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The "fix," as it's called, may be much more difficult for the dominant society than, say, a $50 check or a church trip to paint some graffiti-covered houses, or a suburban family donating a box of clothes they don't even want anymore.
We are missing the stories of Violet, who, despite surviving genocide in the church massacre, she kept on going on, burying bodies, cleaning homes, cleaning the streets.
In Cincinnati, for instance, they organized a walk from a church to a mosque to a synagogue and all had an Abrahamic meal together.
He's like a bad kid in church.
You want me to go to church and call my mother."
And most people, both within and outside the organized church, still have a picture of a celestial controller, a rule maker, a policeman in the sky who orders everything, and causes everything to happen.
And in the worship of my church, the most frequently used adjective about God is "almighty."
These ideas are well known in liberal academic circles, but clergy like myself have been reluctant to air them, for fear of creating tension and division in our church communities, for fear of upsetting the simple faith of more traditional believers.
And yet here we are, my church in Oxford, semi-detached from events that happened a long way away, but with our faith bruised.
I don't feel we can sing that song again in church, after what's happened.
Then there was the congregation who had left their usual church building on the shore to hold a service in the hills.
He's a former hotel manager; he's got three dozen members of his church ..." They laugh him off.
And of course, Christians in the United States, or anybody, says, "This is some little church in the middle of nowhere."
While performing in a church, I could tell bar jokes.
As a society, we're creating reading experiences for children that are the equivalent of telling bar jokes in a church.
In fact, my father's regular response to the question about why we didn't go to church on Sundays was, "When others go to pray, I go to play."
In England, 1,900 churches have been shut down since 1969, due to shrinking congregations, while in Africa, every single day, a church or mosque is being built.
In some communities, you might not find a public health center, a post office or even a school, but you'll find a church or mosque.
Imagine if every single church in Lekki opened its doors to the homeless at night, gave them a sleeping bag, a warm meal and a voucher in the morning to learn a vocational course, offered by the unemployed youth who attend that church.
For example, this is the oldest operating room in the Western world, in London, where the operating room is actually on top of a church with a skylight coming in.
I would go to church services on Wednesday evenings and, desperate for the relief the arts gave me, I would go a few hours early, slip downstairs and into a part of the world where the only thing that mattered was whether or not I could hit the right note in the song I was perfecting that week.
In the early 19th century, church attendance in Western Europe started sliding down very, very sharply, and people panicked.
So if you go to an African-American Pentecostalist church in the American South and you listen to how they talk, my goodness, they talk well.
So as you walk around a church, or a mosque or a cathedral, what you're trying to imbibe, what you're imbibing is, through your eyes, through your senses, truths that have otherwise come to you through your mind.
This pretty much exempts monuments of the church and state.
You had to go to church, you had to go to a civic event, you had to go hear somebody making music live.
So him and his friends, they get together, they booked a room, like a church hall, and they got all their friends who had bands, and they got them together, and they do it all on Facebook, and then they sell tickets, and the first band on the - I was going to say "menu," that's probably the wrong word for it, isn't it?
It was agrarian, and the means of production and political system was called feudalism, and knowledge was concentrated in the church and the nobility.
It didn't make sense for the church to be responsible for medicine when people had knowledge.
She was doing this in a church.
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