I'm not agreed you are
saying about the Readers Hub.
I like what you have
said about this reader so far But could you talk more about the connectivity issue.
And what does
that say about reader standards?
Or, as the uncles of the world never fail to
say about the readers of children's literature, «my, how you've grown.»
I agree with what
you said about readers; what they really want seems to be easy access to the content.
Not exact matches
Be clear, concise and direct with the message you wish to convey, leaving the
reader in no doubt whatsoever
about what it is you are trying to
say.
Alex Miller, the global head of content at VICE Media,
said in a statement that its
readers «care deeply
about freedom of speech and human rights» and that's why the company decided to launch the campaign for Rasool's release.
Whether an average shortfall of 37 %
says more
about the analysis or the device is a question I leave to the
reader.
Here in the real world,
readers care not just
about what you
say but what it looks like on the screen too (as anyone who has every instantly clicked away from a blog post in an insane font or with wonky formatting can attest).
Where you set the scene and tell your
readers everything they need to know to understand why what you're
about to
say is important.
«With online publicity, you need to reach out and find people that are enthusiastic
about your type of business and are willing to share it with their
readers, who come to them specifically to hear
about their tastes and opinions on that specific subject matter,» McLean
says.
«I might lose whatever credibility I have with
readers if I suggested flat out that a book centered around the subject of oil, written by an economist, was a page - turner, but I am willing to
say with conviction that Why Your World Is
About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, by former CIBC Chief Economist Jeff Rubin, is a fantastically compelling read.
To date, I have received
about 60 emails from
readers who
said they were interested in attending.
If you're a regular
reader of the HubSpot blog, what I'm
about to
say next shouldn't shock you: Use a blog on your website to write
about your industry.
You might think it will convince a casual
reader to invest their time in your article if you can persuade them that M & S are a mandatory part of contemporary cultural literacy, but really, the most relevant question in a
reader's mind is not whether the topic is important but whether it is entertaining or enlightening, and whether you have anything entertaining or enlightening to
say about it.
You're right I suppose, the bible doesn't
say anything
about how it should or shouldn't be taken seriously, I guess only non-fiction both has to show their bonafides in order to prove the validity of the material its presenting and not asking the
reader to just go with it, or «have faith it's right»....
I agree with all the positive things Travis LaCouter
said yesterday
about Adam Greene's Bibliotheca Kickstarter campaign, an effort to present a
reader's edition of the Bible, stripped of all verse numbers and other annotations and bound in four handsome volumes, one for the Law, one for the Prophets, one for the Writings, and one for the New Testament.
Then we wrote this article, fulfilling the prophecy of a supposed RELEVANT
reader who tweeted: «Aaaand que RELEVANT with an article titled «You won't believe what Chris Pratt just
said about prayer!»
I would
say to any person commenting on your 10 Ways the Non-Violent Atonement Changes Your Theology blog, to read your book first (its not an expensive purchase) before launching into any detailed discussion or disagreement.It answers many of the potential concerns people have and gets the
reader to reflect very strongly on what they have been taught
about the atonement and to put on a new set of glasses when reading scripture.
Would you
say that womanist perspectives on the Old Testament are more
about finding the redemptive notes in what I often take to be an oppressive narrative for women, or is it more
about reimagining the central messages and letting it speak fresh to a modern
reader?
The upside is that
readers can go along with all the nice things he
says about God's love, as Pope Francis apparently did, and not be sticklers for the details.
Enough has been
said about sin earlier in the book, particularly in chapter three, that I trust no
reader will think I regard it as incidental.
Biblicism falls apart, Smith
says, because of the «the problem of pervasive interpretive pluralism,» for «even among presumably well - intentioned
readers — including many evangelical biblicists — the Bible, after their very best efforts to understand it,
says and teaches very different things
about most significant topics... It becomes beside the point to assert a text to be solely authoritative or inerrant, for instance, when, lo and behold, it gives rise to a host of many divergent teachings on important matters.»
I must
say (and I want
readers to be absolutely clear
about this) that all the political and social movements which Christian friends of mine have joined precisely because they wanted to help the poor — that these movements very rarely show a concern to seek out, to find, to help the really poor.
As my friends, family, and
readers already know, I have an opinion
about nearly everything — religion, politics, theology, entertainment, lifestyle, college football, driving, world affairs, and whether or not that coffee mug in the kitchen cabinet is light gray or light blue (it's light blue, I
say!)
Mark appears to
say nothing
about Jesus» suspect birth, but for Jewish
readers his account is the most damning of all because he refers to «Jesus, son of Mary».
In response to our coordinate efforts for Mutuality 2012, I have heard from women who
say they feel their dignity and worth have been restored, from multiple
readers who have changed their minds
about women in ministry, from couples relieved that they can finally put a name to how their relationship has functioned all along, from singles freshly inspired by the «great cloud of witnesses» that surrounds them, from followers of Jesus whose passion for justice and equality has been renewed, from women ready to «get on with it» and stop asking permission to use their gifts and start unapologetically using them.
Both books encourage the
reader to look at what the Bible
says about what is going on in the world around us that we never see.
In addition, the «
About this blog» section above states as part of its purpose,»... fostering a global conversation about the role of religion and belief in readers» lives,» and like I said before, unfortunately for me and others like me, your beliefs and the beliefs of others like you can play a role in our lives, so we are involved alr
About this blog» section above states as part of its purpose,»... fostering a global conversation
about the role of religion and belief in readers» lives,» and like I said before, unfortunately for me and others like me, your beliefs and the beliefs of others like you can play a role in our lives, so we are involved alr
about the role of religion and belief in
readers» lives,» and like I
said before, unfortunately for me and others like me, your beliefs and the beliefs of others like you can play a role in our lives, so we are involved already.
Reblogged this on usmcvball and commented: Some «off - topic» stuff, for those
readers who want to know more
about why I
say what I
say... CM
3Eslick points out that at the crucial passage in Process and Reality in which Whitehead
says Descartes» concept of substance is a true derivative from Aristotle's, Whitehead refers the
reader not to Aristotle's Categories but to W. D. Ross's book
about Aristotle (SCCW 504).
When we
said ambiguously negative things
about Rand (or Randians) and Michael, we got lots of
readers we soon lost when we lost interest in their heroes.
The
reader may have wondered why I have not yet
said much
about human sinfulness.
Actually a fourth and least authoritative line of inquiry might be added, consisting of (4) «Mere Rumors and Things
Said by Bertrand Russell on this Subject» postmodernist readers may wish employ the same four lines of inquiry, and simply reverse the amount of attention given to each, and they might also add an account of the telling things that no one said or thought about Bergson and Whiteh
Said by Bertrand Russell on this Subject» postmodernist
readers may wish employ the same four lines of inquiry, and simply reverse the amount of attention given to each, and they might also add an account of the telling things that no one
said or thought about Bergson and Whiteh
said or thought
about Bergson and Whitehead.
Robert L. Wilken, also familiar to our
readers,
says, «Hans Urs von Balthasar is a thrilling writer and Edward Oakes has written a thrilling book
about him....
PJS: Before talking
about the contents of the
Reader, I have to
say that I was struck by something you mentioned in the introduction: how terrible the readily accessible translations of many of these documents are.
All the semiological systems, along with the linguistic system, must be decoded, and, as Ricoeur
says, «that requires a special affinity between the
reader and the kind of things the text is
about» (19) What is appropriated is not a system of ideas but deep values of truth that are imposed «with such power that no further proof is needed to perceive their validity and reality».
I think a simple reading of what Jesus
said about marriage in general will show you what a careless
reader you are.
-- What did the book of Daniel
say to all its
readers throughout the centuries if all these chapters are
about an already determined future far, faraway?
What von Däniken actually
says about religion is not immediately clear to me, though it seems to be clear to some of his
readers — for instance, to the retired Denver businessman who, after reading Chariots of the Gods?
Perhaps most poignantly, one
reader who read the book in light of the pedophilia scandals and the church's early secrecy
about them
says, tentatively but tellingly: «With all that is going on in the Catholic Church today, it makes you wonder if some of the fiction is actually true.»
I believe that most pacifists assume that their
readers know what they are talking
about when they
say that they are non-violent or pacifist.
Most
readers unobsessed with literalism find that these stories
say very little
about the mechanics of birth, but a great deal
about the dimensions of faith in threatening circumstances.
If it interests you or any of your
readers, I wrote a book called Nine Lies People Believe
About Speaking in Tongues, and deal with many things I see come up in these comments like Paul
said you can't speak in tongues in a meeting unless you have an interpreter, speaking several languages allegedly being the same thing as speaking in tongues in the Bible, etc...
The controversy has been sparked by what Pastor Benke actually
said in his prayer — and here Mr. Nuechterlein does a disservice to his
readers by failing to provide a single bit of information
about the content of Dr. Benke's prayer.
A footnote refers the
reader to Romans 1:26 - 28, but there is no indication of scholarly discussion among Scripture experts as to what precisely Paul is
saying about the relationship between homosexuality and unbelief.
As I've spoken with my
readers, several of them have expressed interest in the sources you used while researching A New Kind of Christianity — some because they are skeptical
about your scholarship, others because they liked what you
said and want to learn more.
Writing
about «Harbor Seals,» also from The Theology of Doubt, Holden
said the poem «charms the
reader, even as it tempts the
reader into a corner... that will require the
reader to make a moral choice as well as to reconsider many other kinds of choices
about what to «believe.»
Autobiographical fallacies aside, I can now only repeat something Borges
said, a paraphrase of Mark Twain he cited in reviewing Kipling's autobiography (Something of Myself) in El Hogar: «It is not possible for a man to tell the truth
about himself, or to keep from conveying to the
reader the truth
about himself.»
What makes the Bible such a great book is that it shows the truth
about humanity, the evil that sin creates and the truth that the devil is a liar and as Jeremy has stated, has always laid the blame on GOD, but, myself being a fairly new Christian, know that we can not pull certain verses or stories from the Bible to try and understand what GOD is doing, (and I also know that you and your
readers know this but I'm
saying it anyway) it's history, HIS Story, and when taken as a whole we can see HIS plan laid out, from creation to the cross and then throughout eternity, GOD is good and gracious to ALL!!!! (2 Peter 3:8,9).