founded by Ernest Holmes (1887-1960). Born in Maine, Holmes moved to Boston as a teenager where he took a two-year course in public speaking. At this time he was drawn to the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (another major influence on the New Thought movement), as...
跨文化交际 一、课程基本信息 1、课程中、英文名称:跨化交文际、 Cross-cultural Communication 2、课程类别:专业专选课程 3、课程学时: 18 学时 4 、学 分:2 分 二、课程的目的与任务 : 跨文化交际作为一门学科涉及到文化和交际的各个层面, 包括语言交际、 非 语言交际、 人们之间的相互交往, 以及不同文化...
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep. –Rumi A...
To be clear, this was a reference to the number of church buildings, not the number of denominations or congregations. And honestly I had no real idea. There are currently between 2.3 and 2.5 billion Christians in the world, about a third of the total global population. While this includes...
It was not however Peter’s intent to teach us that all one must do to be saved was to be baptised. Yet by parity of reasoning with the faith only error we could say that Peter does indeed teach this since we forget how to employ the synecdoche in our reasoning. Baptism (a part) ...
Generally, no. Amish are not mission-oriented in the sense of actively seeking to convert outsiders to their faith. In this way they are different from many evangelical Christian denominations. Amish believe in living their faith and hopefully being a good example of Christianity in practice. ...
We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good...
I have never been observant but, if I understand correctly, the basic definition of a Jew is that your mother is Jewish. That’s certainly true in my case. I have never renounced Judaism, but if it’s automatic that when you profess Christianity you’re no longer a Jew, then I’...
At least for a while. Emperor Constantine, a convert to Christianity, was concerned about ongoing worship of the sun and sun gods. So he changed the name of “Sunday” to “dominicus,” literally “the Lord’s Day.” He decreed that it should be the first day of the week, and a da...
What is left out of “everything” in “but in everything?” Christianity is: the process of replacing bad habits with good habits and developing more good habits, all of which you work to continue doing continually with frequent regularity. Again, the Bible word continually (as does: ...