The meeting house would be the center of the town's political and religious life.

His father forced him to take on a religious life.

But by now he had already decided to follow the religious life.

At the age of 13, she felt a calling for the religious life.

It has become a high point of my religious life.

Ultimately, she decided the religious life was not for her.

Nearly all the men who entered the religious life with him have since left.

By that time, she had already shown interest in following religious life.

"Tell me what you know about the religious life, my child."

"This is really about the future of religious life itself."