Because it is not affiliated with any single church denomination, its supporters come from a wide variety of protestant and evangelical backgrounds.

Of the others, the majority said they came from fundamentalist or evangelical backgrounds.

Henry Room (1802 - 1850) was an English portrait-painter, from an evangelical background in Birmingham.

The other is the world of her own evangelical Christian background.

The second group were from more evangelical backgrounds, and some found the presence of homosexual clergy unsettling.

I was brought up with a very respectable evangelical background.

This led the group to practice a more liturgical form of worship than in their previous evangelical background.

The survey probably overrepresented members of the clergy from evangelical backgrounds, the researchers said.

John Coldstream came from an evangelical background and shared Darwin's fascination with sea life.

He was unhappy there and came to realize that he did not agree with much of his evangelical background anymore.