United Church of Christ
- proper noun
- The final participant to sign on to the statement—the United Church of Christ—did so on July 4, 2011, at its General Synod.
Examples
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Obama belongs to the United Church of Christ, though he's attended other denominations' services in DC.
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I was twenty-five years old and had just been ordained by the United Church of Christ to serve in campus ministry.
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Lynn is also an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.
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Ads proposed and paid for by MoveOn, by the United Church of Christ, and others were rejected.
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The Reverend Jeramich Wright, Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois, was the guest.
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Horton, another delegated Protestant observer from the United Church of Christ, presented some of the dramatic moments during Vatican II.
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In the same period, that in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) fell from 3.2 million to 2.4 million, and the United Church of Christ saw its membership decline by almost 50 percent.
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The majority of the respondents were affiliated with mainline Protestant denominations such as Presbyterian, Baptist, Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran, and United Church of Christ.
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John H. Thomas (United Church of Christ) has served since 2010 as the Senior Advisor to the President of Chicago Theological Seminary, where he is also a Visiting Professor of Church Ministries. Ordained in the United Church of Christ in 1975, he holds standing in the Chicago Metropolitan Association of the Illinois Conference of the U.C.C.
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The Reverend Jerry attends the meetings of the United Church of Christ every month.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'united' + 'church' + 'Christ' give a clear general sense (a Christian church/organization united in Christ), so learners who know the words will infer it refers to a Christian church. However, the exact status as a specific U.S. Protestant denomination and its historical/organizational meaning (a named institution formed by a merger) is not predictable from the parts alone, so full comprehension requires prior exposure.
Etymology
United Church of Christ was created in 1957 when two Protestant groups 'joined' to form one religious group. Think of two churches coming under one roof. The word United shows they were joined and Church of Christ shows their shared Christian identity, so today the name means a single Protestant religious group in the United States.