pastor

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Recent Examples of pastor They were joined by a former state prison director, Moore’s trial judge, his son and daughter, a half-dozen childhood friends and several pastors. Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024 Moore is a licensed minister while Malik is a pastor serving under his parents' church. Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024 By its conclusion, the mystery of why is solved well enough; Sheila Manis and others have made their peace with Brent Marsh; and Marsh, now paroled, leads a quiet life as a pastor. Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024 The investigation was conducted by law firm Haynes Boone after the accusations against Gateway senior pastor and founder Robert Morris surfaced earlier this year. Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pastor 
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Noun
  • The local rector warns him away from the book and offers him salvation – but despite his efforts, the book cannot be destroyed and returns to Sarre with dark consequences.
    K.J. Yossman, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Even as book collectors have, over the centuries, shifted shape from rectors to hedge-fund managers, they have remained driven by an impulse that is both febrile and fastidious.
    Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The first hint of photosynthesis came from experiments by English clergyman and scientist Joseph Priestly.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Among the clergymen cited in the lawsuits that were settled Wednesday, Father Michael Baker is one of the priests with the most victims.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Better would it have been had the vicar never been born.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Atkinson both sends up and deepens stock characters like the vicar, who here has lost his faith; a major who doesn’t feel cut out for civilian life; and the batty lady of the manor, who appears to have arrived via time machine from the Victorian era.
    Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Writing in the eighteenth century, Smith compared energetic and often sensationalist Methodist preachers with the more reserved and cerebral parsons of the Church of England.
    Shadi Hamid, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • The other is her violent stepfather, who, in this version, is also the church’s parson (Steven Pasquale).
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
  • If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • When a jihadist group attacks two very young shepherds, 14-year-old Ashraf is forced to take a macabre message back to his family.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Another grail watch that Wind helped shepherd to a client was an exceptional Paul Newman Rolex Daytona Panda reference 2623 with a full set and a tropical dial that was sold by a small Swedish auction house just under a decade ago.
    Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • They are set to be bailed out in two days, and the colony’s bishop demands that the victims forgive them—or else face excommunication and be denied a spot in heaven.
    Ruth Madievsky, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Pope Francis has made significant changes to the funeral rites that will be observed upon his death, streamlining the rituals to reflect his role as a bishop rather than focusing on his papal status.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Each week, Maricopa and Pinal county reporter Sasha Hupka reports and curates must-know campaign news, insider exclusives and service-style voter tips from Arizona’s largest and most talented elections team.
    Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Fiennes is backed by a stellar supporting cast that, in addition to Tucci's firebrand Bellini, included John Lithgow as a sanctimonious curate and Carlos Diehz as Cardinal Benitez, intriguing and comforting in his calm stillness.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2024

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