Sentences with phrase «of serious conversations»

All of our serious conversations these days center around our son's education — non-traditional routes, what they mean for his chances at college, and if we even care.

These led me to his earlier works, which consistently vindicated Kass's self - description in his justly acclaimed Towards a More Natural Science: «The author of this book is by reading a moralist, by education a generalist, by training a physician and biochemist, by vocation a teacher» and student» of philosophical texts, and by choice a lover of serious conversations, who thinks best when sharing thoughts and speeches with another.»

Transportation energy is an essential component of any serious conversation on true sustainability.

Not exact matches

«We should place these feelings at the center of our lives and let them be the catalysts for a sustained exploration that continues throughout the week, over months and probably years, and that generates conversations with ourselves, with friends, mentors and with professionals,» he writes, warning us that «something very serious is going on when sadness and anxiety descend for a few hours on Sunday evenings.»

To emphasize this point, in the past year I've published a book, spoken at Google, maintained one of the most popular business podcasts on iTunes, and am having serious conversations about creating a television show about my life.

With that, and a ton of serious mastermind conversations, My Pet Lives On was born.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

But as more apps, fun or serious, begin attaching our locations to our messages, related privacy issues will remain a hot topic of conversation, perhaps forcing us to reexamine our views about how much privacy we need to maintain in our digital lives.

But while that is a crucial national conversation, the heated pipeline debate sometimes means we pay a lot less attention to the kinds of things we should build in Canada if we're serious about reducing carbon emissions.

During what officials described as a fairly brief but substantive conversation, Castro made it clear that he was well aware of the incidents and understood that the Americans saw them as a serious problem.

Albertans need to have a serious conversation about revenue and taxation, including the potential introduction of a provincial sales tax.

(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a new generation of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian Orthodoxy needs a new theory of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars of Catholic social doctrine.

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Richard» Lutheran and German» was always a serious man, grabbing more out of every minute and every conversation than most of us imagined lay there to be mined.

Let's go back to religion and have serious conversations about the heart of our belief systems.»

It is excellent to the extent that precisely because it is guided by interest in God for God's own sake, it honors the inevitable pluralism of understandings of God by serious engagement in conversation with differing understandings.

In the first round of conversation, we affirmed that, despite serious disagreements, we who recognize one another as brothers and sisters in Christ are called to the missionary task of proclaiming his lordship to the world.

The de-Stalinization campaign, the changes in the Roman Catholic Church following the Second Vatican Council, and the growth of the ecumenical movement all contributed to bringing Marxists and Christians together for serious conversations about critical issues.

America needs many serious conversations in this age of the demagogic tweet and the rabid talk - radio sound - bite.

That conversation is not advanced when, as happened after the CNN broadcast, smug partisans attack a serious Catholic public official by suggesting that he's deficient in both his moral commitment to the poor and his understanding of Catholic social doctrine.

Putting aside the more serious question of whether Trump's words in his conversation with Bush accurately describe real actions he has committed (something he denied when pressed by Anderson Cooper in Sunday night's debate), let's consider the notion that all this is «just locker room talk.»

Judith Wolfe tells us about the origins of the journal: «As an Oxford theologian, I was surprised again and again that C S Lewis was widely read, and very much enjoyed, by theologians and philosophers, but that he wasn't felt to be presentable in polite society — he wasn't regarded as the sort of person who could be drawn into a serious theological or philosophical conversation.»

serious conversations of boundary - marking young Christians, no matter the circumstances of your story, you are not disqualified from life or from joy or from marriage or from your calling or from a healthy and wonderful lifetime of sex because you had — and, heaven forbid, enjoyed — sex before you were married.

Wherever they are being taught, by whatever methods and with whatever preconceptions, theological students are everywhere being asked to enter into long and serious conversations with the persons and communities of the Old and New Covenants of the Bible.

Prompted by his continuing experience with the institute courses, he began a serious research effort, convinced of the need «to find new ways to talk about the congregational body that can provide deeper insight into its nature, and enrich conversation with and among its members.»

One that I find especially difficult to endure is the climactic conversation between Raskolnikov and Sonya in book four of Crime and Punishment, with its unremittingly forced portentousness and the embarrassingly obvious (but entirely unconvincing) device of Raskolnikov asking Sonya to read the story of the raising of Lazarus in John's gospel — which culminates in one of the most egregious displays of authorial heavy - handedness in the history of serious literature.

TWSYF, prove that your god exists, that The Babble is the true word of your god and that jesus was actually resurrected and we'll have a serious conversation.

To my mind, Gioia is on much firmer ground when he criticizes the state of the public conversation in serious journals, newspapers, and other venues.

Except it was a non-discussion, or at least a non-starter, for until recently, the religion - and - society debate in Israel meant ultra-orthodox Jews vs. thoroughly secularized Jews, which didn't leave a whole lot of room for serious conversation.

I just asked my nineteen year old brother and three of his friends (sorry for those awkward conversations guys) if they had a serious girlfriend.

Not enough time to make quality signings what a load of trash the window opened on 1st July we have been lead to believe serious conversations were taking place to sign players but just like every other window we wait until the last minute and we end up with no one or players who are not good enough.

Cowboy Troy is a Dallas native and a Texas graduate who steers an otherwise informal conversation into a serious discussion of Charlie Strong's team management style.

Eschewing the extremes occupied by the loudest voices in the national concussion and youth sport conversation, the ones who either deny there is a serious issue that needs to be addressed (who they characterize as the «just a knock to the head» crowd) or have become so convinced that contact sports inevitably result in lifelong disability that they are so fundamentally unsafe that they should be abolished, they opt instead for the common sense middle ground - a place where MomsTEAM and I have been all along - a magical place where it is possible to have a «more thoughtful, science - based» dialog about the role of sports in our kids» lives.

Ot but anyone else having some serious discus weirdness on this post?About 95 % of all the comments are showing up for me as having been made by Awesomemom, giving the somewhat entertaining appearance that she is having a series of long conversations with herself.

And please tell what are the «serious implications» of OBs controlling (I'd say guiding and advising, since patients are free to ignore advice without penalty, but happy to adopt your words for this conversation) and intervening in pregnancy and childbirth?

While it's a serious topic, keeping the conversation free from judgment or threats of punishment will make it easier for your child to discuss cigarettes with you — and even let you know if she's offered one someday.

It is becoming evident that Number 3, Number 4 and I are going to have many of life's most serious conversations on the 7 - minute drive to school or the 6 - minute drive to swim practice.

During the 1920s and 1930s the new professionalization of the medical establishment, which included the development of the specialty practice of pediatrics, continued a serious and at times impassioned conversation about the introduction of solid foods.

When kids are growing up, some of the best conversations can be had in a car, when looking straight ahead and not at each other offers a sense of anonymity that can open... MORE up conversations to more serious or intimate levels.

You've probably heard the warning «never shake a baby» in parenting advertisements or in conversation with friends, but many people are not aware of just how serious an issue this is.

Last night I had a long conversation with two experienced folks from the digital politics world... both of whom worried about what they saw as a serious talent shortage on the Left.

Osborne told his Manchester audience, «Today I am starting the conversation about a serious devolution of powers and budgets» to northern cities.

They should sit down and put aside any personal animosities they may have for each other, and have a serious conversation about the future of the Senate Democratic Conferences.

Said Molinaro: «There has to be a serious conversation between the people of the city and the police department.

«Every single one of our members is ready for a primary and ready to have a serious conversation and debate about who can best serve New York's working families.

«This toolkit is a valuable resource for communities, school districts and families across our state to help start serious conversations about the disease of addiction and the inherent dangers of drug use and experimentation.»

«I think ultimately we will have to have in this state, sooner or later, a serious conversation and debate about moving to a full - time legislature, from the perspective of banning all outside income,» said the senator.

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

International diplomacy is, it seems, little more than a succession of polite faces - handshakes, kissing cheeks, delighted expressions - punctuated by conversations in which the main aim is to look as serious as possible.

De Blasio also talked serious with Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who held onto the small of his back for a minute of conversation.