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Recent Examples of pastor
When those issues died down, the pastors pivoted to demonizing transgender youth.
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Gretchen Smail, Them, 31 Oct. 2024
Conservative pastors who support Trump have begun to preach at Latino-majority evangelical churches, according to Guillermo Lopez Jr., a former millwright at Bethlehem Steel who is now a civic leader.
—Farah Stockman, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024
His father, Frank Radcliff, is the church's senior pastor.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
One of them occurred on Oct. 1 and involved $20 in cash being stolen from the church, while another on Oct. 6 resulted in a pastor's office being ransacked and a mason jar full of change being taken, according to the arrest report.
—Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
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Gretchen Smail, Them, 31 Oct. 2024
Conservative pastors who support Trump have begun to preach at Latino-majority evangelical churches, according to Guillermo Lopez Jr., a former millwright at Bethlehem Steel who is now a civic leader.
—Farah Stockman, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024
His father, Frank Radcliff, is the church's senior pastor.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
One of them occurred on Oct. 1 and involved $20 in cash being stolen from the church, while another on Oct. 6 resulted in a pastor's office being ransacked and a mason jar full of change being taken, according to the arrest report.
—Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastor
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The local rector warns him away from the book and offers him salvation – but despite his efforts, the book cannot be destroyed and returns to Sarre with dark consequences.K.J. Yossman, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
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Even as book collectors have, over the centuries, shifted shape from rectors to hedge-fund managers, they have remained driven by an impulse that is both febrile and fastidious.Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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The first hint of photosynthesis came from experiments by English clergyman and scientist Joseph Priestly.Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
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Among the clergymen cited in the lawsuits that were settled Wednesday, Father Michael Baker is one of the priests with the most victims.Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 16 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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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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When a jihadist group attacks two very young shepherds, 14-year-old Ashraf is forced to take a macabre message back to his family.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
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Another grail watch that Wind helped shepherd to a client was an exceptional Paul Newman Rolex Daytona Panda reference 2623 with a full set and a tropical dial that was sold by a small Swedish auction house just under a decade ago.Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2024
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He was appointed an auxiliary bishop of Chicago on Sept. 11, 2020, and ordained two months later.Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
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To evade Western sanctions, the Chinese Communist Party uses less bloody and more hidden methods of coercion against these bishops than the show trials and physical ...Nina Shea, National Review, 22 Oct. 2024
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Fiennes is backed by a stellar supporting cast that, in addition to Tucci's firebrand Bellini, included John Lithgow as a sanctimonious curate and Carlos Diehz as Cardinal Benitez, intriguing and comforting in his calm stillness.Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2024
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In the film, O’Connor gives Emily a passionate affair with William Weightman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), a young curate in the local parish.Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
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“Pastor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastor. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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