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churchgoing

[ US /ˈtʃɝtʃˌɡoʊɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /t‍ʃˈɜːt‍ʃɡə‍ʊɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. actively practicing a religion

How To Use churchgoing In A Sentence

  • He longs for exactly the kind of life that the town idealizes, with a stable marriage, loving home, and churchgoing respectability. Ilana Teitelbaum: Big Woman, Small Town: "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout
  • There was often a correlation between churchgoing habits in urban areas and their rural hinterland.
  • My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
  • And in general all churchgoing Latinos tend to see themselves as renewing Christianity in America.
  • Literacy and Christianity, for example, have given even nonliterate, non-churchgoing women new vocabulary and symbols for conceptualizing, and sometimes contesting, local practices and meanings related to traditional feminine qualities, duties, and roles. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • The increase is reflected across the ethnic minority Christian communities, although it is not yet large enough to offset the continuing decline in churchgoing overall.
  • According to the National Election Studies archives, weekly churchgoing among college-educated white men almost doubled in little more than a decade between 1952 and 1964 from about 29 percent to about 53 percent. American Grace
  • Until there is more transparency in church finances, it appears that a significant number of churchgoing Catholics will be withholding financial support from the church.
  • Finland is about 98 percent Lutheran but only about 2 percent churchgoing, so Lutheran notions of sin and grace are long forgotten by most Finns.
  • Thus my churchgoing was a merely symbolical and provisional practice. Surprised by Joy
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