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It's really tough to be an active member of your church when you travel so much, but that's the stuff that keeps you going. Andy Mineo

You Travel Church Tough Active Member Stuff Going Much Really Your Keeps

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently. Andy Stanley

You Church Kid See Preacher Differently

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches. Anita Diament

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I started doing comedy in a church. Anjelah Johnson

Comedy Church Doing Started

I was born again. It happens to Episcopalians. Sometimes it doesn't hit you till you're 47 years old. It changed my whole life for the better... I spent a lot of time giving Christian witness all over the country to church groups and stuff. Ann B. Davis

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It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God. Anne Graham Lotz

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I disagree with a couple of the stances of the Catholic Church. My older brother is gay, and it's important for me to be able to love him completely and freely, and it's important for me to spread beliefs in the world that are not going to limit people in their love. I can't support a religion that doesn't support my brother. Anne Hathaway

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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it. Anne Lamott

Sometimes Church Loved Grandparents

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most. Annie Besant

Women Church Evil Thought Christian Despise Those Leaders Spoke Most Greatest Saints Centuries Who Necessary Necessary Evil

Pope Francis is calling for a better way to hold together complicated family lives in the midst of official church teaching without alienating people who have marital issues and family problems. Anthea Butler

In a world where families are drowning on beaches to escape war, leaving the church because of sexual abuse, or denied access because of sexual orientation, the utopia that Pope Francis desires may be impossible for the church to attain. Anthea Butler

If there is anything that has broken the church's relationship with families, it is the global sexual abuse scandal. Anthea Butler

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The pope's instruction for priests to forgive may mean, in some cases, the difference between a woman staying in the Catholic Church or leaving for a more understanding and empowering church nearby. Anthea Butler

C. Peter Wagner was the Donald McGavran professor of church growth at Fuller. He was considered to be the heir of McGavran, founder of the church growth movement. That movement essentially said, 'Whatever grows a church is good' and needs to be nurtured. Anthea Butler

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In evangelical and Pentecostal churches, most people have a home church they identify with, but you have a favourite pastor or evangelist that you listen to occasionally. Studying scripture means you don't just read the Bible: you read devotional books and books designed to help your spiritual walk or the church broadly construed. Anthea Butler

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The shooter's choice of Emanuel AME was most likely deliberate, given the church's storied history. It was the first African Methodist Episcopal church in the South, founded in 1818 by a group of men including Morris Brown, a prominent pastor, and Denmark Vesey, who would go on to lead a large, yet failed, slave revolt in Charleston. Anthea Butler

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For black Catholics, the papal visit is a time of anticipation but also a time of reflection on their difficult - but important - place within the Catholic Church in America. Anthea Butler

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Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots. Aretha Franklin

Me You Natural Church Setting Background Definitely Know Roots Start

My upbringing was in the church. We had to attend regularly. And, of course, the church provided a training ground for me, so to speak, as a young vocalist and certainly gave me all of the spiritual values that I needed as a young lady. Aretha Franklin

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.' Arlie Russell Hochschild

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