New York, a former Dutch colony, had from its beginnings a diverse population (this despite Peter Stuyvesant's attempts to banish Jews from the city).
Nowadays, most scholars believe that the Christian movement was much more diverse, even from its very beginnings.
We have real problems thinking about the beginnings of Christianity -- partly because it was so diverse, but mainly because the mental picture 99.99 percent of us have of early Christianity is so flawed.
This is not a book for those seeking a social-scientific explanation of how American higher education, from its simple beginnings as a training ground for gentlemen clergy, has evolved into a diverse industry that, whatever one thinks of it, is unquestionably the envy of the world and an integral, arguably indispensable part of the United States economy.
From humble beginnings as a tin-mining shanty, it has evolved into a culturally diverse 21st-century metropolis.
The diverse array of complex life forms that we see today evolved from these humble beginnings, but it is not clear what triggered the evolution of multicellular organisms from single cells.
From humble beginnings in Manila, today Pranic Healing spans across 80 countries and people of diverse cultures, religions and languages find their lives transformed once they encounter Pranic Healing.
Although we have not yet applied ECSEL outside the United States, it has been used with Beginnings' multicultural population that includes native English, Mandarin, Korean, Italian, Greek, Farsi, Spanish, and Hindi speakers who originate from diverse cultures.
New beginnings are possible.
