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In fact, one Barna study among un-churched adults shows that nearly four out of every 10 non-churchgoing Americans 37 percent said they avoid churches because of negative past experiences in churches or with church people.
Jack Watts: How Many Americans Have Been Abused by Religion? Jack Watts 2011
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For those of us who gathered that June weekend at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Concord, N.H., we came to do what the celebrant an officiant, to you non-churchgoing folk asked of us: "To witness the joining of Gene and Mark in civil union and to do all in our power to support them in their commitment."
Irene Monroe: Say What? Lesbian Priests Marrying Each Other! Irene Monroe 2011
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For those of us who gathered that June weekend at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Concord, N.H., we came to do what the celebrant an officiant, to you non-churchgoing folk asked of us: "To witness the joining of Gene and Mark in civil union and to do all in our power to support them in their commitment."
Irene Monroe: Say What? Lesbian Priests Marrying Each Other! Irene Monroe 2011
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In fact, one Barna study among un-churched adults shows that nearly four out of every 10 non-churchgoing Americans 37 percent said they avoid churches because of negative past experiences in churches or with church people.
Jack Watts: How Many Americans Have Been Abused by Religion? Jack Watts 2011
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A recent Barna poll indicates that less than half of all churchgoing adults plan to invite a non-churchgoing friend to church for Easter.
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A recent Barna poll indicates that less than half of all churchgoing adults plan to invite a non-churchgoing friend to church for Easter.
Church Invitations at Easter (George Barna) at Ray Fowler .org 2010
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The numbers of the unmarried and the non-churchgoing are growing faster than the numbers of married and church-going Americans.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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Literacy and Christianity, for example, have given even nonliterate, non-churchgoing women new vocabulary and symbols for conceptualizing, and sometimes contesting, local practices and meanings related to traditional feminine qualities, duties, and roles.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Surprisingly, many non-churchgoing Catholics continue to get incensed over the misplaced energies of the bishops.
MAIL CALL 2007
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Elsie M'Phatter (the non-churchgoing one), ventured the comment that similar events in her own brilliant maternal record had provoked no unseemly joy; to which Elsie responded tartly --
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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