reverend

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"ICE has even been arresting airport workers while they are on the job," said one of those who protested, reverend Mariah Furness Tollgaard of Hamline Church United Methodist.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

“I don’t understand how as a pastor, he thinks that that’s acceptable,” Levy Armstrong, also an ordained reverend, said in a Washington Post interview Monday.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2026

Now, the reverend implored his congregation: “Someone say mission possible.”

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024

Then our votes will be the kind of prayer the reverend speaks of, one “for the world we desire for ourselves and our children.”

From Slate • Aug. 25, 2024

The bald reverend wipes his eyes with a handkerchief.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett