Sentence examples for off the church from inspiring English sources

Sophie slipped off the church roof despite the frankly modest efforts of Pastor Indie-Guitarist to talk her down.

Nor does it need a pope whose media-friendly persona persuades journalists to lay off the church on the one front where a hostile press has often been correct to hold Catholicism to account.

Therefore, Myers and George argued, Catholic politicians and voters were wrong to write off the church's teachings as a matter of personal faith.

He showed off the church's baptismal font, a boulder imported from the Sea of Galilee shaped like a human heart and, he said, containing water from the river Jordan.

My parents always told me never to go off the church property because the neighborhood was very dangerous.

Between 1796 and 1798 the roof was taken off the church and an additional storey constructed, making space for a gallery to accommodate the growing population of Neilston.

Last August, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power shut off the church-going widow's water service because Mrs. Tillman had fallen behind on her payments after a series of setbacks.

Instead of dropping her off in front of the church, he suggested a long ride around the city's loop.

As American Catholics waited and prayed for a glimmer of humility, the princes of the church strutted off to what one church official called "other obligations," as if there were something more pressing than the rape of children.

A bishop was readying himself to head off, while the church chancellor and the arch-deacon were telling Roxy off for the way she had decorated her tree.

I used to drop them off at the church daycare and then ditch church.