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Recent Examples of chaplain
The department's Crime Victims Assistance and the city's chaplain units are on scene to help witnesses with the trauma of experiencing the shooting.
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Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Oct. 2024
When the legislatures passed a law allowing chaplains to work in schools, one of the first groups to express interest was the Satanic Temple.
—Peter Greene, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
According to Ellis, the department currently has 18 chaplains that can be used throughout the city when paged out.
—Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 17 Sep. 2024
Formerly Lauren Graham’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist love interest (and employee!), the actor has been tapped by Grey’s Anatomy to recur in Season 21 as James, the hospital’s new chaplain, TVLine has exclusively learned.
—Charlie Mason, TVLine, 8 Aug. 2024
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Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Oct. 2024
When the legislatures passed a law allowing chaplains to work in schools, one of the first groups to express interest was the Satanic Temple.
—Peter Greene, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
According to Ellis, the department currently has 18 chaplains that can be used throughout the city when paged out.
—Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 17 Sep. 2024
Formerly Lauren Graham’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist love interest (and employee!), the actor has been tapped by Grey’s Anatomy to recur in Season 21 as James, the hospital’s new chaplain, TVLine has exclusively learned.
—Charlie Mason, TVLine, 8 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaplain
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World Relief organized a letter to the presidential candidates signed by evangelical Christian pastors and leaders from all 50 states.Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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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
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Specifically, the nuns pointed a finger at Urbain Grandier—a local priest and their confessor.Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
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Its main purpose is not the creation of aesthetic beauty out of the materials at hand (life, pain) but selfishness: relieving the confessor’s desire to confess.Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
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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
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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
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Better would it have been had the vicar never been born.SPIN Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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The cat-and-mouse thriller follows two young Mormon missionaries (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East) who make the grave mistake of knocking on the door of a reclusive Englishman (Grant).Variety, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
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Attempts to catalogue them involve missionaries, brands, and a passion project run by a handful of linguists.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 5 Nov. 2024
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He was appointed an auxiliary bishop of Chicago on Sept. 11, 2020, and ordained two months later.Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
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To evade Western sanctions, the Chinese Communist Party uses less bloody and more hidden methods of coercion against these bishops than the show trials and physical ...Nina Shea, National Review, 22 Oct. 2024
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Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.Phil Helsel, NBC News, 17 June 2022
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Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.al, al, 1 Dec. 2020
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“Chaplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaplain. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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