Sentence examples for Anglican from inspiring English sources

Thames Town has Victorian- and Georgian-style housing for 10,000 people, red phone booths and, perhaps oddest of all, a church (pictured) with a spire closely modelled on a mid-19th century Anglican one in Bristol.

To get them, RCCG churches are increasingly doing the sorts of things Anglican churches do: running food banks, crèches and Sunday schools.And African churches may be encouraging change in Anglican ones.

The Jaffna-born Anglican priest runs a school and other projects on the island, with the aid of funding from overseas charities and his own tourism efforts.

But although rural priests may be concerned, there are some, even inside the church, who wonder if it really matters if Britain doesn't, any longer, consider itself to be vaguely Anglican.

Nearly two-thirds of Anglican churches, 10,199, are in rural areas, but the population of rural England is just 9.3 million, or just over a sixth of the population.

The covenant requires Anglican churches to avoid causing controversy by actions (such as ordaining openly gay bishops) which are likely to offend their more old-fashioned brethren.

His support for emancipation alienated many of the more traditional Anglican Tories, while his espousal of free trade split the party and ended his own political career.

Only 2% of the adult population now attends an Anglican church in England regularly.But in some areas, things are changing.

Better known to parishioners by his middle name James, he was made priest-in-charge at St Mary's Anglican church in Halewood in 1966, Dorries told the Mail on Sunday (MoS).

As she ascended firmly to the upper middle class, she began attending Anglican church.

In 2014 same-sex marriage became legal in Britain; this was a cause championed by the prime minister, much to the ire of older Tory members, and the more traditional and evangelical wings of the Anglican Church.