"To engage the culture" means to actively participate, interact, and contribute to the customs, beliefs, values, practices, and ideas of a particular society or group of people.
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It is not a distraction, but an opportunity to have other means of honest employment and also
engage the culture in a way he wouldn't be able to from a church office.
We've been working on a developing a strong research -
engaged culture for several years and increasingly we've been talking about methodology and evidence.
An ethicist and theologian by background, Moore is also an ordained Southern Baptist minister and the author of several books including Onward:
Engaging the Culture Without Losing the Gospel.
Describe what a positive, supportive, and
engaging culture looks, sounds, and feels like and practice ways to foster this.
ART21 «provides unparalleled access to the most innovative artists of our time, revealing how
artists engage the culture around them and how art allows viewers to see the world in new ways.»
While no one would chastise a Christian businessman for working at a non-Christian organization, audiences who are used to categorizing media into two fields, Christian and non -, find it difficult to understand the role many Christ - following artists feel to
engage the culture at large.
In other words, how can the
church engage a culture that has been nurtured on a concept of success for its entire existence, with the concept of failure.
Very often,
Christians engage the culture with truth on their side, but lack the inspirational transcendental of beauty, and the disposition of charity.
Many of the STOQ project's initiatives
involve engaging cultures in dialogues about science; in some sense its undertakings can be perceived as a shrewd PR move, giving the Holy See an opportunity to inject the issue of religion into scientific discourse.
Greear had laid out his four «biggest passions» for the SBC in a blog accepting his nomination: to continue and deepen the focus on gospel - centeredness in theology and mission; to
engage culture with grace and truth; to encourage congregations to engage in the entities and boards of the SBC; and to equip non-Anglo pastors and members.
I think churches often use modern means to show how they're
engaging the culture for Christ, but not accommodating to it.
Describe what a positive, supportive, and
engaging culture looks, sounds, and feel like and practice ways to foster this.
According to PBS, the series «provides unparalleled access to the most innovative artists of our time, revealing how
artists engage the culture around them and how art allows viewers to see the world in new ways.»
At an early - stage, where there are a lot of moving parts and little processes in place, it can be difficult to create a healthy and
engaging culture.
Inc.'s Best Workplaces celebrates companies that actively strive to build vibrant and
engaging cultures.
A competitive salary, medical benefits, retirement plans and
an engaging culture are only the basics and a given in today's recruiting landscape.
One sure sign of
an engaged culture is that our award for «We Have Fun» is held in just as high regard as other categories such as creativity — and it may even be the most fiercely competitive category.
You will also ensure they feel valued and encourage a positive,
engaged culture, especially if those projects then get incorporated into core (or new) products.
It guides you step - by - step through the process of recruiting top employees and building
an engaged culture — one that will drive your company to long - term success.
In my own tradition, I find that many of my fellow Reformed Christians too easily speak of «
engaging the culture» without having a strong sense of why they are doing so or of its associated perils.
There's been lots of conservative talk of late about the need to
engage the culture, to transform it and understand it, beginning with pop culture.
We might as well speak of «engaging the air» as of «
engaging the culture» — or of separating ourselves from either.
I rarely meet the young Christian who needs to be exhorted to
engage their culture.
An equally strong word of caution, however, is needed for his somewhat abstract «practical lesson» on «how to
engage the culture of today.»
Yes, it was not his movement (so I guess he was right), but if you are in a contemporary church,
engaging culture, and planting churches, you are in a sense, a child of Calvary Chapel and of Chuck Smith.
If you are in a contemporary church,
engaging culture, and planting churches, you are in a sense, a child of Calvary Chapel and of Chuck Smith.
One of the fundamental challenges with evangelistic cultural engagement is how far to go to
engage culture.
Once you're a mom, you don't have time to think about theology and
engaging the culture.»
It is always easy for unengaged people to sit on the sidelines and throw rocks at people who seek to
engage cultures.
The cultivation of Christian practices and ways of thinking is a virtue of Rod Dreher's Benedict Option, if only because it provides a solid anchor that enables believers to
engage a culture that holds us, whether Chinese Indonesian or American Christians, in such contempt.
The recent sex scandals play a relatively small part in the story and are represented as indicative of larger dynamics created by the mistakes in implementing Vatican II at a time when newly affluent and confident Catholics were
engaging a culture that was in the process of self - destructing.
So for today's Follow Friday, I wanted to feature some beautiful siblings in Christ who are doing the hard work of telling their stories,
engaging the culture, and helping the Church better understand what it means to be a transgender person of faith.
Silk Road Theater was founded in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in an effort to
engage the cultures of the East with sympathy rather than rancor.
As Blakemore's analysis makes clear, however, Burke shows that there is no genuine alternative to a politics that
engages culture and society as one finds it.
Roof challenges us to more effectively care for people, to help establish a sustainable environment and to
engage our culture.