Sentences with phrase «church in a dozen years»

Especially when I haven't attended church in a dozen years.

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This will be particularly significant, given that China only permits Christianity within the context of government - sanctioned churches, and the fact authorities have partly or wholly destroyed hundreds of churches and crosses and imprisoned at least dozens of Christians in the country over the last few years.

It's hearsay, but: «A 23 - year - old Illinois man accused of planning to attack dozens of churches in Oklahoma with Molotov co -LSB--RSB- cktails has struggled with mental illness, substance abuse and grief, said his cousin, who expressed relief that no one was hurt in the plot.»

Except for an independent organization called the National Episcopal Coalition on Alcoholism and Drugs, a handful of diocesan, councils that promote conferences on alcohol and drugs, and approximately a dozen concerned and courageous bishops who require clergy training in the subjects, the Episcopal Church, in which I am a priest, would have no focused program on chemical dependency at all, save one day a year called Alcohol Awareness Sunday.

The Palestinian Islamic Army, which has links to al Qaeda, carried out the New Year's Day attack on a Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt, that left almost two dozen people dead, Interior Minister Habib al - Adly said Sunday.

The past dozen years have seen more serious and open debate about sexual orientation in North American churches than during any comparable time in history.

In the U.S. some two dozen «mainline» national denominations — the United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church as well as the Roman Catholic Church — provide programs ranging from 30 - second spots to half - hour programs 52 weeks a year.

He worked as a pastor for two years at Christian Fellowship Church in Geneseo, N.Y., before he was transferred in 1978 to Arlington Heights, where he became pastor to a dozen families who gathered every Sunday in his home for fellowship and Bible study.

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.

Janet and about a dozen others gathered over five years ago in 2008 to participate in Northwest Earth Institute's Global Warming: Changing CO2urse discussion course at St. John's United Church on Vancouver Island.

There were 220 specific violations of religious liberties in 2014, but 2300 last year, many of which «involved entire churches or, in the cases of arrests, dozens of victims.»