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Recent Examples of unchurched
Diana’s husband, James, is an unchurched priest who preaches love and practices intolerance.
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Jesse Green,
New York Times,
13 Dec. 2024
Churches provided a place and a space for grieving, contemplation and reflection on the part of the great unchurched majority of the nation and for adherents of minority faiths.
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Town & Country,
5 May 2023
But American and European societies are now highly plural and increasingly unchurched.
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Dominic Green,
WSJ,
11 Nov. 2022
Through stories and conversations, ‘Sanctified’ is a pathway to communal reflection and healing for women who are churched, unchurched or find themselves somewhere in-between.
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Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
27 Oct. 2022
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
13 Dec. 2024
Churches provided a place and a space for grieving, contemplation and reflection on the part of the great unchurched majority of the nation and for adherents of minority faiths.
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Town & Country,
5 May 2023
But American and European societies are now highly plural and increasingly unchurched.
—
Dominic Green,
WSJ,
11 Nov. 2022
Through stories and conversations, ‘Sanctified’ is a pathway to communal reflection and healing for women who are churched, unchurched or find themselves somewhere in-between.
—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
27 Oct. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unchurched
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Because materialism had an irreligious connotation, Hattem says it was left out of the national conversation until the Gilded Age of the 1920s, when people start saying the quiet part out loud.
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This story is told by an unnamed narrator, an irreligious woman who has joined the nuns as a lay resident after her faith in environmental advocacy crumbled.
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These are not social Democrats, these are hard-core, godless communists.
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What better way to distinguish God-fearing Americans from the godless communists of the Soviet Union than to put God on the money?
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Florida statutes creating the charter school framework also require those schools to be nonreligious.
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Republicans vow to appeal Arkansas ruling Last year, seven Arkansas families of various religious and nonreligious backgrounds filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new law requiring all public elementary and secondary schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom and library.
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Solstices are often associated with pagan religions and draw revelers of different faiths.
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There’s more than a tinge of folk horror to this lingering mystery, which brings to mind the 1973 genre landmark The Wicker Man, in which a puritanical police officer travels to a remote island community that’s reverted to old pagan ways.
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My dad was raised Methodist and comes from a very devout Methodist family — I was baptized twice because both of them thought the other thing was heathen.
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The Cincinnati Bengals welcome the media heathen universe for a gab session/sitdown, linen-tablecloth lunch known in This Space as The Mock Turtle Soupfest and Weenie Roast.
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“Unchurched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unchurched. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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