Sentences with phrase «who left»

Set parallel in time, place and theme to Gilead, her prizewinning novel of 2004, Marilynne Robinson's new novel, Home, takes the reader inside the home of retired Presbyterian pastor Robert Boughton for another perspective on Jack Boughton, the black sheep of the family, who left Gilead as a young man after fathering a child.

As part of this late exercise in autodidactism, they suggested that I read various books — some of which were subsequently acquired — by formidable chess grandmasters including Nimzowitsch and Alekhine and others who left permanent stamps on the game.

If most of those who left the church were honest, they'd admit the main reason was because they were just too lazy to get their butts out of bed on Sunday morning!

Moore is running in Alabama against Democrat Doug Jones on 12th December in a special election to fill the vacancy left by Jess Sessions who left to become Attorney General.

All of the suits involved two men: one, a laicized former priest who left active ministry more than a decade ago, and the other, a priest dead for more than a decade.

I believe that Jesus, who left because he stated that he had to in nocder to allow the Comfortor to replace him, left for good but the comforter was then and is now in each of us.

I've also witnessed the coercion Wollstonecraft describes: teenaged girls being dragged into the Planned Parenthood on Bleecker Street by fathers, mothers, or boyfriends; an eighteen - year - old who left home because her parents threatened to kick her out if she didn't abort.

There were no social security numbers, no FBI, no computers, no effective way to track down someone who left a family in Cincinnati and took off for Walla Walla.

Anyway, I am not really trying to convince this person who left the one - star review.

A fourth is a Malay - Muslim woman, Syarifah Nooraffyza Wan Hosen, who left Islam and became baptised as a Christian in 2009.

I'm the one who left.

More important, he was a radical, a man who left behind the land and presumably also the ways of his fathers in search of something new.

Take for example Able who in faith gave his best out of love for God or Abraham who left the security of his home country stepping out in faith to a hope a promised land.

World Vision will continue to feed children and people who left World Vision will continue to be generous.

Her father, John, was an alcoholic who left the family and disappeared; her mother, Frances, tried to raise Patty and her two siblings by herself.

True, the money came largely from Father's father, who left a fifth of a million - dollar estate to each of his five children.

When the book deal was announced, the publisher said the book will detail the rise of the GOP star and junior senator born to parents who left Cuba shortly before Fidel Castro took control of the island.

Most of the people I've observed who left or were fired from their pastoral post did not enter a new vocation... and it is rare, by the way, for me to meet a pastor who is bi-vocational, though the debate rages that Jesus devoted himself to singular focus those last three years of his life....

And would Abortionists be convicted of second degree murder??? Would they be brought from another state to trial... Fathers would have to be accessories in some way too... come one... after all, they caused the condition that resulted in the abortion... What would happen to fathers who left after impregnating the mother?

And it should be noted that we found almost two - thirds of those who left in our Protestant study were back in church by the end of the study.

Kim was accused of being a «helicopter parent» who left her church because she was «selfish» and «me - oriented.»

In words reminiscent of Exodus, God invites the people to go out into the wilderness again — though without the endless thirst of the Israelites who left Egypt — and it seems the people ignore the invitation, or at least put off accepting it outright.

Five years into the recovery, the unemployment rate for the least - skilled American workers is still 8.5 percent and many workers who left the labor market during the Great Recession have been having trouble finding work even with an improving economy.

I do think that some of the people who left never were Jesus followers.

How can the deceased who left no written records be proxy baptized either?

We have committed members who have joined the Catholic Church at some cost; we have priests with long pastoral and priestly service who left livelihoods and friends; and we have a committed, energetic and determined Ordinary in Monsignor Keith Newton.

In fact, not even the majority are: The Post's stats show that of the 14 percent who left, 18 percent are mainline Protestants, 11 percent are Catholics and 10 percent are evangelicals.

I think I have a pretty good handle on those who left for negative reasons.

It may be with those who left.

I had another couple who left the church, and gave diffferent excuses to several people.

There is a story of young disciple in India who left home and traveled in search of a spiritual master whom he at last found sitting in prayer beside a river.

The technically nonpartisan nature of the Church's religious liberty campaign was further drowned out by a small chorus of strident bishops who left no doubt about how Catholics ought to vote for president.

«I am not going to wait for death,» Rami Mina, who left Arish on Friday morning, told Reuters.

Aren't you discounting the work of missionaries who left family and forsook more lucrative futures, traveled to distant continents, braved hostile societies, climates and disease to build churches, schools, hospitals and other infrastructure, all while sharing the Gospel?

For example, in addition to having higher levels of genetic diversity, populations in Africa tend to have lower amounts of linkage disequilibrium than do populations outside Africa, partly because of the larger size of human populations in Africa over the course of human history and partly because the number of modern humans who left Africa to colonize the rest of the world appears to have been relatively low (Gabriel et al. 2002).

Partly my fault because I'm the one who left.

I like how you ask where the pastors are who would be wiling to bless those who left the building to be able to follow Jesus and the Spirit better... a blessing would be nice change.

The casualties are people like 19 - year - old Aqsa Mahmood, who left her home in Scotland to join ISIS last November.

I think that Pope Francis is revitalizing the Catholic Church, giving lapsed Catholics, who left the Church because they were disenchanted by its hierarchical structure and penchant for lavishness, a reason to return.

That was a young couple who left the church I pastored gave all sorts of lame excuses, varying from one time and one «confidant» to another.

In his discussion of the eighth century, Lambert relies too heavily on the writings of the astonishing Bede, substantially excluding other figures who left significant paper trails of different kinds, such as St. Aldhelm, and causing him to downplay the continuing Irish influence on British Christian writing, including the shift to rhyme and accentual prosody in hymns.

Of those who left due to sexual misconduct, 75 percent indicated that they were lonely and isolated.

In my experience, those who left our church family have either found another church body (the best result), dropped out entirely, or church - shopped until they found a church with lower expectations for serving, giving, and personal accountability.

As a pious Catholic, he still believes himself married to the woman who left him eight years before, but he has nonetheless been «deprived of the loyalties which should have sustained him.»

The one thing that bothered me in this article is the fellow who left his job for this counseling, not because he felt bad with his wife, but because he felt bad with God, which he said was more important.

God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.

Narrated through scattered morsels spanning the 1950s and 1960s, Roiphe's memoir is less about her six - year marriage to an artist who left her every night for prostitutes and alcohol, and more about her own devastating dependence on artistic prestige.

One of the issues at hand includes a fascinating essay on the St. Patricks, the Irish Catholic soldiers who left the American army and formed a battalion of the Mexican army during the Mexican - American War» a war of, shall we say, dubious justification.

All of the people who he left Egypt with show up later in the story with new names.

So the lesbian couple who left sex far behind them aren't in sin even though they're in a long term committed love relationship and the two elderly gentlemen who no longer have sex are also not in sin, and yet these are homosexual relationships between people who choose to share their lives.