A spokesman at the
Plymouth Brethren Christian Church said: "We expect to open the school during the final term of the academic year.
A team of volunteers from the
Plymouth Brethren transformed the pavillion building in the recreation ground in one day, coating interior walls and ceilings in fresh new paint and applying gloss to scuffed and worn doors and frames.
It was only an appetiser, which we tucked away to the accompaniment of a delicious conversation about the
Plymouth Brethren in India -- I had imagined they didn't exist outside Dublin and New Hampshire on either side of the Atlantic, but just Delhi has seven congregations of this little- known Christian denomination!
As Shaw points out, Mennonites, Quakers, Tunkers, Doukhobors, and eventually Christadelphians and Seventh-Day Adventists were granted exemption from military conscription on the basis of membership in a group, while members of the International Bible Student's Association (Jehovah's Witnesses after 1931) and
Plymouth Brethren were not.
Plymouth Brethren minister John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) popularized the doctrine under the name "dispensationalism," which was further spread by the Scofield Reference Bible published in 1909.
A member of the
Plymouth Brethren, he held strong religious views.
Brett Grainger grew up in a household of
Plymouth Brethren, a Protestant sect that eschews priests and ministers, lives ascetically, and believes fervently that Jesus is about to appear and "rapture" them to Heaven.
His mother, Mary (Jessica Hynes), is a member of the
Plymouth Brethren, which forbids Will to watch corruptive influences like film, TV and radio.
His mother, Mary, is a member of the
Plymouth Brethren, which forbids Will from corruptive influences like film, television and the radio.
His mother, Mary (Hynes), is a member of the
Plymouth Brethren, which forbids Will from corruptive influences such as film, television and the radio.
Meaning that July, 2008 marks the 100th anniversary of his birth in Ammanf ord - although it might have been Chicago, where his father was an evangelist with the
Plymouth Brethren.
The good British cast also includes Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson) as Will's mother, torn between her family and the puritanical demands of the
Plymouth Brethren - and the not-so-spiritual attentions of Brother Joshua (Neil Dudgeon).