16. It was built by British missionaries about 120 years ago, and its cherry -wood pews and lofty pulpit would make any Anglican congregation in Surrey proud.
17. And perhaps understandably, given the number of empty pews across the nation's churches each Sunday, far fewer weddings include a religious ceremony nowadays.
18. The Philadelphia allegations are only the latest in a long line of charges that have rocked the church for a decade, causing crowds to leave already emptying pews.
19. When Mickey finally hits rock bottom and runs into the church, seeking redemption, let’s have all the female parishioners instantly jump up onto the pews, pointing and shrieking, “Kill it!
20. The night of our birth, a thunderstorm had cracked a tree in the courtyard of the new church, setting the building afire until it was no more than a charred sliver of steeple and smoking pews.
21. Lutheran Church Historian Martin Marty argues that all too many pews are filled on Sunday with practical atheists-disguised nonbelievers who behave during the rest of the week as if God did not exist.
22. Lutheran Church Historian Martin Marty argues that all too many pews are filled on Sunday with practical atheists-disguised nonbelievers who behave during the rest of the week as if God did not exist.
