion.

The Gospels have in their way met this problem, not only by placing the kerygma on Jesus» lips, but also by presenting individual units from the tradition in such a way that the whole gospel becomes visible: At the call of Levi, we hear (Mark 2.17): «I came not to call the righteous, but sinners»; at the healing of the deaf - mute, we hear (Mark 7.37): «He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.»

That can be a good thing for missions if the Christian believers have the theological / spiritual formation to be discerning; but too often cultural custom becomes absolutized along with the Tradition's orthopraxis.

My undergraduate degree is in religion, with a focus on the history of Christian theology, so I'm probably more aware than most people how things that were never in the Bible became tradition, and then became dogma.

God is, according to the tradition which waits to become ours, pre-eminently the place where things start to happen.

Boldest: Shari Johnson with «My Lesbian Daughter, The Bible, and Sex» «When I hear terms like «God's design» and «Biblical marriage» I have to wonder who decides these things... We keep a death grip on the scriptures that suit us — and the translation of those scriptures becomes more a matter of tradition, opinion and convenience than the Word of God.»

When «tradition» becomes and excuse for the useless or harmful, how is that different from putting an organization over things that actually matter?

But, it is becoming a tradition to do two things on this big day.

It's funny how little things can become a family tradition.

Two works about books titled The Man (after the novel by Irivng Wallace that first explored the possibility of a Black man becoming President of the US in 1964) and Things Fall Apart (after Chinua Achebe's 1962 novel about tradition versus colonialism) show the chronological evolution of the African image across the spectrum in international book publishing.

Now at that point I became very much, I became very much in touch with the whole Bauhaus tradition, in the whole, whole idea of art being an all - encompassing thing that its design or architecture or the biological, or the biological functions of individuals.

Here at Legal Blog Watch we like to mark the passing into obscurity of certain trappings and technologies of the lawyer's life (for better or worse, there are always a few tradition - bound codgers who refuse to let things become completely obsolete).

It seems inevitable that standard USB Type - A cables need to be flipped over 4 or 5 times before they magically fit, and this takes out all the silliness of what has almost become a tradition over the years, and still has zero compatibility problems for things like quick charging.

* Repost from December 2016; as we get into the holiday season, childhood family traditions become nostalgic and lead me back to this little story... «If you can move the house by the end of the month, you can just have the whole thing!»

It's funny how little things can become a family tradition.