clergymen

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The letter, addressed to white clergymen critical of King’s anti-segregation protests, defended nonviolent civil disobedience as a tactic in the fight for racial justice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

A group of clergymen took their place on the Western Terrace.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025

Between the pomp surrounding donning one’s holy livery, pointed glares and swishing red silks and velvets, these cassocked clergymen make bored teenagers seem kind.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2024

Normally, avant-garde financial tools might come from, well, the financial avant-garde -- bankers, merchants, and investors hunting for short-term profits, not clergymen.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024

In being clergymen with an interest in science, Wotton and Bentley were typical among the early supporters of Newtonianism.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton