Sentences with phrase «as other books about»

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As Evernote CEO Phil Libin said via Ryan's book, «People [who are] thinking about things other than making the best product never make the best product.»

Billionaire Mark Cuban, for example, has poo - poohed much of the doom and gloom and said that «TV is the new TV,» while media gadfly Michael Wolff has written an entire book about how television isn't being nearly as disrupted as other media industries.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

As MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee put it more recently than Keynes in their 2014 book about automation's economic impact, The Second Machine Age: «Our generation has inherited more opportunities to transform the world than any other.

As some of you may remember last month I posted about one of his other books called The Big Drop.

You can find out more about booking me as a speaker on this or other topics by clicking on the «Speaking» tab above, or by emailing me at [email protected]

Shrem also spoke about his personal life behind bars, reporting that he's already read 70 books while serving as a general education development (GED) teacher for other inmates.

I find it hard to believe that there is any such things as miracles or a fourth dimension, but I don't mind if someone wants to talk to me about the bible or any other book for that matter.

Others do, however, making this book a very useful guide to religio - moral thinking about the new world order or, as the case may be, the new old world order.

I never heard of Jesus saying anything about blasphemy.The trouble is you people make all this up as you go along just the way the bible and and all the other holy books have been revised a thousand times.

historical Jesus, lmfao... show me any historical evidence of jesus... let's start with his remains... they don't exist - your explanation, he rose to the heavens... historical evidence - no remains, no proof of existence (not a disproof either, just not a proof)... then let's start with other historians writing about the life of Jesus around his time or shortly after, as outside neutral observers... that doesn't exist either (not a disproof again, just not a proof)... we can go on and on... the fact is, there is not a single proving evidence of Jesus's life in an historical context... there is no existence of Jesus in a scientific context either (virgin birth... riiiiiight)... it is just written in a book, and stuck in your head... you have a right to believe in what you must... just don't base it on history or science... you believe because you do... it is your right... but try not to put reason into your faith; that's when you start sounding unreasonable, borderline crazy...

Great post, and the really disproportionate thing about it is this is all done using the «law» demanding the tithe when not one New Testament book endorses this model (The reference in Hebrews was not to establish tithe as it was to establish Jesus in a different order, and his comments in the gospels was to people living under the law)... how is it that no other «law» is preached with the same force and conviction as tithing?

Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)

We talked a bit about how I became a writer, discouragement, finding your voice, blogging, the difference between blogging and book writing, why I decided to write Jesus Feminist, my process as a writer, and the best (and worst) parts of writing among other things.

Our «early traditions about Jesus» (to use the title of a little book by the late Professor Bethune - Baker) are not interested so much in what has been called the «biographical Jesus» as they are concerned with what Jesus did and said as he was remembered by those who believed him to be their Lord, the Risen Messiah, and who were therefore anxious to hand on to others what was remembered about him.

All books about other religions, for example, are written by Christians as attacks on other religions.

I see it as a book about the Kingdom of God, and what life looks like when you live into the «other side» of so many of our missing - the - point gender debates in the Church.

As he wrote earlier in this chapter, any use of the test as «a substitute for searching conversation» about world view / setting and the other dimensions of narrative explored later in the book was in his view more likely to yield a mechanist reduction than a deepened symbolic understandinAs he wrote earlier in this chapter, any use of the test as «a substitute for searching conversation» about world view / setting and the other dimensions of narrative explored later in the book was in his view more likely to yield a mechanist reduction than a deepened symbolic understandinas «a substitute for searching conversation» about world view / setting and the other dimensions of narrative explored later in the book was in his view more likely to yield a mechanist reduction than a deepened symbolic understanding.

As I run, I think about what other tips I've read in running books and on blogs.

So they had all sorts of «secret books» with secrets about Jesus and other people — books that have been completely rejected by scholars, even athiest scholars, as a bunch of garbage.

my husband and I are on the same page with this as are others we are friends with and it's not through a book we read or denominational position or sect leader's influence: I like to think we were all gradually influenced by the Holy Spirit... then I'm sure that's how you feel about your position too.

Along with Anthony Appiah and other current writers about the university, she acknowledges the intrinsic value of study (her most recent book on the topic is titled Not for Profit), while ultimately defending the value of liberal arts as essential for social and political progress.

Oh and by the way, the other genius who is posing as me talking about burnign science books is not the real Erik, I am.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

James... I can certainly agree on yr point about self - deception, but remember how long it took the «entire package «to evolve as we know it today... the first list of «our 27 NT books» doesn't appear until the latter half of the 4th century and we know that many other books (that didn't make it in) were known, read and circulated for many generations after.

I remembered Brennan Manning — the man who has translated the love of God in a way that I could receive it more than probably any other writer — was addicted to alcohol and I re-read up one of his last books before he died: «All is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir» where he vulnerably writes about what this battle has cost him, even as he experienced the unending and unconditional love of God in the midst of it, how he experienced regret and pain and loss alongside of the love and tenderness of God in this dependency.

This book is going to ruffle some feathers as I not only challenge the practices of baptism and communion (die to your rites), but also raise questions about the legal rights of Christians to the freedom of speech, to bear arms, and to various other rights guaranteed by the «First Amendment» and the «Bill of Rights.»

This kingdom is about letting your enemies join in, and what The Message edition of the book of James (2:8) calls «the Royal Rule of the Scriptures: «Love others as you love yourself.

You are exactly right about why the Bible was given to us by God — not as a book to control others, but as a way to help us understand life, and to give us some parameters in which to walk during life.

i don't know about you but a book written even a couple hundred years ago is useless and beyond outdated unless it was on the cosmos, mathematics, or geometry... oh and fairy tales such as canterbury, grimm, aesop, amoungst others, they carry moral lessons for society... and the bible, do we see a pattern here?

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Those who regard the Servant example as perhaps a little strained and antiquarian may prefer to think about other cases mentioned in the book: the shipping clerk who dispatches land mines, or the nurse who hands instruments to a doctor who plans to use them for an abortion.

I see no reason to accept the claims about God in the Bible as more accurate than any other holy book's claims about it's gods.

Perhaps the internet is doing all of the above and more: encouraging and unifying small religious and other movements; further facilitating scientific unification across geographic proximity, if not also creating new scientific theories and concepts; fostering the rise of new forms of spiritual irrationalism such as those discussed in Wendy Kaminer's wild book, Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials; focusing the public even more on particular public personas in news, sports and everything else; creating new classes of investors who are willing to publish online just about anything, regardless of whether or not they agree with it; germinating new technological ideas that are luring capitalists who hold unreasonable expectations of financial bonanzas.

Which is what just about every bible believer does as they read their book, listen to their minister preach from their book, and disagree with other believers of the same book.

All the other books, non-cannonical as well, could be gathered together as «everything said before Jesus, by the Jewish writers, and everything post Jesus that was written about the early church, or early writings that were not specifically what Jesus said and did.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

life is about right and worg thats wart i know about the bible you have to have fath in this turth or you will never understeand how the bible has the guid line for how thay can be peace in the world if you will really spead a lot of time reading the bible than look up on google or in some other books to many for me to name im taking about none chritin books at that and comeper them you will find that there is a lot of stuff that proves the bible as being right i wise i kone how to say it better to but i cant sorry but wan you pray just ast if there is a god make your self real to me other wise i have to hard a time beliveing somepen i cant see or hear and he will make his safe real and than you just sheek him to show you ware to go from there

Just throw it away, treat it as it is, a work of fiction, like ANY other book written about Zeus, Apollo, Thor, Odin, or any other «god».

- Other ancient documents that state new and contradictory info about NT books, such as quoting parts of I Timothy and stating that the book was manufactured in Paul's style, but had nothing to do with Paul.

I believe Jesus was talking about them when he prophesied that they as «Babylon the Great» in the book of Revelation in the Bible chapters 17 and 18 and too many others to site complete the «Harlot» that will be brought to nothing (destroyed) for their immoral and shameless luxury.

Professor Celia Deane - Drummond's book, The Wisdom of the Liminal: Evolution and Other Animals in Human Becoming, is an ambitious attempt to counter this trend by bringing questions about animals — as evolved and evolving — into a sustained dialogue with theological anthropology, seeking thereby to reshape the theological vision of the human person.

On the other hand, by taking account in Critique et Religion of previous attempts at synthesis, he allows for the point about what may already be considered as dismissed and for the elimination of a certain number of false ideas which would compromise the research to which his books invite us.

It's interesting that Driscoll writes a piece about how others are criticizing his book — as he is one of the most vocal critics of others who don't fall into his view of how he thinks people should act and be.

If there was any other book claiming to be the authority on everything that you kept having to make excuses for like «Well, that part is ment as an allegory» or «God years are different than man years» or «Well, its says to not eat shelfish or pork in the hebrew scriptures, but apparently God changed his mind later, but that part about ga y's stays» I don't think anyone would have given it a second look had it not been at the point of a sword.

If he believes his dubious assertion that «the more we know about Shakespeare the more we will understand his work,» then why has he failed to consult important biographies by Park Honan and Katherine Duncan - Jones, as well as James Shapiro's award - winning A Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599, among scores of other books and articles?

«Blogging About Cabbages and Kings,» the blog's header reads; in the last year the DHM has taken on, among other things, the Texas FLDS debacle and the Consumer Product Safety Information Act, as well as posting frugal recipes and gift ideas, book reviews, and hymns every Sunday.

In light of my previous post on Luther, and my opening post for this blog about being called a heretic, I thought I might comment on some recent articles and books which condemn me (and other speakers and writers) as someone who teaches a crossless gospel.

One of the best parts about this porridge (as is the case with many other recipes in this book) is that the base recipe is versatile.