Word: churchless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tolstoy tried to resolve the first through a homegrown faith that amounted to a churchless Christianity. He shunned organized religion and city life for rustic self-sufficiency among the muzhiks (peasants) at his estate, Yasnaya Polyana (Bright Glade). He preached against the evils of meat, alcohol, tobacco and fornication. He believed a Christian should make his own shoes and empty his own chamber...
...there are 5 million Protestants in the more than 50,000 "house churches" that kept functioning during the Cultural Revolution and became the mainstream of Chinese Christianity. Protestants, accustomed to lay leadership, began worshiping in such homes, often at night, and sharing memorized Bible stories as well as hymns. Churchless Catholics sometimes joined these clandestine meetings...