Sentence examples for earnest Christian from inspiring English sources

The likable main characters in Stephen Cone's tenderhearted gem, "The Wise Kids," are earnest Christian teenagers associated with a Baptist church in Charleston, S.C.

Brian Eno He's a founder of Roxy Music, an architect of the Talking Heads' polyrhythmic funk and half of the production team responsible for turning U2's earnest Christian balladry into tolerable, sometimes adventurous stadium rock.

In 1848, for example, Lt. Commodore William Francis Lynch, who described himself as "an earnest Christian and lover of adventure" and his party as "young, muscular native-born Americans, of sober habits," led a naval expedition the length of the Jordan River.

The star of the football team, Jack Greg Finleyy), is an earnest Christian, and so is his girlfriend, Grace Megan Parkk), a blond, bubbly cheerleader who wears a promise ring to symbolize her vow to her parents to delay sex until marriage.

"He was this very earnest, moralistic Christian reporter," she said.

His flock includes Angel Dillard, a rancher and abortion opponent who is home-schooling her daughters, and Brittany Barden, an earnest teenage Christian volunteering for Phill Kline, a Republican seeking re-election as state attorney general.

Moore thinks that the idea of a moral majority is wrong, and was probably wrong when it was created: he suspects that earnest, orthodox Christians have always been outnumbered.

He was a genius at creating memorable characters – earnest African students, Christian fundamentalists, streetwise dudes, posh lawyers who were whiter than the whitest white man, he nailed them all brilliantly and had an enviable ear for dialogue.

Her slyly subversive drama ambushes its audience with an earnest and surprisingly moving Christian church service that might be the most unlikely provocation produced in years.

It was a long festival of affirmation for middle-class white Christians — square, earnest, patriotic and religious.

The pope, who opposed the war in the Persian Gulf when Mr. Bush's father was president, said today, "I wish to make an earnest call to everyone, Christians and the followers of other religions, that we work together to build a world without violence, a world that loves life and grows in justice and solidarity".