Since antiquity, astronomers had put Earth at the center of planetary motions, a view the church had embraced.

And that's where the church can't embrace the honesty of what hip-hop tries to get us to understand and deal with.

The church here embraces me, but it would never hire me as a full-time minister.

Nevertheless, the church accepted papal authority and from the eleventh century embraced monastic reform, developing a flourishing religious culture that asserted its independence from English control.

Many churches have now embraced the ordination of women based on this modern outlook.

In approving this book, the church embraced the growing concern for the reform of Presbyterian worship.

It describes how Mr. Ake's church in Alaska embraced his father, a convicted rapist.

Israeli oppression has united our people and the church embraces the mosque.

During this time, the church embraced the ecumenical movement that was symbolized by the Second Vatican Council.

But Widmer was also conscious of preserving a distinctive Mennonite identity, even as the church embraced fellow Christians.