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“I met him years ago, boots on the ground, in the streets making changes,” Crawford told the congregation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Earlier that day, he had sat at the hospital bedside of a congregation member.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

As a Christian minister of an American Baptist congregation, I’ve spent more than 20 years in a pulpit — long enough to know the difference between protecting a church and conscripting one.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

It even objected to the Vatican's decision to have priests face the congregation when holding Mass, preferring the medieval practice of facing the altar, with their backs to the congregants.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

I didn’t know what that meant until one Sunday when Mary played a piano solo for the congregation.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

He wants to begin “reclaiming” mainline institutions and congregations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Smoke could be seen billowing from Temple Israel, one of the largest Reform Judaism congregations in the country, after the attack and fire engines were on the scene.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

That was never in question, since great preachers, the ones who make the gospel’s message stick, also know how to make their congregations laugh.

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026

But mirroring a national trend of shrinking religious orders and congregations, the last nuns left in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

When the Southern California ministers were really whipping their congregations into a froth, they would get rolling on the subject of “the Road to Hell,” a byway that ran south from San Diego.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand