Sentences with phrase «young people speaking»

No meeting of scientists nor avalanche of TED talks will have the impact of young people speaking their truths about climate.

There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong Young people speaking» their minds Getting so much resistance from behind

Xolisa and other young people I spoke to confirmed that parents typically retain the traditional notion of choosing spouses for their children, but put it into practice only to the extent of refusing to meet boyfriends and girlfriends or even acknowledge that there could be any.

At the same time, the young people we spoke to — in focus groups and individual interviews — did see popular culture as telling them about the their world.

I personally feel very excited to see a young person speak so powerfully about setting goals and the importance of measuring them and taking action.

The films were launched at an event at Latymer School in London on Thursday 25th February, where a young person spoke about their experience of self - harming and Natasha Devon chaired a question and answer session with a former teacher, a former teacher and a psychiatrist.

Most importantly, a result of the day, one in four young people spoke up about something that had been worrying them online.

This can include the young person speaking to the school board, the student advisory council, and the student researcher program.

Several of the young people I spoke to talked about the effects of Instagram on self - esteem and mental health.

Kinship care and wellbeing: Children and young people speak out.

Young people spoke of wanting to hear hypothetical guidance so criticisms about their parents» relationship and the choices teenagers had made could be kept separate.

Not exact matches

Lloyd's of London CEO Inga Beale spoke to CNBC in June about the impact young people have had on her company and professional life.

While the research has applications for marketers (highlight the ordinary to reach an older demographic and the extraordinary for younger people), it may also come as a comfort to bewildered folks in their mid-30s who are shocked by exactly how much they're enjoying routine experiences that would have bored their younger selves to tears (not to speak too much from personal experience).

Chinese real estate mogul Zhang Xin speaks about her organization SOHO China's scholarships to help young people study at leading universities across the globe.

Speaking of weird and unsavory, if there's one thing that really excites Thiel, it's the prospect of having younger people's blood transfused into his own veins.

Young people from college campuses aren't lining up to hear him speak because of what appeared in those newsletter about the 1992 L.A. riots.

If you have a fear of associating with people, you have to go out there and do it, and it's painful... When I was young and completed the [public speaking] course, I was worried I would lapse back... so I started teaching a class at night and, you know, you've got to force yourself to do some things sometimes.»

Will Riley, a senior at Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, New Mexico, launched «Stand for the Second» in an effort to speak out on behalf of young people who support gun rights.

Speaking of career paths, younger people are having a tough time getting good jobs these days.

In Parkland, «while the students and parents speaking up were no more passionate than the young people of, say, the Black Lives Matter movement, it was clear that the political establishment was going to receive them a different way,» New Yorker contributor Emily Witt noted last week.

As a young person, he was unmoved by the faith of his family, but a British evangelist, Nigel Price, spoke on his university campus, and he gave his life to the Lord.

And speaking on Premier Christian Radio Andy Drake, the director of YMCA Chelmsford which works with young people, said that in pornography: «You're not seeing love being shared by two consenting adults.

The young people's charity was speaking after the Prison Reform Trust charity launched an independent review into the relationship between children in care and youth offending rates.

When I was younger I was very curious about what made successful people tick, so to speak, especially self - made people.

Speaking on Premier's News Hour, he said: «We have a responsibility to talk about it because everybody else is, and if our young people can't find out what's right and wrong and what's healthy and what's good from us, then they'll just go somewhere else.

This week, while speaking to young people at...

A church in Manchester has urged Christian leaders to speak out against the exploitation of young people in the wake of an inquiry into the issue in the area.

This church carries out its life and ministry in a way that speaks to young people.

Speaking during News Hour she said: «Really listen to what your child is saying, whether they're talking about the reason they feel so down and it might be hard to listen to but I think it's really important that we keep listening to our young people.

Mr Lawrence, who speaks to young people to spell out the dire consequences of carrying a weapon, said: «Right now with the violence, and the knife crime violence, it is even more urgent now that I talk to these youngsters and explain to them the pain and the suffering they inflict on families.

With all of this in mind, and in response to common questions I receive when speaking at mainline churches, I've dusted off and updated this older post from 2013 with seven ways to welcome young people to the mainline:

On his return flight from South Korea on Monday, the Pope spoke movingly of meeting with the families of last April's ferry disaster, which killed about 300 people, many of whom were young students.

However, the presenters are unashamed about their Christian faith, and say that part of the podcast's appeal to young people and non-Christians is because they don't pretend to be anything they are not, as they avoid the trap of speaking a «weird Christian - ese language».

speak so glibly of dysfunction of husbands who are unhappy with their wives and seek counsel, or of young people who, fearing an insecure and shadowed future, fear to cast themselves into it in love and work,..

I've often been asked to speak to leaders of mainline churches on the topic of young people leaving the church.

I've been speaking at many small colleges that have historical ties to the oldest mainline denominations in the U.S. I have been noticing something interesting: a terrific hunger for a deeper spirituality on the part of many young people who come from evangelical backgrounds like mine and also like me are looking for something outside of the right wing conservatism they come from.

Today, each young person I meet speaks about a church and talks about «community.»

As a pastor, I invite my church's young people to speak or read during the worship service.

I saw a deaf man begin to speak in tongues which was astounding and a young girl hear from a dead ear and an elderly catholic lady stand up straight as God ungnarled her arthritic back... those were times of awe... I was 16, 17, 18 — young, naive and I saw miracles, healings, incredible things but most of all hundreds of people come to faith.

As its first full - time representative, Billy Graham traveled throughout America and Europe, speaking at rallies and teaching pastors and youth leaders how to develop evangelism programs for young people.

That time God brought two perfectly matched people together in a strikingly sovereign way; the story of the couple who received a life - giving promise where IVF had failed, or that young entrepreneur who heard God speak about an idea that led to resounding success.

Hope For The Young Christ Himself spoke about people who, invited to the wedding feast, made excuses and kept away.

Some of us recall in Rome itself during the Youth Week for the Jubilee 2000 the scandalous answers given by a Bishop from anotherEnglish speaking continent to thousands of young people.

In my experience of speaking to young people, the problem with some churches is a blanket of rules and regulations that are applied to everyone without taking time to get to know people.

When we speak about abortion today, we are speaking to women who have had abortions; to men who have asked women to have abortions; to young people who have lost brothers and sisters to abortion; and to the mothers and fathers, friends and neighbors of those women and men.

«It's easy to call out millennials for wanting to speak on stage, but instead of criticizing, we should do the work to prepare young people for leadership roles,» he said.

The pre-exilic prophets were already speaking of the judgment to fall «in the latter days» as one in which the God of Israel «will be judge between nations, arbiter among many peoples» 8 and where the divine judgment would result in a new kind of world in which «the wolf shall live with the sheep, and the leopard lie down with the kid; the calf and the young lion shall grow up together, and a little child shall lead them».9

And to speak in that fashion would be to say, with Dr. Paul Knitter of Xavier University in Cincinnati (one of the brilliant young Roman Catholic process theologians of our time), that we need to «recognize the possibility that other «saviours» have carried out... for other people» the redemptive work which as Christians we know in Jesus Christ.

Narrative ministry, so to speak, finds no more receptive audience than a group of young people, particularly a group of high - powered, pressured children and adolescents who have not frequently experienced the joy and luxury of having stories told to them.

Powerful well - funded agencies, often promoted by the State (I avoid the word «Government» as I do not want to speak in party - political terms), are mounting a relentless onslaught upon the family and especially the moral sense of our young people.