If bishops should be pastors, let pastors choose our bishops.
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But on that day in that church, there were more female pastors than male pastors.
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But at Wednesday&aposs event, dubbed "Meeting with Inner City Pastors," many of the pastors who attended expressed sympathetic views toward Trump, with one pastor -- the Rev.
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Pastors and attendees lay hands and pray over Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during the Midwest Vision and Values Pastors and Leadership Conference in Ohio on Wednesday.
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While there are a large number of LGBT pastors who I can share experiences with, there are only 20 openly trans pastors and seminarians in the ELCA.
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She'd responded to his message that a meeting with Black Evangelical pastors would not be open to the press (after several of the pastors denied that they would be endorsing him).
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Moreover, 87 percent of pastors said they should not make political endorsements from the pulpit, according to a LifeWay survey conducted in 2012 of pastors in evangelical and mainline Protestant churches.
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"Both my parents are pastors and staunch Republicans," Perry shared.
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Pastors are encouraged to normalize the condition from the pulpit.
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It's sometimes hard to realize they are pastors at all.
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If the pastors succeed, Cruz will be tough to beat.
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The future of these pastors is the future of democracy.
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The exception is with the celebrity pastors of evangelical megachurches.
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And it's not impossible to find queer and trans pastors.
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Hillsong is the "chill" church where pastors wear skinny jeans.
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At a Watchmen pastors briefing in Unionville, N.C., on Oct.
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PREACH Will is one of three pastors at First Presbyterian.
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Many participating pastors send their sermons to the I.R.S. afterward.
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Four in 10 pastors rarely or never discuss the issue.
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For pastors, the pressures of Christmastime can be a challenge.
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"These are grown people," he added, referring to the pastors.
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In the past week, Latino parishioners and students at Catholic colleges have been "turning to the church, calling their pastors, and pastors are calling their bishops and asking what to expect," Mr. Corbett said.
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Then there were the were numbingly familiar statements from conservative pastors.
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Her parents are both pastors and identify as born again Christians.
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She encourages pastors to preach from the pulpit on these issues.
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Pastors should have the right to decide that issue for themselves.
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" The "shield" reference is explained by the subhead, "MEETING WITH PASTORS.
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He called on pastors to be responsible and stop this practice.
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Pastors starting from scratch find space in schools and even nightclubs.
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Instead of pastors and preachers, we have drag queens and kings.
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Four pastors from 1996 returned for Baylor's new list: The Rev.
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He says it's necessary because pastors are their own best critics.
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At other churches pastors have been accused of accumulating unseemly riches.
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Mat Alexander, one of the pastors who worked on writing it.
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Horizon's pastors said they welcomed the increased visibility for their values.
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"A lot of people went running to their pastors," Campolo says.
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Three of them were over age 70, and four were pastors.
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And the pastors continued conversations with the remaining members of Ephesus.
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"No one should be censoring sermons or targeting pastors," he said.
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That indicates the power balance among the top pastors is shifting.
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"Pastors should warn people away from Cahn," Mr. Hall said recently.
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Foundry's pastors have married same-sex couples and hired gay clergy.
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John Bel Edwards and the pastors of the three burned churches.
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Pastors say Jefferson's story is tragically familiar Pastors at Concord Church in Dallas spoke of the injustice of her death, and called for justice for the family as the officer, Aaron Dean, faces a murder charge.
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Hailey Bieber's career is outside those explicitly evangelical circles, but she and Justin have been known to attend Hillsong Church and are close with several of its pastors, as well as pastors of other large churches.
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They were mothers and fathers, students and coaches, pastors and choir members.
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Now that could be local pastors — those are not always necessarily clinicians.
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And then there is the autocratic leadership style of many black pastors.
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But pastors are already free to deliver political speeches, and regularly do.
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Numerous pastors have said they were not asked to sign the letter.
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You can vote by writing letters to your pastors demanding bishop accountability.
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She's heard rumors that black women pastors are likely to be targeted.
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The demands of preaching have humbled even some of the greatest pastors.
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Some of the pastors are religious celebrities, while others are virtual unknowns.
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Evangelical pastors to facilitate his role as MS-13's CFO. The
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Hein spread it to church pastors and circulated it to the press.
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Our reporters and photographers met peanut farmers, heart surgeons, pastors and teachers.
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At the meeting, none of the church's top three pastors were present.
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The two pastors quickly donned their robes and hurried into the chapel.
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Even pastors can use a side hustle, according to one evangelical blogger.
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Some pastors offer their churches as shelter to those who fear deportation.
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Don't be afraid to preach about it, Mr. Graham told the pastors.
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Much of Church's Awake 88 effort in Ohio specifically targeted Latino pastors.
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She gets hospital tests, and the names of doctors, pastors and herbalists.
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Suburban megachurch attendance fell, because the pastors had disgraced themselves under Trump.
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This marriage of pastors and parties is not a Latin American invention.
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Several local pastors spoke and the vigil drew people of many ages.
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The pastors involved with Trump's evangelical advisory board describe him, though, as very inquisitive about faith and more thoughtful on religion than he might appear in public and conservative pastors have continued to support him through various firestorms.
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But beyond the sheen of cool telegraphed on church Instagram feeds, this new generation of pastors — several of whom, like Wilkerson and Smith, are themselves the sons of prominent pastors — preach a gospel that steers clear of partisan politics.
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" The head of Cruz's 99 Pastors group, Pastor Joseph Brown, sent an email to over 150 pastors across Iowa on Saturday encouraging them to "prepare to challenge and equip your people for the Iowa Caucus taking place on Monday.
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However, some pastors named in the letter reaffirmed their support of Moore. Rev.
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They had sent scores of emails to pastors and to church planting groups.
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Representatives from Capitol Ministries visited a pastors' conference in St. Petersburg in October.
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Major congregations live-stream their services and upload their pastors' sermons onto YouTube.
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Mega-church pastors such as Mensa Otabil are revered, according to opinion surveys.
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He often looks uneasy when pastors lay their hands on him and pray.
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By the way, two African-American pastors met with President Trump this week.
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That's just the group pastors such as Washington want to reach and help.
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He also does something some pastors dread -- he watches videos of his sermons.
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"There is no excuse to silence churches and to silence pastors," he said.
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The churches' pastors said each of the buildings were over 100 years old.
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Popes, pastors, and churches may change their opinions, but God's Word never changes.
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Before taking the stage, Sanders met privately with local elected officials and pastors.
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As late as October, 40 percent of Protestant pastors were still undecided voters.
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Fortunately, our politicians do not get to choose our police, pastors, or pediatricians.
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Nothing. Most cowardly priests and pastors remained silent, refusing to take a stand.
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The pastors who responded know something about the power of the spoken word.
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The pastors at the church during the time the abuse occurred, the Rev.
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"Churches are very ready for women to be associate pastors," Folliard told me.
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He's heard of other pastors sleeping in cars outside their churches, he said.
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It is repeated by pastors and chaplains in hospitals and on death beds.
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Congregants have resorted to doing patchwork repairs themselves; pastors solicit donations in emergencies.
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The hundreds of Methodist pastors began to leave, wondering how to move forward.
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Cover: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Hispanic pastors at the Roosevelt Room of the White House January 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. President Trump held a roundtable with Hispanic pastors to discuss border security and economy.
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Within the crowds, groups of Christian pastors lead hymn-singing and offer spiritual guidance.
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The role of the church and pastors, the massive deference you give to elders.
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He's active on social media; he uses virtual technology to help train future pastors.
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They say they come from all kinds of backgrounds, including doctors, lawyers, and pastors.
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At times there were more pastors helping him program it than coders and engineers.
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He courted and successfully nabbed key Iowa endorsements and engaged conservative activists and pastors.
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Few other government-approved pastors in Jinhua have opposed the campaign of cross removals.
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He's been surrounded by pastors for months now ... notably Carl Lentz and Rich Wilkerson.
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Her parents are evangelical Christian pastors, and she was raised with decidedly conservative values.
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Do you belong to a church that says women cannot be priests or pastors?
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These three pastors were particularly inventive in the way they approached their preaching task.
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Many Protestant denominations similarly forbid women from taking up roles as pastors or preachers.
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Pastors talk about the Sunday when the congregation faces them like a firing squad.
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But the pastors say the real payoff will be in the followers they reach.
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This includes pastors (especially this one), teachers, coaches and, by all means, presidential candidates.
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Looking forward to my meeting at 2:00 P.M. with wonderful Inner City Pastors!
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That is left to pastors and pundits who only have the power of persuasion.
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But this legacy is being rejected by a new generation of Southern Baptist pastors.
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Al Sharpton, has also been reaching out to black pastors and the faith community.
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The goal of Church United is therefore to politicize pastors in the right direction.
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The Christian nationalist turnout machine relies heavily on an extensive network of conservative pastors.
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The Family Research Council offers pastors comprehensive tool kits, including a 36-page ivotevalues.
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Alongside the mobilization of pastors, Christian nationalist organizations are pursuing a data-driven strategy.
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As protesters left, pastors wished them well and reminded everyone to take their umbrellas.
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For help, some students turn instead to drama or band teachers, pastors and parents.
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She also has built broad grassroots support among students, pastors, and small business owners.
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Pastors are fixing smuggling routes for arrested protesters whose passports have been taken away.
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Justo Gonzalez II, one of two pastors who washed the immigrants' feet, told HuffPost.
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Kevin Georgas, a co-pastor of Jubilee Baptist Church, sits in the pastors' office.
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Like so many pastors, Thornton found himself burning out slowly, then all at once.
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Nineteen of the 29 pastors who responded told AL.com they were still supporting Moore.
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For many pastors, these are questions front and center in their minds this week.
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Trump promised in November that a group of 100 black pastors would be endorsing him at a meeting at Trump Tower in New York, but some of those pastors said they knew nothing about the request to endorse him and openly criticized him.
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The Family Research Council, a conservative anti-abortion group, started a three-year, $22 million plan several months ago to engage pastors and voters though the 2020 election, and has eight mobilization events planned with pastors in midterm battleground states this summer.
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Protestant pastors, at least, are well aware of the pulpit-pew divide in their churches.
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Prosecuting refuge-providing pastors "could end up being more damaging than anything else," Fresco said.
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I see some of these incredible pastors and ministers and people that speak so brilliantly.
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Traditionally, bishops and Baptists pastors have been allowed to operate in isolation, free from oversight.
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A Bloomberg aide said the black pastors requested on their own to issue the statement.
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"You are not bureaucrats, nor politicians, you are pastors," he said, addressing bishops in Bogota.
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Wealthy pastors are seen as blessed and their entertaining, informal services cater to popular taste.
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Among the dead, 20 pastors who were attending a meeting in the country&aposs capital.
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Plus some black pastors are facing backlash for simply meeting with President Trump this week.
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Some Evangelical pastors, who are becoming increasingly popular in Brazil, have adopted overtly homophobic rhetoric.
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He has since been excommunicated, one of Bratton's co-pastors, Aaron Wright, told the Chronicle.
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Healing prayers from pastors with a collection plate are mainly taken as expressions of faith.
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The pastors who made the Baylor list had plenty of pulpit chops to call on.
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Bolsonaro regularly attends prayer sessions held by evangelical pastors in their congressional offices in Brasilia.
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She grew up in Japanese-American churches in Oregon, where her parents served as pastors.
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Now, pastors from neighboring communities are teaming up to help organize First Baptist's upcoming service.
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But inside the church some people think we want to replace human pastors with machines.
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Then, last week, a man walked into his pastors' home and confessed to the crime.
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As of Friday afternoon, it had been signed by more than 60 Southern Baptist pastors.
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On March 11, he asked churches to cancel worship services, drawing some criticism from pastors.
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Pastors, theologians and sociologists were talking of how black worshipers were leaving white-majority churches.
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Initially, the nonstop services were run by a core group of around a dozen pastors.
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Instead, he said their pastors were wrong for serving in churches controlled by the government.
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Seminaries like Southeastern play a crucial role in shaping the mind-set of future pastors.
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The son of Lutheran pastors, Rezo has millions of followers on YouTube, Instagram and Twitter.
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"We pastors know that a lot of times things turn out like this," he said.
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Some megachurch pastors, for instance, complain that they are being inundated with film-related requests.
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EST: President Trump hosts a dinner with the National Prayer Breakfast host committee and pastors.
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But these church ladies and their pastors dish up a special kind of moral quackery.
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In a kind nod to their visitors, the female pastors translate the service into English.
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In many ways, he was the prototype of black celebrity pastors long before the Rev.
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My parents are pastors, and we have been Pentecostal-evangelical for a very long time.
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At least on the issue of sexuality, pastors and priests have found new common ground.
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Countless big-name pastors caught with their hands in the collection plate or on a parishioner.
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Many locals, including florists and pastors, have already called Hayes to offer their services for free.
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In 2011 Forbes magazine estimated the combined worth of five Nigerian pastors as at least $200m.
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Erasure poem from the letter 53 Alabama pastors wrote and signed in support of Roy Moore.
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Chances are high they are the ones whose pastors and priests encourage them to do so.
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Meanwhile, immigration agents are detaining and deporting moms and dads of American kids, pastors and DREAMers.
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Indeed Francis is empowering divorced Catholics and their pastors to have serious, mature conversations about communion.
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Pastors hold services in churches overlooking the waters, while Tibetan lamas perform rituals in hilltop monasteries.
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There are other times when even the best pastors can hardly speak before their own congregations.
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Progressive pastors and priests campaigned against the military dictators who ruled the country in past decades.
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Local pastors David and Frankie Smith set up a makeshift voter registration drive outside the store.
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As pastors, we seek to comfort the young and the old, the healthy and the infirm.
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Ojea Quintana urged North Korea to release the six South Korean prisoners, who include three pastors.
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This is why Mae finds herself studying the stars, talking to pastors, and fleeing from cultists.
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For instance, many churches in South Africa still forbid pastors from officiating non-heterosexual wedding ceremonies.
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There was a congressman, pastors, a rabbi, a representative of the Muslim community, a union organizer.
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Mr. Rodriguez swung into high gear, mobilizing Hispanic pastors to visit their legislators at the Capitol.
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Mr. Greear urged pastors to put aside their reputations and focus on doing what was right.
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Pastors and members of St. Andrew's Church gathered Tuesday to express support for Hilda Ramirez's sanctuary.
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Some pastors tell parishioners that the gamblers helping to save the town are committing a sin.
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Mr. Domen's contribution to the red wall turns on an evergreen insight: Pastors can drive votes.
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Latino pastors and churches are targeted with messages about abortion, "religious freedom" and economic self-sufficiency.
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She has dialed up officials in Texas, pastors in South Carolina and labor leaders in Michigan.
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He is pulling together pastors in Brooklyn to preach in support of the shelters next month.
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The new denomination, which does not ordain LGBTQ pastors or allow same-sex marriages, is small.
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In January, authorities also said a Christian pastors was being investigated for suspicion of embezzling funds.
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"We will be held accountable for what we allow to happen," he told the assembled pastors.
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They have watched warily as Francis has installed pastors in his image while sidelining conservative leaders.
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The National Baptist Convention won't come out and officially say women cannot be ordained as pastors.
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"He comes from a line of something like four or five generations of pastors," Petry said.
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Justin and Hailey have been photographed with both pastors and their families multiple times this summer.
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Intolerant inclusion, which is the classic Latin American populist formula, is being reinvented by evangelical pastors.
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Chile's presidential election in 2017 provided a perfect example of this union of pastors and party.
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" As of Wednesday morning, some 2,700 Christian leaders had signed the appeal, including small-town pastors and pastors of large city churches; lay leaders; presidents of theological seminaries; and faculty of divinity schools and of university religious studies departments -- some of them more evangelical, some more "mainline.
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This began with the Black Robe Regiment of pastors who also served as military leaders during the American Revolution and was forged during the civil rights movement of the 1960s when pastors like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., spoke out forcefully from the pulpit on political matters.
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While Mr. Loera had supported Mr. Graham's trip to Fresno, pastors like Mr. Binion had been so opposed to it that a representative from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association flew out to meet with them this year in an attempt to address their concerns, the pastors said.
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"I organized pastors, told them we're going to march on a Saturday into public housing," Matthews says.
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Across America, white pastors struggled with how to address and respond to Charlottesville before their white congregations.
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The protesters called for the creation of a database identifying pastors accused of sexual abuse and misconduct.
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Many pastors from the independent churches it already recognizes give sermons already at the Church of England.
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Pastors lead prayers at the start of each session, and volunteers teach the children about sexual abstinence.
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Several African-American pastors have announced plans to boycott his annual breakfast in honor of the Rev.
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He urged pastors to search for alternatives, but Catholic parents quickly defended the wholesomeness of Girl Scouts.
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"Until 1954, America's pastors had the right to speak freely they exercised that right responsibly," Stanley said.
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But he still held the event and highlighted the black pastors who he said were supporting him.
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Ivanka Trump: She tweets her support of LGBTQ Pride Month and casually takes selfies with homophobic pastors.
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Many members will have brought guests, and pastors want to be sure to preach a compelling sermon.
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Most pastors—especially in the South—do not want to hear my theories on creationism versus evolution.
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Pastors now lobbying Sen Richard Pan's staff—he represents the Sacramento neighborhood where #StephonClark was killed. pic.twitter.
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A pair of controversial Christian evangelical leaders, Pastors John Hagee and Robert Jeffress, will be on hand.
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It's a feeling black pastors don't want to feel, a feeling they fight against but feel nevertheless.
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Pastors, police chiefs, and business owners are filling the void – and their continued leadership will require courage.
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"Heat and Light" also involves two pastors, but that's as close as it comes to being preachy.
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Already he has called to repeal the Johnson Amendment, a law that prohibits pastors from endorsing politicians.
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He was unlike anyone I had dated before — those guys were typically youth pastors or fellow missionaries.
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In a savvy move, he targeted pastors, likely realizing the massive influence they exerted over their congregations.
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"Last thing you want to do is turn off a whole demographic," he said of today's pastors.
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Superstar pastors like Bill Hybels and Andy Savage have been forced to resign over allegations of misconduct.
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On Thursday, pastors and activists gathered outside the city's water treatment plant to call for more help.
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Past elections have shown a variety of write-in recipients: friends, neighbors, pastors, an imprisoned former governor.
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Mr. Bolsonaro made the comments Thursday night at a meeting with evangelical pastors in Rio de Janeiro.
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"There are pastors of every color and creed on the steps with us today," Mr. Domen said.
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The pastors and church leaders considered themselves "custodians of the culture," and for many years they were.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avoiding difficult topics also makes pastors more likely to use the curriculum.
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"You need to tell your folks that they need to be voting," he said to the pastors.
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We found that many local pastors did not believe women who came forward with stories of abuse.
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The remaining pastors reminded the congregants that they are at church to follow God, not an individual.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — both young, unknown pastors at the time — organized the Montgomery bus boycott.
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But a closer look shows that women are the real action "sheroes," some pastors and scholars say.
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" 'Pastors are just people' In her post, Juli Wilson said that "suicide doesn't get the last word.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avoiding difficult topics also makes pastors more likely to use the curriculum.
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A group of nearly 60 progressive pastors has denounced Moore, calling him "extremist" and unfit for office.
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Others on Instagram defended them, arguing that the account aimed to sow discord and pillory the pastors.
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Update: this article has been updated to reflect the fact that the pastors have now been identified
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Long was a national figure and one of the most innovative and polarizing pastors in the contemporary church.
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"Their pastors have told them they're making the right choice by becoming husband and wife," says the source.
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The youth pastors in his church were kind and he admired their dedication to kids who were struggling.
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They suggested getting employees, landlords, suppliers, bankers, neighbors, state and local politicians, and even pastors to write letters.
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But it seems Oliver has gotten under the skin of at least a couple of the pastors themselves.
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The proposed Georgia law would have ensured that pastors could not be forced to perform same-sex marriages.
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The pastors who have become savvy with technology have tried to use it, putting information and sermons online.
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She was rewarded with an endorsement from Flint Mayor Karen Weaver and several black pastors in the region.
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Allen Overton, a member of the Flint-area Concerned Pastors for Social Action group and a Clinton supporter.
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He helped pass resolutions banning women as pastors and taught that women should be submissive to their husbands.
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Instead, pastors spoke out as they believed their faith intersected with something that was happening in an election.
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But he has slowly started to do so, especially in Iowa, earning the backing of some prominent pastors.
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The younger generation of pastors seem to get this issue more and are willing to talk about it.
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" Sam Rohrer, president of the America Pastors Network, calls the Russian president "the moral leader of the world.
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Chinese authorities have issued warnings to Christian pastors, explaining the threat posed to their congregations by the sect.
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The pastors of Pentecostal mega-churches promise their congregations God-sent fortunes in return for a 10% tithe.
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One time we got to perform for visitors at an appreciation event for the pastors who worked inside.
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I was saddened when Trump implicitly attacked Mormons in his address to evangelical pastors in Orlando August 11.
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And now its acolytes will spread a false gospel: Arm the teachers, arm the pastors, arm the toddlers.
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" Other evangelical pastors and teachers also praised the action as "biblical" and likened it to a "fulfilled prophecy.
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He did not say which pastors would attend and the White House did not immediately provide further details.
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Pastors from around the area are organizing it, and Frank Pomeroy, First Baptist's pastor, is scheduled to speak.
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While the pastors have stopped short of calling congregants to arms, they say little to discourage it, either.
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Sunday's service, organized by pastors from around the area, will be held at the community center next door.
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C.) and Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), both former pastors, to lead the search effort to find a replacement.
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Instead, she notified pastors at a nearby church who then went to the police, according to NewsOK. Sgt.
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"We believe the Bible to be 'the' Word of God," one of Pruitt's pastors, Nick Garland, told me.
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He and his fellow pastors made their way to the high school after getting word of the shooting.
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Bieber's presence in the pews has ensured Hillsong and its media-friendly pastors a place in the tabloids.
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Pastors say it's that magical preaching moment when the "spirit is moving" and their words sync with souls.
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The city's mayor, four fellow city council members, as well as powerful pastors and unions are backing Jones.
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In the front row, which was reserved for pastors of the church, I saw a sea of women.
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Pastors today who want to start a ministry for those 40 and under follow a well-traveled path.
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The pastors voted to create a centralized committee that would evaluate allegations against churches accused of mishandling abuse.
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Glotfelty and Stearns, backed by the county's leading businessmen and Protestant pastors, mounted a law and order crusade.
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Those allegations, reported in The New York Times, prompted one of the church's two lead pastors, the Rev.
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Yet the gathering was a homegoing, and pastors urged the congregation to see the moment as a celebration.
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But I've seen everyone from actors, professional athletes, rappers, cops, pastors and regular guys secretly dating trans women.
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Some pastors decided to not attend the vice president's speech in protest, and said they would pray instead.
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Around the turn of the century, celebrity pastors with huge followings began framing adoption as a moral imperative.
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For years, pastors have openly defied the law on "Pulpit Freedom Sunday," organized by the Alliance Defending Freedom.
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IRS guidelines require that pastors refrain from campaigning for candidates through their office—that is, from the pulpit.
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On February 260, 2000, Ephesus had three co-pastors, 24 active members, and a solidifying plan for rebirth.
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The groups, Patriot Movement AZ and AZ Patriots, allegedly harassed pastors because of their work in immigrant communities.
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Christian celebrities endorsed it, from football players and Olympic athletes to pastors and well-known teachers of apologetics.
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Presidents and pastors mourned his death, calling the evangelist one of this country's most successful and beloved preachers.
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It taught me that the genre was more than just "thug" music, as pastors had admonished during church.
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Both pastors agree that putting the problem of suffering into a theological context can be a long process.
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" The other side: Following the group of about 20 pastors' closed-door meeting with Trump Monday, Coalition of African American Pastors president Bill Owens defended the president when asked if the president is racist, saying he finds that hard to believe "considering the things he's done for the black community.
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Many movies are also propelled by a symbiotic relationship with Nigeria's Pentecostal Christianity, which pastors have exported throughout Africa.
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Since then, many other pastors, among them many bishops and cardinals, carried on and deepened the discussion, including recently.
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Hope for plaintiffs A member of the group of pastors that brought the lawsuit said more must be done.
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Regularly, I meet and train pastors and church leaders from all over the country through my leadership platform, ChurchBOOM .
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They also want pastors and seminarians to receive training on how to respond to sexual abuse and domestic violence.
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For example, a 2011 Lifeway survey found that 41 percent of Protestant pastors did not believe in global warming.
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My main focus has been getting into churches throughout the state and talking to the pastors and their congregations.
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I'm with Street Pastors now, working with churches in Bristol city center to offer care late on Saturday nights.
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In most cases, those leaders were bishops, roughly the LDS equivalent of pastors who serve on a volunteer basis.
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Many of the new generation of pastors tell their flocks that God does not want them to be poor.
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He has enlisted the help of local pastors, who now warn of the dangers of traffickers from their pulpits.
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And most Americans -- including evangelicals -- don't want their pastors to endorse candidates for public office, according to multiple surveys.
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Durr also said he would meet with a coalition of Murfreesboro pastors to review recommendations after that internal review.
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"We're construction workers and pastors and school teachers and students," says Nick Martin, an organizer with Lancaster Against Pipelines.
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When he was just a boy, his mother connected Al with two pastors, Bishop F.D. Washington and the Rev.
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But priests and pastors face possible accusations of proselytizing, a crime in Morocco, simply by having Moroccans attend Mass.
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Furthermore, and I have this from pastors who met with Trump for many hours: He genuinely listens to them.
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In the meantime, Mr. Moore's wife has posted a letter signed by 50 pastors, written during the primary season.
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She served as Mr. Hybels's gatekeeper, fielding calls from pastors across the country eager to tap him for advice.
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Despite their differences over Mr. Trump, the pastors have worked together to try to build unity across their city.
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As pastors, you need to — I'm not going to say 'challenge them' — you need to tell them to vote.
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Al Sharpton, as conservative African American pastors defended him from claims that he's racist following a meeting with him.
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An even bolder Screen Engine/ASI initiative involves a 1,220-member "influencer" service made up of movie-attuned pastors.
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When the pastors informed him that they could lose their tax-exempt status, Mr. Trump declared the law unfair.
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A 2014 survey of pastors found that most church leaders significantly underestimated the level of abuse in their congregations.
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Another contradiction: Two American evangelical pastors who took part in the opening ceremony have made inflammatory comments about Jews.
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"Remember, in the New Testament it's the church that has accountability over the members—not the pastors," he said.
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Not everyone living in a distressed neighborhood is associated with gang members, parole officers, employers, social workers, or pastors.
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She and her husband moved to Brooklyn and started working as pastors at a small church in East Flatbush.
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Smith has worked with vocal performers of all kinds, including rappers, on-air reporters, pastors, public speakers, and more.
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The ADF's "Pulpit Freedom Movement" is an attempt to protest the amendment by having pastors preach specifically political sermons.
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The bill, if it becomes law, will let pastors opt out of marrying same-sex couples without legal consequences.
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But when it comes to dealing with this grief and anger, pastors still feel compelled to offer some answers.
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The church that Mr. Brown pastors also has some sort of attached rehab and recovery program (hence the methadone).
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Jeffress, one of the first prominent evangelical pastors to back Trump for president, said his God talk was apolitical.
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At 22002 it becomes hushed, and the first of a series of pastors stands and begs the blessings of the Lord—for the nation, for the government, for protection from North Korean nuclear weapons, for the young and the old, the sick and the weak, and for Pastors Lee Younghoon and Cho Yonggi.
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Its recent cases include defending a Texas judge who was sued over inviting pastors to give invocations in his court.
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She criticized powerhouse pastors like John Piper and Mark Driscoll, earning plenty of animus from conservative evangelicals along the way.
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It was an open letter condemning the refugee ban, with signatures of more than 600 pastors from all 50 states.
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Like Biden, both have hired faith coordinators to connect with local pastors, who act as campaign conduits to their congregations.
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They added that they were very impressed by all the pastors, volunteers, and others who took part in this kerkasiel.
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"While your clients vary from pastors to nuns to geologists, all of us benefit from your good work," Sessions said.
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He noted the tradition within Methodism of ordaining lay pastors — anyone who felt called, he said, could be a preacher.
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"He's spent most of his time off with his church friends and pastors to work on himself," said the source.
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In recent months, Shillady has enlisted a team, including a group of young women pastors, to help write the devotions.
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The bloodshed has reinvigorated those pastors' calls for their fellow clergy to preach about political issues, rather than just salvation.
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"We have taken a very strong position," he said of his decision to allow pastors to weigh in on politics.
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"He's spent most of his time off with his church friends and pastors to work on himself," says the source.
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Both children of pastors, Ben and Julianna wed in Iowa in December 2005 and have a son and two daughters.
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In 2016, a group of pastors sued the state seeking to exclude clergy from the law and were granted exemption.
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A team of pastors prayed with Manning, reflected on scripture and sang songs of praise before the trial, he said.
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The pastors preached Kingdom Now sermons about taking dominion over the earth and ceding what was lost in the Garden.
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The trans pastors said they were impressed by Cuba's progressiveness in some respects, for example providing state-financed sex reassignment.
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Jones said he thinks it's indeed likely that celebs like Bieber are keeping their pastors clothed in the latest streetwear.
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What is left to separate these pastors from Bieber or Pratt or any number of Instagram models wearing gifted Gucci?
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In a Saturday press release, Marco Rubio's campaign touted a list of 26 Iowa pastors who were endorsing the senator.
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We don't just take cues about politics from our pastors and priests; we take cues about religion from our politicians.
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The local government set up speakers and held rallies where mariachi bands played, a clown performed and pastors offered prayers.
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Justin's got strong ties to the church -- he does a lot of work with one of its pastors, Carl Lentz.
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The congregation is mostly white, but not entirely; the pastors at two of the six satellite campuses are black men.
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Jelani Lewis, one of the two black campus pastors, knew this was creating unease among many black members of Gateway.
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While I was working on this story, I corresponded with numerous Christian leaders — prominent pastors, radio hosts, authors, organizational leaders.
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"As Christian pastors and leaders, we are deeply concerned by the recently announced moratorium on refugee resettlement," the letter read.
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We see these salacious headlines about pastors that are cruising around with $1,000 pairs of tennis shoes and private jets.
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Recently, with the help of friends — pastors, theologians, authors, fellow believers — I've tried to deepen my understanding on that subject.
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Since the #MeToo movement emerged last year, evangelical churches have been grappling with allegations of sexual abuse by their pastors.
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Now he faces a complaint from within his own church, sent this week to his pastors in Alabama and Virginia.
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Watchmen on the Wall, a group organized by the Family Research Council, brings pastors together in Washington and other places.
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Sermons from local pastors and posts on social media from sports figures and movie stars are already having an effect.
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How does the church hope to influence the wider culture when pastors are ignored by many of its own flock?
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The denomination's annual meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday in Phoenix attracted about 5,000 delegates and pastors from across the country.
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Her parents are Pentecostal pastors, and Ms. Perry, who was born Katheryn Hudson, was raised in a strict religious tradition.
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Goateed and bald, but still trim and fit at 19793, Campolo was the envy of his generation of evangelical pastors.
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Last November, while he was still Oklahoma's attorney general, he spoke at a pastors' briefing organized by FRC's ministry arm.
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At church services, pastors urged their congregations to fill their lives with love, not hate — a message echoed by Gov.
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Ben Carson is at a pastors roundtable in Columbia, S.C., on Saturday and tours the S.C. Military Museum that day.
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But it will take peers, parents, teachers, neighbors, pastors, bosses and co-workers who believe they can make a difference.
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"Some victims as young as 3 were molested or raped inside pastors' studies and Sunday school classrooms," The Chronicle reported.
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Advisers from the study group on sexual abuse will develop a 12-lesson curriculum to train pastors on the topic.
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Churches that choose not to hire gay and lesbian pastors or to conduct same-sex weddings would not be punished.
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"When the members wanted action, that's when you got action out of the pastors," he adds, pointing to King's legacy.
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A new wave of charismatic pastors known as "Prophets" attract huge crowds by telling followers that God will make them prosper.
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The vice president came and gave a well-received message that underscored the unique and essential role of pastors in America.
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From the choir to the pastors, the LGBT community has been serving the black church since the African-American church existed.
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"As Christian pastors and leaders, we are deeply concerned by the recently announced moratorium on refugee resettlement," the evangelicals' advertisement says.
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Local Presbyterian and Methodist pastors have contacted him to say they would be happy to officiate same-sex ceremonies, Forrester said.
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In the lawsuit the pastors and churches are asking for an injunction against what they call the illegal actions and damages.
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That bridge burned over the past few days, however, because of a sermon given by one of the church's lead pastors.
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Melissa Mays, Nayyirah Shariff, and the Concerned Pastors for Social Action who helped organize activists into the Coalition for Clean Water.
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He joked that repealing an IRS rule that prohibits pastors from endorsing political candidates might be his only route to heaven.
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Elzie says BLM has reached out to well-known black pastors who won't join because they want to be in charge.
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During that meeting, the source said, the pastors asked Trump to refer to blacks as African-Americans to avoid sounding insensitive.
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These pastors — all straight white men — have become religious versions of influencers, with their hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram.
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She is a worship leader and minister, and she sings in the choir at her church, where her parents are pastors.
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The pressure has pushed several dozen pastors and their families to flee to the United States in recent years, ChinaAid says.
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After the dramatic vote, pastors gathered in a nearby room to debrief, where they acknowledged that they narrowly dodged a catastrophe.
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Once a week, dozens of pastors join a conference call to lift Cruz, his campaign and the nation up in prayer.
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Scalise talked to the clergyman at a reception last week with the pastors affected that was attended by Vice President Pence.
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Here is Deckman on the idea of "religious liberty": Fearful that the government will make our pastors perform same-sex marriage?
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He recently attended a meeting of evangelical pastors in Florida, and hosted an hourslong gathering of Christian conservatives late in June.
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Sessions' United Methodist pastors in Alabama and Virginia, where he now lives, did not immediately respond for a request for comment.
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After ordination, he worked in the Bronx but left in 223, complaining of unscrupulous pastors who objected to his playing chess.
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And a 2016 poll found that the overwhelming majority of Americans oppose churches or pastors endorsing candidates in their official capacities.
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Despite their comments about Jewish people, the two pastors are among the leading pro-Israel voices in the evangelical Christian world.
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Privately, Mr. Cuomo's team has been blitzing the cellphones of politically connected African-American pastors and elected officials in recent days.
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Most successful megachurch pastors don't see themselves as that, and they actually think that guys like that are worth taking down.
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Johnnie Green Jr., the head of Mobilizing Preachers and Communities, a group of mostly black pastors who opposed the fur ban.
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Johnnie Green Jr., the pastor of Mount Neboh Baptist Church in Harlem, who leads the group of pastors opposing the ban.
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During Johnson's tenure, Nate Snyder says, his office received calls from evangelical pastors worried about far-right recruitment in their congregations.
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The pastors who run the camps and their followers believe that prayer and fasting are the best treatment for mental problems.
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We're grateful for the over 150 pastors across the state of Iowa who joined our team to energize people of faith.
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"As I read those prayer requests, I could not help but let my tears flow," one of the church's pastors wrote.
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As Mr. Graham's own grandson and other pastors prey on women in Christian circles, there's a comforting clarity about the rule.
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Daniel Schultz, who pastors a United Church of Christ congregation in Wisconsin, wrote in a piece on the Religion Dispatches website.
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Here at the Tribe, everyone seemed to be equal in their participation; even the pastors could easily be mistaken for congregants.
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And we talk with two pastors, Gus Booth and Jamie Washam, about the case for and against politics from the pulpit.
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Per the report, Dotson is said to have spoken out against the legalization of gay marriage, transgender pastors, abortion, and more.
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Pastors often want to work within the system to effect change, while many activists try to disturb and upend the system.
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Pastors washed the feet of immigrants on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to call attention to immigration issues in the United States.
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They formed a personal bond with pastors, who were usually compatriots, and were urged to feel a personal relationship with God.
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The fact that the pastors themselves had made difficult journeys across several countries made them credible as purveyors of "spiritual power".
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Every overt act is an opportunity for observers to reach out to law enforcement, teachers, counselors, human resources, pastors and parents.
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These pastors are all friendly with each other and participate in each other's conferences, and they each have devoted celebrity followers.
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POOSH includes a column from her pastors, and the addition was inspired by her own interest in creating conversations about spirituality.
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The yearbook image being scrutinized in Virginia prompted Wayne Lomax, a minister who pastors a nondenominational church in Miami Gardens, Fla.
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The US Pastors Council wants the courts to exempt Christian employers from discrimination protections in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Evangelical pastors embrace varied ideologies, but when it comes to gender and sexuality, their values are typically conservative, patriarchal and homophobic.
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These parties are realizing that going along with pastors generates voter excitement, even if only among churchgoers, and excitement equals power.
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Some ministries have been criticized for buying mansions for pastors or in one case, spending $65 million on a Gulfstream jet.
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Street pastors said she'd been seen in the town in January of 215, and at night at the beginning of February.
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But despite this, pastors and religious leaders have to contend with the fact that people who have suffered still want answers.
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Overcrowded state churches run as many as 5 services a day and their pastors' wages are paid by the government, says Johnson.
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I want to thank all the local leaders, legislators, mayors, pastors, organizers, volunteers who have worked their heart out for this campaign.
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HuffPo reported about a conversation between Black and local pastors at a meeting last week, in which Black made those wild remarks.
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Since Friday, women have come out with more allegations against pastors, but have also taken the movement beyond the church, she said.
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And on Friday, several African-American pastors were expected to try to block people from attending the mayor's breakfast honoring the Rev.
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But there were some messages that the pastors would say to us that [made me think], Wow, this is actually really cool.
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One of the pastors who initiated the translation said the group recognised that homosexuality is an inborn trait, not a "curable" one.
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The problem at the heart of the western church is illustrated in this: our pastors reject Eugene Peterson while affirming Donald Trump.
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Back in Sulawesi, some conservationists want Minahasan pastors to thunder from the pulpit against bushmeat—even though their bellies might argue otherwise.
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Since 2008, thousands of pastors have played chicken with the IRS by endorsing political candidates as part of a "Pulpit Freedom" protest.
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Weeping relatives attended a memorial service for the missing held near the vessel, where Catholic, Protestant pastors and Buddhist monks offered prayers.
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This coalition of business leaders, venture capitalists, non-profit leaders and pastors aims to convert one million people over the next decade.
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Many Zhejiang pastors and congregants openly resisted the campaign, resulting in the detention, prosecution, or conviction of several church leaders and activists.
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Some now get their inspiration from Google, not the Holy Spirit, plagiarizing other pastors' sermons and passing them off as their own.
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Black made the remarks during a listening session with local pastors last week, according to audio obtained by HuffPost and posted Tuesday.
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On our first visit to the site, we met with one city representative and two community leaders, pastors of the local church.
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Robert Jefress, one of Mr Trump's favourite pastors, stated that God had given the president authority to "take out" North Korea's leader.
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Dr. Barrett-Fox said the Baptist emphasis on church autonomy — recognizing no central authority — allowed pastors to interpret the Bible for themselves.
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As a video of Mr. Jimenez's remarks was shared widely online, a group of more than 700 Sacramento area pastors denounced them.
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Most often, church trials in recent years have been used for pastors who break church rules by officiating at same-sex weddings.
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"They don't have a lot of money, but they are always willing to give," said Mike Clements, who pastors a nearby church.
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Archbishop Kurtz said he thought Pope Francis' message to pastors was "don't forget to see people as unique," not simply as categories.
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We're not sure if that's something people bring to it because there have been lots of pastors on television who turn creepy.
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Mr. Trump described the meeting as "amazing," but some of the pastors were demure about whether they planned to make an endorsement.
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Now, a new Instagram account is reigniting the debate about materialism in evangelical churches and putting many popular pastors on the defensive.
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"We continue to be pastors, and an authentic pastor of the Catholic Church will never side with the executioners," said Monsignor Báez.
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In the letter, the pope added that he expected "good candidates" for bishop to be Catholic pastors, and not mere government apparatchiks.
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These men are reasonable, practical and compassionate pastors who shrink from the intolerance and bigotry voiced by too many of their flock.
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But many prominent Christian pastors and leaders I've spoken with told me that they are quietly changing their minds on the matter.
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And he staunchly opposed female pastors, expelling one couple from his church because the wife had studied theology and wanted to preach.
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Three pastors accused of exploiting and abusing teenage girls were indicted this week on federal child sex trafficking charges in Toledo, Ohio.
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Both investigations cleared Mr. Hybels, though the church's two lead pastors have since issued public apologies, saying that they believe the women.
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Ms. Barr's tweet likening a black former aide to President Barack Obama to an ape was undeniably racist, the three pastors agreed.
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"I don't care what Roseanne says," he said, seated with the other pastors on blue chairs in the foyer of his church.
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Imam Abdullah Antepli of Duke University said he had hesitated to march alongside gay pastors until he realized their struggles were linked.
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"Someone like Jamal Bryant, because he has such a prodigious network online, becomes a pipeline to other youth pastors," said the Rev.
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It was fitting that evangelical pastors John Hagee and Robert Jeffress participated in the ceremony marking the U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem.
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The assembled pastors are instructed to figure out which members of their congregation are politically active and well-connected with other members.
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Pastors at nearby churches undertook security measures, including sleeping in their churches or the parking lots to ward off would-be arsons.
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One of the city's most prominent black pastors said she couldn't have won without the strong support of Chicago's black church community.
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Simmons, the PBS consultant, says a new generation of black churchgoers and pastors aren't preoccupied with issues of gender and sexual orientation.
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Christian women have been the victims of gang rape, pastors have been hanged, and even groups of Christmas carolers have been detained.
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The Catholic Church is still consumed by a clergy abuse crisis that has ravaged the flock and sown distrust of its pastors.
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Graham would hold a secret meeting of prominent pastors in August 22000 in Montreux, Switzerland, to plan how to mobilize against Kennedy.
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The leaders of Jubilee — Thornton and his two co-pastors, Heather Folliard and Kevin Georgas — are determined not to let that happen.
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The Boston Globe interviewed nearly 10 evangelical pastors, all of whom said the allegations did not change their support for the candidate.
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"Some church pastors say you can pray for anything, but I tried to control myself but there was no change," he said.
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"Pastors have to understand that we are dealing with a lethal virus and we must avoid contagion among the faithful," he said.
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Addressing sexual abuse will also be a primary theme of the annual convention of thousands of Southern Baptist pastors in Birmingham, Ala.
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Pastors gathered around Trump on the stage for an opening prayer, while much of the audience remained standing with their hands aloft.
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He went into a rabbit hole, finding other prominent pastors and worship musicians in expensive sneakers, prompting him to start the account.
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Still, for some pastors, turning the other cheek only goes so far, especially as the fear of another attack becomes more concrete.
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Veach's family was very involved in ministry growing up: his father ran a church, and his siblings went on to become pastors, too.
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But such rhetoric is no longer as marketable -- and, at the end of the biblical day, pastors want to make tax-free money.
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This is what I realized: It's easy to talk about unscrupulous pastors who get rich off of unsuspecting congregations and have absolute power.
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At the event, he told a large gathering of 10,000 pastors that the Trump White House would continue to defend their religion's priorities.
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At the event, he told a large gathering of 10,003 pastors that the Trump White House would continue to defend their religions priorities.
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While two of the pastors are prosperity preachers -- a first for a presidential inauguration -- none have disparaged gays or other religions like Jeffress.
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Circuit-riding preachers, megachurch pastors, millionaire televangelists who traded on their audiences' willingness to suspend disbelief: she sketches her characters in gory technicolour.
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Mark Pangel, who pastors at the family's church, took to Facebook asking for prayers for the family after learning that Davorius had died.
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Oliver even founded his own church to highlight the absurdity of these churches getting tax-exempt status while their pastors rake in fortunes.
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Maite Quesada, a member of the Cuban Council of Churches, said Saturday that 20 evangelical pastors were among those killed in the crash.
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The man himself showed some contrition in prison, asking Panamanians for forgiveness (he found Jesus in 1990, thanks to two pastors from Texas).
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FLOYD We're going to encourage our pastors to swap pulpits, get them in uncomfortable or at least different environments than they're used to.
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It has "strike force" camps in Greenville for out-of-state troops and has enlisted 300 pastors in all 46 South Carolina counties.
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Raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Kole (bornColeridge Gardner Tillman) spent a lot of time in the Apostolic church because his parents were both pastors.
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One of Nigeria's best known pastors, David Oyedepo, whose church has been attended by the country's presidents, says that Christians must be rich.
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Some of these pastors are themselves the focus of buzz and reality TV, such as Wilkerson's short-lived Oxygen series Rich in Faith.
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The federal complaint was filed today by the NRDC, the ACLU of Michigan, Concerned Pastors for Social Action, and Flint resident Melissa Mays.
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Two of his co-pastors called the sheriff's office, and the third reported the complaint to the Texas Department of Family Protective Services.
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Bethany&aposs recruiting in Haiti focuses on a network of Protestant churches where pastors extol foster-parenting as a Christian act of love.
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If a facility was likely, Yoder told Mennonite pastors, maybe it would be best to have it where clergy could minister to detainees.
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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with inner city pastors in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug.
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The Federation of Cibao Pastors is asking the Dominican government to declare the ambassador persona non grata and expel him from the country.
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He has pastors backing him in every county in the heavily religious state, and strong support with libertarian-leaning voters, another big bloc.
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Because of those criticisms, a high-profile attempt by the Trump campaign to garner support from black pastors did not end as planned.
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Pastors and priests were often the first phone call when a family had to solve the "tragedy" of an unmarried girl falling pregnant.
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Though every church leader must balance how best to keep their congregation safe while maintaining an inviting atmosphere, black pastors have unique concerns.
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Black pastors would be more effective if they lived among their parishioners and expanded their churches' outreach to young males on the streets.
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Party officials censor and add state propaganda to pastors' sermons, Bob Fu, who runs the US rights group ChinaAid, told France24 last year.
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Some religious groups, for instance, worry they won't be able to make their pastors and rabbis employees, according to The New York Times.
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In the evening, he'll dine at the White House with pastors and the host committee for the National Prayer Breakfast scheduled on Thursday.
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Everyone is preparing for the day when the field is filled with students, construction workers, doctors, veterans, indigenous leaders, teachers, pastors, mothers, grandmothers.
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A witness recorded this video: Paul Chitwood, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, was meeting with other pastors in Benton on Tuesday.
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On Monday, the influential evangelical magazine Christianity Today published an editorial asking pastors and church leaders to consider the consequences of their actions.
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Major figures in Trump's unofficial evangelical advisory cabinet, such as pastors Robert Jeffress and Paula White, have frequently, publicly leaned into this idea.
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It was one of the longest religious ceremonies ever recorded, lasting for more than three months and involving nearly 1,000 pastors and priests.
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The pastors have given protection to the Tamrazyan family; the family has given them a cause to show the power of their faith.
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Proposed fur ban: A bill to ban fur sales has polarized New Yorkers, pitting animal rights activists against black pastors and Hasidic leaders.
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The celebrity pastors, Mamadou and Hortense Karambiri, and their health were the talk of the mango tree-shaded drinking spots that dot Ouagadougou.
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While influencer-pastors do get cozy with celebrities like the Kardashians and Justin Bieber, there's something tragically corny about gospel-themed streetwear merch.
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The local organizing committee for the revival included three Liberty students, a Native American minister, and a few black pastors and church leaders.
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Pastors who protested the closures have been arrested, and human rights advocates have accused Mr. Kagame of violating religious rights and free expression.
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In the 1990s one of his predecessors, Kim Young-sam, installed a chapel in the presidential palace and welcomed a stream of pastors.
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On a late morning in October 2018, I attended a Pastors' Briefing sponsored by Watchmen on the Wall, an affiliate of the FRC.
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Because pastors partnered together, were preaching and praying, and they mobilized and used their influence to get people to turn out and vote.
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To defend himself against accusations of racism, Mr. Trump invited a group of what he called "Inner City Pastors" to the White House.
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Many are pastors, police officers or both, like Pastor Sargento Isidório, who is famous for claims to cure drug addicts with a clubbing.
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The pastors "played successfully with ambivalence" as they delivered messages that were designed to restore self-understanding and self-respect, Mr Cazarin says.
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And he was one of the first pastors to inspire King to merge Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent resistance with the civil rights movement.
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But his departure points to another problem in the evangelical community: (Usually male) individual megachurch pastors have a large influence over their flock.
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The US Pastors Council says Christian employers are allowed to discriminate against LGBTQ workers based on protections in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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We're told church pastors did not single out Floyd as a bad influence, but Justin decided on his own he needed some distance.
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"We are very pleased that the court has entered an order that protects the churches, their volunteers, pastors and the people that they are assisting, who are lawfully in this country, from the harassment of AZ Patriots, Jennifer Harrison, Michael Pavlock, Eduardo Jaime and Jeremy Bronaugh," Larry J. Wulkan, a lawyer representing the pastors and churches suing, said in a statement.
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The pastors and churches also specifically named the founder of Patriot Movement AZ, Lesa Antone, and another leader of the group, Russell "RJ" Jaffe.
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Just last week, two pastors interrupted Sessions' speech on religious liberty at a Boston event to protest his hardline views on immigration and refugees.
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Multiple Christian pastors, including one prominent reverend who supports President Trump, have criticized Sessions over the practice of dividing families in recent weeks. Sen.
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A survey by Lifeway Research found that, among Protestant pastors, Mr Trump's lead was much smaller than previous Republican candidates'; a plurality were undecided.
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In addition to gay and lesbian clergy, the letter was also signed by intersex and transgender pastors, who are not technically excluded from ministry.
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" Growing up in a religious household with both of her parents working as pastors, Perry says she "prayed the gay away at Jesus camps.
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They were not well-known names—though some are pastors of large churches—mainly because they are not active in politics or the media.
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" Perry went on to detail her religious upbringing (both of her parents are pastors) and how she "prayed the gay away at Jesus camps.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified at least 70 practitioners across the U.S., not including pastors and clergy who work within religious communities.
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Often known as "America's pastor," Graham, whose career spanned more than 70 years, was among the most prominent evangelical speakers and pastors in America.
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Her parents are both pastors and Scott said playing piano and leading worship at their church helped shape her as an independent music artist.
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He reportedly will also speak on Thursday to hundreds of evangelical pastors in Orlando at a private event sponsored by the American Renewal Project.
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Gibson screened Passion for pastors and congregations, creating a grassroots momentum that paid off massively when the movie made it to shopping-mall cineplexes.
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Earlier this year, he drew criticism for meeting with President Donald Trump, along with other pastors, to discuss prison reform, the Greenville News reported.
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It will prove to be ... enormously helpful to thousands of pastors and leaders hoping to give wise, Biblical, and gracious guidance to their people.
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A prayer circle of church-camp counselors and pastors enfolded her and attempted to perform an exorcism, which she said only intensified her terror.
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Billboards for famous pastors dot the highways, an annual redemption camp attracts millions of people, and some preachers are more visible than political leaders.
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In the afternoon, Trump meets with inner-city pastors in the Cabinet Room, and hosts a group of GOP senators in the Oval Office.
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Two days after the vote, Mr. Santos took his negotiators to meet with a large group of evangelical Christian pastors to discuss their concerns.
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Ms. May and Ms. Merkel are both the daughters of pastors, and are political leaders known to be stubborn, competent and down to earth.
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The driving force of the black community in Tulsa remains its pastors and religious leaders, who saw no value in taking to the streets.
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Last week, dozens of progressive Alabama pastors signed a letter declaring Moore unfit for office and arguing that his behavior has violated Christian principles.
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"From what I understand about this level of pastors, they're in tight with some of the most powerful people in the world," he noted.
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It's certainly possible to ask whether a church that relies as much on Instagram branding and photogenic pastors as Hillsong is a good thing.
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I am comforted by support I have received from Christian pastors and lay leaders and from Republican officeholders horrified by Mr. Charamut's poor judgment.
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The evangelist Franklin Graham's California rally last week in Fresno also exposed the underlying racial tension in the evangelical community, the three pastors said.
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In a discussion with The New York Times, three pastors in the heavily evangelical Central Valley talked about race, President Trump and double standards.
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The president decided to hold the rally at the church, gathering 70 Christian pastors to "talk" to and "influence" Trump, the Miami Herald reported.
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It listed seven detained U.S. citizens or permanent residents, including two pastors, a businessman and two Americans who ran an English-language teaching company.
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"Ultimately, we compiled information on 380 credibly accused officials in Southern Baptist churches, including pastors, deacons, Sunday school teachers and volunteers," the newspapers said.
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Kirbyjon Caldwell, a native of Houston who is one of the city's most influential pastors, said the widespread nature of the destruction was unfathomable.
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And a 2017 survey found that just under half of pastors had no policy in place on how to respond to victims of abuse.
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Big Tobacco responded, not surprisingly, by reportedly working with black pastors in New York City and elected officials in Harlem to fight the ban.
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The provision is narrow in scope and does not prevent churches from engaging in voter registration drives or pastors from speaking about political issues.
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Associate pastors flogged fund-raising campaigns during Sunday services, working to convert the considerable wealth of the church's tithing population into ostentatious new displays.
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The pastors work together in a church coalition called the Northwest Faith-Based Partnership, so Moore contacted Randall right after she heard the ad.
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Both the pastors and their stylish, photogenic wives post frequently about the joys of married life for their hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers.
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Still, given threat of the outbreak, pastors should use their common sense to avoid crowded assemblies, said Hidekazu Takayama, an evangelical preacher and congressman.
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Several anti-immigration groups in Arizona have recently filmed videos and posted them on Facebook encouraging people to contact pastors and churches helping asylum seekers.
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She worries that threats like these might deter other pastors and people around the country from offering sanctuary to immigrants when the need is greatest.
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Late Tuesday, the pastors had all signed onto the statement defending Bloomberg against attacks from Trump who in a deleted tweet branded Bloomberg as racist.
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The nondenominational church we attended had its share of social conservatives, but the youth group pastors were pretty firm about steering away from outright endorsements.
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Pastors at nearby churches undertook numerous security measures, including sleeping in their churches or in the church parking lots to ward off would-be arsons.
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But its most straight-faced and important storylines are generally about pastors, veterans, farmers, and other positive rural American archetypes protecting their way of life.
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In the developing world, especially Africa and Latin America, the Quakers have come to look more like other Christian denominations, with pastors and set services.
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One pastor supporting Mr. Cruz, Darran Whiting of Liberty Baptist Church in Marion, said he had made more than 150 phone calls to other pastors.
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Williams, who is also a lay leader at his church, South Shore United Methodist, has won praise from many law enforcement professionals, pastors and politicians.
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In one Facebook post, Kayla Moore displayed a letter of support for her husband claiming to have been signed by more than 50 Alabama pastors.
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He's working with Dr. Ben Carson, boxing promoter Don King, a host of pastors and more to help bring people of color into the GOP.
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A lot of these Republican candidates are a degree away from very radical Christian pastors who are saying the most disgusting things about LGBT individuals.
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He says he knows of one new church where the pastor told his congregation he wouldn't write sermons but preach those delivered by great pastors.
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The Democratic presidential candidate joined imams, rabbis and pastors at the Islamic Center of Southern California for the event, his campaign said in a release.
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Since the birth of our nation, pastors and churches have been at the forefront of shaping public debate and voters' choices regarding their public servants.
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It fired off a letter on behalf of 4,000 pastors, though there were no specific signatories aside from Michael Farris, the leader of the group.
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Researchers, politicians and pastors alike boil down the decline of black neighborhoods on cultural factors like black women's marital practices, sagging pants and absent fathers.
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At a White House meeting with Hispanic pastors after announcing the temporary agreement, Trump said he was optimistic a more permanent deal could be reached.
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Carl says, like all pastors, he draws a salary and what he chooses to buy with his money is his business -- within reason, of course.
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If this is right, then the alienation of younger evangelical writers from Trumpism's court pastors could indeed be a signifier of a coming evangelical crackup.
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Mr. Trump handed it to one of the Secret Service agents in his security detail, and told the pastors he was eager to read it.
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But these are often academic arguments — confined to scholars or pastors at conferences — rather than ones that apply to the average evangelical Christian's lived experience.
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More than 550 pastors from about 20 denominations have rotated through Bethel Church, a nonstop service all in the name of protecting one vulnerable family.
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In recent interviews, elected officials, pastors, political strategists and voters all said they sensed far less ferocity around an issue that once electrified Alabama politics.
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Groups that help people "leave homosexuality" are usually nonprofit ministries, and the counseling is facilitated by pastors and lay leaders who are not trained professionals.
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At the end of a gangway, one of the church's pastors stood at the ship's entrance, blessing each person as he or she stepped aboard.
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Roderick Dwayne Belin, a senior A.M.E. Church leader, stood before a gathering of more than 1,393 pastors in a drafty Marriott ballroom in Naperville, Ill.
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But I was right and persisted, and with brave parents, pastors, journalists and scientists demanded answers until this continuing public health disaster was finally acknowledged.
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There has been a rise in the number of pastors who claim they can perform "miracle cures" and eradicate poverty in Africa in recent years.
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Out of this meeting emerged a partnership between the conservative pastors and Weyrich's "team of Washington operatives," including direct mail and marketing innovator Richard Viguerie.
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Yet what happened to Mary Magdalene shows that Easter can also be seen as something else -- a #MeToo moment, some pastors and biblical scholars say.
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Some pastors and bishops in the United States are already talking about leaving the denomination and possibly creating a new alliance for gay-friendly churches.
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At some churches, clergy members have come out as gay or lesbian from the pulpit, while other pastors have preached that homosexuality is a sin.
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Rubio issued a list of pastors supporting his campaign in Iowa on Saturday, part of a last-minute appeal to the state's large evangelical population.
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By Thursday afternoon, more than 70 signatories had joined, including public housing tenant leaders, the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter, pastors, as well as businesses in Queens.
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However, after an investigation, authorities arrested Weathers, who also pastors the Logos Baptist Church in Detroit where he reportedly has been a member for 20 years.
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The alternatives are so-called house churches which operate illegally but can offer a more personal ministry, with pastors on first-name terms with their congregation.
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And in Lebanon I met pastors who had every reason to hate the former enemies swarming their country – Syrian refugees – but instead they responded with compassion.
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At the top end, these pastors emulate what they say God wants for the faithful: As multimillionaires, they own mansions and private jets, yachts and Rolexes.
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She had attended church that morning, the daughter of not one but two pastors, and she reached for the third chapter in the book of Micah.
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Unfortunately, one of the main tasks for the pastors based at the church is to conduct funerals for the people who have died on the continent.
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Although ADF advocates for more traditional social issues like marriage and abortion, the group is not endorsing a candidate or encouraging pastors to address certain issues.
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I was relying on the interpretations of pastors and evangelical leaders like James Dobson, whose readings happened to line up nicely with the Republican Party platform.
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The speeches were peppered with biblical passages and references to God, and two American pastors with a history of derogatory remarks about other faiths delivered blessings.
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But we, unfortunately, do have a lot of pastors who don't think it happens, and prefer to embrace a false narrative that makes them more comfortable.
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Whatever their style, Pentecostal pastors are culturally closer to their flock than are the learned clerics of the Catholic or Lutheran churches; and they are numerous.
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Mixing racism homophobia, they put a "marriage amendment" on the primary ballot in 2012 and targeted pastors in a campaign to enlist religion for their cause.
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But he is "frustrated" by pastors who endorse politicians and "froth" flocks up about issues like tax rates, about which the Bible has little to say.
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Wade, allowing pastors to politick from the pulpit while maintaining their tax-exempt status, sending federal money to religious schools, and legalizing taxpayer-funded employment discrimination.
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With this exhortation, Francis calls for the church and its pastors to be more responsive and merciful in trying to engage these members of his flock.
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So, hundreds of pastors and volunteers have been holding a 24/7 service -- clocking in at more than 800 hours so far -- to shield the family.
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The church, the pastors, presented themselves as the people who are going to save Ugandan parents and their children from being "recruited" by the gay community.
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Furthermore, he said, we're seeing an unprecedented relationship between the president and the evangelical religious establishment, in which pastors take "marching orders" from Trump's own discourse.
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Jay Brown, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, said the L.G.B.T. advocacy group was appalled by the incendiary comments of Mr. Jimenez and other pastors.
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The lawsuit, brought in conjunction with the churches and pastors, alleges the groups accused the church leaders of bringing in immigrants for sex and human trafficking.
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Black pastors and community leaders said they would boycott Emanuel's annual Martin Luther King prayer breakfast on Friday to protest the city's handling of police shootings.
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"The allegations in the complaint, the people that delivered the three prayers addressed in the complaint, are all ordained pastors and they're all prayers," Hunger said.
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Like Republican lawmakers or evangelical pastors, Burnett is beholden to a faction of the public that, in many instances, thinks the President can do no wrong.
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She was incensed after being left off the roster of pastors at the service earlier this week that was attended by the region's top elected officials.
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But for many worshippers and pastors, such as Jin, accepting the oversight and ultimate authority of the Communist Party would be a betrayal of their faith.
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He told reporters he would not exclude anyone who divorces and remarries, and that he hoped pastors would use discretion when dealing with individual marital circumstances.
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Christian pastors in America who helped Trump during the campaign have been keeping Trump apprised of the real-world, on the ground concerns of Syrian Christians.
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But as the two pastors reached the outskirts of The Hague, Ms. van der Vaart said the marathon at Bethel shows that another Europe still exists.
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One individual who definitely gets it is Ralph Drollinger, the founder and president of Capitol Ministries and one of the most politically influential pastors in America.
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Ms. Beach remembers traveling to 27 countries representing Willow Creek and hearing pastors say hundreds of times that they owed their churches' success to Mr. Hybels.
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Mr. Lawrence said that could be done by having a conversation with the individuals behind the complaint and with Mr. Sessions, though pastors have wide flexibility.
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Paul still lived as a man within Orchard Group; Jonathan worked on establishing Forefront Brooklyn, with guidance and financial support from pastors at other conservative churches.
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Days after Mr. Crutcher's shooting, city officials released police videos first to the victim's family and later to more than 50 black leaders, pastors and officials.
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Progress has been made, Sloan said, because Trump has now "given a thumbs-up to sentencing reform" after meetings with governors, pastors and formerly incarcerated advocates.
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Mr. Bock and Grace Hill circulated film clips and sermon outlines to 22,13 pastors, some of whom preached its story of personal determination and racial conciliation.
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The idea is for pastors to create within their churches teams of congregants who will "advance Kingdom values in the public arena," according to the manual.
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Fifty years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, black pastors are issuing a call to action and using different methods to achieve common goals.
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Pastors at the meeting told The Post that the group discussed issues such as religious freedom, judicial nominees, criminal justice reform and the Affordable Care Act.
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King and other pastors thought Graham's approach was narrow, that unjust laws and institutions promoting racism had to be changed, not just people's hearts, Baldwin says.
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In Sanford, CRS staff additionally convened and facilitated a group of black and white pastors to reduce rumors and build bridges across racial and cultural divides.
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Particularly at smaller, modest churches like his, he said, pastors' families often divert their own money to fill the church's coffers, leaving little for retirement savings.
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Particularly in the age of Trump, conservative pastors weaponize God to support a president who is trying to cut Medicaid and school lunches for the poor.
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It's not a brand new problem for Trump — even he admitted he has "a tremendous problem in Utah" at a meeting with evangelical pastors in August.
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But she — like many pastors across the political and denominational spectrum — was challenged to question the extent of white and Christian complicity in allowing racism to flourish.
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As they traversed the country, Soto visited with church leaders to drum up interest and financial assistance from pastors to expand VR Church into a larger network.
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So every fiscal quarter, the pastors across Northview's seven campuses in Indiana -- averaging about 2100,21 people on a typical Sunday -- asks its congregations to donate a dollar.
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One by one, the pastors thanked God for "the judge" and his presence at the service, despite "all the fire he faces," as one pastor put it.
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The lion's den Soon after the Clintons arrived in Washington, they had dinner at the White House with a few pastors and their families, recalls the Rev.
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Washington (CNN)Pastors across the country are taking to their pulpits this Sunday to protest an Internal Revenue Service law that they say limits their religious freedom.
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Mr. Cruz first stirred Iowa crowds in March at a Pastors and Pews event, and later at a Christian home-schoolers convention and a Faith & Freedom forum.
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"Rubber Doll" sounds like something Katy Perry would have released if she was raised by two dominatrix's in Berlin rather than two Pentecostal pastors in Santa Barbara.
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The church, which Bieber, Gomez and Baldwin often frequent, is well-known for its relaxed, laid-back vibe, with pastors often dressed in jeans and leather jackets.
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"Williams has overwhelming support from pastors, and community activists like the idea of him being the superintendent," said Corey Brooks, pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago.
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A group of mostly young, Gen-X and Millennial pastors had mobilized through social media, and vowed to help him navigate convention rules to force a vote.
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It was not out of the norm to find pastors who led congregations on Sunday and held jobs as school teachers and administrators during the work week.
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He says he believed that if LGBT people got such protections, pastors wouldn't be allowed to preach against the "aberration" that "alternative lifestyles" were to church doctrine.
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In a February poll conducted by the National Association for Evangelicals, 89 percent of evangelical leaders said they don't think pastors should endorse politicians from the pulpit.
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Still, pastors such as the Reverend Washington in Conway don't want their churches to be the site of that rare event or be unprepared if it is.
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"The event I will be speaking at in Orlando is a gathering of local pastors and faith leaders," he said in a statement to the Orlando Sentinel.
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The GOP lawmaker made the comment during a listening session with local pastors last week while discussing several factors that she said contribute to increased gun violence.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council, American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan and Concerned Pastors for Social Action made the allegations in a filing in federal court.
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Under any other circumstances, black pastors, especially, would have presented a far greater resistance to the advance of the left's litmus tests that vilify faith-based perspectives.
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Jackson was accompanied by ministers from the group Concerned Pastors for Social Action; Judge Greg Mathis, a syndicated television personality; and Flint mother and activist Melissa Mays.
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They wonder if all Southern Baptist pastors believe it is acceptable to counsel an abused woman in the way that Dr. Patterson has done in the past.
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With the help of sympathetic Christian pastors, she began a public campaign last year asking the South Korean government to let her go back to the North.
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Reverend M. Barclay, who is ordained within the United Methodist Church, admits there's not a lot of work out there for gender non-binary trans queer pastors.
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But there remain a defiant few pastors and religious leaders who refuse to close their doors, accusing the government of overreach and imposing on their religious freedom.
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On balance, Republicans are seeking to conserve very little; instead they have become the courtiers and court pastors of a man who delights in tearing things down.
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" Since 2014, Mr. Domen has been leading Church United, a group he founded with the aim of "helping pastors transform California at the government and church level.
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Gregg Schoof is one of several outspoken evangelical pastors who have criticized the Rwandan government for allowing access to abortion and birth control, and for teaching evolution.
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"As a consequence of that, over the years, we developed a very true friendship, not just a political relationship, with many of the pastors," Mr. Bartlett said.
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"It doesn't always work the way Washington thinks it works," Mr. Moore said after he gathered with about two dozen pastors over Chick-fil-A and doughnuts.
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Almost a thousand people attended, many of them pastors, there to be "equipped," in church parlance, to return home and help churchgoers make sense of their lives.
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The exciting news is that scholars, activists and pastors from a range of religions are hard at work dismantling and replacing dated notions with vibrant new insights.
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"We ought to set aside this talk, this talk about institutional racism and institutional bias," Pence said Thursday at a roundtable of pastors in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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"It is not a civil rights issue," said Reverend Bill Owens, founder and president of the Coalition of African American Pastors, who represents 7,700 church leaders nationally.
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The next day, a group of left-wing activists, pastors, and attorneys held a press conference at Berkeley City Hall in an attempt to correct the narrative.
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"In 2008 and 2012, there were lots of Black churches we went after because pastors were endorsing [Barack] Obama from the pulpit," she said in an interview.
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For adults, there's pastoral care: Spanish-speaking pastors from some of the congregations Lutheran Social Services works with in the Phoenix area, who have volunteered their time.
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They said it would make it difficult for pastors to deal with Catholic couples who want to get married in unusual secular locations instead of a church.
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"The Johnson amendment has blocked our pastors and ministers and others from speaking their minds from their own pulpits," Trump said at the Values Voter Summit in September.
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The evangelicals' advertisement, which is slated to run in The Washington Post, is signed by 100 prominent evangelical pastors and authors, including some who rarely wade into politics.
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The pastors told AL.com that the letter was written and published in August — long before the allegations against Moore went public — and had been reposted without their permission.
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"I was not asked about this story or allegations," said Tijuanna Adetunji, one of the pastors whose name was attached to the letter, in an article on AL.com.
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At the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), the country's largest Pentecostal church, some pastors are allowing MMM promoters to pitch the scheme to members from the pulpit.
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However, with Cruz already campaigning alongside evangelical pastors throughout those Southern states, Rubio will need something more substantive than this TV ad to prove his Christian bona fides.
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Boxing promoter Don King said the N-word while introducing GOP nominee Donald Trump to black pastors during a campaign event at a church in Cleveland on Wednesday.
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Since then, however, Kay Warren has become an outspoken advocate for mental health care, encouraging pastors to educate themselves to recognize the warning signs of parishioners in need.
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"The Johnson Amendment has blocked our pastors and ministers and others from speaking their minds from their own pulpits," he said at the Values Voter Summit last month.
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Both his mother and father are Pentecostal pastors, which meant spending his formative years under the strict watchful eyes of what he calls a "very anti-gay" household.
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And they formed an alliance, the Clear the Air Coalition, that includes leaders of organizations funded by the power company, among them a group of African-American pastors.
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In Brazil the faithful seem tolerant of pastors who are light-fingered with their tithes; many see giving as a virtuous act, regardless of the money's ultimate destination.
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"We're having a tremendous problem in Utah," Trump told a conference room filled with evangelical pastors, blaming a "false narrative" that has been built up around his candidacy.
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The day before the event, the publisher, Abingdon Press, announced that it was withdrawing the book because it was filled with passages plagiarized from other pastors and sources.
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Axel Wicke, Bethel's pastor, said that more than 22019 different priests, pastors, deacons and elders of every denomination have traveled from around the country to host a service.
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"So you now have Baptist pastors in the South in essence taking their cues from the president of the United States ... and not from Biblical ideas," Fea said.
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Ms. Shinn could not bring herself to speak before the audience, fixing her gaze instead on her son's supine profile as pastors, poets, friends and relatives paid tribute.
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ALLEN OVERTON RHEA SUH New York Mr. Overton is a member of Concerned Pastors for Social Action, and Ms. Suh is president of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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He admits the optics ain't necessarily great when, say, a pastor tells his congregation he needs a private jet (true story) or when pastors wear shoes worth thousands.
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Both men are pictured on the Word of Faith Fellowship&aposs website under a section for pastors and ministers, though the church was not mentioned during the hearing.
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Everyone else in the show — other spies, assistants at the consulate, FBI agents, pastors — are in the same boat, at best middle management, answering to the big bosses.
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Of course, evangelical pastors have always influenced their flock to follow Jesus, and in recent years, have done so aggressively, through books, television, and livestreams (see: Joel Osteen).
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They started building relationships with power brokers in town, including developers, pastors, and politicians—people who had their own plans for sprucing up the area around the zoo.
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They tapped into the political networks of mayors in major cities like Houston and Memphis, who helped Mr. Bloomberg fill his rallies with prominent local politicians and pastors.
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Ms. Baranowski said that Mr. Hybels gradually groomed her for a sexual relationship, then molested her at his home, at his lake house and at a pastors' conference.
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And most recently at Trump's meeting on prison reform convened at his golf course in Bedminster last week and at his meeting with inner-city pastors before that.
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They were part of a group of 22 pastors who are in the District to protest a proposed increase in funding for detention and deportation and border militarization.
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And while a woman co-pastor is a big deal in a Baptist church, all three pastors are white and grew up middle-class, educated, cisgender, and straight.
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Still, other prominent leaders and pastors have endorsed Trump, including Richard Land, Jack Graham, and Robert Jeffress, who has made several TV appearances in defense of the candidate.
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These pastors have traded a suit and tie for a leather jacket and cool sneakers in order to create the kind of branding that resonates with younger churchgoers.
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Instead he says what keeps pastors of these churches up at night are problems that religious leaders around the world would recognize: materialism and the lures of secular society.
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Some pastors told her that some of their church members threatened to walk out of their churches if they ever prayed for Obama on a Sunday morning, Margolis said.
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"Our churches, pastors, and volunteers make many sacrifices to help these families, but the defendants force us to do so in fear," Schwartz said in an SPLC press release.
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But he was badly out-organized by Mr. Cruz, who relied on scores of church pastors and brought in hundreds of volunteers from as far as Idaho and Texas.
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Impoverished families are frequently duped into giving up their children by orphanage directors who hire so-called child-finders and local pastors who also seek out children, it said.
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In his remarks, Trump said that "pastors, priests and imams" were targeted by the Johnson amendment, and would be freer to engage in political activity under his executive order.
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PASTOR DARRELL SCOTT, NEW SPIRIT REVIVAL CENTER: He took a bold step, and I commend and applaud him and the other pastors, my other colleagues, for coming as well.
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They were even more surprised to hear from some pastors inside their network that they had been contacted directly by the NIH about working with the African American community.
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He helped to pass resolutions that ban women as pastors and declare the Bible is without error, as well as teaching that women should be submissive to their husbands.
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Fort Worth pastors said the killing was not an isolated incident and requested federal intervention to overhaul a police department they claim leads the country in officer-involved shootings.
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And he built his own network of evangelical pastors, recruiting one chief in each county and integrating them into a state leadership team that dwarfed other candidates' in size.
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Like several other pastors he has endorsed Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a hardliner who has wooed Iowans with Bible-infused oratory and promises to fight for religious Americans.
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A vigil for refugees at the Sydney office of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ended with police escorting a group of six pastors and a nun off the premises.
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Politicians, pastors and civil rights advocates called for Alvarez to resign, saying she only filed the murder charges because she was under pressure after the videos were made public.
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It was here that I experienced the most tense moment of my time in Honduras, as I moved between police, soldiers, gang members, forensic experts, hearse drivers and pastors.
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I wouldn't be one of those ministers or pastors who has a church and turns into Creflo Dollar and I'm spending the collection plate money on my private jet.
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Mr. Trump canceled the news conference for a private meeting instead, then called an impromptu news conference after the meeting, where none of the pastors offered a formal endorsement.
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While there are relatively few examples of pastors withholding holy communion from Catholic politicians who support abortion, the refusal that Biden experienced should not have come as a surprise.
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He said a group of pastors and other experts had studied the terms and found that the deal conflicted with the Bible because of its leniency on the rebels.
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In South Carolina, The Hill reported this week on Cruz's massive contingent of evangelical supporters, led by a group of 85033 pastors and faith leaders calling themselves Operation Gideon.
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And Mr. Trump's appearance at a meeting of black pastors in Ohio suffered when Don King, the boxing promoter, shifted from "Negro" to a racial epithet in his introduction.
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She grew up in rural Denmark, the eldest child of two Lutheran pastors, and, when I spoke to her recently, she talked about her enforcement powers in philosophical terms.
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In March, prosecutors charged two pastors with fraud for raising $25 million for their church — "The Church of the Healthy Self" — which they say was actually a Ponzi scheme.
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I've spent time with pastors and police, bookstore owners and bakers, local business people and mayors; breaking bread with a dentist, a high-school teacher, a vintner and veterinarian.
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American pastors, imams and rabbis have spent endless amounts of time trying to cater to millennials' tastes, or at least what they perceive to be millennials' tastes: Coffee bars.
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They are small business owners who could no longer afford to pay protection money, pastors who had organized their congregations against gangs, women and children forced into sexual slavery.
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Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, electricians, and even preachers and pastors have engaged in specialized education and practical training to prove themselves prepared, even by established standards, worthy of professional claim.
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Mr. Doyle, a machinist, heard about Samaritan Ministries at Grace Point Church in San Antonio, whose pastors and employees are members and whose congregants post about it on Facebook.
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In Pope Francis' long-awaited apostolic exhortation — "Amoris Laetitia," or "The Joy of Love" — he urges church leaders to serve as nurturing pastors, not as rigid enforcers of doctrine.
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A planned meeting with prominent pastors at Trump Tower in November, after a Black Lives Matter protester was kicked and punched at a Trump rally, became a media circus.
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The pastors said they wanted to make sure members of their communities were able to participate in the billion-dollar cannabis industry as growers and sellers, not just workers.
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Surprising reporters and pastors, Mr. Trump decided to pop in for a 15-minute stop at McLean Bible Church in Northern Virginia after a round of golf that afternoon.
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In one of the Texas cases, the US Pastors Council argued Christian employers are allowed to discriminate against LGBTQ workers based on protections in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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Governors and mayors, business owners, university presidents, philanthropists, pastors and nonprofit groups of all kinds have taken the initiative to mobilize, guide and protect those they lead and serve.
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Religious crackdown: One of China's best-known Protestant pastors and his wife have been charged with "inciting subversion," a serious political crime that can lead to years in prison.
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" At the same event, a businessman named Craig Huey, speaking through a translator, told the assembled pastors: "You need to be able to explain to your fellowship these issues.
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It needs to be said that countless evangelical churches and pastors treat women well and with respect, and many are helping women who have been sexually abused and assaulted.
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On Tuesday, open protest over Mr. Pence's participation broke out on the convention floor, when some pastors made several motions to prevent the vice president from addressing the group.
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The union has also forged close alliances with local black pastors and community leaders, whose mantra has been that the ability to form a union is a civil right.
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According to Hailey's father, Stephen Baldwin, the couple is still checking out a few venues, but plan to be surrounded by their pastors and church friends, Page Six reports.
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But in the meantime, pastors could feel freer to participate in coming elections without fear of being investigated and having their tax-exempt status revoked by the federal government.
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They too had spent the day setting up water filters and talking to church pastors, trying to find ways to bring supplies into areas now without many passable roads.
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Pastor Walrond, 47, must prove that she can adapt the lessons she learned in leading a congregation to attract and prepare a new generation of pastors and religious scholars.
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Pastor Walrond, 47, must prove that she can adapt the lessons she learned in leading a congregation to attract and prepare a new generation of pastors and religious scholars.
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"We've been working since our inception around 100% clean energy, working to mobilize and educate pastors and clergy about what's going on with the Environmental Protection Agency," said Carroll.
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"The Communist Party in China has arrested Christian pastors, banned the sale of Bible, demolished churches and imprisoned more than a million Uighurs in the Muslim population," he said.
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Significantly, the Court also stated explicitly that such prayers are permitted even if Christian pastors are overwhelmingly overrepresented among the people given the opportunity to deliver such a prayer.
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A great deal of history went up in flames: a bible used by pastors over the past 60 years, handwritten sermons, financial records and documents dating back to 1889.
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Some pastors and bishops in the U.S., where Methodists are the second-largest Protestant denomination, are already talking about leaving and possibly creating an alliance for gay-friendly churches.
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Some congregations have celebrated same-sex weddings and had gay, lesbian and transgender pastors, at times receiving church approval to do so even though it technically violated church policy.
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