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Recent Examples of pastor
The report said Bickle was entrusted with caring for his followers’ spiritual well-being as a pastor and leader.
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Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2025
The film follows a pastor and a detective, each driven by their own beliefs while dealing with a missing-person case.
—Sara Merican, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2025
Outside a General Dollar store, Head meets a pastor who mentions seeing him in Atlanta, protesting the distribution of farm subsidies.
—Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 1 Feb. 2025
The married pastors, who started the nondenominational Life Church in a hotel conference room in 2001, say their steadily growing community needs more room.
—Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 27 Jan. 2025
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Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2025
The film follows a pastor and a detective, each driven by their own beliefs while dealing with a missing-person case.
—Sara Merican, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2025
Outside a General Dollar store, Head meets a pastor who mentions seeing him in Atlanta, protesting the distribution of farm subsidies.
—Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 1 Feb. 2025
The married pastors, who started the nondenominational Life Church in a hotel conference room in 2001, say their steadily growing community needs more room.
—Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastor
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Other information provided by the Archdiocese noted Reidy was ordained by Bishop Timothy J. Harrington at Saint Paul Cathedral in Worcester in 1994, and was assigned to St. Peter Parish in Worcester before becoming rector of Saint Paul Cathedral by Bishop Daniel P. Reilly.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
12 Feb. 2025
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The church is the spiritual home to about 500 families, according to the church's rector, the Rev. Bruce Freeman.—
Sarah Ventre,
NPR,
12 Jan. 2025
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Ralph Fiennes plays Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, a British clergyman who is the dean of the College of Cardinals at the Vatican.—
Armond White,
National Review,
19 Feb. 2025
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The occasion marked the halfway point between the winter and spring equinoxes, with clergymen blessing used candles and handing them out to locals every February 2.—
Rachel Dobkin,
Newsweek,
2 Feb. 2025
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On Wednesday, Francis' vicar for Rome urged his followers to silently pray for an hour for the pope before evening vespers services.—
Louis Casiano,
Fox News,
19 Feb. 2025
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Sister Mary Thomas, the vicar, had come from Wisconsin to witness the event.—
Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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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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Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Aug. 2024
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If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.—
David Harsanyi,
National Review,
25 Jan. 2024
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Before his passing on April 12, Dax, a German shepherd, fathered a litter of puppies.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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German shepherds are frequently used as working dogs, whether in the military or police, for patrolling, bomb detection, and search and rescue.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
13 Feb. 2025
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Others, like the lecherous bishop (Peppe Lanzetta), seek to use her cerebral interests for a few quick sins of the flesh.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
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Which bishop best represented the biblical calls for serving the marginalized in our society, the fawning cardinal or the prophetic bishop?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
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Kingsley was born in 1819, the son of a curate who subjected him to a rigorous and frequently brutal education.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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It was supposed to be Trismegistus, but the maid tasked with telling the curate got distracted and forgot all but the first syllable.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Pastor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastor. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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