Sentence examples for denomination who from inspiring English sources

His father is still revered there as a modernizing influence in the denomination who helped found its first liberal arts college, now Evangel University.

Margaret, as the opener suggests, is a religious fanatic of ambiguous denomination who has an unpleasant habit of mortifying her own flesh by, say, gouging her pale thighs with sharp, unsubtly phallic objects.

"For example," Ms. Worthen said, "I know young Nazarenes" — members of a conservative Christian denomination — "who are beginning to drink a little bit, but still have a lot of anxiety about it.

The statement quoted Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, as saying in 1843 that he would die in defense of "any [religious] denomination who may be unpopular and too weak to defend themselves".

Its founders were theologically conservative members of the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches (also known as the Congregational Christian Churches), then the mainline Congregational denomination, who were concerned about the spread of what they perceived to be heterodox views and movements in many Congregational churches.

"There hasn't been any acknowledgment from the board or the Pattersons that we have considerably hurt and damaged not only those women who came forward, but because of that, we have a generation of our denomination who now has to work to overcome what we've been taught about gender roles and relations between men and women and how we handle abuse," she said.

("It applies to so many of the young people who were on the Kindertransports. It was Quakers and other Christian denominations who brought those children to England").

Members of denominations who define themselves as Christians but on the margins of organized mainstream Christianity (e.g., Unitarians, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, and Religious Science).

Much of the credit for this must go to the leaders of the different Christian denominations who, though politically divided, acted as restraining influences on their congregations.

But it is leaders of the Anglican Church, one of the country's major denominations, who have lately faced the most sustained pressure.

It also includes members of denominations who define themselves as Christians but differ significantly from organized mainstream Christianity (e.g., Unitarians, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses).