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preacher

[pree-cher] / ˈpri tʃər /


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Just a quiet preacher sharing the Gospel’s messages with strangers—including a student on a journey in her Mamaw’s old car.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

His sentencing will conclude a dramatic and protracted downfall for a preacher who at one point been preparing to take NOS global with expansion to the US.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

He studied theology at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary and is the grandson of a Baptist preacher.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

The former seminarian, whose grandfather was a Baptist preacher, "has the right, wonderful principles and all of the plans to put into effect that will make the country great again," she said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 2026

Beto, suddenly starving, followed the preacher toward the picnic tables under a stand of oaks, but all along the way they had to stop and meet church ladies.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

With his first book, John Crow’s Devil, a religious drama about two small-town Jamaican preachers competing for leadership, James faced a literary hazing of sorts while trying to sell the manuscript.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

In the halcyon days of the televangelists, when Jim Bakker stood shoulder to shoulder with fire and brimstone preachers such as Jerry Farwell, Pat Robertson and Jimmy Swaggart, the collection plate always seemed bottomless.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The speakers’ lineup in Tulsa will reportedly include Flynn, Clark, Eric Trump, Jackson Lahmeyer and his wife Kendra, and a veritable apostolic Lollapalooza of NAR-friendly preachers.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

Because many colonists were illiterate, the Declaration was commonly declaimed by local officials in town squares and preachers in pulpits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

Whereas White had once turned to preachers to illuminate this thing of darkness, he now also searched for a scientific explanation.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann


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