open communion
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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What draws congregations to City Temple is not chiefly its freedom from dogmatism or its open communion, but its high standard of preaching.
From Time Magazine Archive
To many an Anglican and High Episcopalian, "open communion" is fraught with danger.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were ultimate decencies that prevented any open communion with Fanny.
From Mr. Waddington of Wyck by Sinclair, May
He prayed that the house of God might be the place of open communion.
From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry
"We believe in what is called open communion rather than in what is called close communion."
From Dorothy Page by Hatcher, Eldridge B.
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