preacher
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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
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
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
“They wouldn’t do that. No preacher would put up with it.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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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
Boateng says he was shaken by the regulation and wants religious preachers to be given an exemption.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Muslims ruled large parts of India from the early 13th to the 19th century, and during this era Muslim preachers and Sufi mystics actively proselytized for Islam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
I knew from listening to a thousand preachers that she was nearing the end of her reading, and I hadn’t really heard, heard to understand, a single word.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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