reverend

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"ICE has even been arresting airport workers while they are on the job," said one of those who protested, reverend Mariah Furness Tollgaard of Hamline Church United Methodist.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

“I don’t understand how as a pastor, he thinks that that’s acceptable,” Levy Armstrong, also an ordained reverend, said in a Washington Post interview Monday.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2026

A reverend whose house was sold without him knowing has had the property returned to him nearly four years on, after a family was ordered to leave.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025

It lacked the edge of its WB contemporaries like “Dawson’s Creek,” “Felicity” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and its storylines usually involved the reverend gravely imparting biblical lessons to his family.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024

But as a remembrance of that morning, the reverend and his deacons decided to leave two damaged things in the church untouched and unrepaired.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry