Sentences with phrase «too parochial»

This interpretation is too parochial.

The tension becomes frustratingly evident, he adds, in the efforts of those on the ground who «want to pursue the local but then begin to lose their nerve because they feel they're becoming too parochial — people of initiative, people of courage, pastors and local communities, who try to pursue the agenda of inculturation nevertheless looking over their shoulder all the time wondering when they're going to be asked or called to account.»

But perhaps I'm being too parochial.

Not exact matches

Should other states have been free similarly to outlaw parochial education until they too had been individually dealt with by the Supreme Court?

That would be too limiting and parochial.

I could tell you some stories too, about trying to teach in the parochial system with next to no government funding and lacking resources, about situations that have not worked out well.

It's only when you run into a complete parochial dead end, when you are fed up with the people of God (and maybe even God too), that you will need to know how to have a good conversation with some saint in order to make it through the night.

As for the controversial tax credit (a bill Cuomo and parochial school groups are pushing especially hard for) Wright said that bill, too, should stand on its own.

And it's about America's loss of innocence, a reminder of the temptations of quaint and parochial Washington, where the powerful enjoyed and sometimes still enjoy entirely - too - cozy relationships with those in the media whose job it is to hold them accountable to the American public.

Parochial schools were too rigid, and would dampen his spirit and personality.»

The root cause of most of the problems lies in a parochial, multi dimensional excuse culture in too many Northern LAs.

In Seattle, where one in three children is enrolled in a private or parochial school, those trapped behind are, in many cases, from families too poor to pay for private education.

But is it too much to ask of private and parochial schools that, at the very least, they tell parents when tax liens are levied against them?

Are charter schools, online providers, and private and parochial schools all afraid they will not get access to public funds if parents recognize that they too are aimed at neural rewiring «to produce knowledgeable and competent adults able to participate as informed citizens in the democratic process»?