How To Use Born-again In A Sentence
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You are born-again, re-sobered, a former hardcore binge drinker and rumored huge fan of various illegal substances back in college, and you had at least one DUI arrest and went AWOL from the National Guard, and you've stashed away from public view all records of both your tenure as Texas governor, and those SEC investigations into your alleged insider trading.
Chaos Theory:
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So, Sue asked the DUP councillor, could Katrina have been a divine judgement on born-again Christians?
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The sad news for those born-again C & A consumers is that this revival of fortunes is too late to save the company, which will take its final curtain after Christmas.
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It is particularly popular with ‘born-again’ bikers - older motorcyclists who buy high-powered machines in a bid to recapture the thrills of their youth.
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It is true that people who say they've had a born-again experience are about as likely to divorce as people who are completely secular.
Christianity Today
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Half the born-agains are still lost souls, a researcher finds, and there's a reason.
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He has lost all faith in nihilism and is a born-again Linux enthusiast.
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Announce ourselves, like those born-again virgins in America, to be newly without sin?
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I like to think that, somehow, she'd have managed, that her miraculous born-again faith would have brought comfort and hope.
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They have an evangelical fervour that turns speakers into born-agains, again and again.
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Contrast him to his opponent Jimmy Carter, a born-again Southern Baptist, a Sunday school teacher, and brother to a prominent faith healer.
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Some of the theology from the songs of Dylan's born-again era is a little blunt, but his words had the same transformative power on me in 1979 as they did on my parents in the early '60s.
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Maybe my enthusiasm is just that of a born-again geek, but I'm inclined to agree.
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Ask a born-again person about his or her faith and they will probably mention their experience of the indwelling Christ and how important that is to them on a day-by-day basis.
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As compelling, it describes Napolitano's personal odyssey from his days of supporting Richard Nixon to becoming a "born-again individualist" after eight years on the Garden State bench, which he left in 1995.
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Hutchinson is a big-time born-again who attacked Bill Clinton for his infidelities.
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But how do you drill this into the heads of the millions of self-styled born-agains who are less dogmatic?
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He was a born-again Christian and he was the choirmaster in his church and that is considered to be very, very important in Kenya: if you're a choirmaster you're a respectable person in the community.
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As a "born-again" cyclist I had decided that this season I would ride in a few races.
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Here you have the prime virtue of being a born-again politician: automatic absolution from responsibility for inflicting even more deprivation on the weakest in society.
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But the story of Ronald Reagan, the much-loved symbol of a US born-again after the self-hating 1960s and 1970s, still resonates with ordinary Americans.
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Kurt is my guru [of] whom I ask questions every time I have a problem with the native communities, " says businessman and born-again environmental activist Roberto Persivale.
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However, we still hadn't found an actress for the peach role of the nutty, born-again aunt who tries to run everyone's life, particularly her ne'er-do-well son's, by using literal advice taken straight from her Bible.
David Dean Bottrell: Farewell, Mrs. Cleaver
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Followers bring born-agains into the fold (including diva disciple Sylvester).
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I had been a born-again Christian for less than six months, but I knew I never wanted to be like this self-righteous, mean-spirited pastor.
Recovering From Religious Abuse
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How would you say a person really shows that he is a truly born-again Christian?
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Any smugness on my part, though, must be tempered by the admission that if it were the Bible that you were talking about, then we'd be in there swinging to get hold of Ezekiel before the Methodists or the born-agains.
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I wonder what our president thinks of that big Happy Ending, since he's a born-again.
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Only 9% of born-again US Christians have such a perspective on life.
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It ain't perfect, but it sure had the rawest energy since the '80s, like some born-again punk band.
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You must, in short, become a born-again consumer, redeem yourself, and find peace.
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The Axioms of Religion, who insisted truly born-again believers are "impelled" to be part of the church.
Biblical Recorder
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Cliff Richard is a born-again Christian.
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Even in a state like Iowa, where roughly half of Republican caucus-goers identify themselves as born-again Christians, Mr Romney is leading in some polls because the right-wing vote is so fractured.
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At the heart of the plot is a core of born-again Christians who form a resistance movement against the ultimate arch-enemy, Satan.
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The hippocampus is the center of memory and navigation in the brain; recent research from Duke University shows that people who had had a "born-again" experience showed more atrophy of the hippocampus on average than the religious who didn't identify as born-again.
Michael Taft: Hardwired for the Mystical?
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Whether one's partner becomes a born-again teetotaller, re-embraces their Ibiza dancing days in middle age, turns from T-bone-loving carnivore to vegan overnight or quits smoking and turns evangelical, there's nothing more annoying than one's own leopard changing spots.
Dear Mariella: I do yoga, which makes my boyfriend reckon that I've joined a cult. Can we get past this?
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How I hate born-again neopagan politically-correct moral relativism ... but I do love the benighted sinners who practice this particular form of synthetic spiritualism.
The Ritual: After Death, Before Venison
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Could it be that we so-called born-again Christians are not as free as we think or perhaps not genuinely born anew?
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
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I've become a born-again baker.
Times, Sunday Times
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He personally identifies with the born-again evangelicals within his own party.
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When I finished my stint with pursuing life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, I returned to these shores determined to become a born-again.
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They talk with the earnest enthusiasm of the born-again: comedy Wayans-style is as much a belief system as it is a form of entertainment.
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It is a secular 'born-again' phenomenon that has its historical origin in Puritanism as part of the American psyche.
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Under the new covenant we have the born-again experience, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the body and blood of Christ, and the ministries and gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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The survey leaves all sorts of questions unanswered - not least why born-again Christians should score highly when many would say they are the same people as Evangelicals.
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Holyfield, who professed to be a born-again Christian, thanked God in his postfight news conference.
Called to Coach
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First in the dock was Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Comrade Duch, a former mathematics teacher turned born-again Christian who is accused of overseeing S-21.
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Born-again Christian" is a self-designation with which most of us have become familiar, but what many of those who so classify themselves actually worship is a born-again Christ.
Robert S. McElvaine: Merry Xmas! -- O Unholy Night when Christ was Reborn
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Nazmi is more than just a simple farmer: he is a born-again farmer with a zealous devotion to organic farming and a burning desire to organize other people around him to reap its benefits as well.
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Cliff Richard is a born-again Christian.
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His born-again brother resents him, his sister-in-law looks like his mother, his ex-girlfriend has a daughter that has had as many birthdays as he has spent years away and his father had a secret den.
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Thus born-again Christians and mainstream believers alike affirm both a spiritual identity and a religious identity.
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“born-again illiterate Jesus freaks, tattooed and pierced illiterate suburban kids, fake gangsta illiterate urban youth, orange-skinned horse-faced illiterate high-school dropout gals who aspire to celebrity sluthood or a career in the Army, violent illiterate psychopathic “Juggalos” and a bedeviled minority of depressed semi-literate goth & emo teens in the Midwest”
Dustbury.com » And Tom wins it in a walk
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I'm like a born-again apathetic!
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I've become a born-again baker.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today we have a Protestant born-again who tries to enlist the Pope to intervene in an American election.
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In fact, I've heard that the number of real born-again Christians may be less than half a percent.
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Being born-again is the adoption that Paul spoke of which gives me the legal right to call HaShem my Father and for him to call me son; within this legal right is the liberty to refer to HaShem in the fullness of His name (s) and titles without fear of offending Him.
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Sarah Palin is a dangerous theocrat who would be a great VP for all of us if we were all born-again Christians with tightass reading tastes.
More on Sarah Palin, Moose Hunting, and Other Stuff
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Atheists are even preachier than hard-core born-agains.
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One example of this failure is the fact that most Americans, including a majority of born-again Christians, don't believe that Satan is real.
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In Puerto Santo Tomás, one born-again fisherman adorned his shack with a biblical scene evidently intended to allude to, in idealized fashion, the stalwart men of the village.
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As a "born-again" cyclist I had decided that this season I would ride in a few races.
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I have come to terms with letting my born-again pompousness disappear into the grave darkness.
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Cheney, unlike Bush, does not speak the language of the born-again.
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Protestant fundamentalists believe that shortly before the end, all the born-again Christians with true faith will be snatched up to heaven, and they call this Rapture.
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It is true that people who say they've had a born-again experience are about as likely to divorce as people who are completely secular.
Christianity Today
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In religious life, insobriety is evident in popular movements that promote super-spiritual phenomena, born-again testimonies, and an extreme emphasis on charismatic gifts, appealing to the certainty of personal first-order experiences by themselves, which must be repeated to keep up the momentum, sometimes in new and questionable ways.
Eric Simpson: Icons: Symbols of Sobriety in a Culture of Chaos
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Greg Bourne has been described as a born-again greenie but he rejects that tag and says it wasn't disillusionment with the oil industry that prompted him to make the switch
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The born-again Christian experience and the corporate experience both nauseate me.
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Divorce rates are the same for born-agains and non-religious people.
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Protestant fundamentalists believe that shortly before the end, all the born-again Christians with true faith will be snatched up to heaven; they call this Rapture.
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The poll has an overrepresentation of "marrieds and born-agains," says Pollitt, which may have skewed the responses.
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The problem is that estimates of the number of born-again or evangelical Christians in the United States vary because pollsters ask the question in a variety of ways and Americans define the term differently, said Alan Cooperman, associate director of the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life.
Poll: Iowa's caucusgoers in step with national views
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If you're a born-again Christian, but your battery has gone down, it can be recharged, renewed, revived… today.
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This born-again Jew strongly emphasized to me that ‘the creation message is vital to preaching the gospel in Israel,’ and that our website can be an effective tool.
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The couple, both born-again Christians, chose the ceremony format, music and minister - understood to be Presbyterian.
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When he heeds the call of religion, he starts turning the local into a meeting place for fellow born-agains.
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Actually, Jesus of the Week is making fun of the tacky images produced by Allen's own subculture, the insular world of US born-agains.
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After all, fanatic ayatollahs and born-again Christians eager for the Rapture set no encouraging example.
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a born-again Christian
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Twenty years later, though, in the hands of performers who know how to sing the gospel, they are undergoing their own born-again experience.
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Perhaps an overrepresentation of marrieds and born-agains helps explain the abortion responses, which are on the anti-choice end of the current spectrum of polls.
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A December 2002 Gallup poll found that 46 percent of Americans consider themselves born-again or evangelical.
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The nerviest thing about The Rapture, Michael Tolkin's outrageously uncompromising first film, is that its central relationship -- a love/hate one -- is between its born-again protagonist and God.
Dark Nights Of The Soul
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In the pages leading up to the novel's climax, both Cameron Williams and Chloe Stole, the most skeptical and secular of the book's protagonists, embrace Christ and become born-again Christians.
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However, we still hadn't found an actress for the peach role of the nutty, born-again aunt who tries to run everyone's life, particularly her ne'er-do-well son's, by using literal advice taken straight from her Bible.
David Dean Bottrell: Farewell, Mrs. Cleaver
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She goes to church, but she's not one of those born-again types like Jessie and Lisa.
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The couple, both born-again Christians, chose the ceremony format, music and minister - understood to be Presbyterian.
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So, Sue asked the DUP councillor, could Katrina have been a divine judgement on born-again Christians?
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Witnessing hell has made me a born-again atheist.
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January 24th, 2010 at 3: 18 pm tombaker says: drhunt savegely and baselessly disses an Annapolis-Graduated Nuclear Scientist and born-again Christian President. proving that righties are all amoral, godless nihilists.
Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion.
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After all, fanatic ayatollahs and born-again Christians eager for the Rapture set no encouraging example.
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That's right: the born-again Mormon has found true religion in the reinvention of American history.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Glenn Beck's History Lesson
