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"churchgoing" Definitions
  1. the practice of going to church services regularly

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We are churchgoing Christians, and they are our outside enemy.
If you're a churchgoing Christian, the polls are probably baffling.
More broadly, churchgoing Christians in Europe tended to have more negative views about Muslims, Jews, and immigrants than their non-churchgoing Christian counterparts, who in turn had more negative views than the religiously unaffiliated.
Contributing to GOP unity, Pence is a churchgoing evangelical family man.
In areas like Mindong, that has meant a collapse of churchgoing.
She was born in Memphis and raised in a churchgoing family.
I grew up in a tight-knit, churchgoing community in rural Virginia.
He's a married gay man, a churchgoing Episcopalian, and a proud millennial.
He was especially fascinated with the churchgoing ladies he saw on Sundays.
Star's churchgoing godmother, Carlotta (Queen Latifah), runs a beauty shop in the city.
"Marquerite was everything I wasn't—square and churchgoing and middle class," Simpson said.
He likens dropping in on one to occasional Sunday churchgoing in the West.
His correspondent was a churchgoing seventeen-year-old with a musical split personality.
Mr. Paul, who lives in Harlem, is a churchgoing Christian from Westport, Conn.
Most Twin Falls residents are churchgoing, and about half of those are Mormons.
The number of churchgoing Anglicans fell by 218%, and in 234 stood at 267m.
Ms. Rashad's own family, and neighbors, were churchgoing Christians, so that was familiar, too.
And long-term Gallup data suggest that any recent dip in churchgoing is milder than the steep decline in the 1960s — and that today's churchgoing rate isn't that different from the rate in the 1930s and 1940s, before the postwar religious boom.
The first service reflects a well-documented phenomenon: an immigrant-led surge in London churchgoing.
She rallied her troops, mostly churchgoing Christian mothers like herself, and the ERA turned controversial.
To boost churchgoing, the otherwise indifferent Dutch burgomasters followed suit in New Amsterdam in 1656.
If we're talking comedy, let's shout-out the most churchgoing family on TV: the Simpsons.
He said "the churchgoing public was duped" into believing that the law protected religious freedoms.
Indeed, churchgoing is so pervasive that it drains energy from other forms of civic involvement.
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to the least churchgoing population in the United States.
Most non-churchgoing Americans have likely never heard of the film, the song, or the singer.
Both were churchgoing, and both were living in a crime-plagued area they wanted to escape.
In Finland, 33% of non-religious people want to reduce immigration, compared to 19% of churchgoing Christians.
"I can't believe it, because she's a churchgoing person," her grandfather, Wendell Larrymore, 81, said on Friday.
" Cookie, a churchgoing Christian, was initially conflicted, later telling Oprah Winfrey, "I had to pray about it.
The state's generally polite churchgoing culture seems uncomfortable with the president's pettiness, self-absorption, vulgarities and vanity.
And Sunday, alas, was not a day of rest, but more work—what seemed like endless churchgoing.
I might do something, I'm not a churchgoing guy, so I don't know what to do about that.
With state lawmakers legalizing casino gambling, justifying blue laws as an inducement to churchgoing has become more difficult.
By June, Pew found, churchgoing Republicans were slightly more likely than their less-religious peers to support Trump.
He spouts profanities, terrorizes Jason's churchgoing friends and mother and grows more demonic as the play goes on.
It is a sacred song, more resonant for me than any hymn I learned in my churchgoing childhood.
What happens to the women in slasher films has nothing in common with their own sunny, churchgoing lives.
A lifelong Democrat, Ms. Biro, 1999, is a churchgoing single mother who practices yoga and does not eat meat.
For liberals, it is a warning: Don't push churchgoing, gun-loving conservatives too far, or there'll be dangerous consequences.
Religion and redemption are prominent themes, particularly in the connection between Daniel and his churchgoing sister-in-law, Tawney.
"I began to see the man he really is, a kind, churchgoing, fun-loving family man," Ms. Moss said.
How, and when, they wonder, did the piano playing, academic overachiever from a churchgoing family of lifeguards, go so wrong?
In short, he speaks the language of religion — a quality that, all things being equal, should appeal to churchgoing voters.
Hillary Clinton, a churchgoing Methodist, spoke less often than him about her own faith, but she did talk about it.
But — the candor part — if someone asks any of you about churchgoing, or whether you've been saved, you shouldn't lie.
But most churchgoing Republicans preferred other candidates; only 15 percent of weekly churchgoers were steady Trump supporters from the start.
There didn't seem to be a lot of churchgoing, Bible-believing, born-again Christians like me working at daily papers.
This is not a pseudo-epic of redemption or revenge, with boxers and gangsters and their churchgoing moms and wives.
There are churchgoing supporters of Mr. Biden and others drawn to the business acumen of Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Steyer.
Though proud of his earnest community, he wonders whether any of his churchgoing companions "had read even a page of Tolstoy".
Millennials have been blamed for the death of cereal, napkins, sex, churchgoing, marriage, and face-to-face interaction, among other things.
Churchgoing Trump voters have more favorable feelings toward African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Jews, Muslims and immigrants compared with nonreligious Trump voters.
Churchgoing Republicans, for instance, can still leverage the power of community even when their leader is flawed or they feel down.
This week the Pew Research Center confirmed a truth many churchgoing Americans know to be self-evident: Sermons can be … long.
The South, unlike the Northeast, contains lots of churchgoing white evangelicals with deeply felt conservative ideology — Ted Cruz voters, in other words.
For decades, the Republican Party has taken pains to court rural, conservative, churchgoing Christian voters and the religious institutions to which they belong.
It's Blake Shelton's latest paean to rural life, a song about hard-working, churchgoing farmers that's not cozy and nostalgic, but grimly fatalistic.
But if Sanders wants to win the Democratic nomination, he has to expand his base, which means luring churchgoing Christians away from Hillary Clinton.
One reason churchgoing Christians don't have as much as a sway on this election might be that there just aren't as many of them.
Mr. Washington was taken in by his grandmother, a churchgoing woman who sent him to ballet classes and took him on trips to Europe.
They're also asked some questions about their personal viewpoints and behaviors, like their religion and churchgoing habits, and about major issues facing the country.
And there are churchgoing, family loving black people, Latinos and immigrants who share those values but see the GOP as an exclusively white party.
For his part, Kavanaugh has maintained since Ford's allegations broke that he was a respectable, churchgoing gentleman in high school who was also a virgin.
A "none" may believe in God (and, indeed, like 17 percent of American "nones," the God of the Bible), whereas a churchgoing Christian might not.
Furthermore, they're asked some questions about their personal viewpoints and behaviors — like their religion and churchgoing habits — and questions about major issues facing the country.
Alan A. PardeeNew YorkThe writer is a weekly churchgoing Catholic and a former church choir member, eucharistic minister, lector, usher, altar server and church receptionist.
Churchgoing Trump voters care far more than nonreligious ones about racial equality (67 percent versus 49 percent) and reducing poverty (42 percent versus 23 percent).
The church, which today boasts about 26,000 attendees every weekend, was an early pioneer of what is known as the "seeker-sensitive" model of churchgoing.
Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger are officially a couple -- a churchgoing one at that -- but they won't really show it until they're out of God's purview.
What I promote is civil liberties, and taking a thriving black market and being honest about it I am a taxpaying, churchgoing, kid-raising American citizen.
On "Om Shanti," she's joined by the ashram's full choir, harking back to her churchgoing childhood in Detroit and integrating the influence of Indian classical music.
But Douthat suggested, and I will elaborate on the view, that liberalism itself might be put on a stronger intellectual and social footing if it reembraced churchgoing.
Even if you are a professional woman and the perfect definition of victim — college degree, no criminal history, no history of sex work, married with children, churchgoing.
It's a matter of math: The GOP's core constituencies (older, wealthier, churchgoing) get to the polls at consistently higher rates than core Democratic constituencies (younger, poorer, secular).
There was the churchgoing gay couple who loved Jesus yet weren't allowed to go to family holiday gatherings out of fear they'd influence their nephews to be gay.
"I'm hopeful that they will follow through with everything, but we'll see what happens," said Ian McMeans, 32, a churchgoing father of four who lives outside of Pittsburgh.
She is moved by his devotion to his churchgoing mother, whom he invites to London, puts up at the Savoy and takes shopping for a dress at Harrods.
Industrialization mostly destroyed this system, but some pieces of it, like abstention from work during churchgoing hours in Christian societies, either remained normative or were enshrined in law.
Its attempt to do so on March 9th was defeated in the House of Commons by an unlikely alliance of churchgoing Tories, left-wing Labourites and opportunistic Scottish nationalists.
When I graduated from high school, I joined the over 60 percent of churchgoing people 17 and older, who, according to a recent study, walk permanently out the door.
Under blue lights, her short, light-colored hair seemed to glow, just as the message and urgency of the material transformed this prim, churchgoing grandmother into a bright, supernatural vision.
Even after a divided and contentious primary season within the GOP, most churchgoing evangelicals did what they have done in the past and voted in line with the party platform.
But if the conservative media has created a category of Fox evangelical converts, it has also influenced the way a whole generation of churchgoing evangelicals thinks about God and faith.
The secularization of American society means that the religious right and the churchgoing African-American community share a metaphysical worldview that's faded elsewhere in our spiritual-but-less-religious nation.
WALTERBORO, S.C. — Neighbors knew them for years as a churchgoing mother and her polite teenage daughter before the police swarmed Gloria Williams's home in this small, quiet South Carolina city.
" In Britain, 223 percent of churchgoing Christians and 222 percent of non-practicing Christians agreed with the statement that "Islam is fundamentally incompatible with our values and culture, the survey showed.
As he looks at the massive fight over abortion rights playing out right now across the country, Coons feels like his own party is leaving behind a key weapon: churchgoing Christians.
The French Orthodox association is instead loyal to the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, a rival church leadership in Istanbul that has provided a haven for many of Mr. Putin's churchgoing foes.
Some see a creeping secularization in what has long been one of America's most churchgoing states, or wonder whether voters and elected officials alike have simply grown exhausted by the issue.
Imagine, for instance, that you're one of the many churchgoing voters — Catholic, evangelical and Mormon — repelled by Trump's vulgarian style, his bigotry and misogyny, his embodiment of an essentially post-religious right.
Those films typically make less than their PG-13 rated siblings, and with the exception of certain war films, the churchgoing audience is rarely the target audience for an R-rated film.
So one night — after a churchgoing Sunday that has been, you imagine, like hundreds of other Sundays in Ken's life — he finds himself sobbing violently into a hand towel in his bathroom.
Their ancestral churches, the theologically-liberal mainline denominations, are aging and emptying, with the oldest churchgoing population and one of the lowest retention rates of any Christian tradition in the United States.
Just two months later, in February 1813, Skalnik was not only out of jail but also married to a woman who believed that her clean-cut, churchgoing husband was a law student.
We see that in Dylann Roof in Charleston, who wants to start a race war by murdering nine churchgoing people on a Wednesday night after he sat and listened to Bible study.
"It's not something Deborah or I would have expected… Nick is focused, dignified, reverent, the brass cross shimmering in the candlelight," Roker explained, making reference to his son's self-proclaimed "churchgoing guy" responsibilities.
And when it comes to standing up to Trump, churchgoing white evangelicals might be more likely to simply sit on their hands: The closest competitor to Trump wasn't Clinton, but not voting at all.
The sixth child of a prominent Berlin psychiatrist and a college-educated mother, Bonhoeffer was a quiet, musical boy whose choice to become a minister seemed at odds with his mostly non-churchgoing upbringing.
At the same time, Russian state television itself has embraced anti-Semitism, asserting that Mr. Poroshenko, a churchgoing Orthodox Christian, is secretly a Jew called Weizman who is deviously trying to undermine Slavic fraternity.
Among non-churchgoing Trump voters, only 48 percent had warm feelings toward black people, compared to 71 percent of weekly churchgoers; the same sort of pattern held for views of Hispanics, Asians and Jews.
The director Brian Ivie weaves in a bit of the history about Charleston, a hub of the slave trade, and about churchgoing as a symbol of independence for African-Americans after the Civil War.
And there are entire suburbs full of educated, affluent, churchgoing conservatives — the kind Mr. Buttigieg likes to call "future former Republicans" — who say they would find it difficult to vote for President Trump again.
The gulf between parents and children was at the heart of "Passing Strange"—Eisa Davis memorably played Stew's churchgoing mother—and it's telling that the theme has drawn him back, a perennial prodigal son.
One study of the 2016 GOP primaries showed that these non-churchgoing evangelicals were more likely to support Trump — around 53 percent of Trump supporting evangelicals marked that they seldom/never went to church.
The macho, porn-addicted son of a churchgoing mother, he can't decide if he wants to kill his friend or have sex with him — a revulsion for his own feelings that crystallizes around the Witch.
So I can't say whether the recent decline in American religiosity will become an unstoppable collapse, as Dreher argues, or if it's just the evaporation of nominal Christianity that will leave a churchgoing core intact.
After a surge in COVID-19 cases in Italy, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy put the entire country on lockdown, restricting travel, leisure, work, churchgoing, and other aspects of life for its 60 million citizens.
And according to the dozen interviewees who spoke with BuzzFeed News for this story, churchgoing constituencies get a lot more out of the films when they lean into the moral and human centers of the environmentalism movement.
But in general, churchgoing Republicans look more like the party many elite conservatives wanted to believe existed before Trump came along — more racially-tolerant, more accepting of multiculturalism and globalization, and also more consistently libertarian on economics.
" There are a number of facts to parse in this book — such as Till's affinity for straw hats on churchgoing Sundays, and the sheriff's belief that the body recovered from the river was part of an "N.
At that, his voice rose and trembled with frustration, finally becoming the voice I associate with Sharpton the leader who made black churchgoing grandmothers proud enough to send him a donation, no matter what they said about him.
The Pew survey shows a definite decline in weekly churchgoing, alongside the growing disaffiliation of people who once would have been loosely attached to churches and denominations — cultural Catholics, Christmas-and-Easter Methodists, Jack Mormons and the like.
Ross Douthat LAST weekend Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee and a churchgoing Catholic, briefly escaped obscurity by telling an audience of L.G.B.T. activists that he expects his church to eventually bless and celebrate same-sex marriages.
We found that secular Trump voters are three times as likely as churchgoing Trump voters to say that their white racial identity is "extremely" important to them; a majority of them report feeling like strangers in the country.
Nas's "Illmatic" is as much a family member as her churchgoing grandparents or her drug-dealing aunt or her devoted older brother who chooses a minimum-wage job to support their mother over a shot at his master's degree.
But the reason a filmmaker like Tyler Perry, who built his career with the support of churchgoing audiences, isn't generally included under the faith-based umbrella seems to come down to his work being deemed both too crude and too black.
The state had been trending Republican long before 2016, but Mr. Trump accelerated the shift that year, with a broad appeal that stretched from conservative, churchgoing rural voters in the western part of the state to coal miners in the east.
It is natural, then, that artifacts of worship are another favorite of tramp art, and the exhibition presents numerous altar boxes, crosses, candlesticks, and framed icons that reinforce the associated between tramp art and regular churchgoing members of the community.
Buttigieg has clashed with black activists in South Bend over economic and law enforcement issues, and a senior campaign aide acknowledged that some churchgoing African-Americans in South Carolina are uncomfortable with the fact that Buttigieg is openly gay and has a husband.
Like the boomers, they've been shaped by a communications revolution (TV then, the internet now), various sexual revolutions (gay and transgender rights, online dating, ubiquitous pornography), a retreat from churchgoing and family formation (the U.S. birthrate is scraping its 1970s-era lows).
Ms. Davidson of the Scottish Conservatives, a churchgoing Presbyterian who trained for Britain's Army Reserve and once cheerfully described herself as a "flat-shoed, shovel-faced lesbian," cut her hair shorter than it had ever been when she first ran for office.
Recent Pew polls have found that, increasingly, Christian identity in Western Europe has strong nationalist echoes; churchgoing Christians in most Western European countries tend to have more extreme anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant sentiments than their non-practicing or non-religiously affiliated counterparts.
In it, Mx. Tobia, 27, describes a metamorphic journey from intellectually precocious, effeminate, churchgoing son of middle-class parents in Raleigh, N.C., to standard-bearer for an identity that, while far from new in historical terms, still is met with discomfort and scorn.
His mother was a churchgoing Catholic, and he was educated at prominent Jesuit-run schools that admitted him on full scholarships: the Brooklyn Preparatory School, now closed, where he was the 1946 class valedictorian, and Georgetown, from which he graduated in 1950.
In a series of Skype interviews, he discussed his work and explained how he had grown from a churchgoing kid in Mount Vernon, N.Y., with a knack for "yo' mama so fat jokes" into an unlikely correspondent in a Middle Eastern war.
" Christians in Western Europe are more likely (35% of churchgoing and 36% of non-practicing Christians) than non-religious people (21%) to be in favor of reducing immigration to their countries, saying "immigrants from the Middle East and Africa are not honest or hardworking.
The young Mr. Kavanaugh described by Dr. Blasey and Democrats is a far cry from the image that the judge projected at his previous confirmation hearings, where he portrayed himself as a churchgoing father of two daughters and a beloved basketball coach for their teams.
Churchgoing Trump voters were still more culturally conservative than Hillary Clinton voters — more likely to support the death penalty, more skeptical of immigration — and their views of Muslims, interestingly, seemed to have been influenced by Trump's own rhetoric, becoming more hostile between 2016 and 2017.
While many feminists saw the right to abortion as essential to women's empowerment, she said, the decision also galvanized "what we now call the religious right" — Catholics, Protestants and evangelical Christians, as well as churchgoing African-Americans, a number of whom considered themselves liberal on other issues.
He combines the perceived electability of a churchgoing, Midwestern military veteran who can speak to small-town white voters with promises of a combative approach if elected: he supports scrapping the Electoral College, packing the Supreme Court and expanding health coverage with a plan akin to Medicare for All.
On an average day, he will eat a bowl of plain oatmeal and drink several cups of black filter coffee, engage in various acts of "prayer and ponder" (he is a non-churchgoing Lutheran), check in with his assistant by fax or on the landline, and take naps.
In many respects a study in contrasts, Eyman's remarkably absorbing, supremely entertaining joint biography of two Hollywood legends reveals just how immutable the bonds were between "Hank" Fonda, an impious, New Deal Democrat with a volatile home life, and "Jim" Stewart, a churchgoing, conservative Republican with a devoted family.
Much of the humor in "4th Man Out" comes from the broadly drawn ancillary characters, like Martha, a fanatically churchgoing neighbor who's always at the door, offering up muffins, her niece and, ultimately, pamphlets for a sexual orientation conversion camp that arrive accompanied by an elaborately decorated Virgin Mary sheet cake.
I'd heard through the grapevine that Nate saw his Christian faith as integral to the film, and that's what we talked about: his interest in telling Turner's story, racism in America and particularly in Christian America, and what he hoped churchgoing audiences around the country would take away from the film.
"I'd rather know he was a basketball player or jock that drank beer and had fun, but in his mind never took it too far," said the head of a PR firm, adding that they didn't think it was smart for Kavanaugh to play up his well-to-do, churchgoing boy image.
Using new state-by-state data collected by the federal government, researchers found that a state's economic and social environment — from its welfare policy and tobacco tax rate, to the strength of social ties through sports clubs and churchgoing, to the level of economic inequality — had a significant effect on women's life spans.
" Mr. Bentley, who was elected statewide in part because of his reputation as a churchgoing, squeaky-clean public official,  said that his conduct had not been "all that egregious," but also said, "All I can say is that I think I let people down, and that disturbs me more than anything else.
After all, hers was a churchgoing family—she considers herself nondenominational—living in the buckle of the Bible Belt: A 2013 Gallup poll of the most and least religious states in the country revealed Tennessee to be in the top ten, and Memphis, where Baker grew up, borders Mississippi, which claimed the number one spot.
The first fault line is the one suggested by the data on churchgoing: Trump is losing the most active believers, but he's winning in what I've previously termed the "Christian penumbra" — the areas of American society (parts of the South very much included) where active religiosity has weakened, but a Christian-ish residue remains.
For groups outside the Republican coalition, especially — like millennials drifting from religion and the churchgoing African-Americans who just turned out in droves to defeat Roy Moore — isn't there the potential for them to be scandalized by lock step religious conservative support for a presidency that most of America sees as failed from Year 1?
The White House's efforts to appeal to the religious right appear to have given Mr. Trump a thick insulation from the scandals that might otherwise undermine his support among churchgoing conservatives, like the recent allegations that he cheated on his wife with a pornographic film actress who was reportedly paid $130,000 in hush money shortly before the 2016 election.
Many will know what came next, whether from Ms. Turner's autobiography or the 1993 film "What's Love Got to Do with It": a churchgoing youth that gives way over time to fervently held Buddhism, alongside episodes of abuse most often at the hands of an ex-husband, Ike Turner, who gives the soulful Anna Mae her newly alliterative stage name.
Conservatives, many of whom have long harbored misgivings about the president's conduct, united in defense of Justice Kavanaugh, whom they saw as one of their own — a trusted, churchgoing family man who had been smeared, with decades-old stories from his high school days, as part of a liberal plot to prevent the Supreme Court from tilting any further to the right.
For the sake of their principles and their faith's credibility, evangelicals who have reluctantly backed Mr. Trump in order to get a conservative Supreme Court may want to ask themselves how it will look to the rest of the nation if churchgoing, "pro-family" Christians remain some of the last ones propping up Mr. Trump's candidacy after droves of other Republicans have denounced their party's nominee for his morally offensive statements.
If the #NeverTrump people want a protest vote, their best path is a Libertarian takeover, with someone who is Libertarianish on some issues – pot, prostitution, marriage – and yet pro-life and pro-religion enough to win over the votes of the holdouts to the Trump machine: churchgoing evangelicals, avowed social and fiscal conservatives, and those who just find his presence on the national scene to be a vulgar and demeaning one.
A pacey cinematic ride through the Vogue contributing editor André Leon Talley's life begins with his childhood in Durham, N.C., as the gifted charge of a beloved churchgoing grandmother, and continues on through his time at Brown University (where he graduated as a scholarship student with a degree in French), the Rhode Island School of Design (where he partied with the art students) and his career in fashion.
"If the jury views Roof as evil and having made a knowing, intelligent choice to kill these innocent, churchgoing people in order to foment racial hatred, they are much more likely to impose the death penalty than if they believe him to be a young and severely mentally ill person who acted under delusional racist beliefs," said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a research group.
Drilling a three-pointer and making several little crotch thrusts, in view of collected children and the decent, churchgoing people of Los Angeles, as well as Jesus Christ himself, shaking his head sadly and disapprovingly; and Zeus, cleaning his thunderbolts and preparing to throw them at whoever might oppose Hector or whoever; and the Buddha's spirit, flowing through all who practice the dharma, now feeling itself yanked back to the earth through the world's collective aversion to this nightmare.
The critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote that the video seemed to hold the promise of an era "of rococo pleasures, which would blur boundaries between art and entertainment in no end of surprising ways," a judgment that seemed prescient after Beyoncé borrowed liberally from the work this year for her video for "Hold Up." Ms. Rist, 54, who was raised in an upper-middle-class churchgoing family in the countryside of eastern Switzerland (her given name is Elisabeth Charlotte; her nickname came from Pippi Longstocking, the horse-lifting Swedish children's heroine) has seen her mission almost from the beginning to demolish the boundary between the art world and the world.

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