preacher

He had a religious streak encouraged by his mother and father, the latter a preacher of the gospel to peyote-friendly Native Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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

It neatly sums up the endgame in which we find ourselves — and his vanquishing of the preacher Eli speaks to what we worship in the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

As Tom listened, a preacher read Nichols’s final statement: “Sheriff White has been very accommodating to me indeed. I feel prepared to meet death. My soul is at peace with all mankind.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

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

That was never in question, since great preachers, the ones who make the gospel’s message stick, also know how to make their congregations laugh.

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026

She timidly suggested that he was here at a flattering disadvantage, for she had heard all of the preachers, but he had not, for a very long time, eaten another woman’s cooking.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin