Soon he was in trouble there, for defending a woman who was accused of smiling in church.

The unconquerable Mrs. Hutchinson was residing at Pocasset, after having been excommunicated by the Boston church and thrown out of the colony.

it was also sacred, `` and no believer in an inspired church could tolerate having her canons examined as we should examine human laws ''.

He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.

He was stern and overbearing with his flock, but obsequious and conciliatory with the whites, especially the rich who partly supported the church.

The characteristic thing about this church was its Amen corner and the weekly religious orgy.

It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

Ann Catt was a lonely, devoted soul, never married, conducting a spotless home and devoted to her church, but a perpetual dissenter and born critic.

On the other side of the church was a quiet, well-kept house with shutters and recently painted.

The deacon of the church, Carlson, was its janitor.

But there was one thing that he had to stress, and that was that the contribution to the general church expenses, the dollar money, had been seriously falling behind in this church, and that must be looked after immediately.

Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

There was the slate roof of the church ; ;

There was no church like Drew Church, no preacher like Papa, who was intimate with Him, and could consign sinners to hellfire.

`` Such a church needs vigor and vitality in its rector and one man has only so much of these endowments '', he told his members.

It reported that he now devoted only some 6-1/2 hours per month to public preaching and from 20 to 25 hours per month to church activities.

The other misconception is that our ecumenical problems will be solved if only the knowledge of the church in its world-wide extension and its interdenominational connections, now comprehended by many national leaders, can be communicated to all congregations.

As a result, they go on thinking of the church, with introverted and self-centered satisfaction, only in connection with the way in which it serves them and their families.

To put it bluntly, many a local church is giving its members only what they consciously want.

Yet the truth, according to the New Testament, is that every local church has its existence only by being the embodiment of the whole church in that particular place.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

To a Blackwell, there was only one church.

Being a woman though, she would take only what she needed from church.

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

The Church of England was the established church not only in England, but in its trans-Oceanic colonies.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

Some bishops were initially reluctant to attend, fearing that the meeting would declare itself a council with power to legislate for the church ; but it agreed to pass only advisory resolutions.

:" for a bad custom has prevailed amongst the clergy, of appointing the most powerful people of a parish stewards, or, rather, patrons, of their churches ; who, in process of time, from a desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all the lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars, with their tenths and oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relations in the church.

Alfonso's only brother, Ramiro, had been a Benedictine monk since childhood, and his commitment to the church, his temperament and vow of celibacy made him ill-suited to rule a kingdom under constant military threat and in need of a stable line of succession.

Other terms used are hearth, theod ( only within the Theodish movement ), blotgroup, sippe, and other less popular ones such as garth, stead, church, and others.

Along with his colleague the Archbishop of York he chairs the General Synod and sits or chairs many of the church's important boards and committees ; power in the church is not highly centralised, however, so the two archbishops can often lead only through persuasion.

It was William's only personal foundation — he was buried before the high altar of the church in 1214.

The Pilgrim's reference is a basis for the Church of Zion, Jerusalem thesis of Bagatti ( 1976 ) and Testa, though the archeological evidence may suggest only a later Crusader church.

Apollos only knew of the baptism of John which suggests, as is reflected in Acts, that consistent baptismal practice was still developing in the nascent church.

A town that only became notable in the 12th century when it became the site for the construction of Portugal's largest church.

The monarchy continued to endow the Monastery of Alcobaça with further construction and 60 years later King Dinis built the main cloister but it was only in 1252 that the Monastery was inaugurated within the church.

This does not mean that the episcopate, in the sense of the holder of the order or office of bishop, must have developed only later, or have been plural, because in each church the college or presbyter-overseers ( also called " presbyter-bishops ") did not exercise an independent supreme power ; it was subject to the Apostles or to their delegates.

The establishment of the church as an institution recognized by worldly rulers is also visible in legal history.

If the celebration takes place outside of Mass, it can be held in the home, in a hospital or institution, or in church.

The specific relationship between the political leaders and the clergy varied but, in theory, the national and political divisions were at times subsumed under the leadership of the church as an institution.

Hand in hand with the Council of Nuremberg he worked for the institution of a church visitation on the model of that of the Electorate of Saxony, from which after repeated revisions and emendations the excellent church order of Brandenburg-Nuremberg of 1533 was developed.

However, Heinrich had to transfer to the Realschule ( vocational school ) after his father was accused of embezzling church funds and had to leave that institution in 1836 when his father was no longer able to pay for it.

" Some scholars have even characterized the Liber Pontificalis, like the works of Pseudo-Isidore and the Donation of Constantine, as a tool used by the medieval papacy to represent itself " as a primitive institution of the church, clothed with absolute and perpetual authority.

The most notable leader of the movement, though maintaining a certain distance from the Old Catholic Church as an institution, was the renowned church historian and priest Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger ( 1799 – 1890 ), who had been excommunicated by the pope because of his support for the affair.

In England this church property was technically in the ownership of the parish priest, vested in him on his institution to that parish.

While the Roman Inquisition was originally designed to combat the spread of Protestantism in Italy, the institution outlived that original purpose and the system of tribunals lasted until the mid 18th century, when pre-unification Italian states began to suppress the local inquisitions, effectively eliminating the power of the church to prosecute heretical crimes.

Many Christians hold that the Christian church is not just an institution, which can be broken into many denominations.

The Washington Ethical Society functions much like a church, but regards itself as a non-theistic religious institution, honoring the importance of ethical living without mandating a belief in a supernatural origin for ethics.

He wanted to found a new institution of higher learning, specifically one free of church influences, where students could specialize in many new areas not offered at other universities.

The façade of a large church or cathedral, often referred to as the West Front, is generally designed to create a powerful impression on the approaching worshipper, demonstrating both the might of God, and the might of the institution that it represents.

Two prestigious Arab schools in Haifa are the Orthodox School, run by the Greek Orthodox church, and the Nazareth Nuns ' School, a Catholic institution.

The Mission was home to the first learning institution in Alta California and today serves as a museum as well as a parish church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

The English church, they claimed, was not forming a new institution, but casting off the shackles of Rome and returning to its true roots as the indigenous national church of Britain.

At first he wished to enter the church and joined a religious institution, Oratorio dei Padri Filippini, at 15 years old.

Loddon has many fine buildings ; from the 15th-century parish church of Holy Trinity, through the 18th-century " Loddon House " ( originally a mental institution ), to " Farthing Green House ", which is a good example of Georgian architecture.

Katy's newest institution of higher education-The Bible Seminary-offers non-denominational college-level Bible study and ministry training, including a graduate-level Master of Divinity degree, as well as a Bible Certificate program for local church members and leaders.

Following the aforementioned passage of the Edmunds-Tucker Act in 1887, the church found it difficult to operate as a viable institution.

Moreover, the corruption of the church as an institution, led to grave disappointment among its recently converted flock.

The flag is flown or displayed worldwide in Roman Catholic churches and institutions, usually alongside the national flag of where the church or institution is located.