Word: clergyman
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...Jones too says that the elections may have played a part in their relationship. However, he believes that Haggard stopped seeing him after August of this year because the vote on marriage was approaching and the clergyman did not want to risk being caught in a compromising position. "My gut feeling is that the elections were coming up and we have the two amendments and he decided to lie low. And the whole [Congressman Mark] Foley thing was coming out. The last three times I saw him, I knew who he was. I never said anything. We really didn...
...masters. He returned to his native land in the 1790s and ultimately settled in Boston. He painted more than 1,000 portraits before his death in 1828—including illustrious Harvard alums such as founding father John Adams, Class of 1755, and Kirkland, Class of 1789, a clergyman who led Harvard from 1810 to 1828 and presided over the establishment of the University’s law school...
...Harold Wilcox, a respected clergyman in the area, founded the school in 1999 and procured an old church to house it. With its antique stained-glass windows and intricate woodworking, it was not a traditional learning environment by any means, but a sanctuary - figuratively and literally - for children who sometimes had to dodge bullets on their way to public school...
...Foley, meanwhile, was spinning a new narrrative - and legal defense - around his actions. After the congressman had first blamed his actions on alcohol, his attorney on Tuesday claimed Foley had been molested by a clergyman when he was between the ages...
Soldiers, guns, tanks and planes -- as a boy I had them all. While my friends were out playing football, I found what troops I could (many imaginary) and jaunted into the nearby woods on search-and-destroy missions. Now, after eleven years as a clergyman, I can say I learned quite a few good lessons from those military adventures, one of which is expressed in the words of the Apostle Paul: ''Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ . . . that you may please Him who hath called you to be a soldier...