They hold hands in a circle (fellowship); they sweep around the stage (emotion).
Yet unlike the social gospel, Christians cannot insist on a place at the center, but must move to being part of a wider circle of fellowship.
In 1964, inspired by examples of Trappist spirituality, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Hasidism of his teachers, Schachter-Shalomi founded the neo-Hasidic B'nai Or Religious Fellowship with a small circle of students.
Among his many trophies Mr. Giddins can count a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jazz Journalists Association, and a Grammy.
In the parking lot across the way, an arrow on a cardboard sign points to "Circle of Love Fellowship — At the Warehouse".
Roughly eight blocks from the official Fema and Red Cross outpost, members of the Circle of Love Fellowship and the Movement Church, led by pastor Steve Martino, set up their own base of operations in front of a home.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Geoff Dyer has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and, in 2015, the Windham Campbell Prize for nonfiction.
The Fellowship meant entrée to a rarefied circle, and the prospect of shaking hands with a President.
Mr. Hirsch, who is an essayist and scholar as well as a poet, has won many awards, including a MacArthur fellowship, a Rome Prize, a National Book Critics Circle Award (for his 1986 book of poetry, "Wild Gratitude") and a Guggenheim fellowship.
Affiliated with a secretive Capitol Hill group known as the Fellowship — which also sponsored Bible study and prayer circles attended by Hillary Clinton when she was a senator — the pious dwelling is becoming a tourist attraction, a monument to Republican hypocrisy.
