If mainstream culture thinks gender roles are unimportant, church culture makes them too important.
Katelyn Beaty
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ARIEL LEVY Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot b...
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JANICE GRACKIN Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
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TED DEKKER Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and bei...
IRVIN MAYFIELD The loss of connection between churches and neighborhoods creates a corresponding loss of localized ...
TIM KEEL Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could f...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the...
BARBARA KRUGER Eagles are very important to me and my culture.
GEORGIA PEREZ The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology.
NICK HARKAWAY Culture makes all men gentle.
MENANDER Political theater is not uncommon in the black church culture.
ROBERT FRANKLIN I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fa...
LAINI TAYLOR History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
RICK WARREN And the thing about nerd culture being mainstream culture now means that there's no place to just be...
RAINBOW ROWELL One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in...
RICHARD ROHR To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, m...
KEEGAN-MICHAEL KEY There are good things in every culture and respecting a culture must only mean respecting the good t...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN In popular culture, familiarity or cuddliness is important.
GARY R. EDGERTON I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are...
JOSS WHEDON Art is such an important part of our culture.
ROSANNA ARQUETTE It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.
ROBERT SCOBLE The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Go...
JOHN PAUL II The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociolo...
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NAOMI ALDERMAN If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the edi...
RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS For better of for worse the church in the West bought modernity's claims. We were baptized in its st...
TIM KEEL What was true of an ancient community of Christian believers struggling with a powerful and appealin...
BRIAN J. WALSH [Fun and games for sure, but with an underlying middle finger toward growing intolerance in mainstre...
MARGARET CHO Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is ...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Learn to differentiate important from unimportant matters and deal with them appropriately
SUNDAY ADELAJA Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.
C. J. CHERRYH The Western media works within a culture, and if you address them based on our culture it will look ...
NASHAT AQTASH Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Po...
GLORIA STEINEM This is about respect for our culture. The New Year is the most important festival in our culture, a...
HENRY LAU There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of thing...
ALAN SUGAR I was once asked to pick a couple of records for an interview I was doing on Radio 2. I picked one b...
FRANKIE BOYLE It makes our culture and values a dominant component of presidential politics.
JOE TURNHAM Don't forget your culture. And if you're not familiar with your culture, this (trip) helps you.
DAYRAH YELLOWFISH The culture around us knows what it means when they see a church in perpetual bluster and outrage. T...
RUSSELL D. MOORE It would be too much of a culture change for them not to. We just want to do what's reasonable.
MARILYN POLLACK Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
CAMILLE PAGLIA Valerie stood with the other women, watching the men go. She couldn't help bristling at this divisio...
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor ...
MATTHEW HENRY Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is no...
NAOMI ALDERMAN In this current generation, the church is not prospering in its mandate to extend kingdom principles...
SUNDAY ADELAJA We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it...
IMELDA STAUNTON If the Latterday Saints had not abandoned plural marriage, they would have remained a fringe religio...
DAVID EBERSHOFF Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.
JOHN CASSAVETES My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but ...
OSCAR WILDE How come when girls play with gender it's a sign of strength and when boys play with gender it's a s...
LORI DURON We are separated by language, by expression, by culture - But emotion cuts across all these and make...
FEMALE IMAGINATION Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
BILL GATES Liberals and conservatives tend to view the economy in purely materialistic terms. They make growth,...
GREG FORSTER American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconocla...
MARCUS BUCKINGHAM What's not understandable is how important or unimportant the various components are.
CLAUDIA REID American music culture is black culture.
YELAWOLF Exchanging gifts is an important thing in the steppe culture, a way for them to feel you have become...
TIM COPE What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of sub...
ANDREW SULLIVAN That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
SAM ALTMAN If a minority culture doesn't accept you as much as majority culture, think about following a path o...
PAUL ISAACS Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins tha...
ALAN MOORE When someone talks Spanish to them, their eyes light up. It affirms the Spanish culture in these chi...
MARGARET JOHNSON The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not...
ORIANA FALLACI We live in a media age. In many respects, it is more important for people to be known in the media c...
LEE RAINIE Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice ve...
CONNOR FRANTA My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
NATALIE COLE Our laws are reflection of our culture, and in our culture it's not acceptable to torture small anim...
JOSEPH MOORE Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at...
FRANCIS CHAN One problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.
RON BRACKIN I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
SHERMAN ALEXIE There is no Polish culture without Jewish culture.
DONALD TUSK The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhi...
ALEX WINTER This is too important to fail, because it is holding a nation's--holding a people's--culture in my h...
LONNIE BUNCH The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit...
ALAN GREENSPAN England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them ...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN Flame mails and offensive Internet activities are not classy. It doesn't fit with our culture he...
DAVID DUFFIELD My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's la...
EDWARD TUFTE went back to our old culture, the Latino culture.
DOLORES HUERTA Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture s...
NAOMI WOLF You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-"
"I think as a human being," she ret...
TAMORA PIERCE The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture...
ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by o...
BRUNO LATOUR There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political r...
LAWRENCE WRIGHT I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a ...
ALEX EBERT And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You ...
KURT LODER Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
ADORA SVITAK It makes the region tournament kind of (unimportant).
STEVEN JACKSON We tried not to violate their culture, we tried not to take too many photos. We promised them we'd r...
RICHARD SEIVERT What "multiculturalism" boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western...
THOMAS SOWELL I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's eas...
RAE CARSON Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
MARC NEWSON Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity
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