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