Etymology
Origin of churchless
Example Sentences
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This is most easily tracked in the rise of churchless Christians.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2024
And what about the “kind-ofs,” the churchless Protestants, the “raised Catholics,” and the cultural Jews who don’t attend services and for whom religion is more of an inherited abstraction than a lived experience?
From Slate • Oct. 18, 2021
“I am so sad that a place of prayer and solace has become a place of fear,” said Kim Jeong-ja, 58, a churchless churchgoer in Seoul.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2020
Evans, a Baptist layman, worked with the forerunner of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in setting up a regular circuit of campfire meetings in 1940 for churchless southwestern areas.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was churchless for ten years; but on many a battle field and in many a desert camp God met and blessed him.
From Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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