A few years ago, thousands of parishioners quit Woodland Hills Church in St . Paul Minn., and Community Church of Joy in Glendale, Ariz., when their respective preachers refused to bless the congregations' preferred political agendas and consumerist lifestyles.
It's not news that the college game has suffered — or been blessed with, if you prefer — a levelling of talent over the past five years.
Brown's resentful plotting delayed his prize, whereas Osborne has Cameron's blessing as his preferred successor.
Indeed, this organization still opposes the use of contraception, preferring, instead, that the poorest people on earth be blessed with the largest families and the shortest lives.
In the early Christian community the "living" water of rivers and streams was preferred for Baptism and apparently received no special blessing.
Blessed with sympathy for the offbeat, Kenner seemed to prefer writers who were exiles or marginals.
"Goldman Sachs has the right to call our preferred on 30 days' notice, but has been held back by the Federal Reserve (bless it!), which unfortunately will likely give Goldman the green light before long," he wrote.
"Although I would have preferred to go straight to graduate school, the jobs were a blessing because they helped me appreciate how much I love research," she says.
Like all the nail models I meet, those blessed with beautiful hands – the key is slender fingers, and long nail beds, apparently – she prefers the natural look.
After a momentary pang of sympathy for workers who clearly preferred the twin anodynes of sitcoms and Scotch to that aerial view, Ms. Clark embraced the jiggers as a blessing on her new home.
