Sentences with phrase «laymen on»

If you want a medium - high scale heat for the layman on your barbecue, this is it.

Funny thing about military action and intelligence; it's not something we devolve to layman on stack exchange.

Hello everyone, I know this is a blog for scientist, but does anyone know of any good articles for the layman on climate change?

Murphy has written more than 100 articles for the layman on free - market economics and is the author of numerous books, including Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action (Independent Institute, 2015), Lessons for the Young Economist (Mises Institute, 2010), and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism (Regnery, 2007).

Can anyone explain it or alternatively point me to a clear exposition for the layman on the web?

As a layman on the issue, their explanation was sufficiently techy, but not overly so as to confuse and boggle down the masses who don't write for tech blogs.

Not exact matches

Fink helped lead some of HPE's big technology projects like its muddled foray into cloud computing, and newer initiatives centered on open - source (in laymen's terms, free) technologies and the Linux operating system.

The author of three novels and a memoir on his parents» romantic life, Lanchester is a layman writing for laymen.

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Many clergymen who have listened to the laymen's comments on our tapes are surprised by the acuteness of their perceptions.

The number of scientists has remained consistent and this I know, I looked it up with my research and it can easily be found on Google for the common layman.

The will of the clergy to give the laity a real share in the task and responsibility for the Church is still in its infancy, and the laymen themselves are not exactly wildly keen on it.

Catholic laymen must take up their place in life and face their family, their love, their children (who perhaps do not always come up to their expectations), their professional duties which grow ever more irksome and their duties as citizens; in doing so they will meet situations in which, because they reflect on their faith, they will know how to behave as Christians living in the grace of God, the light of the gospel and the imitation of the crucified Christ.

Rather, enlightened by Christian wisdom and giving close attention to the teaching authority of the Church, let the layman take on his own distinctive role [Gaudium et spes].

In an article on Think Progress, Zach Beauchamp cites a study by political scientists Thomas Carsey and Geoffrey Layman which shows that over time, people often change their abortion attitudes to match the political party they generally support.

One is that a lot of conscientious laymen feel guilty when they don't have the name «Jesus Christ» on their lips, and their teachers have not helped them to understand any better.

And indeed, as the Sunday schools developed, their administrators as well as teachers were laymen; and only on some special retreat did the teachers have direct contact with the ordained minister about the content of their task.

I have ventured into writing commentaries on the biblical books in Malayalam, approaching the Bible in two senses of the word, layman: namely, inadequate scientific understanding of the text but primarily concerned with response to life - situations.

A constructive image of evangelizing requires a review of contemporary methods like revivalism and mission, and leads to the concept of the Christian, whether minister or layman, encountering others, whether as individuals or in a group, in a discussion of their expressed needs, and depends more on attitudes than techniques.

«Another thing I don't like about some preaching,» said another layman who speaks for the growing number of his kind, «is that preachers are always on the defensive.

Apparently there is a longing on the part of laymen for the preacher to give an honest, intelligent, passionate, personal presentation of Christian conviction rather than the coldly rational, dispassionate presentation of objective truth.

(In my Understanding the Christian Faith, which is intended primarily for laymen, I have given a survey of the basic convictions of Christian faith, with a chapter on principles of biblical interpretation.

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.

On those Tuesdays I gave a number of addresses, answering questions often asked by Christian laymen and inquirers; the answers were taken down by tape - recorder and are here...

Obviously my testimony here is that of a layman and a novice, based on a single experience as a juror in a criminal case.

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.

This conflict has emerged between the liberal and militant activist pastors and denominational leaders, on the one hand, and a large body of more conservative laymen, on the other hand, who think the church should stick to spiritual matters and stop meddling in politics and «social» issues.

Fortunately, their influence on American ministers has been relatively small and even less on laymen.

The most drastic example of the application of this principle is to he seen in the view of religion which underlies the recently published report of the Laymen's Appraisal Commission on Missions.4 In agreement with the opinions of a minority group among the missionaries, it implies the abandonment of the old methods leading to conversion, which are based upon the conviction of Christianity's possession of absolute religious truth.

Hence it was possible for the word quest to become almost sacred in Christian circles, for the leading Modernist journal to publish an editorial on «The Cult of the Questers,» for the Laymen's Appraisal Commission on Missions to suggest that the missionary activity of the church be also made part of the quest for the truth or the true religion.

It quoted the assertion of National Religious Broadcaster «s Ben Armstrong that broadcasting is shifting power from the clergy to the layman «with his hand on the dial....

Jesus was hard on the (actual) Pharisees, but he did not brand laymen and women «Pharisees.»

On those Tuesdays I gave a number of addresses, answering questions often asked by Christian laymen and inquirers; the answers were taken down by tape - recorder and are here printed with very slight changes.

When the Persian king Kavadh I had to flee his country to Central Asia in AD 499, he met on the way a group of Christian missionaries — a bishop, four presbyters and four laymen — going to Central Asia to preach to the Turks.

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.

12) with its emphasis on the layman's ministry to the world, gives both worship and Christian education a fresh, practical relevancy.

But on a deeper view no Christian minister or layman escapes the profound mystery of confession and absolution.

Several perceptive laymen should be asked by the minister to listen with a keen ear and report on the strengths and weaknesses of a particular sermon.

Laymen should be encouraged to serve on local Councils on Alcoholism, work as volunteers in enlightened treatment facilities and halfway houses, both because such help is often needed and because the experiences will help to modify relationship - blocking stereotypes concerning alcoholics.

The major problem which confronts the churches is the wideness of the gulf between what is preached and done in the churches on Sunday and the interests and activities of laymen through the week.

Other such projects are the Sigtuna Institute in Sweden, the Kerk en Wereld center near Utrecht in Holland, Cluny in France, the Zoë movement in Greece, and numerous other less permanent arrangements by which Christian laymen meet occasionally for a week end of conference on matters of mutual Christian concern.

If the Church is going to make any very constructive dent on current evils, it is mainly the laymen who must make it.

Laymen were called on to help meet the challenges thrown before Protestantism by the industrialism and urbanism of the late nineteenth century.

Laymen need to be helped to understand the meaning of work in our society and to plan together about how the gospel can become relevant to themselves and to others on the job.

Not all laymen, of course, are aware of what is going on around them.

Some parts of this book will focus on the layman's role and others on the clergy's part.

An layman with respect to evolution, gives us an insider's view of what goes on behind the closed doors of academia.

Professor Underwood reports on the attitudes of both laymen and clergy from various parishes in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

He issued a new sermon in April on the Mass: «Faith is the real priestly office... All Christians are priests, man or woman, young or old, lord or servant wife or maid, scholar or layman.»

On the other hand, if laymen are regarded as full partners in the kingdom enterprise, their growing leadership potential will be released.