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Recent Examples of unchurched
Churches provided a place and a space for grieving, contemplation and reflection on the part of the great unchurched majority of the nation and for adherents of minority faiths.
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Town & Country, 5 May 2023
But American and European societies are now highly plural and increasingly unchurched.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
Through stories and conversations, ‘Sanctified’ is a pathway to communal reflection and healing for women who are churched, unchurched or find themselves somewhere in-between.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 27 Oct. 2022
Catholicism has lost many adherents to other faiths, and more recently to the ranks of the unchurched.
—WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
Today, Catholicism has lost adherents to other faiths in the region, especially Pentecostalism, and more recently to the ranks of the unchurched.
—Samantha Pearson, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
This winning style -- and his inclusive view of Christianity -- helped make Palau a popular figure in his adopted home of Portland, a city known for being one of the most unchurched in the country.
—oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2021
In carrying out this effort, these ministers pitted churched colonists against unchurched colonists, resulting in the wrongful convictions of 20 American colonials.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 3 Nov. 2020
Town & Country, 5 May 2023
But American and European societies are now highly plural and increasingly unchurched.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
Through stories and conversations, ‘Sanctified’ is a pathway to communal reflection and healing for women who are churched, unchurched or find themselves somewhere in-between.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 27 Oct. 2022
Catholicism has lost many adherents to other faiths, and more recently to the ranks of the unchurched.
—WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
Today, Catholicism has lost adherents to other faiths in the region, especially Pentecostalism, and more recently to the ranks of the unchurched.
—Samantha Pearson, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
This winning style -- and his inclusive view of Christianity -- helped make Palau a popular figure in his adopted home of Portland, a city known for being one of the most unchurched in the country.
—oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2021
In carrying out this effort, these ministers pitted churched colonists against unchurched colonists, resulting in the wrongful convictions of 20 American colonials.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 3 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unchurched
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Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2024
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From its earliest days in the nineteenth century and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2011
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Clearly the most godless Man of God Garfield has played — the one-two of playing a televangelist here and a Mormon cop in Under the Banner of Heaven makes for a religious diptych that’s uniquely American. tick, tick … BOOM!Rory Doherty, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
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His notoriously pornographic breakthrough novel, The Elementary Particles, trafficked in masturbation, flashing, orgies, and child rape but really amounted to a diatribe against a godless materialism.Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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The move prompted a coalition of parents — Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist and nonreligious — to sue the state in federal court.Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
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About twice as many nonreligious voters as religious voters rate it the most important issue.Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2024
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Defense attorneys for Allen have argued authorities arrested the wrong person and claimed that Odinism, a pagan Norse religion that has been linked to White supremacist groups, could be a theory connected to the killings, court documents show.Nicole Chavez, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
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In a memorandum released last year, Allen's attorneys outlined an alternate theory of the girls' killings, saying evidence found at the scene mimicked rituals from a pagan Norse religion called Odinism.Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Oct. 2024
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The Cincinnati Bengals welcome the media heathen universe for a gab session/sitdown, linen-tablecloth lunch known in This Space as The Mock Turtle Soupfest and Weenie Roast.Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 May 2019
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Some of my brethren and sis-tren (sis-tren?) in the heathen media tribe get all riled up if a player or coach won’t speak to them.Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 30 May 2019
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“Unchurched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unchurched. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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