Sentence examples for functioning church from inspiring English sources

Its boosters call it the oldest continuously functioning church and first cathedral in Alta California.

No one knows it's not a functioning church".

To get behind a functioning church would mean shedding the posture of enraged victim, he argued.

But if they could tell every gay priest, and could overnight get rid of them, there would be no functioning church the next day.

The news of the city's changed atmosphere came quietly, five or six years ago, with the unlikely talk that Sourp Giragos was going to be rehabilitated as a functioning church — even though there was no congregation for it anymore.

The copied Christuskirche is not a functioning church, but it is decorated in "princely" style, said Mr. Scheutz, who has seen it and was taken aback by its opulence.

Work is also forging ahead on an underground museum in one of the oldest functioning churches in Europe, which is due to open in September.

"The Department of the Interior distributes grants to restore historic buildings, which several years ago included the Old North Church in Boston, still a functioning Christian church," he noted.

However, because a colonial church served not only religious but also social and political functions, church attendance or service in a governing body (such as an Anglican vestry, which was a state office in colonies such as Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina) fails to guarantee a Founder's orthodoxy.

There are still dozens of functioning Christian churches in the Istanbul area, such as the Armenian one pictured, but they face a perpetual struggle to gain permits to maintain and repair buildings, and to reclaim property that was taken by the state in various waves of confiscation.None of the new cohort of Christian-origin deputies is known to be especially devout.

I have opinions about how churches are functioning today: what we expect from our churches; the training of our clergy; the practices and doctrines of various denominations; the decline of church-related schools and colleges; what is happening to Sunday morning worship; the continued secularization of the United States and Europe; and the sanction of gay marriage by churches.