Church in sentence

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The Sufi rituals of Chechnya to a mass in the holiest church of Armenia.

If you drive your car around the United States, it can reveal if you go to a therapist, attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, if you go to church or if you don't go to church.

He gets up, leaps onto his scooter, races through the city past the church of Santa Maria della Pace, down the alleys, through the streets that tourists may be wandering through, disturbing the quiet backstreet life of Rome at every turn.

It's a pigeon sitting on top of a church.

Days before we met her, while she was walking home from church with her family, in broad daylight, men from her community just snatched her off the street, and violently raped her.

That's a little unusual, since I am a Baptist minister, seminary-trained, and pastored a church for over 20 years, but it's true.

I was 25, had my first church.

I wanted a 15-, 20,000-member church.

You could go to any housing project, for example, like the one that was down the street from my church, and you would walk in, and it would be like a ghost town, because the parents wouldn't allow their kids to come out and play, even in the summertime, because of the violence.

I was doing funerals of 18-year-olds, 17-year-olds, and 16-year-olds, and I was standing in a church or at a funeral home struggling to say something that would make some meaningful impact.

And I started to look at the programming in my church, and I started to build programs that would catch the at-risk youth, those who were on the fence to the violence.

It was a kid by the name of Jesse McKie, walking home with his friend Rigoberto Carrion to the housing project down the street from my church.

But as Jesse was running from the scene mortally wounded, he was running in the direction of my church, and he died some 100, 150 yards away.

If he would have gotten to the church, it wouldn't have made a difference, because the lights were out; nobody was home.

And as a result of that, we said to them, "How do you see this church, how do you see this institution helping this situation?"

Imagine developing a plan, you have one minister at one table and a heroin dealer at the other table, coming up with a way in which the church can help the entire community.

So they issued an edict, in effect, that prevents women from being priests, pastors, deacons in the church, or chaplains in the military, and if a woman teaches a classroom in a Southern Baptist seminary, they cannot teach if a boy is in the room, because you can find verses in the Bible, there's over 30,000 verses in the Bible, that say that a woman shouldn't teach a man, and so forth.

I was the kind of religious where everyone I know donated 10 percent of everything they earned to the church, including myself.

We tried to do things that were unignorable, like wearing pants to church and trying to attend all-male meetings.

For example, during Prop 8, my church raised over 22 million dollars to fight same-sex marriage in California.

As of last week, in a historic move, three women were invited down to three leadership boards that oversee the entire church.

But now we do something different in our house, so we have these jam sessions, and our jam sessions consist of us jamming in church.

You know, in church, we'll look at each other like, (Beatboxing) (Laughter) and we'll text the beat to each other.

I believe they have shifted over the last 10, 20 years from being community churches, where you walk outside your door, round the corner and you're in church.

The original decoration of this church reflected a smaller world.

You are exactly at the point where you and I can go no further into the church.

That's where it all came about, and it came about from a church that was trying to save a work of art, not indeed deface or destroyed it.

This manuscript, unfortunately, has been very badly damaged, and it's damaged because for centuries it had been used and handled in swearing in ceremonies in the church.

And switching to a new Republican Calendar with ten-day weeks reduced church power by eliminating Sundays.

There we were, souls and bodies packed into a Texas church on the last night of our lives.

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