Sentence examples for former religions from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, conversions to Orthodoxy were welcomed, and converts were not allowed to revert to their former religions.

Converts from former religions are encouraged to share their desires to join Hinduism with their past religious mentors, and allow their mentors to try and change their mind.

Former Religion Editor for NBC for 15 years.

So "Losing My Religion," by William Lobdell, a former religion writer for The Los Angeles Times, feels powerfully fresh.

Her autobiography, "Infidel," has become an international best seller, drawing new attention to her critical views of Islam, her former religion.

Peter Steinfels, a director of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture and a former religion columnist for The New York Times, said leaders risked sounding trite when discussing issues of faith within the confines of 140 characters.

It seems odd that someone so clever, who had spent so much of her life dealing with Christianity, should find out some fairly commonplace things about her former religion only through making a television programme.

Seething when Isaac leaps to the defense of Islam, Amir analyzes with an edge in his voice just why he believes his former religion and the modern world are a bad combination.

Phyllis Tickle, a former religion editor of Publishers Weekly and the author of popular prayer books, told me, "There's a certain scandal to what's happened to Bible publishing over the last fifteen years".

Of course we want to know whatever juicy gossip Remini has to offer about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, but the most powerful effects of Remini's interviews about her former religion may be that they help us understand why she was wedded to it for so long in the first place.

"I definitely have no interest in replacing my former religion with a new religion," he says of his own current beliefs.