laypeople

Good science writing is a fine balancing act between not speaking over the heads of laypeople and not insulting the intelligence of experts.

Among those freed on Thursday are Catholic laypeople, students and 13 members of Texas-based evangelical organisation Mountain Gateway, the White House statement said.

This knowledge also allows us laypeople to find some comfort in compelling Olympic comeback tales.

But it is also organized as a faith community, part of the new monastic movement that began three decades ago among lay Protestants who looked to Roman Catholic and particularly Celtic Christianity for inspiration on how laypeople could work, eat and worship as a community.

Dozens of protesters, including clergy members and laypeople from different Christian denominations, peacefully occupied the cafeteria at peak lunch hour, chanting and singing to demand a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and an end to U.S. arms transfers to Israel.