lay reader

"Lay readers are an essential part of the equation and we are finding that churches are relying more and more upon such help.

For the lay reader, a glossary of over 150 need-to-know diesel terms and acronyms is provided, ranging from air toxics to zero emission vehicle.

And so, under thematic headings that betray the book's back-to-the-garret/stroll-through-the-Salon bias--"Artists and Models," "The Probity of Art: Drawing," and "La Vie de Boheme"--the lay reader is offered an earnestly evasive tour of memorable, or at any rate retrievable, "art words" through the ages that lurches from Albrecht Durer to Michael Craig-Martin, Giorgio Vasari to Bruce Chatwin, Eugene Delacroix to Brian Eno, by way of Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlotte Bronte, John Berger, and artist's model extraordinaire Leigh Bowery.

Nemeroff's "The Neurobiology of Depression," Scientific American (June 1998), which makes the scientific research on the biochemistry of mental illness accessible to an intelligent lay reader. Nemeroff also quotes from William Styron's memoir of mental illness, Darkness Visible (1990), which is the best account in English of the agonizing illness of depression.

He retired from teaching in 1986 but is still an active volunteer and a lay reader in the parishes of Coleshill and Maxstoke.

During the service a banner made by lay reader Joan Biggs was unveiled.

Garren noted that "some people will have nothing to do with a lay reader."

would be valued, not maligned because it failed to measure up to some predetermined gender norms." Scholarly in tone, Hill Collins's work may seem a bit academic to the lay reader, but its provocative ideas are well worth contemplating.

This young researcher has produced a most valuable work that is accessible to the lay reader. It belongs in a wide range of public, academic, church, and personal libraries.--Reviewed by Robert G.

(See "Property Frights," May 1996.) And the property rights movement has lacked systematic, accessible defenses of its position a lay reader could appreciate.

The judges noted that the article, published June 3, 2000, "offers the public and people with epilepsy a clear and concise summary of current research and future direction of the scientific effort to conquer the disorder." They said that they were especially impressed by the large number of scientists that Damaris had consulted in preparation of the article and "the success with which [she has] interpreted this complex topic for the lay reader."

Afro-Cuban dieties such as Yemaya, lord of oceans and giver of life, and Oya, lord of the winds and gatekeeper between life and death, are among the spiritual figures portrayed for the lay reader; testimonies of men and women in physical or emotional pain and the guideposts to their healing illustrate the power and wisdom of ancient practices.

David Gould, a former member of council of General Synod, Barbara Graham, a lay reader who works with Anglican Inuit inmates at the Fenbrook Correctional Centre, and Patricia Mark, a lay steward from the deanery of Thunder Bay, Ont.

Rudd's "Treatise on the Nine Hierarchies of Angels" and their conjuration to visible appearance, A Treatise on Angel Magic is one of the most thorough renditions of ancient manuscripts, and a "must-have" resource for anyone interested in angelology, whether a lay reader or a scholar.

His lay reader, Ian Blakeley, starts the year as Mr.