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Recent Examples of churchgoer
These preachers can avail themselves of conservative-friendly media figures like a Joe Rogan (now a regular churchgoer) or Theo Von (in a Bible study with Morgan Wallen) or Evangelical podcasters like Bryce Crawford, George Janko, and Girls Gone Bible (Smith has recently booked all three).
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Sam Kestenbaum, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2026
Kessler was a husband, dad, grandfather, brother, nephew, volunteer, Catholic churchgoer, Knight of Columbus and more, according to his family members.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 28 Dec. 2025
Profaci is not a regular churchgoer, but his mother has the family covered.
—Susan Mulcahy, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Since then, his daughter, Kerri Rawson, has publicly discussed having to reconcile the truth about her father, a churchgoer and former Cub Scout leader, with the reality of his vicious crimes.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
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Sam Kestenbaum, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2026
Kessler was a husband, dad, grandfather, brother, nephew, volunteer, Catholic churchgoer, Knight of Columbus and more, according to his family members.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 28 Dec. 2025
Profaci is not a regular churchgoer, but his mother has the family covered.
—Susan Mulcahy, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Since then, his daughter, Kerri Rawson, has publicly discussed having to reconcile the truth about her father, a churchgoer and former Cub Scout leader, with the reality of his vicious crimes.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for churchgoer
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Nonetheless, the event’s atmosphere reliably turns Lincoln Center into a hive of cinematic energy, and the impatient desire that draws audiences through the doors provides a sense of like-minded communicants at the movie altar.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
25 Sep. 2025
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The North Charles Street resident was a communicant of St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Church, 740 N. Calvert Street, where a Memorial Mass will be offered at 1 p.m. June 3, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.—
Frederick N. Rasmussen,
Baltimore Sun,
14 May 2023
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This round includes $200,000 for Chabad of Poway, which in 2019 was the target of a gunman who stormed in and killed a congregant and injured three people, including a child, her uncle and a rabbi.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
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In Louisiana, Democrats raised concerns about mandatory jail time for disrupting services and warned that the laws were too arbitrary, suggesting that they could be applied against a congregant for singing out of turn as a pastor delivers a homily.—
Jack Brook,
Los Angeles Times,
26 May 2026
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There is a certain irony in that nearly all those cited were people of Christian faith — in order of appearance: practicing Catholic; passionate theist; committed Church of Scotland; and lifelong Lutheran.—
Denis Alexander,
Washington Post,
17 Mar. 2023
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Philosophical critics and subsequent scientific inquiry heaped doubt on Kant’s objectivism, and advancing secularism rendered for many his theist explanation for the morally reasoning immortal soul somewhat antique.—
Gerard Baker,
WSJ,
13 Feb. 2023
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“Churchgoer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/churchgoer. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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