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In time I came to realize that her churchgoing had nothing to do with me and this was even harder to accept.

And he followed in the great presidential tradition of exaggerating his churchgoing.

Thus my churchgoing was a merely symbolical and provisional practice.

"Since then, I have not been sick," Verónica said of her churchgoing.

Beating the Churchgoing Blahs (1986)

Some points are made over and over - for instance, the obvious contradiction between Mr. Hanssen's behavior and his intense churchgoing.

But I suspect that his devout churchgoing, and all that counting his rosary, was a part of his cover as an anticommunist."

"Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Cat, A Traded Car"

"It's a Sunday churchgoing, out in the plaza thing," said Mr. Ampudia, who serves elotes as an appetizer at his restaurant.

I cannot begin to comprehend how so many good churchgoing, God-fearing people could be driven by their fear and faith to overlook the cynicism and corruption of these acts.

Although my churchgoing is confined usually to weddings and funerals, there are times when I am certain that one guardian angel at least has been detailed to watch over my welfare.

A teenager agonizes about his family's resistance to his daily churchgoing and later confesses his tendency to weave material from his Bible readings into his erotic fantasies.

"And yet," he said, "so much accumulated churchgoing had an effect, even if, when I was a teen-ager, the pompousness of it, the self-righteousness of it irritated me.

It was the sort of gesture to religion that the regime discouraged, but Theo Forster had never been an ardent believer; his churchgoing was only done to please his wife.

'A Pure Gospel Valentine' John Houseman Theater Oxymoron hunters eager to bag big game may want to pounce on the term "secular churchgoing."

SPORTSSATURDAY, PAGE D1 Supply-Side Churchgoing Does competition among churches stimulate total church attendance?

B2 The Nation's Mood CHURCHGOING - After the terror attacks, stunned Americans flocked for prayer and comfort not only to their local houses of worship, but also to sports stadiums, public plazas and convention centers.

And in "Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car," the narrator thinks, "The universe that so easily permitted me to commit adultery became, by logical steps each one of which went more steeply down than the one above it, a universe that would easily permit me to die."