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

Now, the reverend implored his congregation: “Someone say mission possible.”

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024

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

Then our votes will be the kind of prayer the reverend speaks of, one “for the world we desire for ourselves and our children.”

From Slate • Aug. 25, 2024

She was a talkative person, rarely nervous, but to recount something she’d said privately to the reverend in front of a thousand strangers—it didn’t seem right.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers