apostle

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

Huntley auditioned for the Bowl’s “Jesus Christ Superstar” 2025 production, this time as Simon Zealotes, the fiery apostle with one of the show’s most rousing anthems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 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

More realistically, he pictured a kind of assistant to the man-god, say a half step up from an apostle.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

They are clad variously in red porphyry, black basalt, gray granite and yellowish sandstone from nearby Montjuïc, with emblems symbolizing the four evangelists, the 12 apostles and an assortment of Catholic saints and geographic regions.

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

When those apostles died, the church was closed for a "time of silence", beginning in 1901 and to last until the Second Coming.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025

The 12th century “Stavelot Retable,” loaned by Paris’ Cluny Museum, shows the Christian Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the 12 apostles, courtesy of beams of light radiating from above.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 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