Sentence examples for wider church from inspiring English sources

So my local vicar wasn't necessarily representative of the wider church, as is often the case.

My message to the wider church is: don't count on it.

Voting against would be "frustrating the view and the will of our wider church community", he says.

He has appointed another to reform the sclerotic Roman bureaucracy and turn its officials from masters to servants of the wider church.

As the campaigners and the wider church community continued to reel from Tuesday's dramatic outcome, Williams said the church's governing body could not "afford to hang about".

Let's not fool ourselves that the mood in this chamber is going to trickle down to the wider church, he warns.

Pope Pius II's great knowledge of conditions in Germany and elsewhere inspired a scheme of wide church reform, but the political conditions of the time and the resistance of the various vested interests rendered its application impossible.

7 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Public Enemy, 1988 Before gangsta rap went hegemonic, hip-hop was a wide church, with a penchant for funk breaks and clever wordplay, soundtracking the good times and the hard.

He was, after all, a secular monarch in addition to being the spiritual head of a world-wide Church.

"Hopefully that allows the public to have a more expansive view of the kind of people that are doing sex work, because that's a wide church".

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