Word: pews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tears well up in Joy's eyes as she stands at the pulpit one Sunday evening offering testimony to all that God has done for her family. David sits in the pew behind Nancy, combing his sister's curly blond hair, inattentive to his mother's preaching. Nancy blows bubbles with thick pink gum. Stephen lies across a nearby pew, asleep. "Boring," Nancy says. Only David stands with his father to sing the final hymn...
...based in Atlanta, has initially received a total of $1.75 million from the BellSouth Foundation in Atlanta and the Pew Charitable Trusts in Philadelphia to implement the effort that emphasizes academic skills and teacher recruitment, Kinnick said. SEF officials hope to rasie the rest of the funds later...
JESSE'S schedulers were panicking in the pew across from Earl Hendricks. If Jesse got going too good, they had a special sign to cut him off at the appropriate time, and they knew it would mean nothing if the candidate couldn't see the time. Jesse lived in slow time--preacher time, that is, and he would naturally assume at the given time that he had a few more minutes to speak, even as the sign flashed from the nervous front...
...these back-pew analyses depended in part upon who wrote the incendiary essay. Suspicions quickly narrowed to a handful of clerics with the requisite conservative opinions and insider's knowledge. Bennett fit perfectly. He was an ally of London's Bishop Graham Leonard, a champion of the Anglo-Catholics, and served on two powerful panels that set the General Synod agenda and nominated bishops. Bennett, who was known for his probity, vociferously denied he was the writer. But after his death the two lay officials who assigned the author admitted that they had selected Bennett...
Unlike most grant programs, the Pew requires that the 75 eligible institutionsform clusters, Girgus said. The collaborativemethod is designed to bring schools with differentstrengths together, she said...