gospel
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Yet like all forecasts they can also turn out to be incorrect, so they shouldn't be treated as gospel.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
She passed down these survival tactics to Suvorova like gospel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Over time her work became more personal, leaning in to Afrocentric mysticism and her distinctive voice, which sidesteps gospel projection in favor of intimate and playful phrasing that recalls Billie Holiday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Any Black person with a job — especially white-collar professionals — had that gospel drilled into them by their parents long before the high-achieving Shonda Rhimes immortalized it in her show.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Like any second she was going to sing gospel.
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
It was Tyndale’s personal encounter with the gospels that caused him to risk everything—exile, shame, poverty, imprisonment—to put the Bible into the hands of ordinary people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Pagels is conversant with every version of the gospels — even the most obscure — and wades through them with forensic thoroughness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
Many people argue that this cold and punitive spirit has little to do with the Christian gospels, and they are probably right about that.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2023
She got some money from her college and entered into an obscure essay contest, writing about the Greek text of one of the gospels.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2023
I went back to my cell with a new resolve: the next time I was permitted a shower I would take with me three of my gospels.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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World Religions
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