Sort of intend to embrace church, being crude (8)
I believe the answer is:
indecent
'crude' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'sort of intend to embrace church' is the wordplay.
'sort of' is an anagram indicator.
'to embrace' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'church' becomes 'ce' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'intend' with letters rearranged gives 'indent'.
'indent' placed around 'ce' is 'INDECENT'.
'being' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for indecent that I've seen before include "Immodest or obscene" , "Unbecoming, obscene" , "Gross, unbecoming" , "Offensive to common modesty" , "Smutty" .)