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Recent Examples of chaplain
Who better to help him through that than, say, a dreamy chaplain who might or might not be sketchy?
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Laura Bradley, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
While the majority of chaplains are Christian, the program includes individuals of Jewish and Muslim faiths.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Last year, Texas allowed public schools to hire uncertified religious chaplains as counselors, and the legislature has pushed to require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
—Amanda Musa, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
More:Poll chaplains' national mission: To protect the 'sacred right' to vote
Arizona
West Virginia
Florida
In these states, don't take pictures of your own ballot (period)
Some states allow photos of ballots before they are filled out, but not after, according to Ballotpedia.
—Sam Woodward, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2024
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Laura Bradley, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
While the majority of chaplains are Christian, the program includes individuals of Jewish and Muslim faiths.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Last year, Texas allowed public schools to hire uncertified religious chaplains as counselors, and the legislature has pushed to require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
—Amanda Musa, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
More:Poll chaplains' national mission: To protect the 'sacred right' to vote
Arizona
West Virginia
Florida
In these states, don't take pictures of your own ballot (period)
Some states allow photos of ballots before they are filled out, but not after, according to Ballotpedia.
—Sam Woodward, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaplain
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In the 1920s, at the tail end of World War I, Dr. William Goodwin–then pastor of Virginia’s historic Bruton Parish Church–wrote to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. with a petition to restore his hometown of Colonial Williamsburg.Cornelia Powers, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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There will be an Anglican funeral service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Va at 11:00 am on December 21, 2024, officiated by her pastor, The Rev. Jonathan Kell, rector of Church of Our Saviour, Oatlands.Fox News Staff, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2024
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Specifically, the nuns pointed a finger at Urbain Grandier—a local priest and their confessor.Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
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Its main purpose is not the creation of aesthetic beauty out of the materials at hand (life, pain) but selfishness: relieving the confessor’s desire to confess.Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
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Wiley, the rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Towson, will lead an outdoor prayer service at the house of worship Tuesday night as a way of blessing the people of a country that have so often seemed bitterly divided over politics.Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 5 Nov. 2024
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It is considered a holy day of obligation in the Catholic church, said Monsignor Walter Rossi, rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C.Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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Better would it have been had the vicar never been born.SPIN Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
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Atkinson both sends up and deepens stock characters like the vicar, who here has lost his faith; a major who doesn’t feel cut out for civilian life; and the batty lady of the manor, who appears to have arrived via time machine from the Victorian era.Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
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Writing in the eighteenth century, Smith compared energetic and often sensationalist Methodist preachers with the more reserved and cerebral parsons of the Church of England.Shadi Hamid, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
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The other is her violent stepfather, who, in this version, is also the church’s parson (Steven Pasquale).Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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These missionaries are a destabilizing influence in a territory dominated by another version of Christianity, established and spread by the colonizing Belgians, that emphasizes the supremacy of a white Jesus.Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024
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But Native numbers began to decline with the arrival of Spanish missionaries, who brought diseases for which Natives had no immunity, including smallpox, malaria and diphtheria.CalMatters, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
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David Niven is a young bishop who's so tripped up by ambition and the desire to build a cathedral that he's forgotten what's truly important...even his own family.James Mercadante, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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When Juan Diego returned to the bishop and opened the tilma to show them the roses, an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared printed on the fabric.Paula Soria, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2024
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Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.Phil Helsel, NBC News, 17 June 2022
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Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.al, al, 1 Dec. 2020
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“Chaplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaplain. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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