deacon
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Walters gave him a box filled with handmade items, including piles of mittens, hats, and other items he’d crocheted for children; Collins dropped the box off with a church deacon.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
His mother, Karen, sang in the choir, and his father, Andrew, was a deacon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Mom had us in the choir, and Dad was a deacon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Again facing fraud charges, he fled the UK for a remote part of Kenya where not only did he claim to be an Anglican deacon but also a retired cardiac surgeon.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
Today, she is a deacon at the Mount Calvary United Church of Christ in Durham and remains active in church affairs.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
The church’s money was handled by a finance team and overseen by its elders and deacons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Priests and deacons have marched at rallies and prayed for those detained and deported from Orange County to downtown L.A. and beyond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025
Currently the Catholic Church only allows men to become deacons - ordained ministers who can officiate baptisms, weddings and funerals but not mass, unlike priests.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024
Two referred to the possibility of women being ordained deacons, and those received the most negative votes even though they passed.
From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2023
On the side of knowing better were his mother and father, all the teachers he knew, the deacons from church, Booker T. Washington, and the diligent faculty of the Tuskegee Institute.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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