Sentences with phrase «layman at»

As a layman I at least realize that asking Judge Roberts questions concerning current cases and decisions is a non-starter.

I am a total layman at this but I would like to ask the question of jsut hat is the most critical outstanding issue in climate science?

When the obvious (to the layman at least) human strain of BSE happened, the academics all then predicted an epidemic: Hence being twice wrong.

Creators Here's a video interview (complete with handy transcript) with Chew writer John Layman at Isotope in San Francisco.

A simple explanation to our laymen at this point alone can help greatly in the meeting of this problem.

The community mental health effort is, therefore, a lay effort and requires committed Christian laymen at the center of the movement.

George Lucas, who recently announced his plans to build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago, attempted to keep to himself at opening night, while Shaquille O'Neal surely found the opposite to be true, with an ever - present sea of both art folks and laymen at his elbows.

Not exact matches

Over at Engineering.com, John Ewbank broke the results down into layman format.

And when much is at stake and the industry is marked by an asymmetry of information between the layman and those in advisory roles, an organized process for defining and certifying those professionals is required.

Vishal is very good at explaining concepts in a very simple way so that a layman can easily understand them.

In the midst of all the writing Buckley did before his death last year at the age of eighty - two, in the midst of television shows and the politics and the leadership of the conservative movement, we tend to forget that there was a time through the 1950s and 1960s when he was also seen as one of the nation's leading Catholic laymen.

again, sorry for the laymen here and there hard times... i guess i am looking at some grammer and spelling posts now.

Although he sympathized with the civil rights movement and actively opposed the Vietnam War» he was (with Richard John Neuhaus) a member of the steering committee of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam» he felt increasingly alarmed at the radicalism of the Movement, which reminded him of the street violence he had witnessed as a child in Nazi Germany.

Any layman or church leader can be at the height of their popularity and usefulness, and yet be yesterday's man or woman.

Surely there can be no doubt at least that the average layman thinks that this is what is intended; and he assumes that when the clergy speak of miracle, this is precisely what they mean.

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, along with William Sloane Coffin, then the pastor of Riverside Church.

Born in Lancashire in the 1560s Gerard was educated at Oxford, Rheims and Paris before returning to England where he had his first experience of imprisonment for the Faith as a layman.

There are many Catholic priests and laymen who are not at all, or at least much less worried.

For this local church is the place where the layman must really find his place and his responsibility, where he must feel at home, Just as in a family where one also does not like everyone.

A minister and a layman are seated together at one point of a round table.

The elements include one minister and at least two laymen, whatever their size, sex, or color.

Hays was succeeded by Joseph Breen, a devout Roman Catholic layman who at times ran the office as an outpost of the Catholic Church.

Some of these laymen question whether the communication of a set of ideas is the purpose of a sermon at all.

Doubts about efforts at such conversion were sufficiently serious as to lead to the sending of the layman's commission to investigate first - hand what was happening on the mission field.

Scientists who don't agree with evolution or at least admit that there is no concrete evidence to back it up, generally get overshadowed (in layman's terms — shutout) by science organizations that dominate the scientific community.

Arnold J. Toynbee is the distinguished British author of A Study of History, and he contributed as an Anglican layman to a series of articles anticipating the 1937 ecumenical conference on Life and Work, held at Oxford.

The medical profession is the primary guardian of the people's health in the matter of drugs, for the questions at issue are generally technical and can not be properly assessed by laymen.

Mental health concerns should motivate a layman to encourage his minister to do those things which are consistent with his mental health — a regular «preacher's sabbath» away from the telephone, at least a month's vacation for recharging his emotional and intellectual batteries, sufficient money and freedom to enjoy the legitimate recreational resources of the area, and enough privacy to protect the minister and his family from excessive living - in - a-goldfish-bowl pressure.

I have said enough, I hope, to show why so many of us feel so immensely indebted to this layman, perhaps the greatest exemplar of the Catholic laity in the last two centuries — a master of many wisdoms, a metaphysician, a philosopher at once humane and Christian, an ethicist and philosopher of history, a political philosopher, a saintly and childlike man.

One of Pius VII's wisest decisions was to name Ercole Consalvi his secretary of state, creating this layman a cardinal — Consalvi was ordained a deacon at the time — and putting him in charge of virtually the entire apparatus of papal governance.

Furthermore, when ministers get discouraged and seem to be accomplishing nothing, again and again their hearts are warmed by the fidelity of those laymen — perhaps only one or two in a congregation — who can always be depended on, who see at least partially what the minister is driving at, who in an unpretentious way are genuine Christian saints.

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

There can be no possible question that the influence of the church upon the ills and evils of the world is carried out through laymen — or not at all.

(The Layman Looks at the Minister (N. Y., 1947), 124.

The preacher would give a sermon but at any time, a layman could say, «Wait a minute, I don't understand this,» or «Explain what you mean.»

In principle, anybody with the right equipment could follow the same procedure and arrive at the same results (allowing for normal variation), but for better or worse, modern scientific experiments require expertise and equipment that is not accessible to the layman.

She has, in laymen's terms, described her process (applied hermeneutics) of arriving at her conclusions.

More than that: I know practically every active layman among our churches, and at least seventy - five per cent of them believe exactly as I do.

Such laymen are working at this in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other large urban areas.

A Layman's Training Program: Let me report on a layman training program which was instigated and researched by John W. Ackerman at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., in the fall ofLayman's Training Program: Let me report on a layman training program which was instigated and researched by John W. Ackerman at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., in the fall oflayman training program which was instigated and researched by John W. Ackerman at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1965.

But Gregory did not develop a doctrine of the indelibility of ordination, while the weighty contemporaneous Apostolic Constitutions supply an ordaining prayer beseeching God never to withdraw his Holy Spirit.50 At the Council of Chalcedon (canon 29) the Eastern fathers will presently give evidence of continuing uncertainty as to whether, for example, a bishop for disciplinary reasons may be reduced to the rank of presbyter, or whether he should be eliminated from the clergy altogether and classed as a layman.

«Instead of it being a typical factory job, people are coming in at a higher hourly wage and put on a 90 - day probation period to see if there's a fit,» Layman explains.

Look at the eyes of Meyers, Layman, Babbit (reaching back), even Nurk, no killer instinct Then look in the eyes of Dame, Zach, (and the teams that hurt us the most) those guys want to destroy their opponent

If I remember correctly, the thought around here at the time was that the scholarship came down to whoever committed first between him and Layman.

That was awful... Stotts lineups were terrible and not just at the end of the 4th quarter At the end of the third or beginning of the 4th there was a lineup of CJ, layman, Vonleh, PC, and Eat the end of the 4th quarter At the end of the third or beginning of the 4th there was a lineup of CJ, layman, Vonleh, PC, and EAt the end of the third or beginning of the 4th there was a lineup of CJ, layman, Vonleh, PC, and ED.

Start the game with the focus on Carter, Layman and Trimble, trying to get at least two of them going early.

@JeffLambert The most recent years (from skimming the indictment with layman's eyes) would seem to be their lying about past crimes, which at least have their origins over a decade ago.

The question of admitting refugees definitely affects both, at least to my layman judgement.

@holmes200 The example you bring up in your second comment in laymen's terms can be considered extortion, and the EU would also probably consider secondary costs (such as giving other member states bad ideas) before «throwing money at Greece» and caving.

Laymen may either look askance at these judicial machinations or ignore them entirely, that is, until they appear in court before one of the judges this backroom 19th - century process produces.