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church

[church] / tʃɜrtʃ /




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"We are sorry for the pain and suffering that was inflicted on you. We are sorry that your trust was so directly and profoundly betrayed by a leader of the church," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

A church in North Carolina was experiencing a reckoning, and someone on the staff was like, ‘No one wants to talk. We haven’t even worshiped together because of the pandemic.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

This may explain why he has no problem when white men have beards, as seen on his church leader, Doug Wilson, or the many celebrities the defense secretary likes to take photos with.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

The group began as a support system for women navigating leadership in the Black church, but its reach extended into politics.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

Seems some committee decided they were too fanciful for an ordinary country church.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

I studied a lot of church literature because churches have a lot of reckonings and internal rifts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

They’ve popped up in barns and on farms, in strip malls between an antique shop and an ax-throwing business and in churches, where lighting and sound for worship services is part of the curriculum.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Greece will in return receive 48 objects pillaged by Bulgarian troops from churches and monasteries in northern Greece during World War I.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

That’s the way churches have funded themselves for 2,000 years, and the Golden Lampstand’s congregants weren’t deceived.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

He was too far from Washington to hear the ringing bells of the city’s churches tolling in mourning.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson




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