Word: absently
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With outreach programs and ministries, Trinity succeeds in providing more for the South Side than any other church, government or private institution. Rev. Luke Watson, another Good Friday speaker, credited Wright for guiding him away from life of crime, which started early with an absent father and a mother addicted to crack. "I was like that thug, the criminal next to Jesus," Rev. Watson said. "I thought, what's that guy doing here? He ain't done nothing. I'm the real sinner." Wright had taught him that God loves sinners, too. "I learned that I wasn't born...
...books, Obama says he might not have become a Christian - his mother was a skeptical secularist and his absent father an atheist - if not for the special character of the black church. "Out of necessity, the black church had to minister to the whole person. Out of necessity, the black church rarely had the luxury of separating individual salvation from collective salvation," he writes in The Audacity of Hope. It also matched his intellectual curiosity. "Perhaps it was out of this ... grounding of faith in struggle that the historically black church offered me a second insight: that faith doesn...
...John Kerry. The reason so few women are in politics may be the same as the reason so few of them do comedy: people just don’t think women can be funny. Popular belief seems to locate the sense of humor in an anatomical region conspicuously absent from the average female. Indeed, in 2007, researchers found that women expect less from jokes than men do. They laugh more and at weaker punchlines than their male counterparts, although, when pressed, they admit that they find fewer things actually funny. There are, apparently, evolutionary reasons for this?...
...biggest lead of the night at 18-14. Strong serving by Rosier and Weintraub sealed a Crimson victory, but in the end only served to remind the fans of what could have been a great performance.The impeccable serving and crisp passing that sparked this sole win were conspicuously absent from the first two frames, a fact that did not escape the players.“We came out really cold and really quiet,” Weintraub said. “The passing the first two games was really rough. It’s hard to run an offense like...
...Rather than treating book margins as the receptacles of their unthinking drivel, note-takers should embrace the chastising influence of an absent reader. Those with substantial egos can imagine that reader as a future biographer, while the modest can simply picture a judgmental type like myself, who will publish your stupidities in the student newspaper for all to read...