Many Mainline Protestant churches are open and affirming to gay and lesbian couples.

Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider him to be one of the theological fathers of the Protestant Reformation due to his teaching on salvation and divine grace.

Many evangelical Protestants reject creeds as definitive statements of faith, even while agreeing with some or all of the substance of the creeds.

Many evangelical Protestants similarly reject creeds as definitive statements of faith, even while agreeing with some creeds ' substance.

Many Protestants consider Catholicism to be a cult, due to its beliefs regarding the Pope, Mary, and Purgatory.

Many Protestants ( especially those belonging to the magisterial traditions, such as Lutherans, or those such as Methodists, that broke away from the Anglican Communion ) accept the teachings of the first seven councils but do not ascribe to the councils themselves the same authority as Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox do.

Many Protestants found these " idolatrous ".

Many rich Protestants, including John Foxe, chose exile, and around 800 left the country.

Many historians argue that his conviction for treason was unjust, and even among some Protestants his execution was viewed as heavy-handed.

Many Protestants also use the term Lord's Supper.

Many Protestants reject a literal interpretation of these words.

Many did not look forward to fighting against fellow Christians and, by and large, fellow Christian Protestants.

Many Christians, and Evangelical Protestants in particular, have recently taken great interest in performing seders according to the ancient rubric.

Many Protestants heralded him as a champion of their faith.

Many wealthy Protestants, such as John Foxe and John Cheke, fled England, and Walsingham was among them.

Many Williamite troops at the Boyne, including their very effective irregular cavalry, were Protestants from Ulster, who called themselves " Inniskillingers " and were referred to by contemporaries as " Scots-Irish ".

Many Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox Christians partake in and organise spiritual retreats each year.

Many other Protestants were sheltered by the city.

Many Huguenots settled in Ireland during the Plantations of Ireland, encouraged by an act of parliament for Protestants ' settling in Ireland.

" Many elite Protestants were now alarmed by the forces unleashed, and some of the nobility began to shift towards support of the government.

Many of these religious residents identify as Christians — 38. 08 % are Protestants, 7. 65 % are Roman Catholics, 5. 03 % identify with another Christian faith, 0. 43 % are Mormons, 0. 03 % belong to an Eastern religion, and 0. 01 % are Jewish.

Many Protestants were nobles or bourgeois and Frieda adds that " a number of bourgeois Catholic Parisians had suffered the same fate as the Protestants ; many financial debts were wiped clean with the death of creditors and moneylenders that night ".

Many Protestants, such as Lutherans, use the term heterodox to describe Christian teachings which are not in agreement with their understanding of scripture.

Many Protestants voted for the Nazis in the elections of summer and fall 1932 and March 1933.

Many Protestants use the term pastor as a title ( e. g., Pastor Smith ) or as a job title ( like Senior Pastor or Worship Pastor ).

Many exotic woods are suitable for suburi ( solo practice ), but not for paired practice where they would come into contact with other bokken.

Many references to fire in tarot are related to the usage of fire in the practice of alchemy, in which the application of fire is a prime method of conversion, and everything that touches fire is changed, often beyond recognition.

Many these were difficult to reconcile with one another due to changes in circumstances and practice.

Many teams also attend separate tumbling sessions outside of practice.

Many processes for software development were in their infancy, with few standard or " best practice " approaches defined.

Many animal species practice coprophagia as a matter of course ; other species do not normally consume feces but may do so under unusual conditions.

Many of the stricter communities of the Reformed and Presbyterian denominations practice a form of restricted Communion, which they designate Close Communion ( to distinguish it from the closed communion system mentioned above ).

Many accounts of the development of expertise emphasize that it comes about through long periods of deliberate practice.

Many of the Essene groups appear to have been celibate, but Josephus speaks also of another " order of Essenes " that observed the practice of being engaged for three years and then becoming married.

Many graffiti artists believe that doing complex pieces involves too great an investment of time to justify the practice.

Many have cited this work as an example of the stile antico ( old style ) or prima pratica ( first practice ).

Many investment funds use leverage, the practice of borrowing money or trading on margin in addition to capital from investors.

* Many cases that arise in practice, and " random instances " from some distributions, can nonetheless be solved exactly.

Many Westerners who first encountered the practice believed it was a sign of worship, but kowtowing does not necessarily have religious overtones in traditional Chinese culture.

Many people in cultures which have notation still learn by ear and ear training, often through a musicianship course at a music conservatory or college, is common practice among those who use notation extensively.

Many mobile shellfish stalls would set up near pubs, a practice that continues in London's East End.

Many of the standard methods for these tasks rely on certain statistical assumptions ( made in the derivation of the methodology ) actually holding in practice.

Many items such as squash, tomatoes, corn ( and its derivatives, including grits ), as well as the practice of deep pit barbecuing were inherited from the southeastern American Indian tribes such as the Caddo, Choctaw, and Seminole.

Many of Mozart's baritone and bass-baritone roles derive from the basso buffo tradition, where no clear distinction was drawn between bass and baritone, a practice that continued well into the 19th century.

Many trackball gamers are competent at " throwing " their cursor rapidly across the screen, by spinning the trackball, enabling ( with practice ) much faster motion than can be achieved with a ball-less mouse and arm motion.

In ancient times " Many of the noblest and best of the Athenians always considered the Spartan state nearly as an ideal theory realised in practice.

Many of these churches were originally part of one of the above families and so are closely related to them by way of ethos and liturgical practice.

Many traditional customs, such as fortune telling, paper art, feng shui consultations, wearing traditional Chinese dresses for weddings, the use of the traditional Chinese calendar, scholarship in classical Chinese literature and the practice of referring to the Chinese New Year as the “ New Year ” rather than the “ Spring Festival ” have been weakened in mainland China.

Many formalists would say that in practice, the axiom systems to be studied will be suggested by the demands of science or other areas of mathematics.