It glistens with a thick varnish-like finish that compels opening, parting at the center like a medieval church's baptistry doors. |
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The year 1931 was a benchmark in the church's history as the first mass in the Malay language was held. |
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The second principal aspect of the church's traditional formulation of the unity of the Testaments is perhaps the most familiar. |
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A social gathering and refreshments in a marquee erected on the church's grounds will follow the ceremony. |
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Since Sunday is the eve of All Saints day, it will be treated as the church's patronal service. |
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They sang in discord, their disharmony drowning out the sobbing, travelling to the ears of those who lingered in the church's car park. |
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It is an in-depth review of the church's financial record keeping and reporting systems to track income and disbursement of funds. |
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Note that the early church's priorities were to worship God and to edify the brethren. |
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In September 1980, his strongly worded letter was published in the Savannah Morning News, a letter supported by the church's diaconate. |
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Why should a fledgling charismatic church leader be able to purloin another church's title? |
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The church's ambiguous response to gospel music is problematic for this very reason. |
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The plans are being led by the church's vicar, Canon Derek Jackson, a former dean of Bradford Cathedral. |
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It was a tiny candle but for some reason it had fused the church's electrics. |
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Why, then, is it important to include this clause as part of the church's credal articulation? |
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Above the greeting table, the donuts and steaming coffee was the church's community corkboard. |
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Later this month the church's 184 cardinals will gather at the Vatican for the sixth consistory of Pope John Paul II's pontificate. |
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Faithfully confessing Christ is the church's task, and never more so than when its confession is co-opted by militarism and nationalism. |
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In fact, the church's public argument is based on reason and science, not fideism. |
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The conciliar document provided the most expansive conception of the church's public role of any teaching document since the Reformation. |
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Doesn't the church's about-face on the death penalty make threats to politicians who favor it seem facile? |
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Since Sunday, October 31, is the eve of All Saints day, the service will be treated as the church's patronal service. |
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His synod was also the site of a church's unsanctioned ordination of an openly gay pastor earlier this year. |
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The council is the church's supreme court, a nine-member panel that at times has more power than the Council of Bishops. |
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The dissident priests and parishes are opposed to the church's blessing of same-sex unions. |
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The church's governing body didn't outright refuse her candidacy, but they decided to ask the larger church congregation for approval. |
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Creatures like Morris's centaurs hardly qualify as fallen men, and they lie outside the church's prim jurisdiction. |
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The possibility that his words may be heeded was suggested by the church's decision in 2000 to canonize six men who had signed the letters. |
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The plans are being led by the church's vicar, Canon Derek Jackson, a former canon pastor of Bradford Cathedral. |
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I thank God that I heeded my wife's call to attend our church's vigil in Ebute Meta. |
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The successors to the first apostles were just beginning to organize their ministries and develop the church's worship, creeds, and teachings. |
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The project began with the sale of the church's old meeting hall, which was housed in a dilapidated coach house at the vicarage. |
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This experience sowed the seeds of the eventual skepticism I'd later feel towards much of my first church's teaching and practice. |
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The chapter on usury will be of particular interest for those concerned about the church's current teaching on contraception. |
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Unprecedented numbers were joining the ranks of the church's vowed celibates to staff this vast infrastructure. |
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This compromise has clearly undermined the church's ability to present the gospel with power and authority. |
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The unbrokenness of the church's life is based solidly in the Holy Scriptures, as the crown of the church's Tradition. |
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Not once, however, did the church's or Mary's personal opinion on the morality of abortion enter their conversation. |
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The Finance Committee, meanwhile, voted to recommend against the church's purchase, saying it could turn into a money pit. |
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The Church of Scotland would be prepared to appoint an openly gay minister, according to the church's new moderator. |
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Certainly the pope and the church's cardinals and bishops must correct the mistakes of the past. |
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Convey said that the bishops have come to believe that the education of the urban poor is one of the church's missions. |
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Buying a sandwich in a grocery store for lunch on a church's cool marble steps is a popular alternative to Italy's pricey trattorias and cafes. |
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I was impressed with the pastor, interested in the church's ministry to the poor, and cajoled by a daughter whose best friend was a member. |
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In the absence of a creed, he cannot qualify as a heretic, but he can be found guilty of not minding his manners about the church's values. |
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One of the team's goals is to pray during worship services for the church's leaders and ministry. |
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In many ways, many of the church's messages today are similar but far from identical to those preached by Martin Luther. |
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She arrived at the doors of the convent while the abbess was praying in front of the church's crucifix. |
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All of these academic settings are educating the church's future lay ministers. |
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Bocelli was the official voice of the church's jubilee in the year 2000 and knew the pope for a long time. |
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A trio of choristers have proved good things come in threes after chalking up a collective 210 years' service in their church's choir. |
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This story never appears in our church's assigned cycle of Sunday readings. |
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This ministry has opened many opportunities for witness, counseling and inviting people to take part in the church's fellowship life. |
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The priest's accent is thick, and he falters in his memorized patter about the church's attempts to overcome poverty and prejudice. |
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It was the first time the church's most senior cleric had said that the sexuality of ministers should not act as a bar to their appointment. |
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The canon lawyer called by the Plaintiffs also confirmed the church's policy of secrecy. |
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Iconic creativity issues out of the entire church's dogmatic heritage, which is founded on divine revelation. |
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The increasingly opaque Williams, dragged into the church's interminable conflicts, needs a right-hand man to keep an eye on the bigger picture. |
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Christy stared mutely out the window as the church's steeple loomed into view over the rise of the next hill. |
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From the square townsmen view the church's apse and radiating symmetrical apsidal chapels. |
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It was a clear case of contract law and of the doctrinal concerns and legal rights of the church's university. |
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Second, there is the theological import of the American church's commitment to episcopacy. |
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If he continued to resist the church's demands, church officials would be forced to consider a range of sanctions, the most serious of which would be excommunication. |
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Years of natural erosion have worn away the church's stonework. |
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The pope, who personally administers each of the church's seven sacraments during the course of each year, makes a practice of consecrating bishops on Epiphany. |
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At St. Fatima Church in Cairo's Heliopolis, graffiti spray-painted on the church's walls called for Morsi's return. |
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This we celebrate in baptism, by the metanoia ritualized in our renunciations and affirmations, our promises, and our commitment to the church's faith. |
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Most of the items have whiled away the years in the couple's garden, including Victorian chimney pots, flag stones, mill wheels, sinks, fonts and a church's stone cross. |
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The youth also cleaned and labeled cans at a food bank, sorted donated clothes at a homeless shelter and worked with a farmer who sold produce in the church's parking lot. |
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To be honest, it would feel spitefully delightful to withhold my name from the church's accounting of souls, considering the misery it has inflicted on my kind. |
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While the presiding bishop acts as the church's executive director, the church canons do not give him final spiritual authority over his fellow bishops. |
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Secondly, the study of Roman and the church's canon law from the late eleventh century provided much of the language and many of the ideas for thinking about the state. |
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In a rush of reciprocity, the Americans allowed funerals limited trespass, sparing pall-bearers the burden of toting caskets an extra 100 metres to the church's vestibule. |
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For example, the church may be able to obtain a loan from a financial institution without collateralizing or impairing the church's restricted funds. |
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She also mentioned the church's community service during the war. |
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The council's careful balancing of papal and episcopal authority did not seem intended to expand the church's infallible teaching to areas like contraception. |
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Today we are privileged to welcome into the full life of the church's fellowship those who wish to confess their faith in Christ as Lord and Savior. |
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The document addresses the public scandal of politicians who persistently and contumaciously oppose the church's teaching without any appropriate response from their pastors. |
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As may be expected, the book follows the church's historical development. |
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Thus, despite the black church's disdain for blues music, it is not surprising that black sacred and secular forms have cross-fertilized each other. |
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The black church's historic role in providing education, social services, and a safe gathering place prefigured its historic role in the civil rights movement. |
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To be added to the church's constitution, the ban must be ratified by a majority of the church's 173 presbyteries before the denomination meets in June. |
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He incorporates the church's contributions throughout, whether considering monastic institutions as landlords or parish priests' glebes as part of the English manor. |
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Theologians and other church leaders need to clarify the church's view of itself, its commitment to ecumenism, and the points at which relativism is problematic. |
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The megachurch he attends is too big for making personal connections, so he also fellowships weekly in one of the church's small groups. |
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One of the church's great roles is as the great dissenter of every age, the bearer of unwelcome truths, the rebuffer of the wisdoms of the world. |
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Around the end of the 1st century, the church's organization became clearer in historical documents. |
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In 2003 the church's Psalmody and Praise Committee produced a new Psalter called Sing Psalms. |
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In January 1843 the government put a final negative on the church's claims for spiritual independence. |
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The church's central offices are in Rathmines, adjacent to the Church of Ireland College of Education, and the Church's library is in Churchtown. |
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As archbishop, he defended the church's interests in England amid the Investiture Controversy. |
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With disestablishment, the church's representation in the House of Lords also ceased. |
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Headed by the Bishop of Rome, known as the Pope, the church's doctrines are summarised in the Nicene Creed. |
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Disestablishment is the process of repealing a church's status as an organ of the state. |
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This led to the publication of his earliest surviving tract, which criticised the English church's suppression of the Puritan clergy. |
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While the church's prescribed attendance was only three times a year, they took Communion every Sunday. |
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In 2012, the directory formed the data backbone of Christmas Near You and in 2014 was used to promote the church's Harvest Near You initiative. |
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Both self-employed ministers and employee ministers may participate in their church's or denomination's tax-sheltered annuity plan. |
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Money raised from the concert will go to the church's belltower restoration project. |
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Even the church's teaching with regard to the rhythm method is a modification of its previous views on birth control. |
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James', the chip wagon has been an essential cog in the church's fundraising wheel. |
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The church's full name is the Armenian Apostolic Church of St Gregory the Illuminator. |
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Such a term would also cover three triennia, since General Synod, the church's governing body, meets every three years. |
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The church's Marriage and Burial registers for the Civil War period are lost, and the only contemporaneous record is Mary Whiddon's undated will. |
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During the church's reconstruction after the disastrous fire of the 1170s, his remains were relocated, although it is now uncertain where. |
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The young man's repudiation of the church's doctrines caused a conflict between him and his religious parents. |
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This building was built after the church's establishment in 1727, but the Congregation's original church was the first new church in that period. |
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Originally this had been the church's right to a tenth of the parish harvest. |
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Jaime Fernandez, the head of the church's Vicarate for the Family in Chile. |
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A flood in 1968 led to the church's eventual deconsecration and it is just one of many churches in Britain that has been declared redundant. |
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The church's official name is Iglesia Filipina Independiente, or, in English, the Philippine Independent Church. |
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Because of this, the Scriptures alone are the church's final authority in all religious disputes. |
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In his Peaceable Kingdom, Hauerwas identifies peaceableness as the cardinal characteristic of the church's narrative. |
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Such solemn declarations of the church's teaching involve the infallibility of the Church. |
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The evolution of the name can be seen in the church's Book of Common Prayer. |
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The congregation's main sanctuary also suffered smoke damage from a March 8 crawl space fire near the church's 13th Avenue entrance. |
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Manning accuses the church's power structure of authoritarianism, patriarchalism, and indifference toward the rights of women and children. |
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This year my church's progressive dinner was scheduled during the 24-hour famine my youth group organized to combat world hunger. |
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Members of the General Synod voted overwhelmingly in favour of positive action to recruit ethnic minority clergy into the church's leadership. |
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Bonhoeffer is guarding against a latent eutychianism that is like the shade at the church's right hand whenever it talks about deification. |
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After his conversion on the road to Damascus, Paul became one of the church's foremost evangelisers. |
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Within Europe, the church's ecumenical partnerships have demonstrated that ecclesial unity may have political resonances. |
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Before long, though, he began endowing his relatives at the church's and at his neighbours' expense. |
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William then tried to personally bestow the pallium to Anselm, an act connoting the church's subservience to the throne, and was again refused. |
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The church's 29th annual Lenten Fish Fry, held on consecutive Fridays during Lent, winds down today, as volunteers serve more than 1,000 meals. |
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This age is the foundation upon which the entire church's history is founded. |
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At his request, Henry was buried in Westminster Abbey in front of the church's high altar, in the former resting place of Edward the Confessor. |
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The bishop outlined the church's views in a pastoral letter. |
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She also long participated in her parish church's pilgrimages to the Knock Shrine, County Mayo, Ireland, and sang there at the Marian basilica. |
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During the process of ratifying the new church's constitution, disputes developed which split its dioceses into two American churches and a separate Canadian church. |
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His recital will feature the church's grand organ and chamber organ. |
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In 2014, Canon Jeremy Pemberton married Laurence Cunnington, thus becoming the first priest in the Church of England to defy the church's ban on the marriage of gay clergy. |
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The church inevitably had to take sides in the conflicts, with the civil wars also becoming an issue regarding the church's influence of the king. |
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Latter Day Saint churches do not recognize baptisms of other faiths as valid because they believe baptisms must be performed under the church's unique authority. |
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The philosophes contrasted their own irenic calls for tolerance with the church's historical record as the perennial source of cruelty and fanaticism. |
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Disestablishment meant the end of the church's special legal status and Welsh bishops were no longer entitled to sit in the House of Lords as Lords Spiritual. |
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On the eve of Back to Church Sunday, parishioners invited family members, friends and neighbours to the church's backyard for a campfire and wiener roast. |
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Anglicans have debated the relationship between doctrine and social issues since its origins, when the focus was chiefly on the church's proper relationship to the state. |
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In 2013, the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti was the largest single diocese, with 84,301 baptized members, which constitute slightly over half of the church's foreign membership. |
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The liturgies of the sacraments are central to the church's mission. |
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Reflection on the church's efficient causes helped Congar incorporate the roles of laypeople and charisms into the picture of what makes the church work. |
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Robert Machray was chosen as the Canadian church's first Primate. |
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In such cases a final decision is made after two debates in Conference, separated by at least a year, to allow for discussion in all parts of the church's life. |
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A stone immediately to the left of the altar marks the sealed Roper family vault beneath the Nicholas Chapel, itself to the right of the church's sanctuary or main altar. |
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Though Virginia law allows parishioners to determine their church's affiliation, the diocese claimed the secessionist churches' buildings and properties. |
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He traveled to the major cities of Europe to deal with the church's moral problems firsthand, notably simony and clerical marriage and concubinage. |
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Cagan said the church's theater program fits the bill perfectly. |
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Looking with hope toward a new beginning and a brighter future, Don became very engaged with one of his church's homegroups, and found great prayer support. |
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The programme is highly varied with contrasting pieces to suit all tastes and his recital will feature the church's grand organ and chamber organ. |
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To offer these psalmic questions for congregational expression as circumstances may require is vital to the church's ministry among suffering people. |
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