When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

His father was a good friend of Rabbi Szold, and Joe lived with the Szolds for a while.

What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.

But her father was not enthusiastic about sending young Paula to high school.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

The lyricist's father was a lawyer who had branched out into real estate.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

My father, who liked Alfred very much, was a constant visitor.

Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.

She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.

Karl was an almost exact copy of his father physically and it was strange to see the expected become the unexpected.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

Angry that my father was being burnt alive in the mills ; ;

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

His father was a constant visitor.

His father and all his brothers entered Clairvaux to pursue religious life, leaving only Humbeline, his sister, in the secular world.

His ancestry was Ashkenazi Jewish, with his paternal line having supplied the rabbis of Trier since 1723, a role that had been taken up by his own grandfather, Meier Halevi Marx ; Meier's son and Karl's father would be the first in the line to receive a secular education.

His father, a secular Jew, was an experimental psychologist, researching animal behavior.

His mother came from a very strict Catholic family who took communion every day, but his father was much more secular and had liberal political beliefs.

His father, Jacob ( Yakov ) Rothkowitz, was a pharmacist and an intellectual, who provided his children with a secular and political, rather than religious, upbringing.

Averroism eventually led to the development of modern secularism, for which Ibn Rushd is considered as the founding father of secular thought in Western Europe.

He describes his father as a " conformist in religion ", while his mother and other family members important in his childhood were secular Jews ; shortly after his bar mitzvah he became an atheist.

His father was able later to obtain another teaching position within the secular system-it was not a job of a headship, however, and the family could not expect as high standards as they might have otherwise.

Born to a poor family ( his father was a shoemaker and his mother was a peasant ), Nin moved to Barcelona shortly before World War I ; he taught briefly in a secular anarchist school, but soon became a journalist and activist.

He has been called " the father of secular humanism ".

Though accepted as family after he stays with the Saunderses while his father is recovering at the hospital, he incurs Reb Saunders's wrath when he speaks favorably of the struggle to establish a secular Jewish nation in Palestine, which Saunders vehemently opposes.

Many themes common to Potok's works prevail such as weak women and children, strong father figures, intellectual characters, and the strength and validity of faith in a modern secular world.

The law since 1970 applies to those born Jews ( having a Jewish mother or maternal grandmother ), those with Jewish ancestry ( having a Jewish father or grandfather ) and converts to Judaism ( Orthodox, Reform, or Conservative denominations — not secular — though Reform and Conservative conversions must take place outside the state, similar to civil marriages ).

Upon telling his father of the decision to go secular, an emotional Friendly Sr. told them that they had to leave the house.

He received a Jewish education in rabbinic literature from his father Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon and other teachers in Lunel taught him about medicine, Arabic and the secular knowledge of his age.

Although his father and grandfather were both Presbyterian ministers, Hutchins became one of the most influential members of the school of secular perennialism.

My uncles were quite secular ... and had hardly anything to do with the religion of their father and grandfathers ".

Khalil Ibrahim al-Wazir (), also known by his kunya " Abu Jihad " ( — father of the struggle ) ( October 10, 1935 – April 16, 1988 ), was a Palestinian military leader and founder of the secular nationalist party Fatah.

Whereas the plan of Garner Ted Armstrong was to ease his aging father into retirement, the plan of Stanley Rader and his aide Robert Lawrence Kuhn was to transform Herbert W. Armstrong from an elderly evangelist into a more secular leader, casting him as a vital " Ambassador for World Peace without portfolio ".

His father was Jewish and his mother was Irish Catholic ; he was raised in a secular home.

His father was a cantor and his mother was secular.

The important Abbey of St. Riquier ( Centula ) in Picardy had secular abbots from the time of Charlemagne, who had given it to his friend Angilbert, the poet and the lover of his daughter Bertha, and father of her two sons ( see Saint Angilbert ).

" As formulated by Abraham Kuyper ( 1837 – 1920 ), the Dutch Reformed theologian ( called the father of Neo-Calvinism ) and prime minister of the Netherlands, the " cultural mandate " view teaches that all human endeavor, whether ostensibly sacred or secular, is part of building God's kingdom.

The son of Rabbi Leo Wise, a school-teacher, Isaac received his early Hebrew education from his father and grandfather, later continuing his Hebrew and secular studies in Prague.