Sentences with phrase «book about hope»

I highly, highly recommend it for anyone looking for anyone looking for a book about hope.

This is a book about hope.

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We get sent hundreds of business books a year, all in the hope that someone here reads one and decides to write about it.

The Barnett government is hoping to raise $ 3 billion by selling 51 per cent of Western Power to Australian investors, and will also use the privatisation deal to remove about $ 8 billion of debt off the state's books.

The thing about meaning is that it's best conferred by giving the topic personal relevance,» explains Page19, which suggests that for each new book you ask yourself what you hope to learn, how it might change your life, and why you should bother reading it.

In his 2017 book «Climate of Hope,» cowritten with veteran environmentalist Carl Pope, Bloomberg wrote that he understands that there are certain executives unmoved by warnings about the effects of manmade climate change, but that they'd be unwise to ignore the business opportunity.

Jeffrey Pfeffer proclaims in this new book that «much of the oft - repeated conventional wisdom about leadership is based more on hope than reality, on wishes rather than data, on beliefs instead of science.»

This will be an entirely new kind of publishing process for me, and one that I hope delivers a great deal of learning about how to publish a book successfully in the 21st Century.

Lewis had hoped the book would be inspiring, he said, and that IEX's example might encourage would - be Wall Streeters to stop worrying about getting their half - a-million-dollar bonus at age 23 and instead think «let's figure out some useful thing to do in the world that happens to be on Wall Street», he said.

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.

An Alberta woman is hoping her contribution to a new book will inspire women to feel more worthy about themselves.

They're going to wait for the book to run off which they hope is about $ 20 billion a month.

I have a peculiar framework for thinking about the American idea of liberty, which I first developed for a class, but which I'm now hoping to develop into a book.

«So to have a monarch who talks openly about Jesus in a very relaxed and natural way, we find that a huge encouragement and hope that Christians across the country will take a leaf out of The Queen's book and learn to talk about Jesus in a natural way with friends, relatives and colleagues, so people can discover more about what it means to be a follower of Jesus.»

Check out this link to find out about marriage to young girls claim.Very very interesting to know.I hope everyone has the patience to study history and reality of life centuries ago worldwide.This video also gives you references to online history books about facts it says.Simply, the average age of marriage was very young worldwide including church approved age of consent to marry.What Mohamed did, was very common back in the days and just to let you know, that girl was engaged to another man and then the engagement was broken due to his disbelief which tells you that that was common back in the days.Also, the age of 6 mentioned was age of engagement not age of marriage.marriage happened a few years later.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

For to Jews the Holocaust is not an event to read about in a few books, or to remember on a few special occasions; it is for them to confront, to agonize over, to reject and resist, to search deeply and widely for a glimmer of hope - all this with a view to a Jewish self - understanding, of which an essential part is being heir of the murdered millions, the remnant of the catastrophe.

In my day job as the editor of The Englewood Review of Books, I've staked my life and work on the hope that reading carefully and well will undoubtedly transform us, reforming the ways that we think, talk about and live within this wondrous web of life that is God's creation.

I worried about buying another book that aimed at reducing things to a simple minimum, but the associations of the author along with the price gave me reason to hope and means to see.

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?

Steven Curtis Chapman also sang of his pain and his hope for the future in his most recent album, «Beauty Will Rise,» and his wife, Mary Beth, has written a book, «Choosing to See,» in which she talked about the challenges of her life, including Maria Sue's passing.

Great stuff Jeremy - your book «Skeleton Church» changed my perspective on a lot of things about the church - I am an aspiring author hoping to be published someday

Books such as Homosexuality, which incessantly talk about the fears, frustrations, angers, and depressions involved in being homosexual, inadvertently reinforce the reasons why parents hope their children will not be homosexual.

By the way, I'm the author of the book 300 Times 0 who studied for 16 years to be an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi so I would hope I know a thing or two about Judaism.

Actually, I have the hope that the second group spoke about in the book of Revelation has, to live upon the earth.

My hope is that this book will be a doorway to the Christian world for those who do not consider themselves Christians, whilst helping those who do call themselves Christians to know more about the heritage into which they have entered.

But it is significant that an entire book could be written in 1977 about the practical meaning of a theology of hope without discussing the relevance to that practical meaning of the serious doubtfulness of human survival.

A further factor is that concern about Christian hope has shifted among scholars and those reading their books to another angle — tangent to the kingdom of God but not directly centered in it.

«Our texts say not a word about what it means to be a good person or to serve God's will in these extraordinary situations,» concludes critic Ruth Schwartz Cowan in her book Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening (Harvard University Press).

I have written this book to state and defend two convictions about that hope.

By the way, I am also writing about this in a book which I hope to publish in the next month or two.

that does not include atheism i hope all atheists would die and be reincarnated as tree's that are then cut down to print «Quran's and bible's on =D that would be awesome that being said i do nt beleive god (meaning the «one» god that is in many religions) would condem postponing your fast untill after the games ive never put much stock in what so called holly men have to say its all about your perseption of your holy book

Soering's most recent book, The Convict Christ: What the Gospel Says About Criminal Justice (Orbis, 2006), makes this hope most explicit.

In this book I hope I may be nudging an ecumenical discussion or two to take function seriously, instead of making exhortations about diakonia and then discussing ministry in terms of status rather than function.

As I struggle with what I was taught in Seminary about Scripture, books like this give me hope that there is room for serious scholarship and deep thinking about Scripture, even if Scripture is not inerrant.

About Love, in particular, is a small gem of a work, and it - together with his small books on faith and hope - are now available in a single volume (from Ignatius Press).

It is significant that an entire book could be written in 1970 about the practical meaning of a theology of hope without discussing the relevance to that practical meaning of the serious doubtfulness of human survival.

The twenty - four contributors all hope this book will help people, both inside and outside the church, better understand what simple church life is all about.

He never himself followed it to its conclusion; in his long and self - revealing book there is no indication that he thought much about Sheol or thought of it differently from his contemporaries, or had the slightest hope of resurrection out of it.

She also said, «You wrote a whole book on vision, yet you are full of expectations and hopes and dreams about your blog.

«It is our hope that guests will be able to learn not only about each president's unique Bible, but also about the influence this book has had on government and elected officials around the world.»

Perhaps this book does the most that any text about liberation theology can do: it invites us to consider what it would mean to have that hope — both for the poor and for all of us.

Thakur's appointment was «like a beacon of hope for those living in fear,» wrote Anto Akkara, who wrote a book about the Kandhamal events and started a petition protesting the apparent discrepancies and injustices in the case against the seven Christians who were found guilty of Saraswati's murder.

I've been writing about this in a book I one day hope to publish.

This is new territory for me, doing a book - length study of Jesus and the origins of Christianity, but I have read everything I could get my hands on, weighed all the scholarly debates, and hope my book will be useful to the book - reading public in explaining what we can really know, historically, about Jesus.

I doubt my book will be satisfactory to most, but I hope it will lead to further conversations about this topic.

Perhaps Paul's hope is that things will turn out as they do at the end of the book of Genesis, when Joseph presents himself as a blessing for his jealous brothers in the famous words: «You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are this day.»

I hear a «whispering hope» when the erudite Reynolds Price writes openly about his vision of Jesus during his cancer ordeal, or when thousands buy his translation of three of the Gospels; when books of interviews with writers — like Susan Ketchin's The Christ - Haunted Landscape or Dale Brown's Of Fiction and Faith — seep into the academy.

Hope you don't mind me referring to the Quran about many issues discussed but this is supposed to be the way of our lives as Muslims and to us this is our guiding light and that on judgment date who has the Book held in his right hand, he would be rewarded for it, and those appeared holding Book in his left hand will be punished for it?

What I think is really important for me about the book is, I wrote it as if I were dying, and I finished the manuscript, and then they told me I had cancer and that it expanded further than they'd hoped and that it was more advanced than we would want, and I didn't know if it was going to be my last Christmas.