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[church] / tʃɜrtʃ /




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“When you’re gay, church is the first place you come out,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

I don’t manage to go to church when I’m on the road, but when I’m at home, I do.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Rock legend Alice Cooper has opened up about his redemption arc from the stage to the church ahead of a book tour pit stop in Wolverhampton.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Wright had attended Railey’s church; he reported on the crime for Texas Monthly and interviewed Railey, whom he believed to be guilty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Dear Willem, I thought, as I stepped back inside and closed the door, he was about as good a salesman of the church as Father was of watches.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Living in New Mexico, enthralled by its unique light, she painted pueblos, churches and her house at Ghost Ranch, where she spent many summers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

Black churches, in this cultural narrative, are places where the “good” black people in the community can be found.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander


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