--- title: Churches of the English-speaking world II — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Churches of the English-speaking world II», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: More church families: Presbyterians, led by elected elders, with roots in Scotland and John Calvin; Pentecostals, with l --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Churches of the English-speaking world… # Churches of the English-speaking world II Lesson 29 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/0/) — More church families: Presbyterians, led by elected elders, with roots in Scotland and John Calvin; Pentecostals, with lively worship and a strong stress on the Holy Spirit; and Quakers, who worship mostly in silence. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/1/) — The Salvation Army was founded in London by William and Catherine Booth; it is organised like an army, with uniforms and brass bands, and is famous for helping the poor. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/2/) — Many people today go to non-denominational or free churches, independent churches not part of a bigger family, often with modern songs and bands. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/3/) — Churches differ in leaders, baptism, style of worship, use of images and how they read the Bible, but all share belief in one God, Jesus who died and rose, the Bible, prayer, baptism and love of neighbour. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/4/) — Christianity is the largest world religion, and most Christians now live in Africa, Latin America and Asia; ecumenism means churches working together, and for a child it means your friend's church is part of the same big family. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/5/) — Presbyterian churches are led by elected elders, called presbyters. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/6/) — Presbyterian churches have roots in Scotland and in the teaching of John Calvin; the Church of Scotland is Presbyterian. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/7/) — Pentecostal churches stress the Holy Spirit, lively worship, healing and speaking in tongues: praying aloud in sounds or a language the speaker never learned, which they believe shows the Holy Spirit at work today. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/8/) — Pentecostal churches are named after Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came on the first disciples. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/9/) — Quakers, the Religious Society of Friends, worship mostly in silence and are known for peace-making and equality. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/10/) — The Salvation Army was founded in London by William and Catherine Booth and is famous for brass bands and helping the poor; it wears uniforms because it sees itself as an army fighting poverty and sin. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/11/) — The Salvation Army's motto of care is often put as soup, soap and salvation. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/12/) — Non-denominational and free churches are independent churches not part of a larger denomination. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/13/) — Ecumenism means churches working together and seeking unity, for example in shared services and charities. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/14/) — Churches differ in leaders, sacraments, baptism, worship style, use of images and how they read the Bible. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/15/) — All churches share belief in one God, Jesus as Saviour who died and rose, the Bible, prayer, baptism and love of neighbour. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/16/) — Quakers and the Salvation Army do not usually hold baptism with water, so some list baptism as shared by nearly all churches. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/17/) — Christianity is the largest world religion, with about a third of the world's people. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/18/) — Today most Christians live in Africa, Latin America and Asia. - ← previous: [Churches of the English-speaking world I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i/) - next →: [Judaism](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)