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Many huddled into the pews, laid out in orderly rows.
We sat in the pews and listened to the building.
Guests walk through swinging doors and sit on church pews.
Assured salvation couldn't keep people in pews, it turned out.
Republican parents, for their part, felt comfortable in the pews.
Catholics should not keep on filling the pews every Sunday.
A devastated church with a leaky ceiling and absent pews.
Everyone in the pews rose to deliver a standing ovation.
When that happens, the pews will be blessed with truth.
Not just sitting in the pews, but actually doing things?
We worship in the pews with them on Sunday morning.
In the partially torched chapel, the wooden pews still face forward.
But these days, that&aposs not enough to fill the pews.
In place of pews, there are camp beds and comfy chairs.
Four thin pews had been crafted from mismatching planks of wood.
But most have resisted attempts to fill pews with digital worshippers.
The bodies of victims, many of them burned, among splintered pews.
You need to be in church, in the pews, every Sunday.
Those filling the wooden pews were one of the reasons why.
There are no longer any pews in the 600-seat auditorium.
The photographs are being suspended from wire cables between the pews.
They gathered in pews, beneath light raining through stained-glass windows.
A red-carpeted center aisle divided rows of cushioned wooden pews.
Science ____ Catholics should not keep on filling the pews every Sunday.
Funerals draw equal attention, with packed pews and Communion the norm.
There are 135 pews on the main floor and three balconies.
It wasn't time for mass, but the pews were nearly full.
But will the people in the pews heed their calls to action?
Pictures showed bodies on the ground and blood-spattered pews and statues.
Images and footage showed bloodied pews, broken glass, and plumes of smoke.
Likewise, politicizing religious issues was a powerful tool for filling church pews.
A white facade gave way, leaving the pews open to the street.
Inside, a few pews lay scattered, as though smashed with an axe.
Pictures posted to the Archdiocese of Campinas' Facebook page shows full pews.
Pews facing an altar traded for simple benches arranged in an oval.
They are sitting in our pews, or, sometimes, standing in our pulpits.
His wife, Amy, sat in the pews with two of their children.
They make no big deal of the visiting Jew in the pews.
On Sundays, when the pews filled with people, she mostly stayed upstairs.
Hamilton and fellow patriot John Jay both owned pews at Trinity Church.
But when the service started, the majority of the pews were empty.
It stormed and swooped through the audience pews before vanishing beyond the walls.
With it, some of the crowd noticeably withers with delight in the pews.
The type of progressive message Bell preaches doesn't normally pack the church pews.
From the back your columnist looked out on a canyon of empty pews.
At a recent Sunday Mass, only about 25 people were in the pews.
Mel had a perfect attendance record; Elvira let her nap in the pews.
The parties in the pews are taking pictures; they are on their cellphones.
On either side of the chapel, two pews are filled with robed monks.
The Monday mornings alone when loved ones have left and pews are empty.
Soft weeping from people seated in pews intensifies into a chorus of sobs.
They did share a sweet moment in the pews at Princess Eugenie's wedding, though!
On Wednesday, a maintenance worker was spotted cleaning the pews on the top balcony.
In this church, there are no stained glass windows, chandeliers or carved wooden pews.
And public comments from bishops also make their way to people in the pews.
A few children can be seen walking around and climbing around on the pews.
The sanctuary where the shooting occurred is small, with wooden pews and red carpeting.
And that's only if we make it past the wooden doors and creaky pews.
Several wooden pews were recast to build a handsome bar for alcohol-fueled banquets.
Bergling's father gave a short speech that brought many in the pews to tears.
About 90 guests lined the pews, some who had made the trip from India.
The walls had a fresh coat of white paint and the pews were gone.
The abandoned Catholic church is filled with bats, its pews chopped up for firewood.
Sherrena scanned its long wooden pews for a seat, waving at landlords she recognized.
I've been haunting the pews of the D.J. temple for most of my life.
It's not hard to imagine worshipers filing in alongside this tableau, settling into pews.
But the numbers are against them — especially if younger white evangelicals keep emptying the pews.
Many ministers sided with the owners, resulting in the loss of workers in their pews.
Some recognizable church elements remain and have a new life in the office, like pews.
Bush's family followed as scores of American and international leaders looked on from the pews.
The pews appeared almost filled to capacity in the 2,300-seat nave of the cathedral.
As you know, Trump said his hope is to pack the pews for Easter Sunday.
At one service, somber boys in crisp white shirts circled the pews with the sacrament.
The theater could fit up to 450 people on the old wooden pews, she said.
He fends them off and makes his way toward the altar, knocking over several pews.
There, in 1962, with rocket prototypes crowding the pews, India's space program was being born.
However, Catholics in the pews cover the spectrum of political thought, as do our bishops.
In the pews, some of his father's Special Forces comrades bent their heads and wept.
The pews were full, and sermons of affirmation and spiritual sustenance issued from the pulpits.
The trust between the church's hierarchy and the people in the pews has been destroyed.
So I scanned the pews each week looking for someone with an unadorned ring finger.
Russian Orthodox churches have no pews, she said, and her feet were beginning to hurt.
"The pews of the Catholic Church are emptying rapidly," said Mary Beth Appel, from Philadelphia.
As I took in everything, I sat down at the pews to pray and rest.
Since then, they've just about doubled, with 50 to 60 people filling the pews each week.
Those who sweep the pews or fix the organ presumably do not have to be devout.
Many pews had disintegrated into piles of splintered wood, covered in bodies and spattered with blood.
They replaced Poles, Czechs and Italians, filling pews in their brick churches and acquiring their businesses.
Pews in churches with European roots are emptying faster than those in other parts of Canada.
Other guests filled all the pews on the floor and rear balcony of the cavernous church.
He argued that there was a direct trickle-down effect from Trump's tweets to church pews.
The shots of Ben and Gary in the front pews, openly bawling, are a nice touch.
Some of them are at the church, where they may have to sleep in the pews.
Trump's "outreach" to minority communities is as empty as the pews in Great Faith Ministries International.
The creak of the wooden pews and the smell of hymnals summoned a rush of memory.
Today, carefully placed white marble squares represent the former pews and the 12 tribes of Israel.
Instead of reaching across the pews to shake hands, they greeted each other with gentle bows.
Some people might never come back to the pews, even after these restrictive measures are lifted.
Suddenly the doors open, and an entire squad of lawmen begin pulling politicians from the pews.
The first several rows of pews were packed with men and women draped in white robes.
He averages one a week, and many of the deceased were never regulars in his pews.
As the 250th anniversary of the church's consecration approaches, the pews are mostly empty on Sunday.
AT HIS PENTECOSTAL church in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, Bishop Never Muparutsa sighs at the empty pews.
One can imagine where the pews used to be — the area is now overgrown with plants.
The altar, pews, and painted ceilings of this abandoned church still remain, seemingly frozen in time.
But it's not the bank accounts that are empty in the Australian church; it's the pews.
And he sat in those pews for 20183 years, and now says Trump gives license to bigotry.
They would sleep on the pews in the church and on the stage in the social room.
It was Easter Day, the most important feast in the Christian calendar, and the pews were packed.
For those who grew up in pews on Sunday mornings in churches, this all sounds pretty radical.
She'd played at a church the night before, her guests sitting in pews beneath a yawning ceiling.
Boîte Not every bar needs 16-ingredient cocktails or furniture carved from reclaimed Roanoke Colony church pews.
The church had rustic wooden floors, handmade pews and a piano that was often missing an accompanist.
In Seville, paintings cover the church's walls, and the pews face an altar installed beneath a cupola.
As I sat in the pews next to my mother, I looked at this minister with suspicion.
But others who were once regulars in the pews and had also moved away did not return.
It remains to be seen whether Mr. Trump's executive order will find more support in the pews.
I interviewed several as we sat in the pews; each was wearing a GPS-tracking ankle monitor.
In the 20th century, a wave of Italian newcomers began to fill the pews of the downtown church.
Instead, it keeps us in the moment, seating us in one of the pews of the Baptist church.
They were the people she prayed and sang with in the pews and laughed with at church picnics.
Pictures from the site showed bodies on the ground, blood on the church pews and a destroyed roof.
It has visited unheated barns and calorie-rich Pizza Ranches, overstuffed church pews and saloons in unincorporated towns.
The chapel's floor was covered in debris from shattered windows, its wooden pews blasted apart, its pillars blackened.
A quiet faith Gorsuch's father was not conventionally religious, preferring the outdoors to church pews, family members say.
Bieber's presence in the pews has ensured Hillsong and its media-friendly pastors a place in the tabloids.
Not many souls, mind you; when he bids the congregation rise, a bare handful stand in the pews.
When it's time for his sermon, Pomeroy takes the stage behind a wooden podium that matches the pews.
The church I attended growing up in suburban Chicago had no crosses, no pews, no stained-glass windows.
" He added, "I don't want to have to sit next to someone carrying a gun in the pews.
Heavy wooden pews gleam with brass plaques bearing the names of Jewish families since scattered across the world.
I gave up, stopping in at a church and falling asleep on an air mattress behind the pews.
They sit in the pews and other locations around the church, giving the entire space a spooky atmosphere.
The roof was blown off and the church now has no walls, but the pews are still intact.
Photos from the blast sites showed broken pews in disarray, shattered glass, and statues flecked with ash and blood.
The first ad, titled "All the Good," opens with a scene of a church, empty pews filling the screen.
Mr Konisky's findings do not necessarily imply that Americans in the pews have simply ignored these high-level pronouncements.
The Trumps sat four rows from the front, with Secret Service agents in the pews front and behind them.
I remained in the pews, where another red priestess periodically swept through to whisper to one attendee or another.
From the pews, crickets: The Family Research Council has said nothing on social media or in a press release.
Now in Margate, they sit on scuffed wooden pews looking out of the museum windows at the North Sea.
They may watch megachurch broadcasts or join prayer circles on Facebook, but they largely avoid the pews on Sunday.
The congregation didn't mind though; they made their own music, tapping the pews and the floor as they sang.
The marriage of Republican politics to evangelical doctrine got voters out of the pews and into the voting booths.
The pews in the university chapel were uncushioned, and the bones in my butt rocked against the hard wood.
Service begins at 11 AM, but by 22008:2500 the only available pews are far out in the bleachers.
They exchange greetings and hugs in the caramel brown pews, or chat in the aisle until the service begins.
Only about 10 people were inside with him, and guards in masks patrolled the central naves and empty pews.
Churches pushed aside pews to make room for mattresses, and a public school gymnasium was converted to a dormitory.
Inside, the deep, rich mahogany pews called to mind the Fairfax County courtroom where I learned I'd do time.
Justin and Demi hit the pews Wednesday night at an L.A. church with Scooter, along with Justin's wife, Hailey.
Rank-and-file officers — a sea of blue uniforms — filled the pews of St. Patrick's, whose capacity is 2,200.
Weekly Masses have already started, using plastic office chairs in place of wooden pews in a still-undecorated hall.
As gunfire ensues, some parishioners are seen taking cover under their pews while others rush out of the sanctuary.
And where did that longing, that desire come from, if not from the desire, pulsing, sweating, in our pews?
The triage, medical, and dental checkup teams worked in the cavernous nave, with patients waiting quietly on the pews.
Hundreds of mourners filled the pews and extra rows of folding chairs and took up every inch of standing space.
They auctioned off hundreds of items including church pews, a director's chair bearing the name Alamo, and hundreds of jackets.
At Pippa Middleton's wedding, Prince William, Princess Kate and Prince Harry won't be the only royal representatives in the pews!
VIPs filled up the first 10 rows of pews, and included members of first families dating back to the Kennedys.
Curious eyes wander the pews, scoping out the well-groomed singles while hymns are sung and the sacrament is passed.
"Why are all of these killings happening?" he asked, pacing in front of hundreds of people packed into wooden pews.
The room held up to 700, and included wooden pews and intricate architecture and workmanship that is rarely found today.
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So this holiday weekend, I'll be among the multitudes who will sit in the pews, hoping another sermon takes flight.
At the church, he performed them casually, as if giving a relaxed lecture to the crowd, seated in the pews.
The few images available of the ceremony itself show the cathedral empty except for a few pews at the front.
And on Sunday, Trump seemed to recognize that the pews would not, in the end, be full in two weeks.
In the pews sat roughly a dozen worshipers, some of whom had come before, some there for the first time.
Images from the bombing sites showed bloodied and shattered pews and victims lying on the floor of houses of worship.
Giant carnivalesque luminaria lights twinkled in jewel tones over rows of pews in the "Purgatory" room; later, Primal Scream performed.
Despite the transit chaos and the late start, all the Holy Trinity pews were full, and the mood was buoyant.
"But the whole church is theirs," Fr. Barrios said, before the three children scrambled across the pews onto the pulpit.
We sit in the bleachers with them on Friday night and pray in the pews with them on Sunday morning.
We hung out in the pews on Sundays, but also in bars and each other's living rooms throughout the week.
In 2012, a local artist named Jakub Hadrava created 32 life-sized ghost statues to sit in the church's pews.
Church member Shane Keith told the newspaper he rushed here after the storm and found pews tossed around the hillside.
Built in 1934, the chapel has rows of shiny wooden pews, Art Deco stained-glass windows and a large organ.
Broken pews and damaged musical instruments were still strewn around church grounds on Thursday, with about a dozen police standing guard.
Supporters of Mr Trump, such as Stephen Bannon, also a Catholic, sneer that the bishops want bodies to fill the pews.
The children in the congregation were seated in the back pews and were the first people the shooter encountered, they added.
All the pews, carpets and church equipment had been removed, and the floors were still sticky from fresh coats of paint.
In the pews, the audience nodded along, showing their approval by muttering "Amen" and raising their hands up in the air.
They packed the pews on Sunday in Dallas at the Potter's House Church, bound by their grief for five fallen officers.
In a simple wooden church, pews were packed for a service that brought to a close three straight days of funerals.
And then one day the older sister stood in the pews and watched her baby sister get married to this man.
In 1991, SOA started charging the Pews monthly property-inspection fees without telling them, taking the money from the mortgage payments.
The pews were mostly empty, but I liked to go by myself, listen to the sermon and the hymns, then leave.
Her installation transforms two adjacent gallery spaces, one with 19th-century furniture and old-fashioned wallpaper and another with church pews.
But others say it also shows the influence of a childhood in the pews — and leaders need to reckon with that.
In October 2017, the pews were packed with people attending a special Mass for gay Catholics and their friends and families.
I took a seat on one of the white pews and tried to imagine the services that once took place here.
Pictures posted on social media showed blood and rubble as members of the congregation tended to wounded people strewn across pews.
Here we're also decorating with church pews and these amazing lights that you usually only see in the streets in Italy.
Just about every leading journalism outlet has a religion reporter who examines everything from theological debates to people in the pews.
Proof comes Friday nights at Flash Factory, a nightclub in Chelsea with a church theme, complete with pews and stained glass.
On Sunday, about 30 members sat in Bethel's pews, along with a Jewish woman who attended services to support the congregation.
Former churches have been reborn as mosques and refugee health centers, or found new congregants to fill pews and collection plates.
They sit solemnly in the pews, congregate at the altar, and stand at the doorways, as if to beckon you inside.
The exhibition necessarily becomes more creative in the sanctuary, where display cases filled with hand-painted plywood sculptures sit atop pews.
From the pews he seemed a study in contrasts, a warrior priest who found joy in duty and measured strength in gentleness.
"All of us in different ways have been led to question whether we belong," Mr. Buttigieg told the pews of black worshipers.
She's pals with stars such as Priyanka Chopra and Serena Williams, who would likely be in the pews for such an occasion.
Mass on Monday morning, about 100 parishioners sat in long wooden pews in the cathedral, rebuilt not far from its original site.
Hundreds of pilgrims waited to enter one recent day as Catholics said Mass near the Aedicule, blocking the entry with wooden pews.
One of the photos shows church pews lined with dozens of backpacks, donated by friends, colleagues and loved ones honoring her wish.
After we have a peek around the inside at the bema and pews, we follow her back out to the adjoining cemetery.
The church doors will be propped open and Lowman said he hopes congregants can make it to their pews without touching anything.
But today Jackson is preparing his congregation for a controversial figure to take a seat in the pews on Saturday: Donald Trump.
Images of the inside of the Jolo church showed several rows of wooden pews destroyed, with debris strewn across a blackened floor.
Classical music from a string ensemble echoed through the church's nave as a crowd made up mostly of women filled the pews.
Bedraggled parents with bedraggled children, in their arms and by their sides, filed into the sanctuary and occupied several rows of pews.
Mr. Bianco was gone, but more than two dozen members of the L.G.B.T. ministry he had started were there in the pews.
The association noted that donations would go to rebuilding and replacing what was destroyed, from pews to sound systems and musical instruments.
In tribute to Thompson, the bar combines rustic chic with artful dilapidation: a fireplace, repurposed church pews, walls that appear bullet-pocked.
A tentative bond takes shape amid the humble pews and reverberant call and response, as the Pentecostal worshipers echo the resounding ministering.
In the meetinghouse, she lived in an upstairs bedroom, exercised on a stationary bicycle and cooked in a kitchen by the pews.
The most positive signs in Africa are perhaps also the most basic for a church struggling to fill the pews and pulpits.
The church has removed the pews in the sanctuary allowing for "hyperuse," as Dr. Schaper put it, by a variety of groups.
As the discussion was taking place, Vimalaretnam walked inside the church, which he said already had around 500 people seated in the pews.
It's hard to overstate how tone deaf this request from the Vatican is in the context of growing Catholic anger in the pews.
And you see how incredibly intoxicating it is for the rubes in the pews -- just as it remains for millions of real Americans.
Hundreds of students waited in a line that stretched down the block to enter the hall and spilled out of the pews inside.
Beginning in the 248s, however, the ranks of Pentecostal and evangelical clergy, as well as the pews of their congregations, began to swell.
M.M. Mohomed, a Colombo shopkeeper, was searching for a missing employee amid the shattered and scorched pews and broken concrete of St. Anthony's.
But the teen was shot once, when he moved his leg to push a little girl under one of the pews, she said.
A balding man stands in between rows of steps or pews and stares at a 2D picture of a woman's nose and mouth.
It would help to show Catholics in the pews what a gay person is like and, incidentally, how gay people can live chastely.
The Pew Research Centre (whose research goes beyond pews) projects that Australia, France and the Netherlands will lose their Christian majorities by 2050.
Visitors from across the globe come to view the church's incredible architecture, listen to the choir, or pray in one of its pews.
There were 17 guests — all members of their immediate families — seated in two church pews set before an arbor draped in white roses.
Time after time, pews fill up with curious faces, with many older congregants wiping their eyes, thanking them for coming by the end.
The pews were a remnant of the building's former life: the chapel for a homeless shelter, with a few low rent units above.
The church has no pews—pine needles from the mountain forests form a carpet for kneeling parishioners—and no priest commanding the service.
They did not come close to filling the church, which could hold several hundred people with its rows of pews and horseshoe balcony.
At the time he said he hoped church pews would be full for Easter Sunday he never suggested that was an aspirational goal.
Today, guests will crowd into wooden pews as Mr. Manafort waits in a tiled holding room just off Judge Amy Berman Jackson's chambers.
As the service ended, Christian and Jewish clergy who had been sitting in the pews joined the rabbi on the bimah, or stage.
The 4-year-old, much as he might in the pews, drew with colored pencils: a rocket, a football, a brown-petaled flower.
She cooked, led a prayer group and went to church every Sunday, usually arriving early enough to snag one of the front pews.
Instead of filling pews, guests sat in straight back chairs on the church stage for an atmosphere that felt more conversational than formal.
The church, several hundred feet away along a footpath, was a cinder-block structure with a simple altar and a dozen wooden pews.
Shrapnel pockmarked religious icons and stone walls inside the church, where witnesses gave graphic accounts of bloodied bodies strewn across the broken pews.
Serving these people's health care needs could be done much more efficiently in actual hospitals instead of between the pews of a church.
At the chapel where the bombing took place, the floor was covered in debris from shattered windows, wooden pews blasted apart and pillars blackened.
US soldiers fill the pews of Notre Dame Cathedral during the GI memorial service for US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 22018, 20193.
But Justin Welby (who attended HTB before he was ordained) has staked his career as Archbishop of Canterbury on getting more bums on pews.
Some 52% of the punters in the pews say welfare spending is too high, compared with just 17% of the preachers in the pulpit.
Also among the crowd packing the Ryman's pews was a coterie of Combs' friends and family members, as well as his girlfriend, Nicole Hocking.
Even so, its 'Seats' division resumed like-for-like growth in the first quarter driven by a recovery in sales of business-class pews.
Then again, I'm an active churchgoer whose cultural ties to Catholicism (I'm third-generation Mexican-American) have kept him in the pews since birth.
"The world now demands a maturity of America that we may not be able to achieve," King told a packed audience in Riverside's pews.
Today, Chorley knows that plenty of people sit in pews weighed down by their own feelings of shame or pain -- not just about abortion.
We walked down that rich red carpet in the sanctuary, perched ourselves on those historic wooden pews and discussed life and loss and forgiveness.
What are we going to say to Latinos in the pews or the children of people who were deported, who end up staying here?
His girlfriend, Maria Arias, who is also expecting their daughter, sat next to Fernéndez's mother and grandmother in the pews, with their heads bowed.
Many churches and synagogues do not welcome animals, but this chapel has stained-glass windows and hand-carved wooden pews featuring images of dogs.
Standing in one of the pews, Johnson and his offspring tried their best to wave off the inquiring eyes, when his mobile phone rang.
As he struggles to regain his composure, the wildflower setting becomes church-quiet, the bikers and the Amish now silent congregants in outdoor pews.
Bush said he was emotional and was unable to look at his parents or wife in the pews out of concern he'd break down.
At the funeral, the people were amazed when Little St. Don stood up on one of the pews and began to speak unto them.
He would enter, cross himself and then walk the aisles of the church, bobbing his head and never stopping to sit in the pews.
I was in church listening to a visiting preacher give a sermon about godliness when he spotted two gay men sitting in the pews.
Visitors can enter the pews, with their floors grooved by decades of rocking motion by praying congregants, and examine their colorful hand-painted texture.
Moments later, he slips past the pews where women are sitting with their hair covered in veils of white lace, then detonates a bomb.
During the speech, a handful of attendees stood up from the pews, turned their backs, and remained that way until Bloomberg left the stage.
The chairs are a motif: they're the pews in Celie's church, and the seating at the juke joint that Harpo opens near Mister's house.
In Hampton, Latinos make up 51 percent of the elementary-school rosters and sit in the next pews over at the bilingual Easter Mass.
That morning I sat on the pews in the church where my grandfather preached with the welts on the backs of my legs stinging.
As cool winds whipped through the city's streets, more than 200 worshipers braved the dawn, packing the church's pews for a quietly joyful ceremony.
About 1,500 people packed the pews, aisles and overflow room of St. Ignatius of Loyola Parish, according to an estimate from Boston College police.
This warm sense of nostalgia flowed from the pews into the eulogies, where the late president was remembered by his son as a true optimist.
Around 250 worshippers packed the pews for a Good Friday mass at the Catholic church fortified with concrete blast walls, concertina wire and armed policemen.
They gathered in pews with parents to celebrate the life of Kieran, who had died along with more than 250 others in nine coordinated attacks.
He would walk in, cross himself and then pace the aisles of the church, bobbing his head without ever stopping to sit in the pews.
The pews were removed to make way for dozens of blond, bowl-cutted kids to run freely across what is now the school's gym floor.
She invites her audience to "change the fate of our country" and "take out the PRI" as her horrified family looks on from the pews.
If someone dies alone, without friends or family, the Woodward staff files into the pews, putting aside business to sing and pray for the deceased.
On "Pews," they echo Stereolab's krauty take on space age-pop, offering up hand percussion interlude, and dizzily tracing atypical synth melodies in the margins.
I've lost friends for pointing this out—friends who are white evangelical Christians I spent nearly two decades praying with in the same church pews.
There were no more Trumpian fantasies about reopening the country so that church pews could be filled with people on Easter Sunday on April 12.
Too often, the addicted person isn't seen as someone worthy of evidence-based medical care until people are sitting in the pews at their funeral.
To improvise examination tables, they borrow the wooden school desks and church pews, pad them with yoga mats and screen them with thin purple curtains.
Nearly half a century later, a fellow Jesuit, James Martin, rightly calls all who believe in mercy to embrace our L.G.B.T. community in the pews.
As most churchgoers took cover between the pews, Wilson pulled out a handgun, assumed a shooting stance and dropped the gunman with a single round.
The church has framed this concession as compassionate -- effectively saying the pews are still open to sinners, even if God really doesn't like the sin.
I keep on having to remind people that all this is going on at the leadership level of churches, and to some extent in the pews.
Its former occupants, his great-grandparents, are buried under a slab of tombs around the back, near a one-room church with a dozen dusty pews.
When the judge informed him he could be released, he smiled broadly, shimmying his shoulders, drawing a few laughs from the people in the court's pews.
He walks casually up to the doors of the church, pausing for a second before stepping inside, about five pews back from where Appuhamy was standing.
More than 100 activists sat in the pews of the Arch Street United Methodist Church for training that included mock arrests and de-escalation role-playing.
"America has a rich tradition of social change beginning in our pews and our pulpits," Trump said in front of an audience of religious leaders Thursday.
Dee Gordon, the player who hit a solo home run to begin the first Marlins game after Fernéndez's death, was also spotted crying in the pews.
Since kindergarten, he has prayed in La Lomita Chapel, a modest white stone sanctuary with a handful of wooden pews and flowers draped on the altar.
As the youngest of four children, my parents had long given up trying to wrangle us all into dress clothes and into the pews every week.
She was in the pews of Holt Street Baptist Church in December 18923, when Martin Luther King, Jr. called for a boycott of Montgomery's bus system.
It echoed off the hundreds of hard hats that were resting in laps, on pews and beside 16 roses on 16 empty seats at the altar.
These people did: Kanye West and Diesel's Nicola Formichetti, Vogue's Anna Wintour and W's Stefano Tonchi, Barneys' Dennis Freedman and Nordstrom's Jeffrey Kalinsky, packed into pews.
Pews fly in different directions as he enters the structure, the holy sanctuary transforming into a skate park replete with holographic kickers and digital quarter pipes.
As the trial unfolded, the wooden pews of the courtroom—crowded with journalists and lawyers—were regularly cleared out so that witnesses could offer private testimony.
This photo shows overgrown plants and crumbling pews one year after Jones led hundreds of followers to die by a mass suicide on the Jonestown property.
A regional newspaper, SunStar Cebu, posted images on Twitter of rescuers pulling a man from rubble and recovered bodies wrapped in cloth, laid on church pews.
Instead, on a recent Sunday his mourners streamed into an unadorned stone-colored chapel in a Stockholm cemetery, overflowing the pews and standing in the aisles.
Pews are blasted into a storm of splinters by gunfire, and the chaos mounts to demonstrate how ultimately overwhelmed the two leads are by the enemy.
" In 2015, in a column in The Washington Post, which called her "the most polarizing woman in evangelicalism," she urged: "Want millennials back in the pews?
Yet there we were, packed into the pews of an Upper East Side synagogue, crying as the newlyweds exchanged vows and smashed glasses under the huppah.
Though open to tourists, the church is maintained by a devoted congregation whose bulletins could be seen tucked into the racks on the long white pews.
He was seated by the pastor, facing the pews where Bloomberg sat, and got a glowing introduction from U.S. Representative Terri Sewell, a black Alabama lawmaker.
At the same time, mainline Protestant birth rates are declining, baptisms have dropped and the pews are filled with grey hairs, if they filled at all.
On Sundays, the Bidens will still be in the pews of St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church just as they have been for decades.
Food is served in the back pews, while visitors can consult with medical volunteers, get free access to Wi-Fi or just use the church's restrooms.
Hundreds of police officers, state and city officials filled the church pews for the fallen officer, with his young widow and toddler seated near the casket.
There will be three new organs, ergonomically contoured seats for the old oak pews and stained-glass pendant lights that will be controlled by an iPad.
Though the empty pews of many parishes suggest that much of Italy's population is Catholic in name only, cultural ties to the church are still strong.
A group of human resistance fighters take shelter in a snowbound church during an Advent assault, while civilians huddle between the pews awaiting rescue from XCOM.
And for early African-American Christians, faith was as much a means of fighting against slavery as it was fighting against racism in white Christian pews.
"I'm going to be playing the weirdest Christian music that's ever been made," said Zahl, pumping up the audience in the Church pews before his show.
Even from afar, with parts of the roof still burning and embers falling down onto the charred pews, the cross was brightly shining down the cathedral's aisle.
AND SO HE STEPPED OUTSIDE THE PEWS, YOU SAID, AND BROUGHT HIS MINISTRY TO THE STREETS, FOUNDING FOCUS, HOPE TO ADDRESS POVERTY AND INJUSTICE IN STRUGGLING NEIGHBORHOODS.
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.
For decades, he, like many Christians in China, shuttled from one unregistered house church to another, where folding chairs served as pews and coffee tables as lecterns.
For decades, Ms. Simonjenko, 90, and Ms. Salom sat side by side in the familiar pews of St. Sava, in the second row off the right aisle.
"We're the worst at really, genuinely loving like Jesus," he said of Baptists, calling it a church failure that gays and lesbians feel unwelcome in its pews.
Though the Pews instructed SOA to send monthly statements to their primary home in Michigan, the company would either send them to Dallas or not at all.
A bed of Easter lilies and carnations blanketed the marble in front of the altar at Sacred Heart Cathedral, and row after row of pews were full.
In Criminal Court in Brooklyn on a recent Monday, the people waiting in the crowded pews to be arraigned on marijuana charges were almost all black men.
As priests who have made a promise to celibacy, we know that every week there are people in our pews who struggle with the question of homosexuality.
The second Lent after the divorce, I wondered why I'd begun to feel a nagging guilt about Bill, but only watched all the rituals from the pews.
He will build again with new bricks and mortar, replace pillaged pews and find a chandelier more beautiful than the one he had installed a few years ago.
I got to the church after the service had started and hurriedly sat down in one of the pews near an unkempt man in a long tatty overcoat.
The experience stays in my head: sitting in the pews with hundreds of worshippers and feeling lifted up toward the famous rose windows, through which morning sunlight pillared.
The pews were filled with New Yorkers, a majority of them women, who had come to hear Clinton, to shower her with praise, to soothe her and themselves.
The sexual shenanigans unfold against a backdrop of Southern morality and bible-thumping, offering a not-so-subtle commentary about rampant hypocrisy among those who occupy the pews.
Jewish survival through five centuries is on display on both sides of the pews, in an exhibit of 89 Hanukkah menorahs from five continents and some 500 years.
As evangelicals prepare to vote, we need to consider how this messaging has found purchase in our pews and, more importantly, how our faith calls us to respond.
While the men in the pulpits of evangelical churches remain among Mr. Trump's most stalwart supporters, some of the women in the pews may be having second thoughts.
Four months later, as Ms. Roosevelt was leaving church after Easter Vigil Mass, Mr. McCluskey winked at her from one of the pews, which immediately made her blush.
A talented musician was sitting inside, alone, high above the pews, doing an after-hours practice recital on the great organ's five stacked keyboards for an upcoming concert.
Dark wood walls, pulpits, doors, pews and balconies were carved with apples, long-stemmed flowers, seeds, and prominently beaked birds; and embedded with zigzagging, pulsing, and spinning lines.
Black undergraduates held a separate event that night amid the polished pews and Greek columns of Memorial Church, Harvard's spiritual center and the backdrop for Mr. Zuckerberg's address.
RUTLAND, Vt. — They hustled into the church on a biting winter evening, unburdened themselves of scarves and gloves, and settled into pews to sound out words in Arabic.
If you all just ignored him and carried on with the service, then it would be good for little more than a few "Wha?" moments in the pews.
He thought the solid oak pews might offer some protection to congregants as he tried to usher some to safety or find a place for them to hide.
With mortuaries overflowing, the pews of the crematorium church have been removed to leave space to lay out scores of coffins but more have been arriving every day.
The Philippine mahogany table, now carved with a mycelium-inspired runner down the center, was hewed from 1920s-era church pews that a congregation in Santa Monica, Calif.
That is, they give lower priority to topics such as "God's wrath" and the need for chastity, apparently in an attempt to keep the faithful in the pews.
Once it was opened, Samantha and I went down a passage into a small, undecorated wood-paneled room with some pews and a scratched wooden cube for an altar.
Instead of taking their place in its pews, they leaned against police barricades and gazed upon the historic building, which was gutted by a raging fire on Sunday night.
Surveillance video from inside the church shows Grandolpho entering the church, sitting in one of the pews and shooting people who were sitting behind him, according to Agencia Brasil.
Raleigh, North Carolina (CNN)At Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, the pews are packed with people who mostly do not share a history with the man they've come to hear.
Here, the music was performed by just eight singers, four in each chorus, standing in front of the pews, one group to the left, the other to the right.
About 200 guests lined the pews and watched, smiling for her, as she carried a bouquet of roses and lilies in vivid autumn shades of red, gold and orange.
The larger, the Ashkenazi synagogue, with its barrel-vaulted ceiling, multiple chandeliers and bright Jewish drawings on the walls, contrasts with the simple dark wooden pews and Torah ark.
The crowd, a mix of black and white faces, filled the pews in what was ostensibly the black side of town, straining the capacity of this good-sized church.
People of all genders in our pews have been subjected to a range of abuses including childhood sexual abuse, while almost half of transgender individuals report being sexually assaulted.
That could prove to be prudent for the final outcome, but it's hard to overstate how tone deaf the timing is given the growing Catholic anger in the pews.
Muscle memory alone could have played a part: For nearly four decades, Christian conservatives have coalesced around the Republican presidential nominee, reaching right into the pews to mobilize voters.
But walking into the bright, airy space casually decorated with wooden crates, wildflowers in glass jars and church pews softened with colorful blankets, it felt exotic and strangely familiar.
There is a bathroom with shiplap paneling, wood floors made from repurposed pews, a circular free-standing soaking tub, and a vanity and shower finished with Vermont Danby marble.
A woman in one of the middle pews, holding a handgun aloft, calmly guided terrified churchgoers to safety as the pastor crawled down from the pulpit on all fours.
Such fights have led to an exodus of congregations from Presbyterian and Episcopal churches in recent years, and pushed young evangelicals and Catholics to leave the pews as well.
A sign near the entrance to the church—a dim structure with a dirt floor—advertised "Sunday Service," but only a handful of people had gathered in the pews.
"This is not only the definition of tragedy, it's the special circumstance called for by the death penalty law," Feinstein said, as officers filling the pews shouted their agreement.
Twenty minutes into the service, only seven pews had worshipers, in a church that had standing-room-only crowds on major holy days before the arrival of the militants.
The album is a political act, wrapped in the soft glove of pop music, and sitting snugly in the pews of the broad church that makes up black feminist thought.
The arrangements, by Lavender Green Flowers, perfectly matched Middleton's small bridal bouquet and lined the windows and pews and were left up for the public to check out on Sunday.
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Photo: Universal StudiosHarry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, the ride at the end of the line, consists of a series of benches that resemble church pews with heavy duty restraints.
Now I wonder how many thousands of people are standing outside the cathedral or sitting in a cafe, recalling the last time they were seated in one of those pews.
BATON ROUGE, La. — The emotionally battered residents of Baton Rouge settled into church pews across the region on Monday for an evening of vigils filled with anxiety, grief and questions.
SANTIAGO, Chile — The 20 men and women rose quietly from their pews during Mass at the Cathedral of Santiago one day last week, unfurled a banner and held up signs.
Church pews from Denver were remade into a central round table; the bill is delivered in a custom cigarette case bearing a golden bee, a nod to the farm's hives.
Inside, rows of mustard-colored pews filled the main hall, while smaller rooms were stuffed with cots, piles of dirty laundry, and boxes of clean donated clothing and hygiene supplies.
The hard, uncushioned pews got sticky in the heat, five decades or so of dust and dirt and sweat turning a little tacky no matter how often they were cleaned.
And they should indeed specially seek out these marginal people to fill their pews, just as Christ and his disciples sought converts among the abhorred and the unwanted of society.
I scrolled in further and saw my annual stations: the parking lot, the chapel, the pews just left of the lectern and finally the columbarium to visit my dad's remains.
The pews of the church were filled with firefighters and members of the Army, Navy and Marines, as well as rows of schoolchildren and weeping members of the general public.
Upward mobility, suburban growth and the dissolution of traditional ethnic enclaves have all contributed to empty pews, said Robert P. Jones, chief executive of the nonprofit Public Religion Research Institute.
They met in person only once, during the state funeral for President George H.W. Bush, exchanging businesslike handshakes in the front pews of the National Cathedral before the service began.
Inspired by these actions and an activist clergy, Catholics took to the streets by the thousands, prompting scenes of police beating up priests and tear-gassing churchgoers in the pews.
I'm not sure how many people would want to hear my answer, though -- not just because of what it would reveal about Long, but about all of us in the pews.
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It's from these pews that our nation has been inspired toward a better moral character, a deeper concern for mankind, and spirit of charity and unity that binds us all together.
My classmates and I sat clutching one another on crowded church pews listening to Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On," wearing thick white ribbons on our chests like scarlet A's.
The yahrzeit, or memorial candles, burned throughout the service, before packed pews holding about four times as many people as is typical at the Friday night service, according to several congregants.
Fifty or so other Chinese catechumens — people who are joining the Catholic faith — accompanied by their sponsors, sat in the pews around her, listening to the instructions delivered from the altar.
That's possibly all it would have taken to save the lives of 26 Americans, slain in their pews, by a wife-beating child abuser who should never have had a gun.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. no less, as his booming cadence washed over the British church, leaving some of the royal guests looking as if they might faint in their pews.
As the funeral Mass for Mr. Calvillo's father was ending — Jorge Calvillo García, his lifelong mentor, was killed in the attack — I sat in the pews and looked to my left.
I sit by myself up front, instead of with my roommate (who is more punctual than I am), because I focus better when I'm not seeing other people in the pews.
"We go from the Butter Cow and small diners of Iowa and New Hampshire to the taco stands and church pews of Nevada and South Carolina," said Democratic strategist Michael Trujillo.
Of the more than 1,000 congregants who filled New Faith's pews that snowy day, around 150 people — some who knew about the wedding in advance and some who didn't — stayed behind.
There's the intimacy of Franklin's father wiping the sweat off her brow, or the parishioners dancing and praising in the pews, all under a mural of Jesus in the River Jordan.
A young man (played by actor Cole Doleman) gets up to sing, and after a couple of minutes, his boyfriend gets up from the pews and the two share a passionate kiss.
In the ad, Pence appeals directly to people sitting in the pews at church, speaking of his faith background and his "personal decision" to follow Jesus during his freshman year of college.
Several dozen people, many of them casually dressed in jeans and T-shirts, sat in the caramel brown pews of its unpretentious worship hall; its altar little more than a carpeted stage.
"The reality is you're going to have as many phones as there are pews," said Brian Dorsey, a wedding photographer whose packages start at $7,400 and can go as high as $50,000.
For nearly 15 hours overnight on July 13-14, armed government backers fired on the church while 155 student protesters who had been dislodged from a nearby university lay under the pews.
Sitting in the pews among a sold-out crowd of ecstatic Bernie supporters while the Vermont senator delivered a rousing speech, I thought, If church was like this, I'd go every day.
On Tuesday night, dozens of residents in Harlem sat in the pews of a Presbyterian church for a discussion on safe injection sites organized by the Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association.
Mr. Mande and his audience were hurried upstairs, to the 800-seat sanctuary under an elaborate 69-foot Moorish-style dome, where hundreds of 20- and 220-something guests crammed into pews.
Joaquín Ramírez, a parishioner who was standing near Annabelle, recalled how Mr. Kelley, dressed in all black and wearing a skull-face mask, had methodically fired as he walked among the pews.
VATICAN CITY — With pews emptying and clouds of scandal hanging over the church, the Vatican on Wednesday opened a three-week assembly to discuss how to bring young people into the fold.
At the opening performance, the music rarely got above a murmur, often drowned out by the shifting of the audience in the church pews or on mats sprawled on the stone floor.
A poll of American Catholics shows many in the pews are aware of worldwide persecution of Christians, but need more leadership to make it a priority for the church in United States.
Here and there people rise from the pews to sit at the altar rail and remove their shoes and socks, to let a robed near-stranger pour water and rub their calluses.
But even by recent standards in Egypt, where militants have blown up Christian worshipers as they knelt at church pews and gunned down pilgrims in buses, the attack on Friday was unusually ruthless.
"I didn't know what it meant, but I sent the money," she told me as we sat on the wooden pews in the praise house, the door open to the sunny June morning.
Large photographs of rural Ohio printed so dark that it's hard to make them out are hung at eye level above the church's pews like so many portals to the still-living past.
Women have emerged as a major concern of this one, which opened earlier this month and focuses on how the church can better minister to today's youth in an era of emptying pews.
They strolled into St. Anthony's Shrine in the capital, St. Sebastian's Church in nearby Negombo and a church to the east of the country as the faithful sat in pews on Easter Sunday.
Perhaps it is time for a collective demonstration of the faithful to delay going to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, to leave the pews in churches and pray one fewer time a day.
Among them is a Honduran national park with a fountain crafted from upside-down cups, and a cut-cardboard cathedral wrapped in vibrant aqua tissue paper with Popsicle stick pews for the faithful.
One by one, potential jurors carrying purple pieces of paper with court information, backpacks, messenger bags and books filed into the long pews in the large ceremonial courtroom on the courthouse's top floor.
They fought and died in every war since the Revolution and from the pews and the picket lines, they've lifted up the conscience of our country in the long march for civil rights.
Forty-four worshipers celebrating Palm Sunday were brutally ripped apart by bombs and left burning to death, leaving behind church walls and pews stained with innocent blood and torn bodies left lying lifeless.
I took breaks from services, sometimes curling up on the couches in the corridor, where mothers shushed their infants, or reading the Book of Revelation in the unsupervised pews in the highest balcony.
On the road, the band of misfits sing along to Rae Sremmurd and Juicy J with their whole hearts, turning the echoing club anthems into worship hymns and the van's seats into church pews.
As Hova sings the song's refrain, "Nobody wins when the family feuds," the camera pans over to Bey, who perches herself on the alter and flashes vengeful glances over a sea of empty pews.
Drinks in hand, over 200 people, many wearing black chokers, macramé bikini tops and denim overall shorts, crowded into the pews on a recent Thursday night, the pop of beer cans punctuating their arrival.
In addition to the two plaques, there are other markers sprinkled throughout the church honoring Washington and Lee, including markers for parish donations and for the pews where they sat during times of worship.
A historic Serbian Orthodox church in Manhattan that plays an important role in New York's Serbian community was gutted by flames on Sunday, just hours after parishioners had filled its pews for Easter services.
It was the first Catholic church started by free people of color, and because they bought a majority of the pews created a uniquely integrated worship space that also included slaves and white patrons.
But there is no sign as yet that Francis's liberalization is bringing his lapsed-Catholic admirers back to the pews; from Germany to Australia to his native Latin America, the church's institutional decline continues.
"It would usher our partisan divisions into the pews," said Amanda Tyler, the executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, a group that advocates a strict separation of church and state.
From a traveling minister passing by San Luis, Ms. Martinez became aware of the connection between the health of the Colorado River and the livelihood of agricultural workers who, on Sundays, fill her pews.
Some 400 mourners overflowed the pews of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, while 500 more listened on speakers in adjoining rooms and in a Presbyterian church next door, and uncounted others tuned in on the radio.
Over the course of five hours, the rescuers moved 124 seniors and people with disabilities into city buses, then unloaded them into padded pews in the small church, pushing the wheelchairs to any available space.
Guests sat on wooden pews for the outdoor ceremony, surrounded by roses and tulips with flower boxes filled with billowing blooms, wild grasses and seasonal foliage, all designed by Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht of Wild Bloom.
The pews of the small wood-lined church, a pillar of central Brooklyn's black community, were not entirely full, and the reporters packed into the back weren't as plentiful as they were in Clinton's heyday.
Guests sat on wooden pews for the outdoor ceremony, surrounded by roses and tulips with flower boxes filled with billowing blooms, wild grasses and seasonal foliage, all designed by Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht of Wild Bloom.
While you're in the awkward phase of dinner being not quite ready while the room fills with the heady scent of roasted bird, mix up a couple Fifth Pews with your mixologically nerdy older cousin.
Nearly 200 parishioners filled almost all the pews for Saturday's Mass at St. Patrick's Church in York, Pennsylvania, where six priests who at one time worked in that parish are accused in the report bit.
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — Pink bow in her hair, 8-year-old Heather Piña kept her head down as she walked by the front-row pews and past two sitting senators on her way to the podium.
As Christians in Sri Lanka gathered on Sunday morning to celebrate Easter Mass, powerful explosions ripped through three churches packed with worshipers, leaving hundreds of victims amid a havoc of splintered and blood-spattered pews.
The largely German immigrants of the 19th century started Sunday schools, mixed men and women in family pews and incorporated choirs, organ music and sermons in their services while rejecting or shortening some obscure prayers.
When Mr. Rose asked whether Mr. Bannon's opposition to the immigration program was true to his Catholic faith, Mr. Bannon took aim at church leaders and claimed they relied on illegal immigration to fill pews.
"I saw him pull the gun out and I was just panicked and then we heard it go off and we're just screaming, you know, trying to get under the pews," Arreola told the affiliate.
" After releasing silver and purple balloons into the sky Wednesday, mourners filled the pews and aisles of the church to honor a girl who liked basketball and who loved praising God "in her own way.
But the bishops, aware of the anger in the pews, insisted on going through with the meeting so they could vote on a set of measures they had come up with to hold bishops accountable.
On Sundays and public holidays, the monastery's small church, with the bell tower and facade, etched into the cliffs is full of people huddled in the pews or standing at the back of the vaulted interior.
Almost 26 years after he left office a one-term president, George H.W. Bush was remembered today as a great man — with the chancellor of reunified Germany and the president of free Poland in the pews.
A black heritage trail in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, includes all-black burial grounds and a plaque which explains that black people were forced to sit in designated pews in New England churches through the mid-1800s.
St. Stephen's often opens up its nave to outside events — they even let organizers move all the pews out of the way — which makes room for things like subversive puppet theater and regular BYOB square dances.
Family, friends, politicians, musicians, actors and athletes filled the pews of the St. Martin's Episcopal Church to say goodbye to the 41st president with heartfelt praises and gospel music, as well as some moments of levity.
She kept her coat on in the chapel during the ceremony, fidgeted with her stockings, her hair, glanced back viciously at the crowded pews behind us each time she heard somebody sigh or sniffle or whisper.
More research certainly is needed, but undoubtedly white evangelicals would do well to turn off cable news and listen to their sisters and brothers in the increasingly diverse pews of evangelical churches for a different view.
When we remember that a third or more of the women sitting in our pews have been sexually assaulted and the majority of them have been sexually harassed, the absence of biblical women's stories is telling.
They fill most of the grueling, low-paid jobs at the pork, egg and turkey plants; they spend money at local shops, and open restaurants and grocery stores; they fill church pews and home-team benches.
Abundant Life has roomy offices, a youth choir, cushioned maroon pews, many staff members, a corporate-sponsored media production center, and a cafeteria with a passage from the biblical book of Acts printed on the wall.
He was the guy who made faces from the church pews to make the choir girls laugh, and who bluntly approached a friend's crush on the bus and asked her to go speak with his friend.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire inside the Catholic cathedral in the Brazilian city of Campinas on Tuesday and fatally shot four people praying in the pews before killing himself after police wounded him, authorities said.
Washington (CNN)Former White House chief strategist Steven Bannon said the Catholic Church's support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, is economically driven and owes to the church's struggle to fill pews.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York is firing back at Stephen Bannon for his "preposterous" claims that the Catholic Church only preaches and practices acceptance of immigrants in order to fill its pews and reap financial rewards.
Thousands gathered for an interfaith prayer vigil at Pittsburgh's Sixth Presbyterian Church in the hours following the mass shooting at the city's Tree of Life synagogue, packing the pews with mourners from different congregations across the community.
Trump on Tuesday spied "light at the end of the tunnel" and envisioned packed church pews at Easter as America breaks free of stay-at-home orders and marks the return of its "raring to go" economy.
Stetzer acknowledged that "what you have is a distance between the grassroots and what's often called the evangelical leadership" on immigration, with evangelicals in the pews generally far more negative on immigrants than those in the pulpit.
Sitting in silence, phone switched off, thinking about everything and very little all at once, running my hands along wooden pews worn soft by a century of praying hands, drinking piss-weak tea, and eating custard creams.
Set in a monochromatic, austere church-like space—replete with rows of pews—abstract lights and shapes dance around erratically until physics-based chaos unfolds, calling into question the laws and assumptions that govern these sorts of locales.
Back at our pews, we listened to the bishop's sermon, and by the end it was time to file up again, this time to receive Communion as adults, on equal footing with our parents for the first time.
At morning circle, on the playground, packed into the pews during school-wide Masses, at assemblies and concerts and sporting events, it was the same: white child after white parent, face after face that looked nothing like mine.
" A few weeks later, at a largely African-American church in Detroit -- with people of color on stage and in the pews -- Trump sounded a much different appeal: "We talk past each other and not to each other.
But if the intense opposition to Trump's views about immigrants among Catholic leaders triggers any meaningful erosion among the rank-and-file in the pews, that could prove an even more costly price for his turn toward nativism.
She works part-time as a secretary at All Saints Catholic Church, where so many Latinos attend the Sunday afternoon, Spanish-language Mass that they spill from the pews to stand three to four deep against the walls.
Immaculate, as the faithful call it, has always been a church for newcomers, starting with the German immigrants who filled its pews when the current structure opened in 1888, replacing a wooden building that had stood there before.
Wearing a red dress and a white veil, she streaked up and down church aisles, climbed over pews and tangled with a net of red cords suggestive of a ship's rigging in the most otherworldly of the performances.
The church's patriarchal culture — most exemplified in excluding women from the priesthood — and its teachings about human sexuality and gender are rejected by not only many Americans but also a sizable share of faithful Catholics in the pews.
He's joined by Jane Crawford and several pews full of witnesses and Seventh Kavalry goons, but from the moment Keene Jr. strips down to his skivvies and delivers his supervillain speech, it's clear that his comeuppance is nigh.
At San Juan Bautista church, footage posted on social media showed parishioners and priests scrambling to hold back a group of Ortega supporters, pressing their bodies against the door and later stacking up pews to barricade the entrance.
The motive for the attack was unclear on Sunday, but the grisly nature of it could not have been clearer: Families gathered in pews, clutching Bibles and praying to the Lord, were murdered in cold blood on the spot.
Maybe churches propped up by vouchers for their schools feel less urgency in soliciting donations or seeking new members, since vouchers pay the bills and "school families" fill the pews (especially if being a church member gives a discount).
The initial explosion scattered the wooden pews inside the main hall and blasted window glass panels, and the second bomb hurled human remains and debris across a town square fronting the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, witnesses said.
Reverend Bill Jenkins When you walk around the church you can see pregnant women lounging on pews and chairs, cooking with their bellies up against the stove, brand-new mothers nursing newborns on their bunk beds in the makeshift dorms.
They filled the pews and spilled onto the roasting sidewalks to be there with him, to pay their respects to Reckard and the other 21 people who died after a racist opened fire in a Walmart nearly two weeks ago.
In her remarks to the packed pews of El Paso's Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, Carla Provost, the acting chief of the US Border Patrol, said the focus should be on the life the agent led, not how he died.
Performing MASSEDUCTION closer (and highlight) "Slow Disco" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, her set was a church, with her string section sitting in the pews—taking the 'cult leader' persona she's played with recently and making it literal.
The literal centerpiece is a hall made up to look like some combination of a church and a throne room, with the Iron Throne in the middle (with a glowing Red Cross logo behind it) and pews running down each side.
At a bare minimum, Francis has clearly endorsed the idea that bishops must move church practice closer to the realities of the pews, where priests often accommodate people whose lives do not comport with a strict reading of church norms.
On the first day I visited Mr. Rhodes, we climbed the stairs of the former St. Clement Church in Tarentum, Pa. The structure, built in 1906, had long since been abandoned, its pews, confessional and attached school crumbling and gathering dust.
The deadliest-ever mass shooting in Texas -- in which a gunman walked among pews at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, killing 25 parishioners and an unborn child -- has become the latest in a string of attacks directed at religious institutions.
The current first lady sat among several former presidents and first ladies in the pews at St. Martin's Episcopal Church for Bush's funeral service on Saturday, including former President Barack Obama, whom her husband, President Donald Trump, has often criticized.
Two of them happened in the Commonwealth of Kentucky (turns out they have quite a few friends here) and their stop in Louisville was Dreamland, a non-profit listening room that holds fewer than 100 people after the pews are removed.
We chant it with locked arms and closed eyes, at campfires, in protest lines and from the pews at church, but the truth is, many of us have no clue what the lyrics mean or exactly where they come from.
Hundreds of supporters squeezed into the pews, sat on the green carpet or stood along the sides to hear the El Paso congressman's speech, delivered from the pulpit, as a phone on a tripod beamed it out live on Facebook.
Jakarta Journal JAKARTA, Indonesia — On a tree-lined side street in the Indonesian capital sits a colonial-era Protestant church with rustic wooden pews and stained-glass windows, and an antique pipe organ built into a large wall behind the altar.
CreditCreditMark Abramson for The New York Times They sit in courtroom pews, almost all of them young black men, waiting their turn before a New York City judge to face a charge that no longer exists in some states: possessing marijuana.
The other struck in the Nile Delta city of Tanta, where the attacker slipped past security to the front pews of the church and blew himself up, turning a religious celebration of joy into a ghastly scene of bloodshed and death.
At the Community Heights Alliance Church in Newton, a couple hundred people sat in the pews to listen to Kimberly Guilfoyle, a senior campaign adviser, national finance chair, and girlfriend of the president's son Don Jr., make the case for Trump.
By the end of the 2011 United States Men's Amateur Championship on the daunting Erin Hills layout, the friars at Holy Hill were no longer surprised to look down from the pulpit and see several players sitting quietly in the pews.
Several of you in the pews that crossed swords with him or found yourselves on the receiving end of his famous temper or were at a cross purpose to him on anything, are doing your best to stay stone-faced. Don't.
About New York In late morning, a murmur of prayers rose from the front pews of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in the Bronx, a soft cloud of Spanish words that floated toward the soaring vaults of the nave.
Towering above the rows of standard pews and friezes showing the Stations of the Cross is a large post that branches to the ceiling — it recalls a poutokomanawa, a carved wooden central support of a traditional Māori meeting house, or wharenui.
We called him Pizza Preacher because at lunchtime, you could pay two dollars and get two slices of pizza plus a coke and eat there in the church pews, and then Pizza Preacher would preach at you while you ate your pizza.
It's a historical, yet astonishingly uncomfortable position for Rodriguez, 47, one of the leading religious advocates for Latino immigrants, who condemned Trump's hardline immigration rhetoric during the campaign, and saw Trump's words as direct threats and insults to the parishioners in his pews.
For more than two days after the raid, two dozen migrants across the town slept on the carpets and in between the pews of O'Neill's Spanish-language Pentecostal Church, fearful that ICE would go door to door looking for people to arrest.
It is also a case about the limits of free conscience, about artistic expression, and about when — or whether — religious beliefs should be confined to the pews (or synagogue, or mosque), or whether they must by definition find expression in the public sphere.
BERLIN — A hush fell over the hundreds of kinksters gathered in the pews of the Twelve Apostles Church in Berlin when the cellist, clad in head-to-toe black leather, took a seat in front of the altar and began to play Rachmaninoff.
He walked 20 feet into the church on Wednesday evening and almost reached the last row of pews when an usher approached him, telling him he could not be there with the cans of gasoline, NYPD Deputy Commissioner John Miller told reporters.
Whether you'll be wiping a tear as the actress and her prince say "I do" from the pews of St. George's Chapel or from the couch in your pajamas, dust off your knowledge of all things decorum and tradition and keep on reading.
She added to the image, which showed the entire family dressed in their best and sitting on pews inside the church, "I know … we were a little late with baptizing Leo … " Want all the latest pregnancy and birth announcements, plus celebrity mom blogs?
The results (lingering shots, for example, of the worn pews of the Clayborn Temple in Memphis, headquarters of a 1968 sanitation strike by African-American workers) are often difficult to trace back to their sources, which serve as something like fertile seeds.
The next step is up to others, both Catholics in the pews and people everywhere, by making sure that their state and federal governments take a serious look at these criminal activities, and that laws protecting abusers and their enablers are changed.
After Mr. Hawkins, a 16-year-old from East New York, was attacked by a white mob and shot to death in Bensonhurst in August 1989, thousands poured into the pews at Woodward to pay tribute, defying a pair of bomb threats.
And I'm going to be starting a family friendly program called Poetry Sabbath, where people in my community can come lie around on pews and pillows and listen to some wise people read a few terrific poems and maybe eat crackers and cheese.
On those Houston Sundays, she sat in the pews watching the men and women of the church catch the spirit, as they say: The Holy Ghost would come down into them and send them speaking in tongues and dancing in the aisles.
Mariano Rivera, also dressed in a black tuxedo reverted to his days in pinstripes and saved the day by offering his wife a gentle hug and a box of tissues that made its way around the three pews reserved for the groom's relatives.
In the tiny church of Santa Maria Mater Domini, abandoned but for one old woman playing with her iPhone in the pews, I was flabbergasted by a "Finding of the True Cross" with the same massive, colorful bodies as the Accademia's early masterpiece.
When I watched arraignments in Brooklyn one morning, the defendants facing marijuana charges who hired private lawyers got to go before the judge first, while those with public defense lawyers — almost all of them black — sat in the courtroom pews for hours.
They must have watched in shock as their father trod through the charred remains where the pews had stood, where congregants had faced toward Jerusalem and watched him lead prayers from the bimah, the elevated platform from which the Torah is read.
"We have a human trafficking crisis in our state and in this city and in our country because people are willing to purchase women, young women, and treat them like commodities," Hawley said during a "Pastors and Pews" event in late 2017.
In El Alto, inside the church of San Francisco de Asís, the bloodied bodies of five young men with gunshot wounds lay on pews, covered with Bolivian flags on which lay the large-caliber bullets that were said to have killed the men.
Still, some argue that the fallout of the scandal is not necessarily measurable in emptier pews or fewer envelopes left on the collection plate, but instead in the difficult-to-quantify yet palpable angst of the Catholics who have kept coming to Mass.
Father Colapietro described himself as "just a regular, run-of-the-mill priest," but he was as distinctive as the performers in the pews at the Actors' Chapel, or the commuters from the Port Authority Bus Terminal down the block from Holy Cross.
Video: Eddiesfedora77/MGM/YouTube In the above scene, as the astronauts whirl around wildly, lasers blasting with characteristic "pew pews," there's no mistaking the dizzying collision of cinematic spectacle and comic absurdity that defines Moore's vision for 007, and makes Moonraker ripe for parody.
I would still be able to sit in the pews and listen to the pastor's sermon every week, just like anyone else who showed up at the church on Sunday mornings, but I was considered too much of a danger to be around children.
At the wedding of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank last month, the parents of three — Prince George, 5, Princess Charlotte, 3, and Prince Louis, 6 months — were spotted holding hands in the pews of St. George's Chapel while waiting for the ceremony to begin.
The couple first saw each other in December 2014 in adjoining pews at a Sunday service at the cathedral where they would eventually be married, and formally met a few weeks later at a Christmas party in Atlanta for younger members of the church.
By the time the speeches began, a crowd of several hundred mostly brown faces—African-American families, women in hijab, mothers with their children—had gathered in the pews; those who couldn't find seats stood along the sides of the church and in the back.
Now, the once-barren lot is alive with visitors — from young music devotees to stroller-pushing mothers to priests from the nearby church — who lounge outdoors on pews and school chairs, surrounded by a flamboyance of plastic Featherstone flamingos and stunning views of Manhattan.
As he spoke about his Greenwood Initiative -- which he launched in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in January and to address systemic bias that has kept many black Americans from gaining wealth -- several people sitting in the church pews stood up and turned their backs to him.
Mr. Green himself was born and raised in a nearby Gullah community in Beaufort, and his bright, bold paintings of his ancestors — in church pews, on grassy landscapes and against ocean sunsets — offer a romantic antidote to the erasure of much of that Gullah past.
Video from the blast site circulating on social media showed blood-smeared floors and shattered pews among the marble pillars at St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the seat of Egypt's Orthodox Christian Church, where the blast occurred in a chapel adjacent to the main building.
What followed was a long battle between Scott's children and the land's new owner, a local builder, during which the chapel was damaged by water, had its pews demolished, and even had some internal parts stolen, including a carved figure of Christ on a crucifix.

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