No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.
I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.