"We're not trying to trap parents, " said George Davison, the head of Grace Church School.

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Jane Clementi is active in the local Grace Church, which is affiliated with Willow Creek, the evangelical megachurch near Chicago.

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Some students who had been accepted to Grace Church's new high school, which will open next year, instead chose Stuyvesant High School, LaGuardia and others, he said.

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Other schools said they would issue extensions depending on a family's particular situation, including Grace Church, which started a new high school this year, and Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn.

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Local Episcopalians - belonging to the American wing of the Anglican community - gathered on Sunday in the draughty hall of Grace Church in this picture postcard town on the swirling Merrimack River.

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As the founder of the International Church of the Grace of God, Soares is one of the most regular faces on Brazilian TV.

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The church claims years of auditing and study can take followers to a state of grace called ?

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