It helped to set the pattern for evangelism in the early church.
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One is a scripture-backed purist of the sort you would have found in the early church, the other a 1990s realist who can also find chapter and verse to support him.
Mr Berendt has breathed deeply the air of the city of falling angels the title comes from a sign on the steps of the Salute church in the early 1970s, when Venice seemed to be crumbling.
In February, Sanger police found a vehicle parked in front of a Baptist church in the very early morning hours and, upon investigation, discovered Travis in the car with an open bottle of wine, the Denton County Sheriff's Office told CNN.
Just over 20 years ago, Baldo discovered the foundations of an early Christian church in the undergrowth near his home.
In the early days of the settlement, church services for the many different denominations were held in the Vereins Kirche (or society church), a two-story, octangular-structure built in the central part of Main Street.
Priests in the early days of the church were married: some argue that the only reason the rule was introduced was to ensure all property went to the church, rather than priests' children.
The future pope entered the priesthood in 1951 and spent the early years of his career navigating one of the most tumultuous periods in the church's history.
The Queen Mother's passing is being mourned across Scotland - particularly at Glamis Castle in Angus, where she grew up in the early years of last century, Crathie Church near Balmoral on Royal Deeside and the Castle of Mey in Caithness.
John Wesley was himself a member of the Moravian church in the early 1740s.
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The section on Upper Linney, behind St Laurence's Church, gave way in the early hours of Monday.
But on Monday those involved in the search said he would be reinterred in Leicester Cathedral, the closest church to the original grave site in a memorial service expected to be held early next year.
Founded by Dr Anton Rupert, a tobacco billionaire, conservationist and critic of apartheid who was born in Graaff-Reinet in 1916, the museum is housed in a beautifully restored early 19th-century mission church, with mostly expressionistic and abstract canvases by South African artists, including Irma Stern and Maud Sumner.
We had to make the final climb to the hilltop church on our own, but it was early in the day and steep stairs and cobblestones were still exciting.
In fact, very early on in his papacy it became evident that Benedict lacked the vitality required to lead a scandal ridden church.
Folks arriving at the drop-in center by early evening are transported to a church shelter, where they get a cot.
When young people get to their late teens or early 20s, they must decide whether to remain in the church and adopt its austere rules, and the researchers found more traditional Amish families currently experience defection rates of less than 6 percent, compared to about half of the children of the most progressive Amish.
In 1980, Pope John Paul II arrived in France on the first visit by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since the early 19th century.
The Church said Mr Draper was involved "at an early stage in the development of policies and procedures but was replaced when others with greater competence were engaged".
"These things don't get immediately disentangled, " says Church, who worked in the medical biotech business as a researcher in the early days of Biogen, now part of Biogen Idec, before coming to Harvard.
It is unclear when she experienced her call to the church, but by her early 20s she had entered a convent in Sussex, in southern England, and taken the name Sister Mary Barbara.
"These things don't get immediately disentangled, " says Church, who worked in the medical biotech business as a researcher in the early days of Biogen, now part of Biogen Idec (nasdaq: BIIB - news - people ), before coming to Harvard.
He earned a doctorate in church history from The Catholic University of America and sprinkles his speeches with details of the early struggles Catholic immigrants trying to carve a place for themselves in Protestant America.
It was evidence that Benedict XVI's surprise resignation has continued to destabilize the church leadership and that his final appeal for unity may go unheeded, at least in the early rounds of voting.
Though some fundamentalists appear to believe that the Bible was written in English, for the more thoughtful (or pious) Christian, serious study of the New Testament or the early Christian church is impossible without first knowing alpha from omega.
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