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Recent Examples of chaplain
Collins, a former congressman from 2013 to 2021 and trusted Trump loyalist, is a chaplain of the United States Air Force Reserve Command.
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Kinsey Crowley, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
Texas last year allowed public schools to hire uncertified religious chaplains as counselors, and the legislature has pushed to require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 19 Nov. 2024
During the film, Roberts travels to Wichita, Kansas, for the funeral of Emil Kapaun, an Army chaplain who died in a prisoner of war camp in North Korea.
—Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 10 Nov. 2024
The longtime football chaplain for Auburn University died tragically over the weekend after falling into a local lake.
—Danielle Jennings, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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Kinsey Crowley, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
Texas last year allowed public schools to hire uncertified religious chaplains as counselors, and the legislature has pushed to require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 19 Nov. 2024
During the film, Roberts travels to Wichita, Kansas, for the funeral of Emil Kapaun, an Army chaplain who died in a prisoner of war camp in North Korea.
—Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 10 Nov. 2024
The longtime football chaplain for Auburn University died tragically over the weekend after falling into a local lake.
—Danielle Jennings, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaplain
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The pastor at the church, Jose Cervantes, said the first fire refugees arrived at the church on Tuesday.Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2025
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The pastors, Max Lucado and Joakim Lundqvist, have been serving in the roles since last summer.Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Jan. 2025
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Specifically, the nuns pointed a finger at Urbain Grandier—a local priest and their confessor.Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
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Its main purpose is not the creation of aesthetic beauty out of the materials at hand (life, pain) but selfishness: relieving the confessor’s desire to confess.Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
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Wiley, the rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Towson, will lead an outdoor prayer service at the house of worship Tuesday night as a way of blessing the people of a country that have so often seemed bitterly divided over politics.Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 5 Nov. 2024
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It is considered a holy day of obligation in the Catholic church, said Monsignor Walter Rossi, rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C.Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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Better would it have been had the vicar never been born.SPIN Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
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Atkinson both sends up and deepens stock characters like the vicar, who here has lost his faith; a major who doesn’t feel cut out for civilian life; and the batty lady of the manor, who appears to have arrived via time machine from the Victorian era.Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
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Writing in the eighteenth century, Smith compared energetic and often sensationalist Methodist preachers with the more reserved and cerebral parsons of the Church of England.Shadi Hamid, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
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The other is her violent stepfather, who, in this version, is also the church’s parson (Steven Pasquale).Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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Around that same time, Priscilla Baltimore and Bishop William Paul Quinn, an African Methodist Episcopal missionary, established the town’s AME church, which along with a Baptist church and a number of homes, served as stops in the Underground Railroad.Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
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But the two young missionaries are then forced to prove their faith by becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse with Reed.Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
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From political infighting among an international coterie of bishops, to nosy clerical gossiping, to Isabella Rossellini as a nun with ulterior motives, to car bombs, the movie — based on an airport novel of the same name by Robert Harris — is arguably overwrought and overstuffed, if endlessly fun.Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 12 Jan. 2025
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There were rabbis, imams, bishops and deacons from across the city, reflecting the diversity of the victims and New Orleans.Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
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Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.Phil Helsel, NBC News, 17 June 2022
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Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.al, al, 1 Dec. 2020
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“Chaplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaplain. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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