Sentences with phrase «who left the community»

At Sundance, writer - director Robert Eggers won the U.S. Dramatic Competition Directing Award for his debut feature about a Puritan family in 1630s New England who leave their community to start their own farm on the edge of a forest.

Immersing us in the minutia of London's restrictive Orthodox Jewish community, Lelio opens a window on the pained interior lives of Ronit (Rachel Weisz), who left this community many years ago; Esti (Rachel McAdams), who struggles to follow her lover's lead; and Dovid (Alessandro Nivola), who seeks, with misgivings, to take over as head of the community after the death of Ronit's father.

Ronit Krushka (Rachel Weisz), who left the community years ago for a life unburdened by religious expectations in New York, returns after the death of her father, an influential rabbi.

Lelio attempts to give the narrative three equal strands — Ronit's, Esti's and Dovid's — and it works well as a narrative, but the arc of the plot still tilts away from Esti and towards the woman who left her community.

Not exact matches

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Celis became involved with the work of Engineers without Borders Canada, a group of engineers, students and volunteers who use their creativity and problem - solving skills to help communities in Africa, and soon left her job at OPG for a year - long position in Ghana, working with the development systems of local governments.

Attended by seasoned founders, executives, investors, and philanthropists who are seeking to leave their mark on the world, The Human Gathering continues to defy conventional conference norms and carefully curate a community of exceptional people.

Carney, who is leaving to take over the top job at the Bank of England, won respect across the global financial community for his leadership and deft handling of the challenges wrought by the recession.

«I want to leave [the Berkeley - Haas community] in a better position than when I arrived,» writes Jay Obaze, a transplanted New Yorker who left a secure job at Wells Fargo to immerse himself in Silicon Valley's startup culture.

«He's an endlessly fascinating and enigmatic character who left an enormous mark on the entrepreneur and tech community.

David Gould, a prominent entrepreneur within the community, who was inspired by Hsieh's charisma and ideas to leave his job as a professor in the University of Iowa and move to Las Vegas earlier this year, wrote an open letter to Hsieh, published today in Las Vegas Weekly:

Further, after the emergency has passed, these communities are often displaced or left out of rebuilding initiatives as developers and corporations use the destruction as an opening for permanent displacement of the people who live there and launch rebuilding initiatives aimed at turning a profit and privatizing public services.

The 17 who were lost in the senseless shooting on February 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, leave behind heartbroken family, friends, classmates and communities.

Graham feels connected to her Victoria community, which is why the proposed speculation tax really stings: «I'm being treated the same as somebody who is not a Canadian, never comes to the community and just leaves the place vacant.»

Since churches are called to love the foreigner among us, we are called to ensure our community welcomes those who are left out on the margins, refugee or otherwise.

In the Indian state of Kashmir the entire Hindu community who have lived there for 1000's of years have been wiped out, and even in other parts of India where Hindus are in a majority Hindus are increasingly being threatened to leave.

Many people who leave the church don't always go out into the community to truly grow in their relationship with God.

Just once, I would love for a mega-church pastor or a prominent church author to come out and announce a blessing upon all those people who are leaving their church to follow Jesus in tangible and loving ways in the community.

I beg Thom Rainer (and all the Seminary Presidents and Mega Church Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communities.

The truth is, most people who are leaving the church are not going out into the world to minister in the community.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

I beg Thom Rainer (and all the Seminary Presidents and Mega Church Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communities.

Standing before the church community in July 2013, months before he left for Africa, Brantly said he heard the call in the teachers who urged him to memorize Scripture and the neighbors who funded his first mission trip years ago.

For many years, I have have toyed with the idea of starting some sort of website / online community which could connect job offers with pastors who want to leave pastoral ministry.

Unlike the authors of Habits, who give the impression that individualism simply leaves people without communities of memory, MacIntyre correctly perceives that everyone lives within these communities, if only because our personal narratives always depend on a sense of history and tradition.

The truth is the social gospel has become its own gospel... leaving out Jesus and salvation and becoming a cynical secular movement who believes the end justifies the means... including Obama's work as «community activist».

Actually, I'd say the majority of members of The Lasting Supper, our online community, are mostly women who have left the church.

I'm under no illusions about people who have left our community and who I no longer see.

The wording of the presbyter's remark leaves open the question of Mark's use of other sources than Peter, whose «interpreter» he was: sources, or traditions, in circulation among the Christians in Rome no doubt from the first founding of the church in that community, long before Paul's arrival and perhaps some time before Peter's coming; and also, no doubt, traditions that were added to the common stock by every believer who came to Rome from Palestine.

The trouble is that among the twelve million Christians left in the Middle East, it is hard to find a leader who does not reflect the rage and desperation of a community on its way to extinction.

Then take a bit of time to click around and read other people's thoughts on the subject, leave a bit of comment love in your wake, make a few new connections, enjoy the community of people who are tapping away at their laptops in coffee houses and kitchens all around the world.

As a strong Catholic who is of service to the community on a regular basis, loves the faith, respects other's rights to have their faiths as well, and — yes — has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, I would love to see CNN's belief blog write a story about the positive of the Catholic faith, instead of always reading about the people that have left and the problems people have with the Church.

This is our very best luck: the one who made us and owns us has not left us without his care and concern, nor our community without his forgiveness.

When a community does not grow in love and grace When their embrace does not enlarge When they forget how to be generous and hospitable When they ignore the call to serve Then They are the ones who are leaving Saying goodbye to their hearts Receding into the past Sinking into irrelevance

Most people who get to stage 5 leave Christianity because there are not enough Christian 5s or 6s to create a local community; they are ostracized as heretics; they do nt like hypocrasy.

Then please take a bit of time to click around and read other people's thoughts on the subject, leave a bit of comment love in your wake, make a few new connections, enjoy the community of people who are tapping away at their laptops in coffee houses and kitchens all around the world.

These prayers, written down ahead of time, often first spoken long before my birth, remind me to turn my thoughts toward the people I love, to forgive and ask forgiveness, to pray for my enemies, to plead for mercy for «the things I have done and the things I have left undone,» to remember the hungry and the suffering, to «bless the congregation of the poor,» to worship, to thank, to intercede, and to join with the whole community of saints who — this very hour, all around the world, and for centuries past and to come — are praying these prayers with me today.

«The first community, in order to affirm that Jesus was more than one of the prophets — that his authority had a certain finality or absoluteness about it not found in others — had few options left to it but to tell the story of Jesus in such a way that his authority would become apparent and would confront other hearers, as it had confronted those who had witnessed it, with the necessity to make up their minds — to declare themselves for or against Jesus.»

But there is nothing wrong in inviting those who respond positively to the Person of Christ without leaving their religious and cultural community to form fellowships around the Lord's Table and the Word of God as «part of the Church» within their religious and cultural community - settings themselves and those who respond to the Christian values to consider acknowledging their source in Christ.

These people who left often became followers of Jesus or formed churches in their local communities.

And it is even more natural and reasonable for someone in religious community A to invite people in religious community B who do not believe the teachings of B but do believe the teachings of A to leave B and join A. That, it seems to me, is precisely what Pope Benedict did in establishing the ordinariate for Anglicans who wish to join the Catholic Church while retaining certain aspects of their Anglican heritage.

The conquest of the political culture of the black community by the culture of the left has allowed someone like Farrakhan to gain an acceptance and support that far exceeds that of any comparable black demagogue in the past including Malcolm X, who in his lifetime, it should be remembered, was condemned and isolated by the leadership of the black civil rights movement precisely because of his rhetorical violence and racial politics.

It was founded by people who left the old model and lived in community, and prayed for a year over what church is supposed to be.

If baptism is the mark of leaving one's religious community to join the Christian religious community, can not those persons who refuse to take that step for reasons of conscience be permitted to join the fellowship of the Lord's Table.

I've been thinking of the spiritual life of the disciples in relationship with Jesus, and how this might help me understand myself as well as those in my community, as well as those who have left:

I was talking with a friend yesterday who really misses the community we used to have at the last church I pastored and left in 2010.

Rather it would point to Christ as One who has underwritten the promise of God to renew all life... Such a view certainly leaves the possibility open for a person who had been witnessed to, to want to name the Name and become part of the historic community, the church, which is called to be faithful to the Gospel message among the nations.

Healthy Christians, however, leave sick church communities that deny such problems; abusive pastors are those who keep people sick by foregoing mental health concerns in their communities as a way to control people or keep them from fleeing to healthier churches that speak to, or recommend resources for dealing with mental health.

What was left, and what STILL exists, is a community of people who value authenticity.

I have a community, you people, who engage me in this passion and send me emails and leave comments that you care about good food too and that makes me want to share it.