Conversations about important issues, like relationship expectations and financial blunders, all have their time and place.
These kinds of conversations can also prove the ideal opportunity for parents to engage in
conversations about the important matters that your child may be dealing with.
This idea of the contemporary artist as an empowered free agent, taking part in global
conversations about important topics and issues in and through their work is one that I knew would come in handy in the days immediately following the 2016 presidential election when so many of my students» emotions were running high.
«TED has mastered the art of launching intelligent
conversations about important ideas, and these books will provide TED speakers past and future with the opportunity to go beyond their talks and take readers deeper into their work,» said Jonathan Karp, President and Publisher of the Simon & Schuster Publishing Group.
These are just a few of our many authors who are using their books to start meaningful
conversations about important issues and causes.
Creates opportunities within the school to engage students, faculty, parents, and community stakeholders in constructive
conversations about important school issues.
The drives were quite cathartic after a crazy year and my husband and I managed to have long
conversations about important and unimportant things that we never seem to have or make time for.
And we're fed up with the angry, polarized environment — we want to have real, productive
conversations about these important matters.
We're warning you now: this is a nerdy
conversation about an important topic.
It is not healthy for public life, Marty says, for
the conversation about important issues to lapse into the «serenely civil.»
Guardian columnist George Monbiot steps out with a great analysis of internet - based astroturfing and the very effective way that it disrupts the public
conversation about important (and economically momentous) issues.
Not exact matches
These types of
conversations about priorities and the future are
important, but that's not to say that Faris and Pratt broke up because they didn't have these
conversations.
Sound bites and snippets basically suck — whether we're talking
about the nightly news or the newest nasty politician — and they don't add anything
important to the meat of the
conversations that really matter.
Not only does thinking
about what you're going to say next take your attention away from the speaker, hijacking the
conversation shows that you think you have something more
important to say.
Many people are voicing opinions
about this particular content and it has become an
important part of the
conversation around who the next U.S. president will be.
Mike and I have been successful because we take the time to have brutally honest
conversations about finances, goals and expectations, among other
important issues.
But these
conversations miss the point — while ROI is
important, workplace wellness programs are all
about employees.
The school is already weighing in on
important conversations about education, like whether multigrade classrooms enhance learning.
«Snapchat allows us to reach an
important audience in real time and join a
conversation about how best to empower women in emerging economies,» said Amanda Rubin, Goldman Sachs global co-head of brand and content strategy, in a statement.
That's why a kind word, a quick discussion
about family, an informal
conversation to ask if an employee needs any help — those moments are much more
important than group meetings or formal evaluations.
Each year, our Top States for Business study sparks plenty of debate and
important conversations about what it takes to make a state competitive.
Randomly selected Web - based members were e-mailed an invitation (wave 1, n = 35,256; wave 2, n = 49,363; and wave 3, n = 43,145) in which they were asked to respond to an online survey
about «the various people that you spend your free time with and have
important conversations with.»
In turn, it is
important that employers have frank
conversations about the values of their organisation.
Certainly this is a
conversation where everyone has more to lose; those scapegoating Facebook probably don't want to think
about their own responsibility, such that it may be, for an election result they disagree with, and the stakes are even higher for Facebook: giving people what they want to see is far more
important to the company's business model than $ 100,000 in illegal ads, unintended consequences or not.
But at a high level, I think it's
important to focus on those underlying drivers because much of the
conversation that you hear is just
about price, where is it going, and these underlying drivers are lost very often.
Trends, arguably, are
important in public opinion, something Alberta political parties forget — or ignore — in their ongoing
conversation about the level of public support for that pipeline across the Rockies to B.C.. However, that needs to be a topic for another day.
Without getting into a full blown
conversation about generational biases that exist in the workplace, it is
important to recognize that there are differences worth taking into consideration.
This week, to continue the
conversation, I am posting another article by Molly that talks
about how
important a company's culture is to its brand and to its very existence.
So when I told you to stick your platitudes where the sun don't shine, what I was saying was that I reject your shamy concern trolling and refuse to allow you to control this narrative... like you tried to control MY statement by calling it «silencing» (the very word we've all been using to accuse TJ's EV crowd... very clever), and you tried to control JULIE»S story by diminishing it to «well there are two sides», and how you tried to control this entire
conversation by saying what we think
about it isn't
important or relevant unless we're having face - to - face convos (and yet you're commenting here?
I'm passionate
about the topic, personally, of course, but in all of the
conversations I've had since Jesus Feminist came out, I've come to realise that it's even more
important than I could have dreamed to speak the truth here and teach the truth in our communities.
So today I'm thrilled to share a
conversation with Nicole Baker Fulgham
about Christians and the
important issue of education inequity.
I am not Mom enough to think that the debate over how to feed our youngest children — an
important and nuanced
conversation about nutrition, and workplace policy, and government responsibility, and gender relationships — can be boiled down to a simplistic, unrepresentative, staged photograph.»
When white conservative Christians obsess over their own perceived oppression, it becomes incredibly difficult to engage in
important conversations about religious, racial, and gender privilege that are necessary for creating a more just society.
The theological
conversation about interfaith relations is
important, Cragg accepts, but he thinks there is an equally urgent need to move beyond theological propositions and to be informed by what he calls «a community of reverence,» «a converse of soul» in joint prayer and worship.
As I write
about the violence of God in the Bible and have
conversations about this with various people I interact with during the week, I often tell people that one of the reasons this is such an
important topic is because Christians need a better answer to provide the world than the ones we have always given.
According to the 2013
Conversation Project National Survey, 90 percent of people said that talking with their families or loved ones about end - of - life care is important, yet only 27 percent have had the c
Conversation Project National Survey, 90 percent of people said that talking with their families or loved ones
about end - of - life care is
important, yet only 27 percent have had the
conversationconversation.
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.
We could have an interesting
conversation about race, memory, and HONOR in America (as opposed to mere or simple dignity), roping ole Tocqueville back into it, or not; either way, it does seem right to conclude that the racial valences to this news item might actually yield in
important ways to the manifold pressures of MANLINESS, especially Manliness Today — local cop vs. jetsetting prof, and all that...
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.
In a series of posts entitled «Better
Conversations About Biblical Womanhood,» I argued that this approaches glosses over some important realities about how we actually engage the biblical
About Biblical Womanhood,» I argued that this approaches glosses over some
important realities
about how we actually engage the biblical
about how we actually engage the biblical text:
And though the dates I've seen have ranged more like 50 - 100 years after Jesus» death, even if we grant only 30 years... Well, try thinking
about any
conversation you had or event you witnessed 30 years ago, however
important or profound that event was in your life.
I think it's
important to do so since in Christian circles the
conversation is almost always a bunch of straight identified people talking
about us and not to us or with us.
The watching world is tired of empty answers to
important issues, and instead wants us to engage them in real
conversations about the pressing questions of our day.
In addition to our debates
about general education, The Great Civilized
Conversation has something
important to say
about the Chinese tradition and the modern world.
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.
It's a pretty complicated situation, involving
important conversations about journalistic integrity, nepotism and online threats.
During the spirited dinner
conversation that preceded the event a group of us got to talking
about the
important role that high - profile public figures can play in breaking down religious stereotypes.
Believe it or not, this week marks one month since the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, an event which sparked protests across the country and ignited some
important conversations about race in America.
Best
Conversation - Starter: Scot McKnight with «I Wish I Hadn't Said That» Scot asks, «What is one thing that was so
important to you in your early 20s that you now either don't believe or are downright embarrassed
about?»
The post has been a long time coming, but as I've been in
conversation with my gay, lesbian, and bisexual friends (both those who support same - sex relationships and those who hold the more traditional view), as well as those Christian brothers and sisters with whom I respectfully disagree, I've come to believe it's
important to not only be upfront
about where I stand but also to explain how I got there.