Word: pews
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Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Center for the People and the Press, added numbers perspective to this with statistics culled by his organization...
...revival. Yet, Miles noticed on his book tour that they were not willing to believe just because they want the comforts of religion. Instead, these folk felt entitled to doubt God from inside the church or synagogue. Miles calls this new breed of religious unbeliever, "the doubter in the pew." Since Miles revealed himself several months earlier as such a doubter, we should not be too surprised that he champions these doubters as the face of current American religion...
Perhaps there was a two-minute lag between the purchase of the first cell phone and the establishment of etiquette rules against using the device at the dinner table, taking calls while attending a concert, or making calls from a pew during religious services. But that was only because it was hard to believe that anyone would try. Nobody doubts this any longer. Yet these situations are already covered by the broader mandates of manners that have always applied. Annoying people by making disruptive noises has been on that list since the human body first learned to make nasty sounds...
...missed our last reunion: "By now, I'm sure the whole class knows about our abduction on the way to the 20th. Sheila was assigned to an alien breeding facility and--wouldn't you know it?--I was sent to a labor camp, where I bumped into MATT PEW, who, as you might imagine, was in fine form." Lionel goes on to report that Sheila is still working on her coming-of-age memoir about her tumultuous nine months in utero, and that any classmate interested in participating in the bidding war for the book should contact him through...
...good and wonderful thing to see the Pusey family in their rightful place in their rightful pew," said Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in the Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes...