Sentences with phrase «conversation about hope»

So, in an effort to inspire a bit of «climate change,» at least in this little corner of the blogosphere, I thought I'd start a conversation about hope.

You've exchanged emails, perhaps have had lengthy i.m and text conversations about your hopes, dreams, and fantasies.

College admissions is an important rite of passage in America — a time for parents to engage their kids in deep conversations about their hopes and dreams, their values, and what kind of adults they imagine they'll be.

Have a conversation about your hopes and dreams for your family.

Give me a kitchen table where I can have a meaningful conversation about hopes, dreams, good music, winter breezes, fall colours, children's artwork, a Christmas morning, summer rain and everything else that can't be measured but still has value that can only be defined in imagination and the spoken word.

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Duchesne acknowledges that a fear of the unknown might be a reason why more Canadian businesses aren't looking to expand overseas, but he hopes that the results of the study will spark a national conversation about the country's potential for international trade.

In one of our conversations, Goldman mused about asking subscribers for permission to passively read their emails in the hope of more accurately gauging the strength of their relationships.

But in the long run, the movement hopes to «start a conversation» about all aspects of the B.C. coal industry, from production to use and everything in between, says the Dogwood Initiative's Laura Benson.

The project hopes to start a national conversation about alternatives to private financing of public investment, and needs both research partners and financial support.

I hope these ideas motivate other area businesses and leaders to look in the mirror and join us in this necessary conversation about inclusion and diversity.

Deep conversation about his and her hopes, dreams, goals, and life's direction «for us» become the norm.

I'm dubious about wading into this conversation, but I'll do so anyway in the hopes that there are open minds on both sides.

Inevitably, we have conversations about life — including the meaning of life and its problems and where God is in all of that, hopes, needs and a variety of other issues.

I'd tell you about church shifts and theological conversations, about hope and mercy and a shrinking world, a flattening hierarchy, a wild gorgeous family of God.

My hope and prayer is that by having and sharing these conversations, men and women in leadership will realize that the 25 - plus singles are truly a neglected demographic within the Church — and then do something about it.

I've found as a Christian woman it is often better & safer to lead the conversation by talking about my dreams and hopes because having ambitions often assumes a secular worldview where promotions, opportunities, and recognition is about money, success, and ego.

Yeah, I have lots of questions too, and know that while my attempts at answers will not be satisfactory to all (they don't fully satisfy me either), I hope that what I write can help move people toward a deeper conversation about these things and a way of viewing God that looks like Jesus on the cross.

We hope this effort will foster a major advance in our theological education, and also nurture important conversations about how best to raise up and sustain the kind of pastoral leadership that makes a difference.

Ejiofor echoes that idea of the importance of conversation about America's past and present, and he hopes 12 Years a Slave can help bring the conversation forward again.

I'm hoping that this issue will spark a healthy conversation about whether should treat the Bible as a science textbook or a spiritual guidebook.

My hope is that Driscoll's resignation can activate a much - needed conversation about how Christians should respond when a pastor's public behavior proves hurtful to those he is supposed to be leading.

«I'm hoping that it engages the nation in the bigger conversations about faith and God.

As such, I thought it might be helpful to share a bit of information about the movement to, I hope, make a better conversation.

I hope for it every time my friend Amy and I have a healthy, productive conversation about theology, despite our differences.

The response by Christopher Tollefsen and Alexander Pruss to my piece, «Fig Leaves and Falsehoods» indicates, I hope, that the needed conversation about the morality of all false signification is underway in earnest.

My hope is to ask a few questions to start a conversation about improving how we offer criticism.

While nonprofits like To Write Love on Her Arms and Hope for the Day are doing real, measurable good in the area of mental health, there's just something about being at the center of pop culture that turns an issue like mental illness from something we would rather avoid in polite conversation to something that demands to be discussed.

I love to do treasure hunts by asking the Lord to highlight someone for me to be on the lookout for that day, such as a description of clothing, or a name and then I ask God to give me a word of knowledge about that person (such as Jesus «example with the woman at the well), and then as the conversation opens up, I can share the hope to which I «ve been called.

My favorite thing about the blog is the conversations that follow in the comment section, so let's keep that going by doing what we're already good at — talking together about faith, doubt, politics, insecurity, theology, news, hopes, fears, trends, questions, entertainment, and sock monkeys.

Except for worried conversations about their children, there has been little communicating on the level of either person's real pain or hopes.

Therefore, we approach the discipline of being a community of moral conversation, not only with our natural human anxieties about conflict and change, but also with the hope we have in God's grace, our belief in the power of the Spirit to work through and among us.

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

But, upon thinking about it, I decided that nothing is more appropriate than interrupting our comments about the debate over homosexuality with ten - word reminders of the hope of the gospel, which gives every conversation new depth and meaning.

I hope that many of you who are interested in the missional conversation, or just interested in missiology in general, will take the time to move beyond «missional» as a cliché or buzzword and think deeply about God's mission and missiology in general.

Earlier, Toly explained his «hope for a resolution that reinstates Dr. Hawkins and initiates a transparent conversation about identity, governance, and process.»

I hope that by being honest about this journey through the publishing process, we can start engaging in conversations that will bring about change.

A little later my dad came in and sat down on the edge of the bed and said quietly that we should have a conversation about Sunday Mass, and probably I was now old enough to make my own decisions about attending Mass, that he and my mother did not think it right or fair to force that decision on us children, that we needed to find our own ways spiritually, and that while he and our mother very much hoped that we would walk in the many rewarding paths of the Church, the final decision there would be ours alone, each obeying his own conscience; that was only right and fair, and to decree attendance now would perhaps actually force us away from the very thing that he and my mother found to be the most nutritious spiritual food; so perhaps you and I and your mother can sit and discuss this later this afternoon, he said, and come to some amicable agreement.

Customer safety is a top priority for our team, and we do hope you'll reach out to us so that we can collect some details from you about the White Rye Flour you purchased, and also about the conversation you had with our team member.

During the hearing, Comey remarks, «Lordy, I hope there are tapes» about Trump's tweets suggesting that there are recordings of their conversations, and everyone at Duffy's loses it.

I really hope you'll join me tonight for what promises to be a great Twitter conversation about knowing what's in our food, from farm to table.

Fusion Academy Evanston and Yellowbrick Consultation and Treatment Group are excited to present a screening of the acclaimed documentary, «Angst: Raising Awareness Around Anxiety,» a new film created to open up the conversation about anxiety and provide tools, resources, and hope.

We hope this lawsuit will start newer deeper conversations about fatherhood and about the inequalities that we face on a daily basis.

There are days when I can't wait to ditch the double stroller — I expect (hope) the random stops and conversations about a stranger's neighbor's brother's friend's second - cousin who is a twin to end when it's not so obvious they're the same age.

At this time, directly translating research findings to the delivery room is difficult, but I hope that this post will stimulate thought and conversations about the silent, invisible, yet important third member of human birth and life.

Even more important than the obvious accomplishment of bicycling across the country, I hope I can say that my visit was the precursor to constructive conversations about how schools can enact tangible change towards healthier kids.

President Trump warned James Comey, the former F.B.I. director he fired this week, against leaking anything negative about him, saying Comey «better hope» that there are no secret tapes of their conversations that the president could use in retaliation.

Journalists may chuckle knowingly at conversations about the angle of italics or discovering the new paper only has three headline - sized letter Es («let's hope nothing happens to the fucking Bee Gees!»)

Aside from some tangential discussion about rat fertility and a perceived paucity of subway token booth clerks, conversation during the hearing frequently turned to the capital plan, and just how the M.T.A. hopes to fill the hole.

While his proposed smaller - than - anticipated 3 percent increase in state aid for education will spark a food fight, we hope it's part of a larger conversation about how New York funds K - 12 education.

Then Heastie started talking about taxes, creating a contrast with Cuomo and igniting a conversation the governor had hoped to avoid.