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Copyright law doesn’t protect general ideas — or incidents, characters and settings considered standard in the treatment of particular topics (think a priest in a movie about possession) — only the particular expression of those ideas.—
Winston Cho,
The Hollywood Reporter,
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The ‘20s house guests mingle with priests and nuns from the house’s church days and the souls of her mother and father, who each died inside.—
Nicolas Rivero,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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Most songs concern a protagonist who pursued a career as a clergyman despite a lack of faith.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
24 Jan. 2025
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In 2005, Grand Ayatollah Sistani, the leading Shiite clergyman, was forced to mediate between rival Shiite groups amid a deadly Sunni insurgency.—
Ranj Alaaldin,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Sep. 2018
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The family later moved to Tulsa, Okla., where his father became a preacher and his mother, Joyce (Schott) Ray, managed the home.—
Clay Risen,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Bruer, 67, had served in at least 22 states and territories and seven countries since 1976, according to a timeline compiled by Pam Walton, a former member who has used historical records and photographs to track the movements of predatory preachers.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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Sufism, often regarded as the mystical dimension of Islam, emphasizes a personal connection with the divine.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes,
1 Jan. 2025
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Members of Zide Door follow the Church of Ambrosia faith, which believes that psychedelics such as entheogenic, or psychoactive substances such as psilocybin mushrooms and DMT can lead to spiritual enlightenment, or access to the divine.—
Marni Rose McFall,
Newsweek,
12 Dec. 2024
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That desire led him to the seminary in 1982, and, three years later, he was ordained as a deacon and priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
The Christian Science Monitor,
21 Jan. 2025
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By the seventh century, deacons from seven of the oldest and most important churches of Rome served as special advisers to the popes.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2025
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President Trump said Tuesday the prayer service for his inauguration, when the reverend called on him to have mercy on transgender children and immigrant families, wasn’t too exciting.—
Alex Gangitano,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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The Pacific Palisades proper was founded in 1922 by Methodist reverend Charles H. Scott, who established a religious community there.—
Hadley Hall Meares,
Architectural Digest,
17 Jan. 2025
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The end result was a new brand of ecclesiastics and lay Catholics who felt comfortable detaching themselves from Franco’s regime, or even fighting it head-on in a variety of forums, including student movements, intellectual circles, unions, political parties, and the media.—
Victor Pérez-Díaz,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Dec. 2013
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Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.—
Peter Brown,
The New York Review of Books,
24 Sep. 2020
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