Sentence examples for a progressive church from inspiring English sources

In Colorado Springs, voters filled the pews of a progressive church that seated 200.

Fellowship Congregational Church, a progressive church in Tulsa, is using a traditional Christmas display to start a conversation about immigration.

Trinity was a progressive church, welcoming to gay men and lesbians, embracing of AIDS sufferers at a time when many other black churches shunned them.

Dan had found his way back to the church eventually, but not the one he'd grown up in — he and his family belonged to a progressive church in North Carolina, where he taught environmental business practices at Duke.

Dan had found his way back to the church eventually, but not the one he'd grown up in he and his family belonged to a progressive church in North Carolina, where he taught environmental business practices at Duke.

When Walker Percy's novel "Love in the Ruins" imagined Catholicism in the United States splitting in three — a progressive church modeled on liberal Protestantism, a right-wing "American Catholic Church" that plays the "Star-Spangled Banner" during Mass, and a tiny remnant loyal to Rome — it seemed more like prophecy than fiction.

"We are a very progressive church in a very progressive city," he said.

I think those are fair questions to be asking," said the Rev. Megan E. Stewart-Sicking of Immanuel Episcopal Church in Glencoe, Md. Diana Butler Bass, a prominent progressive church historian and Episcopalian who lives in Northern Virginia, said she wondered if the denomination's liberal tendencies had been harmful in this case.

The phrase "common ground" also resonated because it was associated with the approach of George's predecessor in Chicago, the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who embodied the hopes of a more progressive church — hopes that seemed to end with George.

The Rev. Bill Morgan, the United Methodist district superintendent for Eastern Birmingham, said he believed that Huffman had the right ingredients for integrating successfully: a strong and progressive church, a large black population in surrounding areas and a sensitive and experienced pastor.

Thad's is a relatively new progressive church that started with simplicity as its mantra from day one.