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Can you scare up a UCC pastor or Episcopal priest to join you on short notice, just to give you a little extra 'broad-church' cred with the Real Christian tm types?

What's the Connection?: I'm at the RNC, speaking at a faith press conference on sexuality education and other sexual justice issues Debra W. Haffner 2008

His thesis wasn't well received, but the broad-church Unitarians like Bellows and Frederic Henry Hedge became keenly interested what we would now call the "living tradition" — the way that a historic tradition grows and changes while maintaining vital connections to its past.

Philocrites: On early Unitarian fears of 'popery.' 2006

His thesis wasn't well received, but the broad-church Unitarians like Bellows and Frederic Henry Hedge became keenly interested what we would now call the "living tradition" — the way that a historic tradition grows and changes while maintaining vital connections to its past.

Philocrites: January 2006 Archives 2006

While the ANC is, ideologically, a broad-church, all ANC members have a stake in ensuring that the socialists in our ranks, and the socialist formations

THE CHARACTER OF THE ANC 1997

He believed in a 'broad-church' Labour Party and despaired of Labour MPs who did not.

Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988

The remnant of the Indians live quietly upon their reservation, Christians and pagans uniting harmoniously, on broad-church principles, in the celebration of Christmas and in the sacrifice of the white dog to the Great Spirit.

[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906

However, in these infidel last times, and with our very broad-church and no-church teachings, a man has only to be utterly godless (so he be moral) to make himself a name for pure reason.

My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

Recently some daily papers and broad-church preachers have taken to the canonization of heathen saints; they denounce vigorously the bigotry of any who will not open to them the gates of heaven, or who will, in general, deny salvation to good heathens.

Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857

Our rector carries his head in the broad-church aspect, which I suppose is the least open to the charge of affectation, -- in fact, is the natural and manly way of carrying it.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

The low-church clergy look down, as if they felt themselves to be worms of the dust; the high-church priest drops his head on one side, after the pattern of the mediaeval saints; the broad-church preacher looks forward and round about him, as if he felt himself the heir of creation.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851