Sentences with phrase «written about those convictions»

I never wrote about my conviction that we should love gays and homosexuals without judging them before because I knew it would be polarizing.

If you've read the blog or any of my books, you know I've written about those convictions.

Not exact matches

For whatever personal convictions that drives him to do so (not every CEO writes polemics about free - market capitalism in their spare time time) Mackey has elected himself the firebrand leader to inspire the next generation of leaders that must reverse the public perception of business.

«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.

Gerardus Van der Leeuw expresses a similar conviction when he writes about drama.

In Mantel's case, when she began writing about Cromwell, by her own account she was «filled with glee and a sense of power,» a conviction that everything in her life had prepared her for this.

In this conviction, I am heavily indebted to Whitehead, and I have written about the understanding of God that is involved in A Christian Natural Theology.

Whether he's writing about politics, Pentecostal spirituality, or women in leadership, Jonathan always writes with wisdom, conviction, and grace.

Stanley Hauerwas, an American theologian who has thought deeply about disability, wrote an essay on abortion that joins up biblical convictions to arrive at this conclusion: «The church is a family into which children are brought and received.

I have written this book to state and defend two convictions about that hope.

Here is something Einstein wrote about god — «It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated.

Of course even Bultmann, to say nothing of Kierkegaard, wrote in the conviction that he knew more about Jesus than the mere fact of his death.

It is my conviction that if a theologian doesn't know the culture and times well enough to speak and write in ways that people understand, then the theologian doesn't know the first thing about theology.

This is not a gesture of humility about my thought or writing, but rather denotes my increasing theological, epistemological and moral conviction that theology in service to the church can not come only from an individual mind.

At the time of his conviction, I wrote a small essay about my friendship with Scooter ¯ others knew him better, but we had a genuine literary friendship, free from the politics that infects too much conversation in America these days.

The present volume is the outcome of the conviction that most of our talk about post-war reconstruction misses the point in that the treaties, political organizations, and economic arrangements, about which we speak and write so voluminously, are only surface phenomena.

It was my conviction that, as no professional biographer in his right mind would touch Whitehead, someone who knew him and his work should write as much about this great man's life as the scanty materials allowed; not a memoir, mind you, but an objective partial biography.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

And as for Jon Fox and myself being Pals?We have never met never spoken and never corresponded.We share a common hatred of Arsene Wenger.We also share a long time support of Arsenal Football Club.That is it.There are many many others who post their thoughts and feelings on this site who feel the same way about Wenger and the hierarchy of this club as we do.It would be very very easy to rip your comments to shreds but I simply refuse to waste time pointing out the obvious to you other than to say if your «posts» carried as much conviction and feeling as the ones posted by Jon Fox then you would find yourself gaining far more respect than what you are getting now.Study Ken1945 and how he writes his posts.

I believe you have valid reasons behind your convictions and I respect your point of view and decisions as a parent that you've written about here, but you strike me as somewhat dogmatic in your views and your opinions come across like verdicts from above.

About half way through writing this book to my kids, I started to have such a passion for the idea that I began to develop a website to make it easy for other parents to do the same thing, and I've heard from many other parents who share my conviction that this is a wonderful gift for children.

Sir, I have resolved to write you this letter based on a strong inner conviction and my personal observations and views about your very action in the near future, that I believe, would make a strong case or otherwise for the National Democratic Congress, NDC, a party on whose ticket you served as a Member of Parliament, rose to the position of a Deputy Minister and later Minister.

It's an interesting enough trip and admittedly, it was great fun listening to critics discuss their love for not only the movies themselves but writing about them but the film lacks any conviction.

He writes poetry and speaks with articulate conviction about his religious beliefs.

Nonfiction authors have it «easy» because they write about specific topics, so as a fiction author you have to find that thread of conviction in your work and communicate that passion to readers.

The bulk of the list will obviously be composed of stocks I've written about to date, since they represent some of my highest conviction holdings.

Of course, these are the stocks they write about with the most conviction... But sometimes they can be the stocks & valuations bloggers express the most anxiety & uncertainty (or even blindness) about, and that can be v instructive too when it's (un) consciously on display...

Thinking about Item One above, I heard the following this morning on the Writer's Almanac (http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/), a quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley: «Do it now — write nothing but what your conviction of its truth inspires you to write....

His intensely dogmatic climate writing and rage for justice stems in part from his religious beliefs about nature, and his personal conviction that American «hyper - individualism» and consumerism corrupt both the environment and humanity, exemplified by fossil fuels, industrial civilization and free market capitalism.

Those years of coaching, she writes in the preface to this book, «left me with strong convictions about what makes for powerful legal writing and an even stronger belief that legal writing is a skill that can be taught and learned.»

As reported in the written decision of the Law Society Hearing Panel (which decision is under appeal by the applicant), the applicant threatened to sue the other board members for defamation after he was removed as President of the condo corporation and a notice of his removal was posted; circulated a letter (under a false name) on some floors within the building that falsely stated that some of the board members had previously gone bankrupt, had criminal convictions and were accepting bribes and free meals from the developer of the condominium to settle deficiencies with the developer; made a derogatory remark about some of the residents based on their ethnicity; threatened to report some of the directors to US / Canada border officials, falsely alleging that they were drug smugglers; threatened both the corporation's property manager and security services firm that their contracts with the condo corporation would be in jeopardy if they did not provide a character letter to the applicant.

The evening also featured an Advocate for Justice Award for Benjamin Cardozo School of Law professor Ekow Yankah; the firsthand exoneration story of Everton Wagstaffe, who spent almost 23 years in prison fighting his wrongful conviction; and a special performance by the Exoneree Band, a rock group consisting of five musically talented exonerated men who write and perform songs about injustice and their own wrongful convictions.

Some employers feel that writing an objective does not say much about a person's conviction and anyone can write lofty words.

Her conviction that wisdom about the relational brain can transform human experience led to writing Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology and its companion workbook, both for the Norton Series.