apostle
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In the New Testament, the apostle Paul transformed Jewish tradition by moving God’s image from the physical body to the spiritual soul.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Noted theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, for one, was an apostle for it.
From Salon ● May 20, 2025
Dutch Sheets, an influential self-described prophet and apostle, said in his daily worship broadcast last week that he realized that God had a plan.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2024
Armed with a whiteboard and a penchant for grilling corporate executives during congressional hearings, Katie Porter quickly emerged as an apostle for Democrats in Orange County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
Jaime practiced his profession with the vocation of a true apostle.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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Antoni Gaudí’s Basilica Sagrada Família contains familiar components of that style: a Latin Cross layout, Gothic arches, cloisters, representations of saints and apostles, rose windows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Pope Francis had performed this ceremony, which re-enacts Jesus's gesture toward his apostles, among marginalised people, whether prisoners, migrants or the homeless.
From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026
Throughout the Twelve Days, people shared traditional mince pies with friends and family, eating a mixture within that contained 13 ingredients representing Christ and his apostles.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2024
What the documentary describes as the “shock wave” from Jesus’ doleful announcement of profound betrayal within his cohort is seen rippling through the facial features and bodily gestures of the gathered apostles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2024
Malcolm X, who’d been dead for twenty-five years, exploded out of the small gatherings of his surviving apostles and returned to the world.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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