A brand is a product that has its own name, and is made by a particular company. You usually use brand to talk about things that you buy in shops, such as food, drink, and clothes. This is my favourite brand of cereal. I bought one of the leading brands. 2. 'make' Don't confu...
What is a pulpit Bible? :a large Bible traditionally kept open onthe pulpit or lectern of many Protestant churches. Can a preacher get married? Present-day practice. Generally speaking, in modern Christianity, Protestant and some independent Catholic churchesallow for ordained clergy to marry after...
Returning the following year, Carter had relented to using a white, remote-controlled chair. After climbing aboard — voilà — a flick of a switch would slowly lift him above the lectern, visible even to those sitting in the back. If there wasn’t enough room in the sanctuary, rows of ...
These days the talk in town is of Harper Lee, known locally by her first name, Nelle (her grandmother’s name Ellen spelled backward). Avoiding publicity from the earliest years of her success, she is back in the news because of the discovery and disinterment of a novel...
A trial is a continuum, beginning with the first meeting with the client and ending only after the final word is spoken in closing argument. From the start, experienced trial lawyers size up Exhibit A, the client, silently asking, “What will the jury think?” and “How can I help him...
A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. A learning task assigned to a student; homework. Something learned or to be learned. Something that serves as a warning or encouragement. A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divin...
That is our Great Commission. "Preach the Gospel and if necessary, use words?" No. St. Francis never said that. And the Bible does not teach that. Better to say, just “Preach the Gospel." And Christ will do infinitely more than we could hope or imagine. Don’t just ...
Healy Hall is a fancy place. It has lots of pointy bits made of serious-looking gray stone that give it a slightly ominous, gothic appearance, and the whole thing should probably be in a museum. But it isn’t. Quite the opposite, in fact – its historied halls are instead used as ...