Batchelor's book traces his own development from backpacking teenage Pink Floyd and hash enthusiast in 1970, to his ordination a few years later in Dharamsala, India under the auspices of the Dalai Lama, to his decade of retreat, meditation and study, his eventual disrobing, and his transformation back to the life of a layman, albeit one dedicated to writing about and teaching Buddhist practice.
Cardinal Leger has encouraged priests & monks to wear ordinary clerical dress in the streets; has been working toward the liturgical reform of the Mass; has become a spokesman for the movement for unity among the Christian churches, and has set up in Montreal "a diocesan comm. of priests & laymen," one of the first in the world, to pursue the ecumenical dialogue.
After Susan Galloway complained and filed her lawsuit, the town had a Jewish layman do one prayer and the chairman of the local Baha'i temple another; a Wiccan priestess who read about the controversy in the press apparently volunteered to so as well.
For the past forty years, this mission has been largely driven by one man, a layman from Oregon named Doug Coe.
It's a dizzying collection, one that can make a layman feel downright dumb.
The Earhart property that, to a layman, seems to have the greatest cinematic potential was not one that Mira Nair did, or perhaps could, acquire.
This article gives a layman's overview of what exactly a PKI is, and how one can be built and operated safely and securely.
One of his earliest stories is titled Schiller and Goethe: A Layman's Vision.
Even to a layman, it is clear that the military operation launched was very different from the one recommended by the British adviser, he says.
Matt Sharp, one of the ADF lawyers representing the students, tried to make a layman's case for privacy and his clients in an online op-ed in The Daily Signal, but he sidestepped explaining the constitutional source for his position.
