How to Use ecumenical in a Sentence

ecumenical

adjective

• Then as now, the pro-life movement took on an ecumenical tone.
  — Joseph S. Laughon, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
• The two men signed a joint statement that was hailed by the Holy See at the time as a breakthrough in ecumenical relations.
  — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 4 May 2022
• By most measurements, an enormous amount of ecumenical progress has been made, much of it in the last 75 years.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 31 Oct. 2017
• The hub was the first ecumenical city center church in the U.K. and was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth in 1992.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2023
• The statement comes as part of the 2021 Season of Creation, an ecumenical push to protect and advocate for the whole of creation.
  — Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• Over the years, the center became less wonky, but also less thoughtful and ecumenical.
  — Ronald Radosh, The New Republic, 5 May 2021
• This is an ecumenical Christian group that includes the Catholic Latin patriarch of Jerusalem.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023
• People of Praise is ecumenical but largely comprised of Catholics and is part of a broader movement of charismatic groups that have sprung up in the past few decades.
  — Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2020
• The day began with an ecumenical prayer service at First Christian Church in Frankfort.
  — Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 11 Dec. 2019
• Rushdie’s own insistence on the right to blaspheme has always been ecumenical.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2022
• Thousands turned out for the ecumenical funeral in St. Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast.
  — Susan McKay, The New Yorker, 26 July 2019
• In part, that means being at least a little more ecumenical when vetting talent.
  — Frederick M. Hess, National Review, 23 May 2021
• A Drumhead Service is an Army ecumenical service where the Regiment's drums are placed on top of each other to form an altar.
  — Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 3 Sep. 2021
• God Not embodied; holds to the ecumenical doctrine of the Trinity.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Nov. 2021
• He is haunted by a lifetime of encounters with savagery, some racist, some more ecumenical.
  — Richard Lipez, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb. 2018
• Barber's ecumenical activist group, Repairers of the Breach, has crafted a letter to Trump asking to talk to him about voting rights and poverty and justice and health care.
  — Tommy Tomlinson, Esquire, 25 Apr. 2017
• Perhaps the readers best served by this book are the ecumenical music lovers who enjoy music through the centuries but who may be missing the context for their listening.
  — Martha Anne Toll, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
• That’s what church congregations in New England and elsewhere have been told from the pulpit by advocates for the ecumenical Christian group.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2018
• Under him the carol service became more ecumenical and open.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Rumi, like Omar Khayyam, has become the warm and fuzzy ecumenical poet of choice for weddings, coming-of-age ceremonies and funerals.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2017
• Parton’s influences through her career have proven nearly as ecumenical as the Rock Hall of Fame’s varied roster.
  — David Cantwell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• The other three were ecumenical and comfortable with the mainstream Republican and Democratic leaders of the time.
  — David A. Hollinger, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019
• Since the early 1960s, the bassist Buster Williams has positioned himself comfortably along the divide between swinging hard bop and ecumenical fusion.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2018
• The school was created as an ecumenical school, inclusive of all faith traditions.
  — Brian Albrecht, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2019
• The most comprehensive and widely shared statement of Christian orthodoxy is found in the creed first adopted at an ecumenical council convened by Constantine in the city of Nicaea in 325 a.d.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• But as Graham's ecumenical approach evolved, so would his response to politics and politicians.
  — David Briggs, cleveland.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• Maenza and Haider met for the first time in person at a reception following an ecumenical prayer service lamenting the reconversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 19 July 2021
• The ecumenical spirit that inspired the building’s unique architecture lives on inside it.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Aug. 2021
• Trump wouldn’t even allow his party to write a platform of its views, normally an important way to craft an ecumenical set of beliefs and policies that unites the universe of Republicans.
  — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2020
• The ceremony itself has also been modified to account for a more diverse ecumenical country.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024