church-building

The relative simplicity of the style, combined with its ability to incorporate in some abstracted manner more traditional architectonic elements -- Wagner's work incorporates clear if modified references to everything from Byzantine to Baroque -- renders it particularly useful for modern church-building, especially when budgets are a concern; there is less of the risk of the finished product appearing, in some sense, undercooked, when key decorative elements are removed due to monetary constraints.

Jugendstil 2009

This time the allegations involve the leader of a large congregation in suburban Atlanta, Bishop Eddie Long, a pastor who's been nationally recognized both for the success of his church-building efforts and for his strong stance against same-sex marriage, which of course makes the allegations that over a period of years he manipulated at least four young men into sexual relationships with him all the more striking.

Church Tackles Sex Abuse By Clergy 2010

This time the allegations involve the leader of a large congregation in suburban Atlanta, Bishop Eddie Long, a pastor who's been nationally recognized both for the success of his church-building efforts and for his strong stance against same-sex marriage, which of course makes the allegations that over a period of years he manipulated at least four young men into sexual relationships with him all the more striking.

Church Tackles Sex Abuse By Clergy 2010

I have recently turned my attention to multiracial church-building efforts, tracking one downtown Denver church as a case study over the last year, and it's been amazing to watch so many conservative white Christians acknowledge all that they don't know about race, and try to learn.

Nancy Wadsworth: Down with Demonology: The Left Can Do Better 2009

When the Asian tsunami hit, a highly successful Seattle mega church directed members to do three things: pray for people who were affected, give to Mars Hill Church, and give to the Mars Hill church-building work in India.

Valerie Tarico: Does Evangelical Giving Do the World Good? 2009

For, you see, I came as a boy from a pious home in the country; and so it seemed to me that this church-building was the noblest task I could set myself.

The Master Builder 2008

These experts believe that the Biblical Jesus was a myth created by church-building Christians decades after the Crucifixion.

A Lesser Child Of God 2008

For, you see, I came as a boy from a pious home in the country; and so it seemed to me that this church-building was the noblest task I could set myself.

The Master Builder 2008

We have confused the non-profit corporation into which we invest our church-building time and energy with the Unitarian Universalist Church, much like the Romans did long ago when they qualified their Catholicism, and in the process we seem to have lost our vision and understanding of that One Universal Church to which we all belong.

Philocrites: Guardian's religion reporter says farewell, faith shaken. 2007

I feigned concern, and squeezed her hand, begging her to explain what Grant's campaign could have to do with dear Josiah's church-building.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985