Sentences with phrase «years teaching writing»

Prior to joining Marsal Lyon, she spent several years teaching writing at the college level, and she currently serves as faculty for the certificate program in Children's Book Writing & Illustration at UC - San Diego.
And when I found out that she's spent more than 15 years teaching writing to homeless and at - risk youth, I knew she must be truly special.
Earlier in his career, he spent several years teaching writing, rhetoric, and English language, including a stint as professor and English department chair at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.

Not exact matches

For the past 40 years, educators taught students to write a business plan and then go execute it.
LaRae, who spent 23 years as a counterintelligence agent for the FBI, now spends her time writing, speaking, and teaching others tips that she learned while working for the Bureau.
Thankfully, I can make a lot more than that with the things I'm doing (still teaching a few classes per year, leading masterminds, and writing and speaking).
Our Digital Inclusion Program teaches foster youth basic digital literacy skills and provides them with a laptop and mobile Internet access for five years, two things that most of us take for granted but can be life changing for students who are accustomed to writing essays on their cellphones.
The Christian Bible was written by men, not women, and then rewritten time - and - again over the last several hundred years, by men, when the Bible failed to support the teachings of those «men».
An unbiased scientist would realize this oral tradition was put to writing 3,400 years ago as an teaching point to a chosen people not a lecture series at MIT.
The evidence indicates that the written sources of our Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) are not later than c. AD 60; some of them have even been traced back to notes taken of our Lord's teaching while His words were actually being uttered... We have then in the Synoptic Gospels, the latest of which was complete between 40 - 50 years after the death of Christ, material which took shape at a still earlier time, some of it even before His death, and which, besides being for the most part 1st hand evidence, was transmitted along independent and trustworthy lines.»
All of my teaching and writing about our society since those years have been deeply shaped by my experience among the black poor and oppressed of the South.»
Reflecting on Kevin Kiley's article «Long Reads» at Inside Higher Ed, Erin O'Connor writes: Teaching high school for a year at a very interesting little Berkshire boarding school got me onto shared class reading projects — the kids I was teaching were very smart, but, Teaching high school for a year at a very interesting little Berkshire boarding school got me onto shared class reading projects — the kids I was teaching were very smart, but, teaching were very smart, but, like....
Back in November 1977 the co-founder of Faith Movement wrote, as editor of this magazine, «There will be no traditional priesthood left in Europe in ten years time, among the younger clergy, unless a start is urgently made to teach priests the full faith, the full spiritual heritage of the Church, and the full content of the life of Christ in the traditional image of the priest of the Western Patriarchate, the priesthood of the Latin rite, which is the priesthood of the fullness of Peter and Paul.»
Words written in bible represent mind set of a hindu, secular, crook self centered writer hundreds of years after Easu, anointed one, corresponding not to essence of teachings, but plot to justify hindu Mithra ism, pagan savior ism, in violation of spirit of true teachings.
«After thirty - five years of studying and teaching the theology and history of the Church,» writes Eamon Duffy, «I find myself living more and more out of resources acquired not in the lecture room or library, nor even at the post-conciliar liturgy, but in the narrow Catholicism of my 1950s childhood, warts and all.»
She holds a PhD in physiology and is a respected scholar who has been writing and teaching about the Jewish background of Christianity for the past fifteen years.
An aspiring writer, he traveled for a year in Europe, after which he wrote and taught in New York.
She has been writing and teaching Bible studies for 14 years and currently writes on the blog True Worth at www.mytrueworth.org.
A Faith For All Seasons By Ted M. Dorman Broadman & Holman, 391 pages, $ 27.99 Coming out of years of teaching at Taylor University, a Christian school in Indiana, this book, written by a Protestant, evidences an admirable ecumenical and historical reach.
No one questions the words that Plato wrote, no one says «I doubt Plato really said that,» yet Plato was in existance around 400BC doing his teachings, but the earliest copies of Platos writings that we have in our possesion are from 900AD... that's a 1300 year gap as opposed to the New Testaments 25 - 30 year gap... That speaks for something, I believe.
In the prevailingly liberal churches for years now few books have been written, few sermons have been preached, few church - school classes have been taught in which sin as sin against God has been the central theme.
His College: The Undergraduate Experience in America (Harper & Row, 328 pp., $ 19.95), a report sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, describes the dusky condition of liberal education in recent years, but he writes with the hope of a sunrise in mind.
Also like the grandmaster's primer, this book covers an impossible amount of ground in barely 300 pages — in this case, the most fundamental teachings of a two - thousand - year - old faith, written to address intellectuals and non-intellectuals, fellow believers and unbelievers alike.
Even in the second century, a hundred years and more after the time of Jesus, there were doubtless still in circulation oral accounts of incidents in his life and quotations of his teachings which had not until then been committed to writing.
Except Years of Christian teaching said the Bible was to be believed as written & as the INFALLIBLE word of god, And NOW» believers» cry typo?
So you refuse to believe in the solid evidence of millions of years of bone fossils showing that all species, including humans, have evolved... and instead you choose to believe a book written a thousand years ago by a group men just trying to teach a few morals?
In the years since that day, our lives have grown to include some of the very things that used to look heroic to us on the outside: preaching, writing books, community development, social justice work, teaching, leading, stages, travel.
After ten years of teaching medieval thought at Yale (mostly in the philosophy department), I was selected by the Lutheran World Federation to be a delegated observer to the Second Vatican Council (1962 - 65), and since then have done most of my research and writing in the context of participation in national and international ecumenical dialogue, mostly with Roman Catholics.
I wrote The Secular City after having lived for a year in Berlin, where I taught in a church sponsored adult education program with branches on both sides of the barbed wire.
In one of his landmark essays, poet Ralph Waldo Emerson writes, «The years teach much which the days never know.»
Columnist Ben Skoda writes for Reject Apathy about what the Just + Hope bicycle tour taught him about himself and his soul, and how he's taking those lessons into the new year.
Rachel Decker writes a blog for RELEVANT about TV and faith and what the new year has taught her about both.
And for those going into the secondary teaching, or who'd just like to get a sense of how American teenagers really are when asked about serious things, I'm sure the book he wrote based upon his years of teaching, Meetings at the Metaphor Café, is very much worth reading.
Roger Shinn, who taught ethics for many years at Union Theological Seminary in New York, offers a clearly written essay, «Between Eden and Babel,» in which he explores in brief compass many of the moral issues involved as well as some of the first ethical discussions of cloning more than thirty years ago after tadpoles had been cloned.
Dietrich, whom Hitler tried to assassinate, escaped to America, where he taught and wrote for nearly forty years.
When President of the National Council of Catholic Bishops / United States Catholic Conference twenty - five years ago, the late John Cardinal Krol wrote the CHD's guidelines with regard to upholding the Church's moral teaching when it grants funds.
Father Thomas Keating, who has been writing about and teaching centering prayer for over 25 years, recommends that before you enter into centering prayer you pick a sacred word.
As one who has taught on the college / university level for eight years, to some degree I share this concern: I take delight in a student's paper that is well written, with few grammatical and spelling errors.
In another piece of writing I have told about a clergyman whom I knew slightly during my years of teaching in New York City.
Reared in the most privileged of circumstances in Florence and Munich, Dietrich von Hildebrand fled the Nazis in 1933, edited an anti «Nazi newspaper in Austria until the Anschluss, and finally arrived in America in 1940, where he taught philosophy at Fordham University for many years, writing numerous and widely appreciated books on philosophy, ethics, and Catholic thought.
Jesus the Son of Marry (Peace and blessings be up on him) is known today to the Christian world as it is being described by John, Paul, Luke and others... whatever the way these human imagined him became the faith... record shows that the first book of NT was written at least 60 - 80 years after Jesus the son of Marry was taken away from this earth... and these writers used their vision as a weapon to get it to the brain of mankind... also there are debates among the Christian scholars that no one knows who is the writer of some of the gospels... someone else wrote it and used the names what we see today... i.e. no one knows when and who and how the Hebrew chapters were written... despite of lots of controversy on this, Christian scholars uses them to teach others...
It took years of studying the history in which the Bible was written, learning about the other influences that often aren't taught in religious settings... and considering those religious influences, as well as the scientific and philosophical influences... to reach to the conclusions I have reached today — though I admit they still aren't and never will be perfect (like when I said IT doesn't care.
One wonders whether the Seminar adopts too sanguine a view of its ability to work backwards from texts written down many years later to restore Jesus» pristine oral teachings.
I have been reading, teaching, and writing A LOT these past several years on the violence of God in the Bible, and this book also provides the beginning place for understanding these violent, bloody texts in Scripture.
Furthermore it is to be noted that through the years that have passed since 1936, Professor Daniel Day Williams, Professor Bernard M. Loomer, and Professor Bernard Meland, all three teaching in the United States, have written extensively in theological journals and occasionally in books, all of them engaging in this same task of employing the main tenets of process - thought for the explication of Christian faith.
Resurgo's Spear course teaches 16 to 24 - year - olds how to write CVs and covering letters as well as make a good impression in interviews.
Tinder, who for many years taught political science at the University of Massachusetts, wrote a book some twenty years ago called Tolerance: Toward a New Civility.
Whether they believe it was written by God / god or a human author (let alone translated from one language to another over many years and the interpretations of those words taught / passed down over many years with many different understandings which formed with even the best intentions by men and women who were products of their time and place?)
Strict teetotallers waging a war against drunkenness and teaching in the Sunday school», wrote Francis years later.
Graduate students are now taught how to write grants, often in their first year of study.
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