I hear snippets of
conversation about friends, teachers and classes.
They are older now and we have great
conversations about their friends who anguish in rigid religious families.
As part of the ongoing Getty Center exhibition HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. HOCKNEY, artists Tacita Dean and Ramiro Gomez, physicist Charles Falco, and writer Lawrence Weschler — author of True to Life: Twenty - Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney — get together this week for
a conversation about their friend and colleague David Hockney.
Not exact matches
The next time you're thinking
about where to grab a drink with
friends, Taco Bell and Chipotle may be part of the
conversation.
It might mean you call a
friend (you know, instead of texting) and just have a free - form
conversation about the weather.
That experience could be a special event in a store, being notified of or discovering a video on our website or YouTube channel of an athlete or celebrity wearing or discussing the latest product, an interaction with their
friends while touching and feeling the product, or simply a
conversation about sneakers with one of our stripers or other store associates.
Trump has regularly ranted to
friends and advisers
about the investigation into Cohen, according to two other people familiar with the
conversations.
This week we talk
about email marketing after a
conversation on sales funnels I had with a
friend.
«Something that I've been hearing a lot from folks who have been coming up to me and talking
about a kind of experience they've had where they're having a
conversation with
friends — not on the phone, just talking.
Sometimes this causes friction as they try to have a
conversation about something they are excited
about and a well - meaning
friend or family member tells them it's not possible because of x, y and z.
«I set up this company because I didn't want to see my nieces, who at the time were between 14 and 22, having the same
conversations in their 40s
about how much money they had left on the table that so many of my
friends were having.»
You've seen that my long - time good
friend Steve Schwarzman is going to be here, talking to us, together with the
friend of all of ours, Dominic Barton,
about that relationship, particularly the economic relationship and that's the
conversation we're looking forward to having this morning,» she said on her way in to the meeting.
Coincidentally, I had a
conversation this afternoon with a
friend who is a retired priest
about just this topic.
Sort of like if you spent a whole
conversation listening to someone talk
about a
friend of theirs whom you've never met before.
I know this from experience, having tried to talk to gay
friends about this after they have sparked the
conversation themselves.
• W. H. Mallock, The New Republic: It defies reason that a professional economist should have written one of the most brilliant satires of the nineteenth century (it appeared in 1877); a
conversation novel, in the manner of Thomas Love Peacock, and just
about as ingenious as any of his; a grand and ungracious burlesque of the Oxonian intellectuals and writers of the time, many of them Mallock's
friends.
You may share an experience I often have: I enter a room where
friends are engaged in a spirited
conversation about someone and try to guess who it is that they are describing.
During all of those
conversations about her new best
friend, Rebekah had never once mentioned it.
We go to church, we participate in leadership meetings to shape the
conversations of our communities, we pray for our
friends, we make meals, I write posts and articles and books
about God, we wash our minivans, we set up the sprinkler for the neighbourhood kids and hand out freezies to hopeful hands, we go to work, we talk
about the people we know.
Later, thinking
about the
conversation, I was struck — and cheered no end — that my
friend, a committed Southern Baptist, is so personally invested in Francis» success.
As we deal with
friends and challenges and new influences, we've had more
conversations about what it means to guard your gates beyond just slapping your hands over your ears.
Most Likely to Start an Argument Between You and Your
Friends: Roger Olson with «Some Thoughts
About Conversations / Debates Between Calvinists and Arminians» «It seems to me that most 5 point Calvinists I know seem bound and determined to believe anything they think the Bible says regardless of how horrific that may be.
Online
friends can't take the place of those face - to - face
conversations over coffee or late - night talks
about God.
In
conversations with
friends and family, I've noticed more and more people talking
about their pastors or priests as if they could do no wrong, as if they speak for God Himself.
Instead, with help from CT's managing editor, Katelyn Beaty, and my
friends Helen Lee and Anna Broadway, I decided to try to begin a
conversation here on this blog
about race and the evangelical church.
Had great
conversation with Polish
friend today concerned
about her Protestant daughter who marries her Catholic fiancée in summer.
In the meantime, check out these cool people I met at BioLogos: Dennis Venema (who strikes me as being both smart and wise), Steve Matheson (who knows how to make just
about any
conversation more interesting), and Justin Topp (who instantly felt like a
friend).
Unless you are a deep, personal
friend of someone's and feel called to to enter into a deep, vulnerable
conversation with them, never say this, even if you've heard them joke
about it from time to time.
Over the past year, a few
friends and I have had an open
conversation about the highs and lows of marriage — specifically how to make the most of the high times and avoid the low ones.
You're having an important
conversation with a
friend on the phone, when suddenly the line goes dead, usually at a critical place when they're just
about to tell you that the baby has been born, the stock market has collapsed or that chap in charge of North Korea has decided to volunteer at a food bank and revise his haircut.
During a
conversation, my best
friend asked
about my partnership with my husband.
These observations reminded me of a frustrating
conversation I had with some
friends a few weeks ago
about the theory of evolution.
A couple of weeks ago, I engaged in an interesting
conversation on Twitter with my
friend Ben Moberg and several others
about Christian leaders who hold their cards close when it comes to their positions on same - sex relationships and LGBT people.
I hope for it every time my
friend Amy and I have a healthy, productive
conversation about theology, despite our differences.
Friends with whom we gather each week for movies, food,
conversations about God, and the occasional (slightly awkward) church visit
Some of our
friends and acquaintances put a great deal of effort into holding creatively themed birthdays and getting their kids into the right dance classes and sport programs, identifying peanut allergies and purchasing BPA - free water bottles, and having endless
conversations about the negative effects of too much technology in the home, frequently interrupted by pinging phones and debates
about which phone plan is best.
These ceremonies were natural ways for believers to create
conversations with
friends and neighbors
about following Jesus.
You don't make a lot of
friends dampening a
conversation by saying, «Yeah, well what
about the kid who just died of AIDS in Africa?»
This week we talk with Mark Thompson
about why he brings together those on the streets as well as those in homes for a culinary experience and good
conversation with
friends.
I think students, some professors, and many others affiliated with Notre Dame are frustrated and want to take an active role in the
conversation; that frustration shows why people have taken to social media to inform
friends about what is happening.
Scripture teaches us that God is a
friend and a Father, there by our side, wanting to have an ongoing
conversation with us
about what is important to Him and what is important to us.
If you can imagine God by your side all day every day, then you can also begin to hold
conversations with Him in your head as you go
about your day, just as you do with any other
friend or family member.
What odd items the mind latches onto in moments of grief: the tilt of a
friend's head, the way he used his hands when he spoke, an awful meal shared a decade back, a
conversation about a book only a little while ago.
Growing up we have deep
conversations with our
friends about religion and question the commitment of our parents to a authority we are not sure is totally valid in today's society.
In a
conversation recently with two
friends (non-christians, if that matters) we were discussing homosexuality and I found myself saying — to my utter horror — that I felt a little uncomfortable
about homosexuality.
I'm counting on my
friend Roger to bring his historical and theological insight to the
conversation, which means I'll be sharing a bit more from a personal perspective, incorporating my own story with some of your stories to make some general observations
about what I think is happening in evangelicalism and why some of it makes me excited and some of it causes concern.
Friends of religious freedom — and even those not so friendly to it who wish to learn more
about it — will enjoy a public
conversation on the subject next week at Georgetown University, where the Religious Freedom Project of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs will....
Alise writes
about the ups and downs of the faith experience with such honesty and authenticity, each post reads like a
conversation with an old
friend.
Focus on the Family, known for its right - of - centre approach on moral issues, called the film a «great opportunity» for Christians «to have
conversations with
friends and family
about matters of eternal significance».
Today I am pleased to introduce you to my
friend Kimberly Knight, who has a new blog at Patheos called «Coming Out Christian,» which features
conversations about being Christian and gay in America.