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

A reverend whose house was sold without him knowing has had the property returned to him nearly four years on, after a family was ordered to leave.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025

Roles across his long, busy career have included reverend, inspector, captain, sergeant, doctor, coach, sheriff, pastor, mayor, deacon and, notably, Adm.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2024

The regent explained that I was being groomed to be a counselor to the king and that he hoped the reverend would take a special interest in me.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela