Word: discerning
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...Knubel cautioned United Lutherans against finding "more pleasure in disagreeing with other Lutherans than in agreeing with them." He urged them to "discern our three-fold responsibility today, for our inner unity, for unity with all Lutherans and for unity with all Christians." But unity, he declared, should be on a basis of "extremely studious discrimination." In the Lutheran basket, the chief egg upon which the United Lutheran Church looks with favor is the American Lutheran Church (some 500,000 members...
...inspection. The idea seems to be that if you had your life to live over and took the wrong course in an effort to be different from what you had been, you could see how wrong the wrong course was, and then go back to your real life and discern the merits of the right course, which you took in the first place. But the utility of the marvelous machine that permits all this depends on the shaky assumption that everybody takes the right course the first time...
...Collective security is collaboration and cooperation between democratic countries to discern a war aggressor from its victim and to help the victim in every possible manner," defined Representative Bernard...
...instigation of the Prime Minister. They hear that Viscount Halifax, an eminent Churchman whom Mr. Baldwin sent to India as Viceroy some years ago, either knew in advance what the Bishop was going to say or actually put him up to it. Behind Politician Baldwin the proverbially canny Yorkshiremen discern his famed churchy wife, Lucy. They know that the Prime Minister was furious three weeks ago- when Edward VIII told the jobless of South Wales that more must be done for them than the Cabinet thinks the country can afford. They are willing to bet that Mrs. Baldwin will never...
...posters which were ordered for display in Tampa this week, and underneath they were supposed to bear the seal of the Federation, two clasped hands. But when the posters were distributed a square of white paper was pasted over the seal. Those who peered closely at the paper could discern through it the outlines of some jokester's prank. The posters had been printed not with two clasped hands but with two clenched fists shaking at each other...