| 单词 | congregation |
| 例句 | Grasping the sides of the lectern he surveyed his small congregation like some satanic minister. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We didn’t join a church in Washington, because we didn’t want to subject another congregation to the kind of bad-faith attacks that had rained down on Trinity, our church in Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Baby JaBrea waved her hands and let out a loud happy screech, and the congregation yelled amen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “But I like being part of a congregation. I miss the people, Rucker.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The Reverend J. Henry C. Helmuth found himself visiting more and more of his congregation with fevers of a “most dangerous complexion.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z These were the church congregations who were always putting out little signs announcing that inside they were selling fried chicken and chitlin dinners to raise some money. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Members of his congregation were often ticketed for parking improperly around the mosque at Friday prayers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The captain stands behind me at the helm, and pontificates to his congregation of one. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Because it was a congregation of students, everyone was sitting with their roommates, so I settled into a pew with mine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Father’s voice was strong as the congregation moved on to the second verse. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I also walk by Milla’s place, and later on I call in on Father O’Reilly, who is still on a high after the Meet a Priest Day congregation. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z After Papa took communion, he sat back and watched the congregation walk to the altar and, after Mass, reported to Father Benedict, with concern, when a person missed communion on two successive Sundays. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She came, however; late, just before the pastor was about to present the speaker of the hour to the congregation. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z They each had, it seemed, a bagful of sermons often preached; and knew, in the careless lifting of an eye, which sermon to bring to which congregation. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z As a group, throughout mass, the congregation responds to the priest with various prayers; one listens to a steady flow of prayers said in English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z During Purim, our congregation gathers at the synagogue to listen to the Megillah, the scroll that tells Esther’s story. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Without the chief’s blessing he could have no congregation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Reverend Hughes shouted from the pulpit as the congregation took their seats once again and opened their Bibles. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I have left church early, walked out, after hearing the congregation spontaneously applaud its own singing. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The decisions of the Board of Deacons of the First Congregational Church were understood to be secret until they were announced for the consideration of the full congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I told the story of Henrietta’s cells and what they’d done for science, my voice growing louder as the congregation yelled “Amen!” and “Hallelujah!” and “Lord have mercy!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A congregation of mourners with lantern jaws and broken noses. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A long, solitary wail went up from somebody towards the middle of the congregation. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “The Spirit will move in them the way it moved in our congregation when you sang and played. And when I get out, our congregation will have grown tenfold.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The congregation said “Yes” or “God bless him” or “Amen,” but not too loudly so they would not sound like the mushroom Pentecostal churches; then they listened intently, quiedy. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Marc’s grandfather grew up in this town, and has been a member of this congregation for his whole life. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Now, thanks to careful restoration, Jesus again looks down upon his congregation with kind, loving eyes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The congregation seemed genuinely glad to have us, and I was glad to be back. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z ‘We believe,’ the congregation is encouraged to say, celebrating community—but only that fact. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a privilege to praise the Lord on the platform, to lead the congregation in song. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He was also a devout member of the Moravian congregation, a Christian denomination that accepted the Bible as the sole source of faith and practice. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The portal gaped, and a congregation of flames issued forth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z When he looked out over those soldierless congregations, he must have seen ghosts, marching north. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He dreamed of someday becoming the pastor of the largest Baptist church in California, with a congregation of a thousand and a four-hundred-strong choir behind him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z With one of his huge hands he reached out to the congregation, pulling them in. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The pause had become awkward; the congregation shifted uncomfortably. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In less time than it took me to say the Lord’s Prayer, he had worked himself into a frenzy that sent the congregation to its feet, moaning their repentance and the ecstasy of redemption. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The minister at Vince’s mother’s church mentioned my name and had the congregation say a special prayer for me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The congregation at the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, liked her because her piano-playing was loud and lively. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Deborah, singing and beating her tambourine in the front of the congregation, watched him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The congregation claps and a few people say amen. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “The congregation will wonder what he was doing on the shore with her in the first place,” Mr. Stonecrop pointed out. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The hustlers at this time were in the daily six o’clock congregation, having their favorite bars all over Harlem largely to themselves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In the camp, when his teacher beat a six-year-old classmate to death for having five grains of corn in her pocket, Shin confessed to the congregation that he “didn’t think much about it.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They would ask me again and I couldn’t risk being embarrassed in front of the entire congregation. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z After Scott had set up his congregation, he found that Komo was embezzling money from people who were contributing to the fight against the removal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At its heart lies one supreme government: the Lutheran hymn-chorale, with its simple, memorable tunes for the congregation - another of the central pillars of Pietist doctrine. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z When he had fully explained the risks, he asked the congregation, “Who’s willing to stand up for justice, to march for freedom, to take this on?” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z No, someone else in this congregation had been blessed with these roses, and as a tribute, they had brought them here and presented them to the Virgen. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z And so he rose and faced the congregation. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z This preacher, this leader of this church and congregation, was using this tone to refer to Allah. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z No matter how well our rabbi thought he could keep secrets, word would permeate through the congregation like the aroma of spice from besamim. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I served as the voice of the congregation, sounding, all told, perhaps a hundred responsorial lines. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hirschhahns were Jewish, members of the congregation on Freiheit street, and they were deeply concerned about how things were going in Germany. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On Sunday, Naomi walked with the rest of the congregation to the river for all the baptisms that had been put off during the winter. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He turned toward the congregation with the air of a preacher himself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Reform synagogue in my part of town, which my family attended, struggled along for years as its congregation dwindled, before it finally shut its doors in 2011. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I wish I could have told the congregation that my experience was unique, an isolated event. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He kept the Sabbath on Saturday, observed Passover and other important Jewish holidays, and belonged to a small neighborhood congregation, whose members called themselves Hebrews or Israelites. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z In church, at the close of mass, the congregation prayed for ‘the conversion of Russia.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z While the congregation recited the Twenty-third Psalm—“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil; for thou art with me...” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We waited for him to speak, like a congregation expecting the minister’s benediction. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An imposing congregation had massed itself around her first certainties, and now it was waiting and she could not disappoint it at the altar. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z After the service, and shaking hands with Reverend Tweed, and eating a fine dinner with the congregation, the women broke into two groups. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z By 1960, the Greek Orthodox congregation of Detroit’s East Side had yet another new building to worship in. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I looked out at the congregation, and everyone was crying, including my mom. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He was hard as a rock and it didn’t take long before the Jewish congregations figured him out and sent him on his way, so we traveled a lot when I was a young girl. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “The reverend called it the Lord God in action through nature. ‘Wake!’ he yelled out to the whole congregation.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The sound of pattering footsteps filled the temple, and the congregation stood. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He’d coolly run the eye in a circle, gazing around at the congregation of forty-odd parishioners to see where the whirring noise was coming from. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I listened as the inmate’s voice rose; it was powerful yet broken, amid the weeping, the sobbing, the sighing of the entire “congregation”: “All the earth and universe are God’s!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He was young, and he looked up often as he read the gospel, his brown eyes piercing the congregation. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z And the congregation begins to pass around the deadly serpents. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The organ turned to a melancholy last hymn, playing too slowly; after four verses, it sighed to silence a phrase or two behind the congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Given present circumstances, Deacon Hurd began, this was a difficult matter, but he felt it was the sworn biblical duty of this board to bring a recommendation to the congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I knew how to work on a congregation until the last dime was surrendered—it was not very hard to do—and I knew where the money for “the Lord’s work” went. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Mr. Stonecrop moved off into the foggy silence, and the rest of the congregation passed quietly, most hands extended, some not. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Already, the other members of the congregation were beginning to disperse. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But by and large the Hartman congregation continued to suspect that Mabel Helm knew a thing or two that she was holding back. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z When the congregation sings my favorite prayer, Ma Tovu, Dad rocks back and forth on his loafers. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The words rang out over the sweating congregation, and Beto’s pulse pounded in his ears. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The Doorman and I go to the church to see Father O’Reilly, and he still has a fairly generous congregation. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “People are in dire need,” he tells the congregation. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z And I suspect that your congregation—indeed, every soul in Phippsburg—will be watching what you do with it.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Every Easter we had to perform at the New Brown Church, playing our instruments or reciting a story from the Bible for the entire church congregation. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Everybody knew somebody affected by it: Daddy’s family, Monday’s family, church congregations, the Mayor, even teachers at school. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The congregation wanted to show its appreciation, so one Sunday morning the pastor, the Reverend Wesley Parks, took up a special collection for her after the regular collection. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z He wanted the very best for his congregation, to take them out of the dark ages of superstition and witchery. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z He chastised the congregation calmly at first, and then with increasing annoyance. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Most of the congregation didn’t meet the eyes of their tight-lipped minister. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Lillian Woodward played the hymn like a dirge, and there is nothing like playing a march like a dirge to irritate a congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The preachers and congregations jumped even higher and shouted even louder than the Baptists I had known. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z After the lineup Anatole marches them into the church and urges them, I guess, to wrestle with their numbers and their French congregations and what not. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a moment just before the Communion when members of the congregation shake hands to dramatize a union. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Based on Chambliss’s best guess, it should have gone off around three or four in the morning, which would have prevented our congregation from meeting for church but would not have harmed anyone. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As they walked through the bright noon, up the sandy road with the dispersing congregation talking easily again group to group, she continued to weep, unmindful of the talk. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His firm nasal voice set the tune and pace, one line at a time, and the congregation repeated it after him. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The congregation at evening mass looked more tired than on Sunday morning. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A new family has been attending their small congregation. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z There was a mustiness in the air, a hint of damp cellar, a whiff of stale sweat left behind by a rowdy congregation. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Everyone in the congregation smiled and nodded, all nice and polite-like. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Then he went past us and stood in front of the little podium, his back to the congregation, the little boy still holding on to his caftan. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z This is the part that the pastors of Oklahoma churches love the best, and ask her to repeat as often as possible for their congregations. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z While he sat, waiting, he saw that Deborah had found a seat in the very front of the congregation, just below the pulpit, and sat with her Bible folded on her lap. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z As a sign of mourning, the statues of the saints were shrouded in purple robes that the pious ladies of the congregation unpacked and dusted off once a year from a cupboard in the sacristy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One witness reported seeing a group of well- dressed people from a German saloon singing one tune after another while, a few tombstones away, a small congregation of Methodists held a prayer meeting. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The ragtag congregation chimed in with every sort of word and tune. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice rose and fell in a rhythmical, dreamlike recital-part enumeration of earthly trials undergone by the congregation, part rapt display of vocal virtuosity, part appeal to God. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I told the congregation that Walter’s case had taught me that the death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Then the bell struck one time and they dispersed to their seats and the congregation sat for an instant, expectant. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Pullum told the congregation to give me a hand, and the room erupted in cheers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A woman full of fun and life, she sat in the back pews of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church congregation on Sunday mornings and whistled the hymns while everybody else sang them. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The men in the congregation try to help. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He knew that the congregation would rather not have the bereaved say a single thing. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I’d never sat in a congregation before, let alone spoken in front of one. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Sitting on the floor it was easier to see the congregation than the altar. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Charlie mutters, “What a bunch of phonies,” and I’m not sure if he’s talking about our classmates or the Finch family or the entire congregation. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Two of the elders, Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, had once been worshipers at St. George Methodist Church, a congregation composed of both whites and blacks. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z A cash-strapped congregation in rural Alabama solicited the Mutual for a donation to build a new roof. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “You people think I ate the money for the zinc, oktvia?” he shouted, gesticulating, pointing accusingly at the congregation. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z And this filled him for a moment with a holy rage—that she stood, so brazen, in the congregation of the righteous and refused to bow her head. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z This continued for several months before her father’s congregation once again took matters into their own hands. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He was the only white minister in Montgomery with an all-black congregation. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “I don’t know that anyone else from the congregation is going to join us, men,” the pastor said in a low voice. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He paused a moment, then said, “I think it quite necessary that the authorities here should be prepared to meet and deal with the greatest congregation of criminals that ever yet met in this country.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I wished I were still in my old congregation, so I could rush to my old bishop and tell him I wasn’t broken anymore. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I became better at memorizing scriptures, talking into a microphone, and standing before the congregation to lead prayer. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The other members of the congregation turned to watch her, as they always did, and most of them were smiling. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole congregation is standing now, clapping and cheering. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He looks around the congregation as his voice gets loud. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A man in an elegant red cardinal's robe and a high lace collar stood resting against an enormous Bible and now began to lead a hard-driving hymn which the congregation shouted in the unknown tongue. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the previous six days, 130 of his Lutheran congregation had been carried off, and his church’s tiny burial ground was looking more and more like a plowed field. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Below it, women with big, pastel-colored hats filed in for a night service at a storefront church, and a whole other congregation cluttered into the liquor store next door. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Stanley Goldfarb died and his relatives and the congregation gathered for an evening of prayers and mourning. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Celaena yawned, but nodded with the rest of the congregation as the choir gave their blessings. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Music education in the U.S. began after the Pilgrims and Puritans arrived, when ministers realized that their congregation needed help singing and reading music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Once he dismisses us, the congregation goes outside, where a few of the deacons are flipping burgers and hot dogs on the grills. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The congregation gasps, asif an unseen bellows were blowing the very breath of life into them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It is a special kind of person who will draw together a congregation, stand up before them with a proud, clear voice, and say words wrong, week after week. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Lillian Woodward failed to show for her prelude, and Turner found himself taking her place at the organ bench and looking over a mighty small congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z After prayers, I followed the rest of the congregation into the courtyard, where refreshments waited for us, courtesy of generous and well-off members of our community. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Preachers were notified to have their congregations send letters of protest to the mayor. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Opening up the bargaining table to a would-be congregation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We usually went to my grandmother’s church, an old-school Methodist congregation, five hundred African grannies in blue-and-white blouses, clutching their Bibles and patiently burning in the hot African sun. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “My Lord”—his arms were spread open wide before the congregation—“your Lord, works in mysterious ways.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The congregation drew up two yard chairs and sat facing the altar. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z AT Sunday church service, Shirley Boon gets up in front of the congregation. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He belonged to a congregation similar to the one shown here, photographed in Harlem in 1929. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Then she kissed half the women in the congregation goodbye, making small talk along the way. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z When she turned toward the congregation and waved, everybody smiled and clapped. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When we get there, the girls head off to Sunday school while I join Roger’s mother in the main congregation. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I was the first to reach the motorcar, but the congregation quickly crowded around. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Whether I’m—” “You’ve made the point, Mr. Newton. Are there any other comments about drafting a recommendation to the congregation that Reverend Buckminster be dismissed from our pulpit?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z According to Nelson’s accounting, nearly half my father’s congregation were relatives of dead twins. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The cup of wine made its way around the congregation. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Around him, the congregation laughs and cries and nods in recognition. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The ceremony contained the full funeral liturgy, omitting only the final portion where the congregation is asked to give the deceased a final kiss. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The rabbi’s heartfelt words moved the entire congregation, and my thoughts traveled to my own Jewish mother, who was sitting in the fourth row. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the congregation, led again by Mrs. Duncan, flew into “Precious Lord, take my hand, lead me on, let me stand.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Roberto Vega was bouncing his head as if jazz were being played somewhere not far away and the congregation was coiling slowly like a snake, waiting for the Holy Spirit to strike. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hurd fell into Mrs. Buckminster’s arms and held back tears as the congregation walked past them, trying not to watch. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z My family got involved with a local church, and my dad formed a choir with the kids in the congregation. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Her teacher had lifted her arms through the air like a priest ordering a congregation to stand, so that her slip showed, gray and raggedy. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I help Mom and Dad move some of the furniture around—it won’t look great if the entire congregation of Temple Judea sees me tripping over an ottoman and knocking myself unconscious. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He gets criticism from the congregation for both getups. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z When the Southern California ministers were really whipping their congregations into a froth, they would get rolling on the subject of “the Road to Hell,” a byway that ran south from San Diego. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It shriveled the leg of one girl in our congregation and deformed the arm of a little boy. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z It was the same pulpit where over twenty years earlier I had spoken to the congregation about casting and catching stones. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The rabbi would begin the service in a strong, vibrant voice that soon blended in with the voices of the congregation. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I’ve worshiped with thousands of other Christians in the Yoido Full Gospel Church, the world’s largest Christian congregation, in Seoul, Korea. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The radio a live mass of wire oozing from his trunk, a seething congregation of snakes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This was like a gunshot in our congregation. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The “vacation home” I was speaking about was the parsonage my grandparents had moved into when my grandfather came out of retirement to lead a congregation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Reb Saunders stood with his back to the congregation, swaying back and forth, occasionally clapping his hands together, and the child stood at his right, swaying too, in obvious imitation of his father. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z One Sunday, when regular service was over, Father James had uncovered sin in the congregation of the righteous. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I followed them and we sat like wet ducks on a bench facing the congregation. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A month earlier when thunderstorms seemed imminent, Father had counseled his congregation to repent their sins and the Lord would reward them with rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Having grabbed the congregation’s attention, Shin then introduced himself as a predator who had been bred in the camp to inform on family and friends—-and to feel no remorse. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He once asked, “Where is the Devil?” and pointed straight at the congregation. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “I’m going to tell her she ought to let him know she know about his wickedness. Get up in front of the congregation and tell them too, if she has to.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Elisha hung his head as Father James spoke, and the congregation murmured. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Suesetta assures me, “It’s just like having to say our Christmas speeches in front of the congregation, only we don’t have to memorize it, so it’s even better. You’re good at speaking anyway, Betty.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The congregation at the paddock alone was greater than the track’s total attendance the day before. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath it, the bell tower angled down to the clapboard front and granite steps, hewn a hundred years ago by the first congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Ruth went and when the congregation went to the altar to receive the host, she went also. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the congregation in the square might have been expecting a parade, or attending a political rally. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the Bath minister asked if the bereaved would like to come forward and speak some words to the assembled congregation about this good man, comforting others through an account of this holy man’s homegoing. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Throughout the entire service, Reb Saunders stood with his back to the congregation, sometimes raising his head toward the ceiling, or raising his hands to cover his eyes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He was listening closely, but he didn’t seem worried about losing a member of the congregation. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She led the congregation in prayer, asking the Lord to comfort all the families who had lost loved ones in the protests and riots. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It’s a vast congregation of hunger, infectious disease, and desperation, masquerading as opportunity. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was the preacher, Miss Love was the pi-ana player, and the both of us made up the congregation. Hit was a real nice service.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Hennie began speaking in lofty language, and at one point, asked the congregation to close its eyes and pray. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When she and Lefty became members of his congregation, the old priest had asked, as a formality, if they had received an Orthodox wedding. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In obvious ways everyone in the congregation seems closer and more aware of each other. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A reciprocal relationship between people and clergy is dramatized as the congregation takes an active role in the recitation of the mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite all the invites, the congregation didn’t swell much that day. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z First, one of the firefighters who had aimed the water hoses at us on May 2, 1963, came to my church and apologized to the congregation for his part in the violence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The swelling congregation had to move out of the church and into the fields. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to see my father alone, without the small congregation as witnesses, so I asked for another bowl of stew and drank it slowly while they walked to him singing a mournful hymn. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Kit rose thankfully for the final prayer, and stood respectfully with the rest of the congregation till the minister had passed down the aisle to the door. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think so. There might be something in storage, but I doubt it. Maybe other members of the congregation might remember something about them.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Seems like half the congregation fills the foyer. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z When he came out of the water, the congregation cheered. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Once it’s offering time, the deacons stand at the front of the church asking the congregation to rise and follow the ushers from the rear. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z After graduation, the two students left Boston to shepherd congregations in the South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z People bring in their own foldup chairs and lawn chairs, and so sometimes it looks more like the congregation is watching a parade or sitting at a barbecue instead of being at church. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The congregation was edging in closer now, considering what Mrs. Cobb should have, done to remember some kindness they had gone out of their way to show her. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He looked around at the congregation as if to include them in his joke. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z She was given a microphone and she spoke into it, telling the congregation what she’d told the reverend, that she had been investigating Islam, and that—The preacher cut her off. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The congregation was growing angry because Roberto had imbued them with outrage. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The Reverend J. Henry C. Helmuth of the Lutheran congregation, too, thought something was wrong in the city, though it had nothing to do with sickness of the body. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Which was really awkward, since Mom and Dad still refuse to sit anywhere but the second row and I kept having to twist around to see the rest of the congregation. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Well,” said Reverend Buckminster, “the congregation must think what it will think.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It doesn’t matter that TJ’s talented and can bring the whole congregation to their knees with that voice of his. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z American independence became his ministerial calling, a mission he pursued with all the compressed energy of a latter-day Puritan pastor whose congregation was the American people. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Beside me, Jody's cheeks bloomed like good apples, and here and there in the little congregation I recognized other faces of other girls from college and my home town who had known Joan. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z When he looked down at the congregation and upon her, his eyes opened wide. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The minister and the congregation joined in the chorus. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z When a member of his congregation did not show up at church, he went straight to his home after services and yelled at him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Fizz gets off, and I go on to my creaky building in the midst of a congregation of old condominiums, neither retro cool nor demolition ready—yet. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z While the congregation filed past the minister, exchanges were made, bargains agreed upon, transactions completed, and announcements announced. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z A moment before, he seemed to be lifted high above the congregation, carried aloft by his own rhetoric. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Most of them, including Aunt Loma, thought Miss Love would join their congregation with Grandpa “for the same reason she married him—to come up in the world.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She may not have gone to the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church—she was a Methodist— but she would have been accepted in any congregation. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Already Parker Head was covered, and the ground was frozen enough that where the congregation had walked and driven carriages, the road showed through but the snow hadn’t changed to slush. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z What bothered Blanca was the disruption this would bring to the spiritual peace of the congregation. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z But mostly she was too mortified to face the congregation. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The proclamation of faith, the Creed, I hear recited by the congregation around me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The church suddenly went dark and this collective whisper rolled through the congregation. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He started softly but the exhortations of the congregation—“Talk! Talk!” and “Alright! Alright!” and “Take your time, son! Take your time!”—got him going in a sweet and easy rhythm. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Before long, the congregation had grown so large that he moved elsewhere and refurnished the house with rows of wooden pews and a tiled fountain in the place once occupied by the family’s television set. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Sometimes when a Christian Pole wanted to describe a chaotic event, he would say, "It was like a Jewish congregation." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z "Mad? Why? It's a sweet congregation. You should come with us sometime, Anu. I've always wanted to ask you, but I'm not sure what you think about religion." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Coming out of the church, the people of the congregation hugged one another, touched hands, arms, faces. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z To ask forgiveness, repeatedly, was what congregations were mosdy expected to do, all the while listening to choirs and priests singing at great length about the same sentiment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z As Cathy Cohen has observed, ministers and members of black congregations have helped to develop what she calls the “indigenous constructed image of ‘good, black Christian folk.”’ The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Kinda like a preacher preaching the gospel and the congregation shoutin’ “Amen.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z We hadn’t been to church as a family in a very long time, so it made sense that we didn’t know Special Agent Gonzales was part of our neighborhood’s congregation. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Dill’s father stands at the front of the congregation and raises a mason jar half-filled with strychnine before taking a long swig, his eyes rolling back. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z When he passed the Methodist church, he heard the congregation singing a joyful hymn. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z And then the congregation went out into the world, where most Christians were flexible about such strictures but still considered themselves devout, and justifiably so. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As for the congregation, it had vanished completely among the trees. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z This was a high calling in the Church, one of the elders, figuratively and literally, who would travel to teach congregations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I didn’t know what that meant until one Sunday when Mary played a piano solo for the congregation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Sister Lucille waved her arms, leading the congregation in the response. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you or I have the right to live only as long as we are productive?” he asked his congregation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I would sing a hymn in front of the congregation that Sunday. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The whole congregation watched the paper in his pocket during the prayer for peace. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The rest of the time each member of the congregation was on his or her own. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Pietism laid great store by helping congregations find God themselves, through personal acquaintance and knowledge of the scriptures, through humility, non-confrontation and piety, through an ethos of hard work, and through education. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z After delivering a moving eulogy for Reverend Pinckney and acknowledging the deep tragedy of the moment, Barack surprised everyone by leading the congregation in a slow and soulful rendition of “Amazing Grace.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Figure 6.18: The same hymn in C is more easily singable by a congregation. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z My fidgeting continued when the congregation sang along with the choir, songs like the ones blasting in Gran’s house and car. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The congregation gathered around the coffin, and the yellow church swelled like a throat with the sound of sad singing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I told the congregation that Walter had become like a brother to me, that he was brave to trust his life to someone who was as young as I was then. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “You,” she said to me, “are old enough to sit with the congregation.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She knew the congregation would hear about this. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z A whisper moved through the congregation, followed by the rustle of pages as prayer books were opened. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z That Sunday, Jean Louise and the congregation were in all innocence clearing their throats to drag it accordingly when out of a cloudless sky Mrs. Clyde Haskins crashed down on the organ. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Doctor Cooper was putting more politics than gospel into his sermons that fall and more fear of‘taxation without representation’ than God into his congregation. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in September, he explained how our congregation supports the Hebrew school and how we return the favor by bringing treats on Friday nights. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The police superintendent—a member of our congregation—is waiting on the platform in street clothes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Images of a flower-choked coffin, a silent congregation and Faith crying softly behind me flickered. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z At the end of the service, the congregation stood, and Deborah’s mouth twisted as she fought to scream. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The congregation of his very own church interrupted the sermon to hold an election on whether or not to accept Jesus Christ as the personal Saviour of Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s how the members from the congregations would pay us, with food and a place to stay and their cast-off clothes. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The Earlys’ meager congregation has collapsed in their pastor’s absence, and the Original Church is the best they can find in Forrestville to replace it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The next Sunday after services, Willis Hurd nodded to Turner as he filed out with the rest of the congregation to shake Reverend Buckminster’s hand. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Scott said, “If I am going to help you I must be one of you,” and he proceeded to move to the squatter camp and start a congregation there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard, more nearly felt, the congregation draw in its breath. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I remember that at the end of service, the congregation took up a collection for Mrs. Duncan. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I don’t have any synagogue experience beyond Zooming Rabbi Gold, but how can their congregation not hate me after what I did? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z This was a tribulation; Isaac wanted sorely the camaraderie of his heretic congregation, their sweet witness; he missed the singing and tears, the prayers of love and fellow-feeling, the entreaties of sorrow assuaged. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z For the following eight months, the congregation met to worship in the nearby L. R. Hall Auditorium. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Ladies, he’s single,” the pastor had announced in church that Sunday after introducing Jim as a new member of the congregation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z We live, he said to the hushed congregation, in a day and age when fathers often do not receive the respect they should from their sons. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z No longer is the congregation moved to a contemplation of the timeless. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It dominated all, the pulpit: a wooden platform raised above the congregation, with a high stand in the center for the Bible, before which the preacher stood. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I try to look normal, like the words coming out of Phyllis’s mouth are just the lyrics to the song the congregation is singing. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When the altar gate was thrown open, the congregation surged forward to touch the infant Jesus for good luck in the coming year. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z A call goes up through the congregation and two of the brothers do a shuffling dance down the center aisle, a wooden box containing a snake in each of their hands. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z But Turner had no intention of gladdening the hearts of this grieving congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He remembers that after Reverend Wells’s sermon, the congregation began a discussion on the remaining funds needed to complete various and largely unnecessary renovations to the building. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Lutheran congregations were expected to be active participants in the service, with communal hymn-singing given high status. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Danny told me later that it contained the sayings of the Ba’al Shem Tov and had been presented to his father as a gift on his fiftieth birthday by the members of his congregation. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “The congregation, Minister, will tell you what it thinks, and what it wants you to think,” said Mr. Stonecrop, and the words wound like barbed wire around the Buckminsters. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z At first they’d insulted my father by turning us down, even after our Bethlehem congregation had done special tithes for a whole year to fly us here for the perfusion of Jesus’ name. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I would sit goggle-eyed at my father jumping and shouting as he preached, with the congregation jumping and shouting behind him, their souls and bodies devoted to singing and praying. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The congregation was about to sing, to make a joyful noise to the Lord. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The congregation sang along with the choir for an eye-rolling half hour. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The congregation was there, standing, ready to panic but not knowing where to go. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The pastor walked away from the pulpit, closer to the congregation. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It was Rabbi Eliahu, who had headed a small congregation in Poland. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A few months ago, he got up in front of the congregation and ranted about how parents don’t need to hug and kiss their sons because it makes them gay. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z And again the congregation at Union Baptist Church came to Marian’s aid, organizing a benefit concert that raised $566 so that she could study with Boghetti. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z His central role as priest—intermediary between congregation and God—is diminished. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When the matter was closed, when the sentence was passed and the congregation dispersed, a ruthless youthful forgetting, a willful erasing, protected her well into her teens. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At the end, when the congregation began to break up„ he raised his arms signaling for attention. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Reverend Richard and his congregation scraped up enough money to buy his church and save it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Once again the congregation of Union Baptist Church stepped in to help. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z He said amen, and blessed them, and turned away, and immediately the congregation began to sing. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Sunday mornings in this year of grace 1965, imagine the “Christian conscience” of congregations guarded by deacons barring the door to black would-be worshipers, telling them “You can’t enter this House of God!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Could there really be a whole congregation of people who have never heard of the James Dickey novel and subsequent movie? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Blanca had probably already asked around dozens of congregations without any luck. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “By all that’s holy, Turner, you couldn’t wait before you decided to embarrass me in front of a new congregation?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Billy and his chaplain had gathered a congregation of about fifty soldiers on a Carolina hillside. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In my mind I saw them cutting, spearing, shooting Sylvie, her boys, the young and old of the congregation. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Your wife has become a most valued member of our congregation. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z I see the congregation, teary-eyed, suddenly distracted by the rising smoke seeping through the seams. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Los Angeles rabbi B. Gardner simply quit after the members of his congregation placed constant demands on him for wine. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Since he could remember, he’d wanted to lead his own congregation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Some people felt too afraid to come back and left our congregation for good. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My arms are outstretched as if I’m conducting a sermon and this entire not-very-big, dull, dull town is my congregation. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I told the congregation that we can't simply watch that happen. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The artist worked closely with the rabbi on the choice of symbols, and the final piece was sewn by the women of the congregation under the direction of Gottlieb’s wife, Esther. | 'Modern Art, Sacred Space': Daring Expressions in ?Modern Art, Sacred Space? 2010-04-08T21:43:00Z “Women thus horned and branched resemble horned snails and unicorns,” a French bishop scolded his congregation around 1370. Antiques: Beatles Photos, Medieval Fashion and Forbes?s Auctions 2011-05-19T20:54:27Z Until the late 18th century, the congregation used to have to dig out the entrance every Sunday; today, only the tower is visible. 'My romantic holiday’: the good, the bad and the calamitous 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z The remainder are in fair or good condition, greatly valued both by the worshippers and the surrounding community, and often well supported and maintained through heroic efforts by tiny regular congregations. Hundreds of churches at risk, English Heritage survey finds 2010-06-27T15:21:00Z The light in his eyes today has a particular urgency: Pastor Paul has had a revelation and believes his church, whose congregation has swelled to thousands, must forge a new path. Critic’s Notebook: Varied New Works at 38th Annual Humana Festival 2014-04-02T18:26:14Z Visiting a Baptist service, with ministers preaching, gospel choirs grooving and animated congregations matching them step for step has become a staple of Harlem tourism. 36 Hours in Upper Manhattan 2014-02-20T19:20:26Z When his wife seems unhappy, Karl finds himself taking on the grating voice of “the jolly pastor addressing his listless congregation.” 'The Transition' plumbs every poet's worst nightmare: corporate hell 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z After envying the huge congregations that Pentecostal ministers were beginning to attract with their preaching about the Holy Spirit’s everyday presence, Jones peeled off from the Methodists to found his own Pentecostalist-style church. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Cecilia, 4, and her sister Jane, 6, immediately notice how the congregation is sitting in vintage cinema seats rescued from a partially destroyed movie theater. ‘Once visitors arrive, it’s easy to seduce them’: Le Havre celebrates its 500th year 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z “It’s definitely a spiritual experience when you get the choir and the band and the congregation in there together.” Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Marks 25 Years 2013-10-22T14:20:55Z The congregation gathers outside in the cold to finish the march that was interrupted 50 years ago. Rep. Terri Sewell, a daughter of Selma, rues her city’s lost promise 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z A sparse version of Dolly Parton's My Blue Tears has the entire congregation in this draughty church rapt. John Reilly and friends – review 2013-02-14T18:03:07Z Add some “Star Wars” and they will be diverted And you’ll have a congregation overnight! Style Invitational Week 1078: Hyphen the Terrible — neologisms plus winning parodies The congregation opposed the infamous witchcraft trials, published the first anti-slavery tract, baptised Benjamin Franklin, and hosted the meetings that led to the Boston Tea Party. Historic psalm book could fetch $30m 2013-04-17T12:17:24Z Some churches, like Trinity Church Wall Street in Manhattan, are downsizing choirs and orchestras that might number more than 80 members to single-digit choristers for services they are streaming without congregations. Christmas Without Music? Churches Are Finding a Way 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z But he could sing, started lessons at 7, and in short order was transfixing the congregation at his local shul with his rendition of yigdal at Shabbos service on Friday nights. Troye Sivan Is a New Kind of Pop Star: Here, Queer and Used to It 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The decision was put to the vote, with the congregation overwhelmingly voting for the artefacts to be sold. America's first book set to be sold amid holy row 2012-12-05T13:05:52Z Another story, “Journey in a Place Without Blessings,” is a series of brief numbered sections, many consisting of only a few haunting words, and some as short as “The congregation is silent.” ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The cast of 50, drawn from the church’s congregation of about 550, had rehearsed since August and performed about 18 shows on busy nights, when groups came through every couple of minutes. Welcome to a Texas hell house, where wayward Christians are scared straight 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z As the numbers of nonreligious Americans continue to grow, we can be sure that these secular congregations will grow with them. Atheist churches: A new type of secular community 2013-12-03T16:23:00Z When Jerome spoke to older members of the congregation that once worshiped at the church, they recalled hearing about a visitor in the 1930s. Poe fans call an end to 'Toaster' tradition 2012-01-19T12:58:10Z All the more reason to be grateful that it will have a full if brief run to tell its small congregation that where there is life, there is the chance to be reborn. In ‘Rectify,’ Life After Prison and the Chance to Be Reborn 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Her father directed the chorus of St. Ann Catholic Church, where the congregation was treated to the elaborate polyphony of Palestrina and Byrd on a weekly basis. Joyce DiDonato, Standing on Her Own Just Fine 2010-03-20T04:45:00Z The song's narrator interrupts the town's new preacher and takes him to task for lecturing the congregation about a fire-and-brimstone afterlife: "A man don't have to die to go to hell." Brad Paisley prepares for ninth album release 2011-05-13T21:17:40Z The plan includes a pyramid-shaped structure to house a 127-person assembly hall in the interior and enable informal congregation on the exterior. Pritzker Prize awarded to Burkina Faso-German architect 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Because of her background in the church – from improvising on the piano while her father preached to riffing vocally in response to an enraptured congregation – Franklin wasn’t bound by the strictures of pop. Aretha Franklin, America and the origin of the 'spirit feel' 2012-10-29T18:23:00Z "I think they are very beautiful," says Martin Carr, a pastoral assistant who visits his congregation on the bikes. Has London's cycle hire scheme been a capital idea? 2011-07-10T07:00:01Z So did Mason, who at one time had congregations in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Jackie Mason, comic who perfected amused outrage, dies at 93 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z He turned over his leadership in the committee to a priest from Oso whose congregation paid for all the funerals. Mudslide survivors find gratitude and ways to go on 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Built in 1923, it was home for decades to the Good Hope Lutheran Church congregation and is now home to some of the best food in Ellensburg. $99 Road Trip: To Ellensburg and Cle Elum for history and a good steak 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z A group of angry Catholic parishioners are preparing to storm their walls when members of the congregation begin bleeding from their eyes and then dying. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 6: Mexico 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z He left the church shortly thereafter, after confessing to the congregation as a whole that he had sinned in such a way that it would necessitate him stepping down from ministry. The healing power of the peach 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Many congregations saw abortion “as a medical problem, not a religious or political issue,” according to Blumenthal, and people of faith helped thousands of women obtain illegal abortions. How Do You Explain the History of Reproductive Rights to Teenagers? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z And the activists found alliances with socially conservative Protestant congregations. Exhibition Review: ‘American Spirits’ at the National Constitution Center 2012-10-18T22:30:49Z Sundays on Grenada are as quiet as a congregation of church mice; off-season, you can barely even hear them squeak. Spice and everything nice on Grenada Church, one of the oldest Black congregations in uptown New Orleans. She Wants to Heal the World Through Second Line 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z But before any of that, he recalls seeing the impact of music on a religious congregation. Justin Brown Is a Monster on Drums. Now He’s a Bandleader, Too. 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z But, sooner or later, this fun is replaced by philosophizing, inspired by congregation around the table for the family meal. Adele can’t fix everything: Neuroscience explains why we fight with Donald Trump-loving racist uncle 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Or the poem of the older white woman at church, ignoring the lyrics on her “Let There Be Peace on Earth” pamphlet, so she can glare at the black man in the congregation beneath her? Rosalind Fox Solomon’s Color Line 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z McKeehan, 49 — better known by his stage name TobyMac — played the part of the cool youth pastor for his audience, which looked like your average Sunday congregation: mostly families from preteen kids through grandparents. Christian songster TobyMac delivers music, message 2014-02-24T21:30:25Z The Mass was performed by the priest standing with his back to the congregation and his words and actions directed to the altar. Art Review: ‘Illuminating Faith’ at the Morgan: Images of the Eucharist 2013-07-04T20:22:28Z “The congregation acclaimed him as ‘Augustus’ and Leo prostrated himself at Charlemagne’s feet.” Richard Dawkins is wrong: Religion is not inherently violent 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z In a recent interview, the singer spoke with The Associated Press about the meaning of his album’s title, how he’s handled the pandemic with his congregation and the role of gospel music in today’s society. Marvin Sapp on new album and dealing with pandemic at church 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Even Elizabeth, portrayed with a touching sense of sorrowful dignity by Ms. Powell, finds herself conflicted as her husband’s pronouncement reverberates through the congregation. Review: In ‘The Christians,’ a Schism Over Fire and Brimstone 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Their digital congregation grew exponentially when they talked Trump, and that is what they have done ever since. Who are Diamond and Silk? How two small-town ex-Democrats found fame as ‘warriors’ for Trump. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z He saw recording as a way to leave a legacy for his family and congregation. A Gospel Revival in Memphis Breathes Fresh Life Into Sacred Sounds 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z From that moment, she's bitten with the activism bug and invited by King to sing in front of the congregation at a larger meeting that evening. A prior journey across the bridge in 'Selma, Lord, Selma' 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z A form of corporate Christianity, it sees old shopping malls turned into giant places of worship, with owners whose business goals demand a congregation that grows year-on-year – or they fire the pastor. Danny McBride: 'Kanye asked me to play him in a movie of his life' 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Black church congregations folded bills hidden inside envelopes and sent the money to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, to the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, to the NAACP, to CORE. Perspective | Harry Belafonte’s biggest hit? The song of freedom. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z It was the same setting as Harry and Meghan’s wedding in May, and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as the couple are now known, were among the star-studded congregation. Hold onto your hats: Princess Eugenie marries in grand UK royal... 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Shape notes were a form of notation developed in the early 1800s to teach congregations how to sing together. Music Review: The Early American Songbook, Reclaimed 2010-12-07T21:27:00Z Its ebullient congregation is led by a punitive pastor, Sister Margaret. The Amen Corner – review 2013-06-12T12:21:51Z The title song is the sound of a secular preacher bringing his congregation closer to him, so that he can fess up to his failings and declare his determination to overcome them. Album review: Bobby Womack, 'The Bravest Man in the Universe' 2012-06-11T20:41:00Z What is clear, though, is that the same scrutiny that has been focused on Catholic abuse scandals is needed to understand the factors that contribute to similar scandals in Protestant congregations. Evangelical church accused of ignoring sexual abuse, “pedophilia ring” 2013-03-12T16:17:00Z The music for a 1918 number, “Somebody’s Done Me Wrong,” is illustrated with a black pastor who has a gun concealed in his pulpit and is glaring balefully at his congregation. Antiques: Black and Jewish Music, Kentucky Cabinets, Magician Posters 2012-12-06T22:01:49Z “Just as you may expect to see a church congregation of passionate believers dancing, clapping, shouting and engaging in active worship, so goes a ‘typical’ Soulful Symphony concert.” Perspective | The Soulful Symphony reinvents itself, elevating music’s American roots 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The minister of a thriving mega-church, in an unnamed American city, announces a spiritual revelation from the pulpit and prompts a crisis in the congregation. Top 10 Plays & Musicals 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Still the audience at the final looked happy enough, like a cross between an evangelical congregation and a darts championship crowd. Rewind TV: The X Factor; The Trouble with Aid; The Killing; The Poison Tree; This World – review 2012-12-16T00:05:52Z Your title, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” is taken from a sermon that the Colonial theologian and minister Jonathan Edwards preached to congregations in Massachusetts and Connecticut, in 1741. Joyce Carol Oates on Catastrophizing and Environmental Collapse 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Often, her hymns are posted to the Internet within a few days of the events to which they respond, and congregations begin singing them immediately. A New Hymn for Charleston 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The same caveat applies to that lusty singing of whole congregations. 500 Years Later, the Reformation Is Still Creating Music 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z An Agnostic Talks to Her Children About God I am a religious Jew, married to a rabbi and active in my congregation. Motherlode Blog: An Agnostic Talks to Her Children About God 2012-11-25T13:50:43Z What congregation did he belong to? she asked. AKA Jane Roe: behind the headline-making abortion documentary 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z One member of the congregation doesn’t get the message. Red Hook Summer: Spike Lee Returns to His Brooklyn Roots 2012-08-09T20:25:27Z Ratliff wisely resisted layering on unnecessary lampooning of congregation members or their leaders. 'Salvation Boulevard': Cast is divine in religious satire 2011-07-28T19:28:08Z The congregations have scheduled regular meetings to discuss how the Wahdats are adapting and to determine what other supports are needed along the way. A rabbi decided to sponsor an Afghan refugee family. When he needed a hand, he brought in a mosque and a church. 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z There were prayers and readings of formal condolences from local officeholders and congregations. Chuck Berry Is Hailed as a Rock Trailblazer and a St. Louis Hero at His Funeral 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Palace officials said Queen Elizabeth II, William's grandmother, would host a reception at Buckingham Palace after the wedding ceremony, with guests drawn from the wedding congregation. Royal wedding details: Archbishop in key role 2011-01-05T15:04:14Z Nay, do listen to this oath, congregation: Whatever grateful oration we, ah, bother to deliver ain't near enough. Style Invitational Week 1322: Back to the drawing board 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Only a church, said the city, could host a large religious congregation. Fox News and Glenn Beck’s latest misleading cause 2012-08-10T14:40:00Z Hall’s character supports her husband as he tries to bring the congregation back after it loses faith in him. Regina Hall Sees the Bigger Picture With ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ and ‘Forensic Files’ 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z His minister prays with him over his cases, and often invites him to share them with the congregation on Sundays. Ben Crump has become the go-to attorney for racial justice: ‘I feel like I’m running out of time’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z And when later Burchfield’s mother felt shut out from a local congregation, he rejected religion completely. Art Review: ?Paintings of Charles Burchfield? at the Whitney 2010-06-24T21:53:00Z “Small town communities, urban social circles and religious congregations can pull together a plan with a rapidity and precision world military leaders can envy,” she writes. Recipes for a Tidy and Tasty Death 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z On Sunday, King evoked the “awful silence of God,” calling on his congregation to join the one-day boycott to challenge “the iron feet of oppression.” “Finally, we demanded, ‘Let my people go'”: Remembering the bravery of Rosa Parks, on the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z I blurted in a high-pitched squeal as I flicked my hair off my shoulders, something the congregation at our wedding were told was the moment it became fairly apparent I was attracted to him. How I married a world-champion air guitarist who turned up on my doorstep 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z I was born and raised in the Piney Woods of East Texas, and grew up evangelical — my family attended a Southern Baptist congregation. A Labor Day Thank You for the Arts 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z “That sparkle in my eye, you are a jewel, baby,” she purrs on the verse, as if an entire glittering, sweaty congregation of partygoers is orbiting around her confident stillness. Jack Harlow Goes Deep on Race and Rap, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z He and fellow Catholics in the Elizabethan era were tasked with making church music accessible to untrained congregations while preserving a sense of spiritual wonder. Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z But according to the study, the entire 9% difference is attributed to religious giving to congregations and religious organizations. Study: Three-quarters of American donations go to religion 2013-12-05T13:45:00Z Ms. Farese loved her dinner, and eventually contributed a recipe for it to a cookbook put together by her congregation, the Beech Hill Church of Christ, also in Ripley. The Improbable Rise of Mississippi Roast 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Throughout high school, I read the gospels in church on Sunday, smirking and self-satisfied about the low-key blasphemy I was committing by regaling the congregation with “the word of our Lord.” An atheist’s guide to Scorsese’s “Silence”: You don’t need faith to be astonished by the faithful 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z Known as the Black National Anthem, it brought the congregation to its feet. Review: ‘The Ordering of Moses’ Shines at Riverside Church 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z When a real-life crucifixion becomes the plan for the church’s Easter service, Guy aims to stop the proceedings and return the congregation to the Gospel teachings. God Loves a Show: Religious Satires Reveal the Art of Acting Faithful 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The Phelps clan and its congregation, Westboro Baptist Church, have earned themselves quite a reputation over the years, mostly for their penchant for showing up at funerals and gleefully spewing invective at mourners. Meet the two defectors of the Westboro Baptist Church 2013-02-07T16:37:00Z The Christians West Coast premiere of Lucas Hnath's drama about an evangelical pastor inspired to chart a new course for his congregation; features a live choir of local singers. L.A. theater openings, Dec. 13-20: 'The Christians' and more 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z There are also over 30 cardinals and bishops associated with the congregation’s work at various stages. Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Wilder’s table marks a rite, like a sacrament, where a congregation of people figuratively and literally break bread. Eat Up! Drama is Served at These Family Dinners 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z I've gotten phone calls and texts from numerous members of my congregation. Grieving together, and also apart: A Jewish American wrestles with identity, belonging and trauma 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s the congregation, though the criteria the parishioners are using to thin the field are not clear. In ‘It Takes a Church,’ the Congregation Helps Pick Your Date 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Adelasoye operated in partnership with a Ukrainian man extradited from Sweden for drug offences and a local vicar with a large church and a very small congregation. Marine Court: Hymn to the Sun 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z At the center of most of these reflections is her congregation. Are you SBNR (spiritual but not religious)? 2013-03-02T13:00:00Z Even more electrifying to Jones’s largely black congregation was the fact that he didn’t preach what Morris deems the “patient forbearance” of the typical black evangelical church. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z “One of the places I’m most comfortable is a church,” Carson told the congregation from the altar. Of course Ben Carson has a campaign staff. But only one adviser truly has his ear. 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z The congregation decided that a museum could best preserve it and sold the work, which has been extensively conserved, including repairing cracks and removing grime. Museum Shows With Stories to Tell 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z “Some folks assume that the church doesn’t have a congregation or that it’s deconsecrated,” the choreographer and performer Reggie Wilson said on a recent afternoon. Take Me to Church and Let Me Dance 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z As a child, he wanted to be a minister and would pretend he was preaching to a congregation of chickens, a story he jokingly recounts often. New doc "John Lewis: Good Trouble" gives nuance to a relentless freedom fighter 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z A strange occurrence, but then again strange things happen in the Sax-Zim Bog — like a congregation of four great gray owls. Explorer: In a Minnesota Bog, a Festival of Birds 2013-01-18T18:25:51Z Jews have been in Texas since at least 1816 and there has been a Reform congregation in San Antonio since 1874. My guilty-liberal response to a hate crime 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Seeing his father in action in front of large congregations sparked a real interest in music. Cisco Swank ‘Is Black Music. All of It.’ 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Trauma specialists here speak of concentric circles of need, spreading from the injured and people who lost family members to witnesses and survivors, then to first responders, members of the congregation, residents of the neighborhood. A club no one wants to join: How Pittsburgh is reaching out to comfort El Paso and Dayton 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z It’s almost a decade before the congregation recognizes their marriage and their four children, and Rachel refuses to accompany her second husband to synagogue. Alice Hoffman’s compelling tale of the artist Camille Pissarro and his mother 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z “Bonne journée,” called the priest to his congregation as they headed off into the narrow streets on their way home for lunch. The French Side of Basque Country 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z This is his first High Holy Days visit to the small rabbi-less congregation in Cypress, about 25 miles northwest of Houston, though he went to meet the community in April. Rabbis Who Travel to Remote Congregations on the High Holy Days 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Stitched on it are more than 100 names of congregation members. The artifacts and stories that brought the African American museum to life 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z “My only hope and goal was and is to bring the message of God’s unconditional love to a community that has been greatly marginalized,” Duke wrote to his congregation. Joining drag queens on TV show costs Indiana pastor his job 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Founded early this year, the Assembly markets itself as a “godless congregation,” which meets monthly “to solace worries, provoke kindness and inject a bit more whizziness into the everyday.” Don’t stop believin’: Do atheists need a church? 2013-04-28T16:00:00Z When we sang it, the plainsong choir stood in the balcony, the solo choir stood behind the choir screen, and the rest of the choir stood before the congregation. Sarah Manguso: the disease that stole my youth 2011-01-23T00:05:41Z Salem's villagers were a disputatious bunch, and Parris, their fourth minister, seems to have been unpopular — in 1691, his congregation voted not to collect his salary. Stacy Schiff's history of Salem trials and Alex Mar's book on modern pagans offer bewitching reading 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Church discipline is the practice of rebuking congregation members when they have sinned with the ultimate goal of repentance and reconciliation with God and the greater church body. What's lost when "The Righteous Gemstones" and Falwell scandals spotlight holy-rolling hypocrisy 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z “It got to the point that when I changed congregations, I walked in and everyone knew who I was,” Kimo said. Hawaiian Food Is Flourishing … in Utah? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Paul McCreesh is a master at staging reconstructions of liturgical events, and his performance of the Great Service with the Gabrieli Consort transported the minster congregation four centuries back in time. York Early Music festival ? review 2011-07-12T18:10:00Z Ethan Hawke plays the pastor of a small rural congregation who’s torn between worrying about the world and punishing himself for what he views as past failures; both threaten to destroy him. The Top 10 Movie Performances of 2018 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The painting of the Nuenen congregation where Van Gogh's father worked as minister was made for his mother and finished after his father's death in 1885. Two Van Gogh paintings stolen 14 years ago recovered from Italian mafia 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Wildlife tourism is a major attraction, with the May-September high season coinciding with the annual congregation of rare whale sharks, and an influx of flamingos, best spotted by kayak. Isla Holbox: could this be Mexico’s new Tulum? 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Kantor and Eaton, an ordained minister whose congregation is Boston’s homeless community, wanted to do something musical for the kids on their street in Cambridge. Baseball is sidelined. So Fenway Park’s organist launched his own season. 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z New York-based firm members Shohei Shigematsu and Jason Long will be the project’s design team, according to a Tuesday announcement by the temple, which is the oldest Jewish congregation in Los Angeles. L.A. arts patron selling Cy Twombly painting to fund synagogue events center 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The gloomy soliloquy that follows, in which Hamlet calls the world a “foul and pestilent congregation of vapors,” seems more a youthful pose than an agonized cry. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z He asked his congregation one vital question: Why couldn’t they have both? My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z But who would defend Celia’s murder of the congregation to protect those who are already dead? ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 6: Mexico 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z At the age of 60, Father Ray Andrews of the central London parish of St George has decided to disclose to his congregation that he is gay. Tonight's TV highlights: Father Ray Comes Out 2011-02-11T00:04:01Z The church, home to the oldest continuous Methodist congregation in America, has a lot of history. Souleymane Badolo at the River to River Festival 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z He and his colleagues have had experience of most of the issues that have come up in the show: inner-city bad behaviour, faith-school parent congregations, hostile evangelical takeovers etc. Last night's TV 2010-08-03T07:00:00Z The church and its congregation are integral to the Birmingham community today, and welcome visitors from around the world for tours and events. 8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z The individual was the vessel of the Holy Spirit--a performer, if only for the congregation. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Earthly delights await a congregation for which “luxurious fare is sinful,” as Philippa puts it. Review: ‘Babette’s Feast’ Is Served, This Time Onstage 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z And at the center of the exhibition is a reproduction of a stained-glass window from Sherith Israel, one of the first Jewish congregations in San Francisco, showing Moses descending with the Ten Commandments. Exhibition Review: Magnes Judaica Museum Joins Berkeley Library - Review 2012-01-22T23:04:04Z “I will take such measures as are necessary to secure myself a pulpit,” the narrator thunders, but securing a pulpit is easier than securing a congregation. Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z She would do the cooking and baking for congregation events, and she caught the attention of Craig Claiborne, who twice wrote up her High Holiday recipes in the New York Times. What makes a pastry chef indispensable? 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z A zealous address he made over a decade ago to a Muslim congregation in the UK has cast a long shadow. Mehdi Hasan: 'Most people ask the question and move on. I don't' 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z In recent months, Mr. Woodworth noticed many men in the congregation at church meetings had beards. Beard Crusader 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z The Mormon congregation in Preston is older than the one in Salt Lake City in Utah. Mitt Romney's 'lamentable' north of England roots 2012-07-24T16:27:23Z This year, for the first time, the nationwide aggregation of religious traditions, dubbed the “Religion Census,” counted non-denominational evangelical congregations, ranging from storefront sanctuaries to megachurches including Willow Creek Community Church. Census: Independent evangelicals one of the largest religious groups 2012-05-02T12:45:00Z They come together at New Hope Baptist Church, where Houston wowed the congregation with her powerful voice even as a young girl. Family and friends gather for Houston goodbye 2012-02-18T11:50:15Z Many foreigners are invited to sit in front-row pews, they say, but are prohibited from mingling with a congregation hand-picked by the state. In North Korea, a church renovated, missionaries jailed 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The seating plan is "antiphonal", with two banks of congregation facing each other; the chapel's layout and acoustic also allows conversational rather than declamatory voices. Bishop Edward King chapel, Ripon College – review 2013-04-27T23:05:48Z Generally, an invitation for the congregation to witness a wedding is issued from the pulpit or in the bulletin. Wedding Etiquette 2011-05-19T19:29:56Z Women in Virginia accused of sex-related crimes might be forced to stand in front of their congregations wearing nothing but a linen shroud. In Jamestown, a new exhibition pays homage to the women history overlooked 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Then, in 2012, the parish closed and the congregation merged with nearby Holy Redeemer Catholic Church. With a homeless center on campus, students have an unusual chance to serve 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z In a recent survey of U.S. rabbis, one-third said they were not comfortable expressing their views on Israel to their own congregations for fear of losing their jobs. Jewish groups argue over who gets to argue The endeavor is less about schooling the congregation and more about Rodney’s redemption. Net neutrality, sex, falconry: In one week, I crashed as many D.C. conferences as possible. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z And so I did, with thanks to the Unitarian Universalists for the “gender-sensitive guide to hymns” at the back of their handout, after which I immediately segued into the Sunday big-tent congregation. An Edification Vacation 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z “The idea of the public fountain as a point of congregation echoes with what’s literally happening on the street,” said Christopher Lew, the curator of the Whitney’s show, during the performance of “Conquest.” Pope.L’s Group Crawl: Protest, Pathos, Provocation 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The queen and Anne joined a congregation that included serving military personnel, veterans and their families from the U.K. and Commonwealth countries. Queen Elizabeth II uses cane to walk into Westminster Abbey 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z And if there is a crisis of faith now, the fault belongs as much to the congregation as it does to the preacher. We enabled Lance 2013-01-21T20:59:00Z The shofar will be blown at a ceremony Monday at the museum and at New Year’s services at congregations in Manhattan. An Improbable Relic of Auschwitz: a Shofar That Defied the Nazis 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Sometimes they appear in great congregations on a sloping hillside; other times they poke up flamboyantly as psychedelic-colored exhibitionists from the base of a tree; or as solitary, stately monuments, like this one. "You never forget spotting your first mushroom in a Finnish forest": My day with the Mushroom Queen 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z He shut himself inside his sanctuary while his congregation begged to be let in. Walking Dead Recap: The Zombies Aren't the Gruesome Part 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z “I believe Dad feared losing his congregation,” Archibald writes, “that it was better to have subtle influence than outright rejection.” Review | In ‘Shaking the Gates of Hell,’ a preacher’s son examines his church’s culture of silence on civil rights 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z The Dubuque church of the Nazarene, a small congregation, is led by Pastor Leah Barker, aged 30, who only left Dubuque to study at a Bible college. Nostalgia: the yearning that will continue to carry the Trump message forward 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The interview took place at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., where Whitney first wowed a congregation as a girl and where her funeral was held Feb. 18. Whitney Houston's mom says she's proud of her 2012-03-31T08:01:07Z In engaging short segments, Glickman — who leads congregations in Woodinville and on Bainbridge Island — chronicles the adventures of travelers, dealers and scholars, crafting a tale of archaeological intrigue and academic competition. 'Sacred Treasure' tells engaging story of early Hebrew documents 2011-01-06T22:03:06Z The film gave him a fiery sermon, delivered with wild eyes and abundant sweat before a packed congregation. Martin Landau obituary 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z The family arrived highly recommended by their British church congregation. Antiques: Clocks That Have Been Ticking Since Before the Revolution 2013-08-22T21:31:46Z Vesey was an active member of the congregation. 200 Years Later, Charleston Honors Denmark Vesey’s Attempted Uprising 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z He left the lesson-reading to others in the congregation, his theme being the creative imagination's similarity to religious belief and how he wouldn't really trust novelists who called themselves atheists. Bath festival's reading will revive the spirit of the King James Bible 2011-02-22T18:09:34Z The song was Bill Withers’s “I Don’t Know,” and Mr. Kiwanuka had the audience join him on the chorus, becoming a congregation of self-doubt to sing, “I just don’t know.” Music Review: Michael Kiwanuka at the Highline Ballroom 2012-06-14T21:40:14Z In some cases, a congregation or a religious governing body — say, a Catholic diocese — will sell the church to developers, who then turn them into apartments, offices, art galleries, museums, breweries or performance spaces. A new solution for America’s empty churches: A change of faith 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Rabbi Warshawsky, 29, leads prayers and teaches classes on Judaism and Jewish values at congregations throughout the country and is also a composer of music for worship and communal singing. Adina Allen, Joshua Warshawsky 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z A congregation will teach a biblical position on the sinfulness of same-sex acts, or it will affirm same-sex behaviors as morally acceptable. Southern Baptist Convention kicks out church for being too tolerant of LGBT members 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Happy: I believe that congregations follow their clergy’s lead regarding how they relate to one another. Perspective | Ask Amy: Cat ladies prefer cats to family members 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z The rift within Duke’s congregation reflects broader divisions within the United Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the United States. Joining drag queens on TV show costs Indiana pastor his job 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z The list goes on as he revs up, whipping his congregation and the audience into a frenzy. ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ Review: After Great Tribulation, an Exodus of Black Citizens 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Inside the red-brick church building — where some church members remembered Ms. Houston by her childhood nickname, Nippy — many in the congregation wore black on Sunday. ArtsBeat: Praise and Grief at Whitney Houston's Childhood Church 2012-02-12T22:29:26Z References to “the congregations in Charleston and Pittsburgh and Christchurch and Poway” mix synagogue shootings with murders in a mosque and a Black church. At Under the Radar, Family Histories Bubble Up With No Easy Answers 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z People will always identify with their cities, but the congregation of loosely affiliated urban tribes that alt-weeklies used to collect under one umbrella are now reaching out to each other across the globe instead. Goodbye, alt-weeklies 2012-10-06T17:00:00Z Résumé's appeal might mainly be to Weber's admirers, but that's a pretty large congregation – one that, to a man and woman, undoubtedly hopes to see him back on a stage one day. Eberhard Weber: Résumé – review 2013-01-03T21:50:01Z To see a body like this — a congregation of angles kinked in opposition — is to recognize Bob Fosse’s slinky specter. ‘Fosse/Verdon’ Has Magic to Do. And Undo. 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Now each month we assemble like a clandestine congregation of nonconformists in the basement of a charming local pub: the Bridge End Inn, Talgarth. Finding His Flock: A Rural Writer’s Book Club 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z A congregation of adorable baby gators piled atop each other in the sun along a swampy area, no doubt with an alert mother nearby. In Southwest Florida, taking a shine to the nation’s first solar-powered town 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The latter is a meditation on pottery as a simultaneously solitary art and an occasion for congregation; Gates, in the voice-over, adopts the intonation of a Sunday preacher. Poetry, Power and Loss in Theaster Gates’s Survey 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z But it’s difficult for the rest of the congregation to enjoy the music. Social Q?s: My Plate Is Full. Yours Is Borrowed. 2010-12-30T22:16:22Z Racy enough for reprobates and rakes, or priggishly read by a congregation of stately stiff-backs, the work is spacious enough to accommodate any disposition. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Meets the Hot Vax Summer 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z You might think that Tintoretto, never very wealthy, would have done his best work for the palace, and let his assistants dash something off for San Silvestro’s working-class congregation. 3 Days, 150 Paintings: A Whirlwind Tintoretto Tour 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The 1640 edition of the Bay Psalm Book is the earliest surviving print from the press, and was adopted by nearly every congregation in the Massachusetts Bay area. First US printed book up for auction 2013-04-17T16:46:39Z When the church was built for the congregation in the late 1920s, there was only a single floor. The Pews Went, but the Spirit Stayed in a Kansas City Church 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Today’s congregation has about 100 members, many with roots in North Africa; their Seder traditions include salmon tagine and a feast of vegetable salads. A Seder Feast in Provence, With Roots in Ancient Rome 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z With the basic joys of superior sleuthing mostly stripped out, the remaining pleasure you expect from a Christie adaptation is the opportunity afforded to a talented cast by its congregation of suspects and victims. Review: In Amazon’s ‘ABC Murders,’ John Malkovich Is a Sad Poirot 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z This evolution caused fractures in the congregation, some of them quite large; when Bell opened up church-leadership roles to women, for instance, attendance dropped by two thousand. A Megachurch Pastor’s Search for a More Forgiving Faith 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Thus, as Thomas More had insisted in the 1520s, Tyndale's "elder", "congregation" and "love" were to be rendered as "priest", "church" and "charity". The King James Bible reconsidered 2011-02-19T00:06:00Z This Palm Sunday morning, I sat in my local church with my family as the congregation relived the passion and crucifixion as it’s chronicled in the gospel. Turn off your iPad in church! 2014-04-14T18:31:00Z Or alternatively, as in "Josephine the Singer", music is cited as the essence of a particular kind of religious impulse: one that links the congregation with the sacerdotal through the agency of song. Will Self: The musical world of Franz Kafka 2012-10-05T21:55:12Z His congregation is all black, on Chicago’s South Side. Spike Lee says it’s time to stop taking violence lying down 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Its small Black church was set ablaze, in an arson Ames calls “a little nuisance fire,” and the congregation left town. Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z In some congregations deacons scold female churchgoers for keeping their hair short and suggest that they try weaves instead. What It Means to Dress in Lagos 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z The rules for the formation of Ronell’s congregation functioned within as without. A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider’s perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z It’s the tale of a small-town preacher whose faith leads him to defy his community and his own congregation, set against an oil boom and a devastating nationwide recession. “The Overnighters”: The haunting true story of a 21st-century boomtown 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z However, there is a tradition of Christian Identity groups attacking Christian churches, especially if their congregations are African-American. Behind Dylann Roof’s race war: The highly motivated secret white supremacy movement working toward “the battle of Armageddon” 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Soon after, she seemed to be curious about who I was, and she was asking me questions about what congregations I worship at, who am I and what organization am I approaching her from? "AKA Jane Roe" filmmaker on Norma McCorvey's authenticity and getting to that "deathbed confession" 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Although the three religious congregations are not technically a sponsor circle, their efforts are similar. A rabbi decided to sponsor an Afghan refugee family. When he needed a hand, he brought in a mosque and a church. 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z In Jewish Orthodox tradition, during the benediction, the Shechinah, which very roughly means the feminine counterpart to God, enters the sanctuary to bless the congregation. William Shatner: How Kirk and Spock's Relationship Held 'Star Trek' Together 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z “I did for my church what Elmer is doing for the revival that he meets,” Pollock said of his congregation in Summit, N.J. Former pastor Charlie Pollock returns to the stage in Signature Theatre’s ‘Elmer Gantry’ But another image comes through too: an image of sociability, of a community of personalities, a congregation of spirits. In Maya Lin’s ‘Ghost Forest,’ the Trees Are Talking Back 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Then, led by the Abbot, they present the story of the bereaved mother to the congregation. Ian Bostridge Stars in Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Most of the congregation arrived before me and raided the place of its fried chicken, leaving me with meatloaf. In Plains, Ga., President Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school program still draws crowds 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Parkes writes that she became “a yarn evangelist” who traveled in search of her congregation. ‘Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World’ review 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z In the series, Vernon dupes a congregation into thinking that he’s their new preacher while trying to start a relationship with a daughter born out of a one-night stand 15 years ago. Billy Ray Cyrus' acting roles have personal connection 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Hnath’s depiction of a conservative congregation wrestling with radical new ideas mirrors what’s happening now in churches across the country. Review: In ‘The Christians,’ a Schism Over Fire and Brimstone 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Because her father specialised in re-energising failing congregations, Frances and two adopted siblings had a peripatetic childhood around the US. Frances McDormand: two defining roles, two decades apart 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z Critics will try to measure the sincerity of the congregations’ beliefs, Ms. Rodriguez said. Is Weed Church Church? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z “That’s the United States of America,” says Jobs, addressing the congregation mustered by her money. Inside Ozy Fest, the progressive alternate reality where the brands outshine the ideas 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The congregation sang "Happy Birthday" at the end of mass and presented the cardinal with a cake. George: Government impeding on religious freedoms 2012-02-18T23:17:00Z A congregation of people stood in the middle of its fenced field. Road trip to Powder Keg City: The collapse of Seattle's autonomous zone 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z A secret congregation of politicians, religious officials and scientists gathered near midnight on April 14, 2014, in the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw to exhume the heart of Chopin. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Scorsese draws some modest, uneasy comedy from the linguistic and cultural differences between the priests and their congregation, as when a grabby, highly agitated woman begs the rather startled Garupe to hear her confession. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The most startling moment involves her father, the Rev CL Franklin, who addresses the congregation and then, while Aretha is actually singing, he rushes forward to mop her brow. Crying! Pole-Dancing! Heroin! The best movie moments of 2019 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Internet reports were full of naked chicks in the campgrounds, reunited ’80s legends performing songs that hadn’t been heard for decades, and leather-clad rockers drinking with sweaty fans — an altogether unholy congregation devoted to metal. Hair metal forever! 2012-07-22T01:00:00Z But it has letters from congregations in Newport and Savannah, Ga., thanking the new president for being so welcoming. A Jewish Exodus to a New Nation 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z There are armies of populist tambourine bashers, the fundamentalists and evangelicals with their great tunes and prejudices who take over the church in episode two, quadrupling the congregation before showing their true colours. Rev: preaching to the converted 2011-04-05T10:58:25Z The show does not have George Washington’s famous letter to the Newport congregation expressing the hope that everyone “shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig-tree.” A Jewish Exodus to a New Nation 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z He is also an ordained minister of the Revolution Church, a nondenominational Christian church, and is the director for arts and community development at Bushwick Abbey, an Episcopal congregation in Brooklyn. Millicent Souris, Vincent Anderson 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z The ventriloquist and the nun sip coffee as they discuss the purpose of the congregation’s prayer at Mass. She’s traveled 16 years with the circus, but she is not a performer. She’s a nun. 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Simon didn’t read music until he enrolled at Morehouse College; he had learned by ear, improvising to accompany the Pentecostal congregation on Sundays and catching the right key as worshipers spontaneously sang in praise. The Composer Carlos Simon Is Busier, and More Honest, Than Ever 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z But he expresses confidence that his congregation will follow. Kendrick Lamar on His New Album and the Weight of Clarity 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The fissure widens when she becomes romantically involved with Steven, a handsome and charismatic young pastor who preaches to a raucous congregation in an old movie theater, prowling the aisles “like a panther.” Families Banter and Bicker Their Way Through Three New Novels 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Rabbi Krause interviewed 13 Southern rabbis about their congregations’ response to the civil rights movement. A New Showcase for the Story of Jews in the South 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The congregation joins in to provide her part. Bing Crosby Among Singers Celebrated by PBS 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z About 30 church members were catching fish that day to share with the congregation, she said. Free Alaskan Salmon: Just Bring a Net and Expect a Crowd 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z But organisers are very keen for volunteers from the congregation to declaim a stretch, with help on hand from theatre director Hannah Drake, who'll be offering oratorical tips where needed. Bath festival's reading will revive the spirit of the King James Bible 2011-02-22T18:09:34Z His more conservative views and strict reading of scripture soon run afoul of the women of this more moderate congregation, especially Ettie. Review: Religion Tests Gender Politics in ‘The Women’s Balcony’ 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The Jewish community's governing body said in a statement Tuesday that it is not against the game as long as it is not disturbing the congregation. Russian Jewish group OK with 'Pokemon Go' 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z The exuberant Howard Moody rehearsed the audience in the final chorale of the Easter cantata Christ lag in Todesbaden so that we could play our part as Bach's congregations would have done. Nabucco; Bach Marathon; Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott – review 2013-04-06T23:06:25Z “Anytime we see a large congregation of people especially with the mixed vaccination status, we’re going to see high risk for transmission and increases in transmission,” she said. COVID-19 rates a worry as 1 million head for Iowa State Fair 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Klepfer told her congregation that, the day before the store opened, she had approached Brownells seeking financial support for a new behavioral health program that was having a cash flow crisis. How Civil Must America Be? 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z It hasn't been a synagogue since the 1980s, when the congregation disbanded and the building was turned into apartments. Minn. synagogue with ties to Dylan is for sale 2010-10-11T01:36:00Z "And the whole congregation was waiting outside the church… but that was my first experience in a way of being on stage, before an audience, of sorts." Michael Fassbender 2012-05-19T23:03:25Z It found 10% in need of urgent and usually hugely complex and expensive repairs, a further 30% in poor condition, and the remainder lovingly maintained through heroic efforts by often tiny congregations. One in 10 English churches needs urgent repairs 2010-06-30T14:05:00Z Her inspiration wasn't the Beach Boys, but the simple notion of how brilliant it would be to play a concert for a huge congregation of canines. Laurie Anderson unleashes Music for Dogs on Sydney 2010-06-03T16:25:00Z Betraying his marriage vows and pursuing the affections of another woman in his congregation require equal degrees of physical and theological flexibility, which Franzen portrays with an exquisite combination of comedy and sympathy. Review | Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z With a choir of powerhouse singers adding joyful noise, Sister Margaret’s fall is set in motion by the preacher’s blindness to her own weaknesses and a venomous congregation’s vengeful schemes. Review | See ‘The Amen Corner’ and feel the power of James Baldwin 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Or head to the Convent Avenue Baptist Church and ask if you can sit with the congregation. 36 Hours in Upper Manhattan 2014-02-20T19:20:26Z This Easter, many church doors will remain shut for the holiday; Christian congregations are instead going virtual with their services and activities. Coronavirus and Easter: Can churches get Christians to return to the pews after the pandemic? 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as the couple are now known, were among Friday’s congregation. Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter marries in Gatsbyesque splendor 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z It traces the congregation’s history, from the early black rabbis’ sermons and writings about their commitment to Jewish rituals to their followers’ persistence in the face of racism and anti-Semitism. Antiques 2012-03-29T22:27:47Z In a stack of congregation newsletters, Ms. Glicksman turned to a black columnist’s prediction that anti-Semites would harass the Commandment Keepers “as we become more affluent.” Antiques 2012-03-29T22:27:47Z Ware learns a lot from hanging out with two other women, one of whom is a debt-raiser — a preacher who swoops into town and whips up a stingy congregation into a frenzy of pocket-emptying. Perspective | Never mind the Brits, here are five American novels perfect for ‘Masterpiece’ treatment 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Members of the congregation sit on four sides of a square, facing each other. Shape, rattle and roll: The amazing survival of shape-note singing 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z Church congregations typically skew more female than male, but at one point more than half of the Christian Cultural Center’s membership was male. The Power Pastor: How A.R. Bernard Built a New York Megachurch 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Three different congregations had just refused to host a fundraiser to help pay the family’s medical bills. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z And while they have enough space for 5,000 worshippers, there is a total congregation in the town of fewer than 400 and falling. One in 10 English churches needs urgent repairs 2010-06-30T14:05:00Z A memorable image from the first week of enforced distanced worship was of a Catholic priest in Italy who printed colour photographs of his congregation and taped them to chairs in the church sanctuary. Christians, forced online for Easter, prepare to share the gospel without sharing the virus 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z “It was a time of spontaneous religious activity” and the Angoulême treasures, whose purchase or fabrication was financed by donations from the congregation, reflected that spirit, he said. The Treasures of Saint Pierre 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z It was more than twice the average congregation size. German Church Celebrates Star Wars During Sunday Service 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z The congregation just so happened to be predominantly Latino and Latina. Seeing God's wrath in the hurricanes 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z A Lake County pastor is imploring Bulls star Derrick Rose to help end Adidas’ legal attack on his congregation over a trademark dispute involving the company’s popular adiZero line. Church seeks Rose's help in Adidas dispute 2011-12-22T18:55:00Z The congregation knows about the mansion and thanks God for blessing the preacher, but most likely will never get an invite. Coming around on Martin Luther King Jr.: My Grandma, the Black church and me 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The plan includes the appointment of an independent official who could intervene if traditionalist parishes complain about a woman bishop's authority, as well as guidelines for parishes whose congregations reject women's ministry. After turmoil, Church of England consecrates first woman bishop 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Later this month, the three congregations will announce plans for the first anniversary that no community wants to hold. A club no one wants to join: How Pittsburgh is reaching out to comfort El Paso and Dayton 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z And such was Martin Luther’s intent: that a congregation should participate actively and fully in worship services. 500 Years Later, the Reformation Is Still Creating Music 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z The members of the congregation would lay hands on the testifying person and channel the power of the Lord through their bodies and into his. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z If Holcomb wanted to play banjo in church, which he did, he had to find a more permissive congregation, which he did. The Discovery of Roscoe Holcomb and the “High Lonesome Sound” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Doyle’s production scrubs the musical to its spiritual essence, turning the company into a congregation for the retelling of a biblical journey of suffering and redemption. And the winner is ... the ensemble cast: How Broadway's best acting was a group effort 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z An elder was leading the congregation in the rosary. A Remote Canadian Lake and Its People: Protecting a Last Refuge 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Grace Baptist Church's website says its congregation was founded by five black women in 1888. Funeral planned for Heavy D at historic NY church 2011-11-12T04:40:09Z Modernizers say it is fair to women and can help rejuvenate the Church after years of declining congregations, but a conservative minority say the Bible demands male leadership. After turmoil, Church of England consecrates first woman bishop 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z He served as the congregational rabbi there for 24 years and remained a member of the congregation until he moved into a senior living residence in Canton in 2017. Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, Reassuring Best-Selling Author, Dies at 88 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z And huddled beneath the power lines that stretch above the stage is a thick congregation of pink flamingos. Review: Marisa Tomei Braves a Typhoon in ‘The Rose Tattoo’ 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The group includes 25 congregations and community groups.Many commuters board Metra trains on the North Side as well, however, and would face the same percentage increases.Metra’s fares are distance-based. Metra backtracks on Chicago fare hike idea 2011-10-13T16:35:00Z Wish I could attend the Pesah meal, meet Ms. Levy, hear more of her fascinating family history and enjoy sharing this holiday of freedom with members of the international, local congregation in Carpentras! A Seder Feast in Provence, With Roots in Ancient Rome 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z The lender, the Lillian Nassau gallery in Manhattan, is researching what congregation might have commissioned it. Antiques: ‘Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion’ at Biblical Art 2012-10-12T05:20:06Z The imam and most of his congregation have since moved to another location, but Bilal has chosen to stay. Barber to hip-hop stars cut it close most of his life 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z BCP's preface gathers the dearly beloved in the sight of God and in the face of this congregation. The Book of Common Prayer, part 3 2010-09-06T09:30:00Z It was recorded at New Bethel; the congregation hollers. The Clairvoyance of the Fourteen-Year-Old Aretha Franklin 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z But she did implore the congregation to “help women to make good choices about motherhood, to make good choices about their bodies, to make good choices about their families.” Why some Black churches aren’t elated about the possible end of Roe 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Cardinal George crosses the altar after addressing the congregation during the Rededication Mass of Our Lady of the Angels Church on Saturday April 14, 2012. Celebration for reopening of church 2012-04-15T02:57:00Z But after all that, it was this outpouring of unalloyed Bachian joy, heard through the distraction of a dispersing congregation, that made me melt. Critic?s Notebook: Bach Passions in Performance for Holy Week 2012-04-04T21:56:13Z I now find myself at the lectern, facing the congregation, preparing to spout my remaining three lines. Secret State: I played the vicar in the TV version of my novel 2012-11-05T19:01:01Z Without a physical congregation, the Hyuns found a steady river of prayers on social media. Here are some good things about this year 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z When it arrives, something seems comically amiss, but Don and Tony suppress their misgivings and present it to members of the congregation, who in turn override their doubts and accept it as holy. Jared Hess’s Bitter Religious Satire, “Don Verdean” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z With a veteran on the podium and a venerable star, this was opera as old-time religion, and the congregation ate it up. Mariella Devia Returns to New York in ‘Roberto Devereux’ 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Despite viewing itself as a religious congregation, it attempts to use logic and ethics rather than theology as the basis of its moral mission. Feeling blue in deep-red America: Advice for progressives in Trumpland 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z His father, a successful minister with a congregation of 10,000, is fighting for his life. | 'Through the Night': Black Men in America Trying to Move on Up 2010-09-27T04:01:00Z He’ll stroke his billy goat scruff of a beard while pouring rounds for the voracious and varied congregation of blue collars, button-downs, and medical scrubs. The Personalities of Natchez 2010-04-07T20:54:00Z As part of a series of tough conversations on difficult issues, my congregation selected this film as a jumping off point to discuss racism and our roles in continuing it. Why ‘Do the Right Thing’ Is Still a Great Movie 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z He’s all in favor of filling the empty churches, whose African American congregations have slowly migrated to the suburbs. The $2.5 million condo has arrived in Washington — and it has a fabulous view of a Chick-fil-A 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z However, members of Dr. Lyon’s congregation took his warning seriously. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z “It has been an outpouring of effort and generosity from all three congregations.” A rabbi decided to sponsor an Afghan refugee family. When he needed a hand, he brought in a mosque and a church. 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z So the topic remains out of sight in many congregations, says Fisher, who is a member of Planned Parenthood’s Clergy Advocacy Board. Why some Black churches aren’t elated about the possible end of Roe 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z It was also a neat way to demonstrate that we are all congregations of infinitesimal parts. Perspective | Chuck Close’s reputation as an artist is hard to separate from the impediments he faced — and overcame 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Instead he’s chosen to repeat the trick, casting The Guard's Brendan Gleeson as a goodly priest beset by the evils of his congregation. The 100 key films of 2013: Nos 11-20 2012-12-25T08:00:00Z For the past month, the congregations have divvied up responsibilities to support the newcomers. A rabbi decided to sponsor an Afghan refugee family. When he needed a hand, he brought in a mosque and a church. 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z He is trying so hard to be Colton’s buddy that he seems to be forgetting his obligations to Raquel, who is still waiting to show her congregation a rock on her finger. ‘Transparent’ Season 2, Episodes 2 and 3: Pool Parties and Provosts 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z I always felt proud to see my father command the congregation’s attention every Sunday, but I knew I could never meet the high moral expectations of my parents’ faith. Confessions of a kleptomaniac 2012-10-10T22:05:00Z Zornoza Boy said he made the query to the congregation for the doctrine of the faith because of confusion among the faithful, and the publicity given to the complicated subject. Transgender people cannot be godparents, says Vatican 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Shortly after a dramatic funeral for a teenager in his congregation, Brooks climbed to the motel's roof and vowed to stay until $450,000 has been donated to buy and raze the building. Pastor on roof joined by Occupy protesters 2011-12-05T04:19:00Z Within a few years, that Charleston congregation would split in two over the question of whether to add an organ to their synagogue. American Jews Face a Choice: Create Meaning or Fade Away 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Guess what, he told his congregation: They were Jewish! One Man and His Followers Sought Salvation. Did It Exist? 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Karen O lets the Broadway Inspirational Voices gospel choir provide the ironic ballast for the track, taking the censure from the entire congregation. What’s the Buzz for Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito 2013-04-18T09:45:32Z They can be as doctrinaire about their coolness as any preacher in front of his congregation. 'Sex and Rage' have always been the territory of the It Girl 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Against an electric-blue sky, and worshipped by a congregation of conifers gathered at the base, its ice-capped crags wink and glisten in the sun, a halo of cloud revolving around its tip. Riding Canada’s Skeena train: from Jasper to the Pacific 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Greed may not always be the motive; Avramoglu's shop belongs to a local Catholic church whose congregation is much diminished and in need of money. Gentrification tears at Istanbul's historically diverse fabric 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z The other, with a black congregation, was brought down by arson. Atop the Met, a Haunting House 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The Lisbon daughters are odd, spectral, starting out as an amorphous and interchangeable mass of five blonde girls, “a patch of glare like a congregation of angels.” “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Their struggles to reconcile their vocations with the demands of their congregations and their consciences with the authority of the church are rich material for fiction. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z “This isn’t a short-term project. We are in it for the long haul,” said Herrmann, adding that the congregations plan to continue interfaith collaborations. A rabbi decided to sponsor an Afghan refugee family. When he needed a hand, he brought in a mosque and a church. 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Several members of the congregation are injured, the preacher’s young daughter is left in a coma and, with Samuel in hiding, Jo is left to face the consequences. If Your Brother Committed a Terrorist Act, Would You Forgive Him? 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z As he spoke, he gestured to the congregation, half of whom were on their knees, washing the feet of the other half, in a yearly ritual. Pride and pain in Trump country: 'We all grew up poor, but we had a community' 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Burchard said Douglass cemetery fell into disrepair over the years because no Alexandria church or other nonprofit cares for it; often cemeteries are maintained by congregations. A Virginia teen saw a historic black cemetery in disrepair. He recruited his fellow Boy Scouts to restore it. 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Her donation of her savings to the congregation sent her parents around the bend, and motivated her father, Philip, to pay a threatening after-hours visit to Pastor Tim. 'The Americans' Recap: Paige and Kimberly, Growing Up Too Fast 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Ms. Daltirus brought the members of the congregation to their feet with the rousing spiritual “Ride On, King Jesus.” Spoleto Festival Premieres Follow Somber Reflection 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z One of Abyssinian’s first initiatives was to invite congregations from other churches to gather with their pastors while getting vaccinated. Can Jill Biden help move the needle on vaccination rates? 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Clergymen are encouraged to "educate and uplift your congregation" using the resource, which also highlights a useful clip from the movie. Man of Steel marketing campaign seeks to align Superman with Jesus 2013-06-19T10:58:30Z He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister, and served congregations on Fishers Island, off Long Island, and Garden City, N.Y. Ralph Waite, Patriarch in TV Series ‘The Waltons,’ Dies at 85 2014-02-14T06:00:50Z The congregation examines the positio and members vote “yes” or “no” on the cause. Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z But at the heart of their convictions was also a radical political thought: that the state had no business in the running of religion, and that congregations had the right to elect their own leaders. On the Pilgrims? Path Through England and the Netherlands 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z We see megachurches with immense congregations and charismatic preachers and singers for whom singing and speaking often merge, while music slides from gospel to blues to jazz to rock. Arthur Jafa’s Profound Meditations on Black America 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The music is a cross between house and gospel, and the work’s gestures and congregations of dancers both blur the line between church and club behavior and exploit the tension between them. Alvin Ailey Partners With Maker of Reyataz for a Dance 2011-11-29T23:13:04Z There is a steering committee of 11 others, many drawn from the Washington Ethical Society or local Unitarian Universalist congregations. Washington Immigration Film Festival presents stories behind the statistics Eventually, in the interest of increasing the congregation’s sense of involvement, a more demonstrative ritual was designed. Art Review: ‘Illuminating Faith’ at the Morgan: Images of the Eucharist 2013-07-04T20:22:28Z “How very appropriate,” Healing told her own, swilling congregation. Adelaide festival 2013: week one 2013-03-05T12:39:38Z The Greek word ekklesia was to be translated as "church", rather than "congregation" or "assembly" – the translators thus giving the impression that the Bible proposes a top-down form of ecclesiastical authority. A fetish for the Bible 2010-12-20T21:30:03Z I was in Texas and had only been at the congregation for two weeks. Married a Thousand Times (He’s the Rabbi) 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The Christians West Coast premiere of Lucas Hnath's drama about an evangelical pastor inspired to chart a new course for his congregation; features a live choir comprised of local singers. L.A. theater openings, Dec. 6-13: Cirque du Soleil's 'Kurios' and more 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z On its website, 400 Rabbits is also trying to grow a “congregation,” reportedly for the purposes of obtaining credibility as a recognized religion. Tequila bar attempts to reclassify business as a religion in hopes of remaining open during the pandemic 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z The Kendrick brothers began work on Sherwood's second project, Facing the Giants, an underdog story about a high school football team, with $100,000 raised from the congregation. Faith-Based Filmmaking: The Sherwood Pictures Crusade 2011-09-04T14:15:00Z However, over the years, the congregation slowly declined in membership, and the Jewish population of Muscatine also declined. Group selling Muscatine synagogue built in 1880s 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Set in the sanctuary of an evangelical Christian church, the drama details a schism in the congregation over the pastor’s decision that he will no longer tolerate a belief in hell. ‘What does it mean to be a Jewish theater?’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Weatherford said he was surprised by the opposition voiced by what he termed a small minority of the congregation. Church denies black couple 2012-07-31T19:52:00Z Church leaders regularly warned their congregations not to attend the circus. The creepy clown emerged from the crass and bawdy circuses of the 19th century 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z One of these is theHopewell Baptist Church in Edmond, Oklahoma, designed to reference a teepee and built by volunteer members of the congregation after Goff’s design using discarded oil field pipes. Midwestern futurism 2012-08-26T23:00:00Z Nor is the First Baptist Church the only Deep South congregation recently caught keeping Jim Crow on life support. Church denies black couple 2012-07-31T19:52:00Z Miraculously, I had been born a member of the only church on Earth whose congregation was going to heaven, and I had been taught from birth what happened to everyone who wasn’t. Growing up in Westboro Baptist Church: We were “true believers,” everyone else the enemy 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Why it’s important: Wright, a Unitarian, was a member of the Madison congregation that his parents helped establish in 1879. On the trail of Frank Lloyd Wright in Illinois and Wisconsin 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z On Sunday, you would find him impeccably tailored in a light wool suit and tortoiseshell glasses, looking more like the banker he once was than the pastor of a congregation of nearly 40,000. The Power Pastor: How A.R. Bernard Built a New York Megachurch 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z But he’s also a terrible preacher, flatlining in front of his congregation and putting in a half-hearted effort, at best, to connect with anyone. Preacher recap: season one, episode one – Pilot 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The congregation endures on Central Park West, where it moved in 1897. A Jewish Exodus to a New Nation 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Together with a few members of his congregation, he is holed up in the basement of the church, now a bomb shelter. Ukraine pastor remains amid war to bring God's hope to the suffering 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The abbey appears to be a totally sealed world, run by one privileged set for another, a congregation that lives and works in Westminster and its environs. TV review: Westminster Abbey 2012-12-08T08:00:01Z In a secular society, this can feel like one’s congregation. Only Gilbert Gottfried Could Be So Dirty and So Heartbreaking 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z That seems impossible for the minister whose New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church congregation meets in a converted gun store several miles west of Laurens. Pastor’s fight against KKK becomes movie that may aid battle 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The rocker, born to a Jewish mother and a Samoan father, grew up in Sydney, where he became involved with Hillsong, a Pentecostal megachurch that connects with its young congregation though music. Meet Gang of Youths, the hell-raising rock band whose songs grapple with God 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Whether in her enormous “Rose” or in her miniaturist photographs, she consistently suggests that her studio was not just a workplace but a temple for a congregation of one. Jay DeFeo and Bruce Conner Were BFF’s (Bohemian Friends Forever) 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z It will be that kind of Easter for congregations and their music directors across the country. For Musicians This Easter, Still Looking to Soar in Empty Spaces 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z On Thursday, an unusual congregation gathered in London. A Day for Henry James 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z "It's kind of like a big congregation of all the musicians from around town, and it's a blast," said Christopher Kohl, clarinet player for the Hot Club of New Orleans, which performs Sunday. French Quarter becomes a stage for music fest 2013-04-11T21:34:10Z While the church's spiritual leaders vow to carry on in a new location, the cathedral's own financial expert says it is impossible to see the future once the congregation loses its famed, glass-spired home. Crystal Cathedral sees risky future without church 2011-11-18T22:57:12Z Before it starts, the Rev. James Cleveland, the pioneering gospel singer, introduces Franklin to the congregation. ‘Amazing Grace’: How Aretha Franklin Took Us All to Church 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Established just after the Civil War, Mount Zion Baptist Church is one of Nashville’s oldest black congregations. A Muslim American’s Homecoming: Cowboys, Country Music, Chapatis 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z For the hundreds of worshipers gathered in this Spanish colonial church, and other congregations across the Southwest, the unique sound of mariachi liturgy is more than just another version of choir. Silenced by COVID, mariachi Mass returns to Tucson cathedral 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Megachurch pastors, televangelists, conservative media commentators and social media influencers have far more power over ordinary evangelical Christians than those local pastors who encourage their congregations to consider that God works through science. Cherry-picking the Bible and using verses out of context has been done for centuries 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z But some members of the congregation disagree with Reverend Taylor's position. America's first book set to be sold amid holy row 2012-12-05T13:05:52Z The first testimony he remembers giving in front of the congregation was thanking God for the integration of a local pool, which came after numerous marches where he was beaten by segregationists. Elijah Cummings endured two painful years. Soon he’ll be more powerful than ever. 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Located in her birth city of New Orleans, the congregation drew stars of the gospel world from Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers to Mahalia Jackson. The Unstoppable Merry Clayton 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z When the “War of the Pews” ended, the congregation was a mix of free blacks, whites and slaves, possibly the most integrated in the country. 36 Hours: New Orleans 2012-02-16T17:02:36Z Another African-American congregation worships at St. James the Greater, an 1826 church on what locally is called Catholic Hill. Backroads Guide to Carolina Lowcountry 2011-06-15T13:50:03.910Z The members of his family and congregation say goodbye to one another by saying “God is good” and responding “all the time.” What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Greenleaf’ and ‘Thirteen’ 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z "It is a health and safety issue for the protection of Houston's residents. There have been complaints and incidents regarding the congregation of the homeless around the library, even during off hours." "Criminalizing the Samaritan": Why cities across the US are making it illegal to feed the homeless 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Baby J's family had been church members almost since its inception, so the entire congregation rallied around them when the child was born in ill health. "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" helped me reconsider my painful Evangelical childhood 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z I take pride in the large Jewish community in my part of town, its three congregations, the sprawling Jewish Community Center, even if I myself am not a Jew. My guilty-liberal response to a hate crime 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z The congregation helps pick a date for a loveless parishioner. Tune In, Slim: 50 Ways to Be Entertained by Love 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Even before the episode was broadcast, some congregation members complained that Duke hadn’t given them advance notice of his decision to be in the show, which included scenes filmed at the church. Joining drag queens on TV show costs Indiana pastor his job 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z It could be described as ‘a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.’ ArtsBeat: Elmore Leonard’s Life in The Times 2013-08-20T17:11:25Z That’s according to the census of American religious congregations unveiled in Chicago Tuesday. Census: Independent evangelicals one of the largest religious groups 2012-05-02T12:45:00Z At the close of the service, around noon, as rays of sunshine intermittently broke through from the dome onto the checkered stone floor, a lone bagpiper walked slowly toward the congregation, playing music from “Braveheart.” London Fashion Week: Alexander McQueen Is Honored at a Memorial Service 2010-09-20T17:40:00Z Her congregation, Beth Elohim, publicized the hymn by including it in their hymnbook. How Hanukkah came to America 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Within her denomination, specifically, using the popular plastic communion packs would be at odds with environmental concerns that she and her congregation hold. In the age of megachurches, communion has become a big business 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Still, with the percussive joy and sheer exuberance of their standout set, the Africa Express contingent succeed in finally making a congregation out of the festival faithful. Standon Calling festival ? review 2011-08-17T12:35:02Z “Segregation,” the preacher paused to let his congregation absorb the full solemnity of his message, “is apparent everywhere.” Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z There are herds of long-billed curlews and congregations of white-faced ibises, in fact, 20 percent of the entire world’s population of them. Birds by the Billions: A Guide to Spring’s Avian Parade 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Then Shamblin Lara's teachings go further: the congregation at Remnant is told that a thin body means you are "right with God." In HBO Max's "The Way Down," one evangelical church preaches dieting as the way to salvation 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z They are high priests who emerged from the congregation, geeks who transformed themselves into gods. At Comic-Con, Bring Out Your Fantasy and Fuel the Culture 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Miracle is set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian church where the congregation has gathered to witness the healing powers of a blind pastor-prophet. Caine prize won by Tope Folarin's 'utterly compelling' short story 2013-07-09T10:43:36Z As members of the congregation began researching the resettlement process, they quickly learned how complicated it can be, and how many resources are required. A rabbi decided to sponsor an Afghan refugee family. When he needed a hand, he brought in a mosque and a church. 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Now she has transformed herself into a theatrically costumed shaman, acting out what she remembers from reality-TV competitions and fashion magazines, and gathered a flock of younger children as her congregation. Review: In ‘Anna,’ the End of Adults, but Not the World 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z “The photograph tied North and South together and convened black America as one congregation, into a kind of church where horror was transfigured into resolve.” Photo of Salvadoran refugees shows power of still images 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z “We are no longer a congregation that says my way is the only way,” he says. Critic’s Notebook: Varied New Works at 38th Annual Humana Festival 2014-04-02T18:26:14Z He is accompanied by two women of the congregation, whom he leads on an arduous path, up a steep incline, that his parishioners, below, refuse to follow. Lois Weber’s Vital Films of the Early Silent Era 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The congregation was privately torn by the allegations against him, but none of his fellow worshipers have confronted the justice in a public manner, according to one congregant. Brett Kavanaugh’s Washington: A smaller, colder world for a justice under a cloud 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Mallette has long been a fixture at the church, presiding over a diverse congregation and providing outreach to the poorer pockets of his community. Cops: Priest beaten, robbed inside church 2011-12-06T13:06:00Z "Thou hast finished joy and moan," said Trudi, gulping like a grief-stricken cod at the lectern while the vicar looked at his watch and the congregation stifled yawns. Mistresses: series three, episode four 2010-08-26T21:00:00Z The project does presuppose an audience interested in a literary mode of religious explanation, and to judge by the rapt crowd at Saturday afternoon’s largely full performance, “Divorce” is reaching its congregation. Visions of Heaven (and how to get there) in C.S. Lewis’s ‘Great Divorce’ 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Amos Starkadder The hellfire preacher of Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm ministers to the congregation at the little-known Sussex-based Church of the Quivering Brethren. Ten of the best religious zealots in literature 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z “Churches are increasingly diverse and that is being reflected in the films that are being made for their congregations,” says Chattaway. Faith films challenge Hollywood at box office 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Burpo, in his Sunday sermons, had already introduced some anecdotes to his congregation. Boy?s Tale of Heaven Is Publishing Phenomenon 2011-03-11T12:25:34Z To adapt them for children in his own congregation, he created a Hanukkah assembly where the holiday’s story was told, blessings and hymns were sung, candles were lighted and sweets were distributed to the children. How Hanukkah came to America 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Lovecraft himself might have been surprised to see his work bringing together such an inquisitive, welcoming congregation. A Festival That Conjures the Strange Magic of H.P. Lovecraft 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z As for the children, as he said in another interview, they were his “congregation.” How Mister Rogers’ faith shaped his idea of children’s television 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z At 2:30, there are seven of us, including the healer, in the congregation. In the heart of D.C.’s tony Georgetown, a church that communes with the dead 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z After all, it’s by tithes from the congregation that the Crossing is True/Life’s sponsor. How the True/False Film Festival and a Church Work Together 2014-02-22T00:21:15Z This morning’s itinerary features an Evangelical Lutheran church, a Methodist congregation, and finally a Catholic parish. My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z And Mahaney encourages his followers to confront girls and women in their congregations whose clothing they find immodest. Evangelical church accused of ignoring sexual abuse, “pedophilia ring” 2013-03-12T16:17:00Z Miller argued that while he doesn’t think that pastors should be “packing heat,” he does think that members of the congregation should “step up” and work to protect their places of worship. Fox News host seriously asks: “Should pastors pack heat in church?” 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z His congregation and the two others attacked haven’t returned to worship at the Tree of Life building. A club no one wants to join: How Pittsburgh is reaching out to comfort El Paso and Dayton 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z His grandfather Marshall W. Taylor published one of the first hymnals for black congregations after emancipation, “A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies,” in 1882. Sam Rivers, Jazz Musician, Dies at 88 2011-12-28T00:24:59Z I didn’t know if or how his people, who’d been displaced by Hurricane Katrina, were celebrating tonight, but I can tell you that the congregation assembled at World Changers Church, New York, was reveling. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z “The decision to force me outside my congregation and community is exceptionally painful,” Kelly said in a statement. Activist Who Pushed Mormon Church to Ordain Women Excommunicated 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z His friend, Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, created a similar event for his own congregation. How Hanukkah came to America 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Giotto was renowned in his day for creating religious images that communicated directly with congregations. British art restorer uncovers a lost Giotto masterpiece 2010-10-23T23:07:00Z And, instead of striving for invisibility, he shared his life story in front of church congregations. Scott Thorson: the lover Liberace remade in his own image 2013-05-25T23:04:01Z This inventive piece evokes an African-American church service with the bass as preacher and the string ensemble as the congregation. Sphinx Virtuosi and Catalyst Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Though Mormon feminists first began organizing in the the 1970s in more liberal congregations – most prominently in Mitt Romney’s own Belmont, Mass., ward, a movement Ann Romney sat out – the backlash was severe. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z The congregation was issued with perfect facsimiles of the real order of service used on 30 January 1965. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Jackson had been awaiting an already-thrilling event: a 50th anniversary celebration for her husband, Pastor Charles B. Jackson Sr., who’s been leading this congregation for half a century. Jill Biden paid a surprise visit to the woman who helped her regain faith in God 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Mum was a nurse but she was expected to take her holidays at communion time so she could cater adequately for visiting ministers and congregation. Sunday blues: Growing up in an ultra-strict church 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z The Vision Festival, a hand-sewn New York institution now in its 16th year, presents avant-garde jazz as a form of religion, complete with saints and sacraments, a clergy and a congregation. Music Review: A Kind of Orthodoxy Built on Improvisation 2011-06-09T22:53:47Z Today, the synagogue is rarely used by the diminished congregation and is separate from the museum that operates the space. New York City Museums Teach the History of Immigration 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z The Reverend invited me to join the congregation for tea in the church basement afterward, and he made a warm and gracious speech to welcome me. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Auckland, Exploring the South Seas Without Setting Sail 2012-04-10T19:43:38Z A donated toy was required for admittance, and the cache of presents — stuffed animals, Tonka trucks and Transformers — was more conventional than the congregation. Scene City: David Barton and Susanne Bartsch Blend Halloween and Christmas in SoHo 2013-12-18T23:45:38Z When we were there, I noticed a congregation of older couples had set up shop in the parking lot with chairs. Making Pit Stops in Charlotte 2010-10-06T03:30:00Z At St. Paul’s, the audience, er, congregation seemed to experience similar qualms. Critic?s Notebook: Bach Passions in Performance for Holy Week 2012-04-04T21:56:13Z Gardiner eventually took over, leading the subsequent performance which ended with the public emulating the church congregation of Bach's day by joining the professional musicians in the final hymn. 5 stars for 9-hour Bach Marathon 2013-04-02T10:24:08Z An African-American congregation worships in a country church. Allison Janae Hamilton’s Spirit Sources 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Here, the New York Times critics Margaret Lyons and James Poniewozik survey how television’s congregation has expanded and where there’s still room for improvement. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Wise and Lilienthal edited national Jewish magazines where they publicized these innovative Hanukkah assemblies, encouraging other congregations to establish their own. How Hanukkah came to America 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z At the wedding, he asks the congregation what punishment they think appropriate for anyone who would tear his wife to pieces. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z “We could do this on our own,” Raskin recalled thinking to himself, “but wouldn’t it be amazing to collaborate with a Christian and Muslim congregation?” A rabbi decided to sponsor an Afghan refugee family. When he needed a hand, he brought in a mosque and a church. 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Built by two German Catholic brothers for an Orthodox Jewish congregation from Eastern Europe, it is an ode to architectural, if not religious harmony, incorporating Moorish, Victorian, Gothic styles. New York City Museums Teach the History of Immigration 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Officials said the guest list will be drawn from the wedding congregation and will include representatives from the couple's official and private lives. Royal wedding details: Archbishop in key role 2011-01-05T13:01:09Z An attendee says the congregation sang “Happy Birthday” to the president, who turned 80 on Sunday. Eager for more details about Naomi Biden’s wedding? Work your sources. 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z The best answer to this is that the needs these congregations aim to fulfill aren’t religious, but human. Atheist churches: A new type of secular community 2013-12-03T16:23:00Z Not in someone’s mosque or a congregation but in the very enunciation of every letter. How to be a Muslim at NYU after 9/11 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The book-lined church and miked-up pulpit, the respectful congregation, the interviewer's catechism, confessions disguised as questions, the supplicant line to the healing power of a signature, the reviewer's blessing or curse. Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters – and how it is restored 2013-02-16T08:30:12Z "In all that time, the one thing that sticks in my mind is fun," he told the congregation. Funeral for Hi-de-Hi! star Shane 2013-05-31T15:48:31Z Once communion had been given and the last hymn had been sung, the congregation spilled out onto the cobblestones and into their waiting cars — many to take the next plane to Paris. A Pause to Remember Franca Sozzani, Italian Vogue Editor 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z There are places where the congregation of fireflies is so great that their annual appearance isn’t so much a moment as a destination. Humans love fireflies, but we haven’t made life easy for them 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z The Scrooby congregation also interpreted a devastating flood that surged up the Bristol Channel in January 1607 as a sign of divine disapproval. On the Pilgrims? Path Through England and the Netherlands 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z And they lost probably half of their congregation. Samira Wiley on ‘Orange Is the New Black’ and Being a Role Model 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z On the West Coast, the First AME Church of Los Angeles, the city's oldest African-American congregation, held a special moment of silence in Houston's memory. Family, fans mourn Whitney Houston with tears, prayers 2012-02-13T01:53:33Z Perlman took off all of July after tending to his congregation of 100 families for months. A club no one wants to join: How Pittsburgh is reaching out to comfort El Paso and Dayton 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Ware has the misfortune to be a liberal Methodist minister assigned to a conservative congregation. Perspective | Never mind the Brits, here are five American novels perfect for ‘Masterpiece’ treatment 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z “In a congregation 15 years ago, anyone could have told you which women were employed outside their home and which ones weren’t,” says Kristine Haglund, editor of the liberal Mormon journal Dialogue. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z The chary locals are less forthcoming about the lingering horror of the mass shooting in which a young priest took the lives of five members of his elderly congregation. Beware Strange Psychologists: The Latest in Crime Novels 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z But in the 2000s, as the congregation was shrinking and the grounds were degrading, some temple leaders and members thought it might make sense to sell the building. Boldface Names Give Los Angeles a New Cultural Center 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z He dedicates the then-new song to the freedom marchers as the entire congregation claps along. Throwbacks: Vinyl and digital reissues of note for winter-spring 2015 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z She left her congregation after five years, she said, frustrated by how often women were underestimated by the Church’s male leaders. Lucetta Scaraffia Is Trying to Fight Catholic Patriarchy from the Inside 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z They have also persuaded congregations to lend poignant memorials. Antiques: ‘Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion’ at Biblical Art 2012-10-12T05:20:06Z I had received, if not God’s love, then the affection of a congregation of total strangers. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Auckland, Exploring the South Seas Without Setting Sail 2012-04-10T19:43:38Z Its congregation comes for Mass in their Sunday finest, and when someone from the neighborhood dies, stores and tavernas close for a few hours so the owners can attend the funeral. Next Stop: In Rome, Monti Is a Quiet Treasure 2011-07-01T17:00:00Z Even in many more mainstream evangelical congregations, girls are trained up to be wives and mothers. The parentification trap: How evangelical daughters like the Duggar girls become mothers in training 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Despite the wide-open visual possibilities of virtual design before them, the first Christian congregations to form in virtual worlds still created recognizable cathedrals and medieval-looking church spires. Christians, forced online for Easter, prepare to share the gospel without sharing the virus 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z Three congregations gathered in one synagogue that morning because of dwindling numbers. American Jews Face a Choice: Create Meaning or Fade Away 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Martina Gregory, 63, said the passion of the music director everyone in the congregation called “Pip” was infectious. Christmas Without Music? Churches Are Finding a Way 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z By 2014, the members of Greenwood’s aging congregation were finding it difficult to maneuver around their home, which lacked handicap accessibility and was showing signs of stress from an overweight roof. The Pews Went, but the Spirit Stayed in a Kansas City Church 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z He tells me he has his own congregation that just spent millions of dollars renovating a historic building. I fooled around with the rabbi 2013-02-10T02:00:00Z He was a leading light in the Pentecostal church at which his father was the pastor, travelling the world as a teenager to lead worship for large congregations. 'I had an early lesson in manipulation' 2010-12-23T22:33:00Z “They say that marriage is actually the triumph of hope over experience,” he told the congregation. At 81, Diane Rehm is once again a blushing bride 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Mainline and Unitarian congregations have embraced Michael Dowd’s Evolutionary Christianity, an interplay between Christian worship and scientific wonder. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z Through congregations like this, we can help each other in times of need or crisis: when someone dies, we can gather to comfort the mourners and share memories of their life. Atheist churches: A new type of secular community 2013-12-03T16:23:00Z He was a white minister to a mostly African-American congregation in 1950s Indianapolis, a Midwestern city with very Southern policies towards race. The myths of Jonestown: “Jim Jones was who Charlie Manson wanted to be,” says author of new book on 1978 tragedy 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Nazarene was considered a “mink coat church” at the time, Tillard said, with an educated, affluent African-American congregation. A Guide to Exploring Jackie Robinson’s Brooklyn 2013-04-11T14:31:54Z Apparently the outlook is good: at Comic Con last year, where the Deadpool trailer was first unveiled, the congregation rose to its feet. Ryan Reynolds: ‘I’m good at being the butt of the joke’ 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z But the symphony needs a vast musical congregation to realise its gigantic philosophical vision. Mahler's total eclipse of the heart 2010-07-15T20:59:00Z When emissaries from Israel visited Villanueva’s congregation, they were aghast at the barrenness of the place: dirt floors, no plumbing, a windowless, roofless temple lit by candles. One Man and His Followers Sought Salvation. Did It Exist? 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Its opening track sounds as if it ought to be its closer, a restful voice-and-piano singalong called “The Question,” asking, rhetorically, who killed Jesus, and ends with the sounds of a congregation dissipating. Playlist: New Albums From Erica Campbell and Ai Aso 2014-04-04T19:38:27Z In April 2018, the county raided the church, confiscating the congregation’s sacrament in all its forms. Is Weed Church Church? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z “I am still a pastor, still an authority figure. I still have a congregation that comes to me for advice. In fact, it’s the same stupid confessions, hassles, pretty much.” D. Keith Mano, Christian novelist who explored extremes of sex and faith, dies at 74 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z With 76 members, it’s larger than some congregations. The town that produced musical legends keeps staying in the groove 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z After high school, she moved with her family to tiny Accomac, Va., on the state’s Eastern Shore, when her stepfather, who’d left the music business to become an Episcopal priest, took over a congregation. Angelica Garcia: An Unexpected Conspiracy of One 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Last year, the share of Americans who belong to religious congregations fell below 50 percent for the first time in more than 80 years, according to a Gallup poll released in March. Many Americans Say They Believe in Ghosts. Do You? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z He was a Marine, a social worker, an ordained Presbyterian minister who served two congregations, a book editor and a three-time Democratic candidate for Congress from California. Ralph Waite, Patriarch in TV Series ‘The Waltons,’ Dies at 85 2014-02-14T06:00:50Z The groom’s mother, a United Methodist pastor, is the associate director for vital congregations in the church’s upper New York conference. Audrey Uong, Gregory Dibelius 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Hollander's turn as Adam Smallbone, the embattled leader of a tiny, rackety congregation in grimy east London, is winning him all sorts of new fans. Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z He explained that he had told the congregation that receiving God’s love was just like charging things to your credit card: it was easy to receive but took much more effort to pay back. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Auckland, Exploring the South Seas Without Setting Sail 2012-04-10T19:43:38Z Church officials now say they welcome any race into their congregation and will hold internal discussions on how to respond should this particular issue reoccur. Church denies black couple 2012-07-31T19:52:00Z In another part of the service, a crucifix was placed in front of the congregation so people could venerate the crucified body of Jesus. Why Good Friday was dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that changed 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z A movie house is like a house of worship: some congregations insist on silent contemplation, while others favor ecstatic call-and-response prayer. What Happens When We Lose the Art That Brings Us Together? 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z The preface sets the scene, followed by a final reading of the banns to the congregation and the couple. The Book of Common Prayer, part 3 2010-09-06T09:30:00Z Wright and King addressed covenanted congregations with an indomitable faith. Why did it take 10 years for America to leave Michael Jackson's Neverland? 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z James’s subject was not theories of heaven nor different types of congregations; it was each congregant at 3 a.m., staring at the ceiling, alone. In Praise of William James 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z A few congregations even replaced the gnarled ram’s horn blown on the high holidays with a shiny brass trumpet. American Jews Face a Choice: Create Meaning or Fade Away 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z In the service, Middleton will not promise to "obey" William as part of her wedding vows in front of a congregation gathering royals, politicians, celebrities and friends. Fervor builds ahead of British royal wedding 2011-04-28T13:47:35Z In response, Duke wrote to the congregation in August, saying he was sorry that trust in his leadership had been damaged. Joining drag queens on TV show costs Indiana pastor his job 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z But much of the underlying logic and many of the techniques bear unmistakable legacies of the forces Reverend Lyon warned his congregation about in 1910. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z And instead of striving for invisibility, he shared his life story in front of church congregations. Scott Thorson, The Boy Toy’s Story 2013-05-10T21:40:24Z |
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