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The most important figure today in the Anglican Communion, a worldwide federation of churches with some 75 million adherents, is probably a man few people in the West know anything about: Archbishop Peter Jasper Akinola, of Nigeria.

Defender of the Faith 2003

The most important figure today in the Anglican Communion, a worldwide federation of churches with some 75 million adherents, is probably a man few people in the West know anything about: Archbishop Peter Jasper Akinola, of Nigeria.

Defender of the Faith 2003

But after eight years of a botched military solution that has cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars, thousands of lives and no appreciable decrease in adherents to terrorist organizations, I think it’s well past time that we closed the book on the “post-9/11 mentality.”

The Detroit Bomber and the Post-9/11 Mentality | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

The overwhelming multitudes of their adherents are here seeking a life of opportunity and liberty in the "land of the free and the home of the brave."

Rev. Chuck Freeman: Why Help Build a Mosque I Have Core Differences With? Rev. Chuck Freeman 2010

I mean, compared to a religion that mandates its equivalent of baptized adherents to carry a knife and iron band at all times (Sikhism) or spiritual growth through repeated readings of questionably sourced books, or even some relatively well-recognized if unusual actions (Emo!)

The Volokh Conspiracy » Herd of Individualists, Wolfman Edition 2010

At its heart, the Christian faith calls adherents to embody the values of God's kingdom --justice, mercy, and love--in the midst of our world--to be the body of Christ in the world.

TEXAS FAITH: Misunderstanding (my) religion | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

We find "true believers" as Carse calls adherents to belief systems struggling against a real or imagined other, but ultimately also struggling against the challenge to their beliefs that comes from within.

The Religious Case Against Belief James F. McGrath 2008

Indeed, for many of its adherents, that is precisely naturalism's point.

Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics Paseau, Alexander 2008

We find "true believers" as Carse calls adherents to belief systems struggling against a real or imagined other, but ultimately also struggling against the challenge to their beliefs that comes from within.

Archive 2008-12-01 James F. McGrath 2008

He said the adherents should be arrested and charged And a group of 16 Kanu MPs yesterday laid the blame for the existence of Mungiki squarely at the doors of the Government.

Five Killed in Mungiki Mayhem 2003