She was a devout Church of the Holy Family in Manhattan and was the quintessential New Yorker!
The authors concluded that being a young, female, devout, church attendee at a protestant school all led to higher levels of belief in creationism.
I often wondered if their relationship could be more than friendship, but as an even more devout church member than I ever was, she had never revealed her true feelings for her girlfriend to our family, and she steered us away from conjecture.
It claims the devout, church-going Ulsterman died without his identity ever being revealed.
Mr Khalili's mother is still a devout, church-going Christian but, next week, her 40-year-old son will become the next president of the British Humanist Association, the ever-expanding organisation for, in its own words, "people who seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs".
FINANCIAL TIMES An Evangelical Wins With Metal | Michael Farmer, a devout church-goer who heads RK Capital Management, a metals-focused hedge fund based in London, saw his $400 million Red Kite Compass Fund return 47 percent in the first 10 months of 2011, Bloomberg Markets Magazine reports, citing unnamed investors.
The two brothers were never close in adulthood, for along with their politics, their lifestyles also parted company; unlike the twice-married, atheist Christopher, Hitchens is a devout church-going Anglican and lives with his wife and three children in Oxford.
Not so many, perhaps, will have opted – when our particular dad is a devout church-goer, lifelong American football fan and all-round conservative icon – to declare ourselves an atheist aged 12, exchange Yale for a career as a ballet dancer, and speak out forcefully in favour of abortion, taxes and universal healthcare.
While most of my devout church-going friends don't openly attack me for having a unique perspective, they certainly feel that I've somehow been led astray.
Yet, in an era of black economic depression, the need to be devout or churched up has not diminished for most African American women, despite the patriarchal, heterosexist orientation of the Black Church.
I had been rather devout – a regular church goer, even in the army.
