preach
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Pastors and faith leaders can preach on any moral or social issue, including justice, poverty, immigration, war.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Two women dressed in green and pink fur cradle each other’s heads, reimagining medieval depictions of cephalophores — Christian martyrs who carry their severed heads while continuing to preach or pray.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
"We want to be a place where there's a mixing of lots of perspectives, and this is us practicing what we preach -- a cosmologist working closely with a condensed matter theorist."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
Sermons and homilies still preach charity and mercy toward the weak, and rightly so; strip those out and nothing Christian survives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Every Sunday morning, a minister from a different denomination would preach to us.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Ironically, Toru preaches the importance of good communication skills in the office, a lesson the film’s guarded family would be wise to heed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
On Tuesday night, Lahmeyer, a 34-year-old who preaches in suits, announced that he was running to represent Tulsa’s solidly red district, which is currently held by Rep. Kevin Hern.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2026
Callans says he books car rentals through Costco all the time and preaches the savings to anyone who will listen, most recently his siblings in Chicago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
The German preaches speed and intensity, pressing and hunting, and he saw plenty of it, but not from any of his players.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
When he preaches in the church, the people’s love for him is like a big wave: it carries him up, up.
From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple
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Abdel-Rahman lived and preached in New Jersey before he was convicted in 1995 of seditious conspiracy in relation to the first bombing of the World Trade Center.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
Civic engagement was not something they preached, it was how they lived.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
He has led talks to energize employees, reminding them never to speak of the company’s forthcoming products, a nod to the company’s secrecy dogma preached by Jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Generally speaking, I find the “millennials are entitled” narrative quite tired and sometimes preached by people who grew up in a much healthier economy.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026
“I’ll bet he preached the Gospel right to the very end,” I said.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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A divide is growing over AI-assisted preaching in American churches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Certain evangelical leaders may be politically and personally odious, but millions of Americans have flooded into nondenominational churches in search of biblical preaching, youth programs, fellowship, forgiveness and music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
This is where we find Lestat in Season 3, preaching the gospel that this is his time.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
"If someone wants to criticise me for preaching the Gospel... I hope simply to be listened to because of the value of God's words."
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Experience had taught them that in the end the fox always eats the hens, despite the subversive ballads that were traveling from mouth to mouth preaching just the opposite.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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