Sentences with phrase «young people we spoke to»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

It is ironic and telling that within a few days of writing a post about how young people seem to be gravitating toward either neo-Reformed theology or the emerging church, I should come across a piece by Dan Kimball in which he speaks of the emerging / emergent phenomenon in the past tense.

But, «it is the young people who are always the first to speak to him, and feel most relaxed around Adam,» says Mr. Wright.

Each week, forty or fifty million adults and many young people in the formative years listen to a spiritual leader speak on something which (hopefully) touches people where they live.

One must «speak of liberty, as the youth of today has placed it in his culture, but liberty must always be in relation to truth, as it is truth that produces liberty... [and] one can not speak of God to young people without knowing the culture of today's young people, which is scientific.

He recalled the solid achievements which were now to be seen in Ernestine Saxony, the results of the Visitation, of the preaching of a theology of faith and the circulation of the Little Catechism, and the German New Testament: «The young people, both boys and girls, grow up so well instructed in the Catechism and the Scriptures that I am deeply moved when I see that young boys and girls can pray, believe, and speak more of God and Christ than they ever could in the monasteries, foundations, and schools of bygone days, or even of our day.

3 John Paul himself put it bluntly when speaking to young people at Denver, Colorado, in 1993: «The slaughter of the innocents is no less sinful or devastating simply because it is done in a legal and scientific way.

«Our parents, young adults, teens and children should therefore, of all people, be especially sensitive to the vulnerable in society and be willing to speak out against bullying or intimidation whenever it occurs, including unkindness toward those who are attracted to others of the same sex.

Another illustration of speaking to the congregation for people comes from an experience in preparing a young couple for marriage.

I've often marveled at the fact that Jesus» instructions to the rich young ruler to sell all of his belongings and give to the poor are rarely applied universally (because we interpret them as being spoken to a specific person in a unique circumstance), while Paul's instructions to Timothy are often applied to all women at all times, (despite being written to a specific person in a unique circumstance.)

I also know the shame one feels when a room full of people swoon, literally fall on the floor, in unison while you remain standing and the pressure you are put under as a young person to «speak in tongues» because if you don't you are looked down upon as not having the «gifts of the Spirit» But I digress.

Liberals, conservatives (about 50/50) rich and poor, the very young to the very old, people of all races, people who don't speak much English, to professors of English.

When I speak to young people, I often say «If you don't know what you want to be when you grow up, I could be your poster boy.»

Lucinda van der Hart speaks to a courageous young woman who truly understands that a person should never be valued on their appearance alone.