Sentences with phrase «circuit riders»

Methodist circuit riders were the shock troops of the Lord on the frontier.

He had come to America as an Anglican priest, but when the revolution started, he broke with Canterbury and started commissioning the first circuit riders.

Part semi-documentary, part semi-fictional storytelling and an all - American chronicle of hardship and transcendental bliss, filmmaker Chloé Zhao follows a wounded Native American rodeo star (real - life circuit rider Brady Jandreau) as he deals with rehabilitation, an unstable family situation and life after your dream doesn't come true.

I think I like that size because (a) it reminds me of the small country churches my grandparents attended (and my grandfather would sometimes «speak» at, since they often couldn't afford a full - time clergy, so were at the whims of circuit riders), and (b) because that gives me a «monkeysphere» (a folksy explanation of Dunbar's number).

Methodist circuit riders were not far behind.

Circuit riders and lay preachers marshaled Christian forces for the grand onslaught.

With their lay preachers and circuit riders they could the more easily meet the challenge of people spread in isolated regions.

When students arrive from their jobs just in time for class, or spend only a couple of frantic days per week on campus, or when faculty members become circuit riders, turning up at the branch campus every other Wednesday to teach their intensive course before disappearing, formation becomes difficult if not impossible.

He was a parish minister for thirteen years in Detroit; he taught for a third of a century at Union Theological Seminary in New York; he was a constant «circuit rider» preacher to colleges and universities; he was kept busy most of his life with political activities; he made himself available to all kinds of people; and he was a prolific writer.

The Minnesota Consortium of Theological Schools pooled its resources to hire one instructional technologist who works like a circuit rider, visiting each school one day a week.

Forms of church government differed; but nobody except the Quakers challenged the notion that a religious local community needed a general overseer, no matter whether he lived in (like the Baptist preachers who farmed during the week) or out (like the circuit riders of Methodism).

Could I skip the talk on Francis Asbury and the history of the circuit rider, and go out for Thai instead?

Although an organized Methodist congregation was formed in Elk Grove In 1840, in Dunton the religiously diverse community met in storefronts and barns to worship and to be taught by transient preachers and circuit riders.