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  • “There’s this weird thing that happens to Christian teenagers in American churchianity,” he told me.

    Rapture Ready! Daniel Radosh 2008

  • Bob Carlton, a local Christian guy with a lot of ideas, has a provocative post on his blog today about how the institution of the church (he uses the clever term "churchianity") isn't meeting people's needs in these dark times.

    Statesman - AP Sports 2009

  • Bob Carlton, a local Christian guy with a lot of ideas, has a provocative post on his blog today about how the institution of the church (he uses the clever term "churchianity") isn't meeting people's needs in these dark times.

    Statesman - AP Sports 2009

  • Bob Carlton, a local Christian guy with a lot of ideas, has a provocative post on his blog today about how the institution of the church (he uses the clever term "churchianity") isn't meeting people's needs in these dark times.

    Statesman - AP Sports 2009

  • You will not be surprised to learn that such superficial churchianity did not survive—either intellectually or morally—my transition from high school to an elite public university.

    What Do Boys and Girls Draw? » Sociological Images 2009

  • Could this be the only logical outcome of compassionate conservatism and faith-based churchianity, eh?

    Think Progress » Will Safavian Knock Down The Right-Wing House of Cards? 2005

  • Therefore Babylon includes both Romanism and Protestantism -- the whole realm of formal churchianity; and beast-worship is here condemned in one of the most terrible denunciations found in all the Word of God.

    The Last Reformation 1913

  • Through churchianity many men interpret Christianity, and it is difficult to get them to come with a "fresh eye" to the contemplation of Christ.

    Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers 1817-1893 1913

  • She is still, even in the most degenerate churchianity, counted responsible as a soul, and accorded equal hope of redemption and of future equal standing in another stage of existence.

    The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 Various 1888

  • Many of them are abandoning an effete, backwater, emasculated churchianity that accommodates itself to every worldly fad that comes down the pike and grovels for "a place at the table" in the militant cacophony of pluralism that currently pervades the West (can you say, "Emergent Movement"?).

    P. Andrew?s Blog 2010

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