evangelizer

Pope Francis canonized Serra in 2015 as “evangelizer of the West,” even though reconsideration of the Serra legend had already become part of America’s confrontation with its historical racism.

Through statues, we learn the story of Serra, the great evangelizer, who brought Christianity to California.

Too bad writer-director Andrew Hyatt's "Paul, Apostle of Christ" — with "Game of Thrones" actor James Faulkner as the bald, bearded evangelizer extraordinaire — is so ponderous a dramatization of his story, despite an appealing outer shell of ancient period flavor and a few decent performances.

Thanks to them and to HistoriCorps, I am now a competent cedar and asphalt roofer, an emerging preservationist, a fan of service vacations and a hard hat evangelizer.

To understand Rubio, one must appreciate that he sees himself not simply as an ideological vessel but as an evangelizer, a politician who wants to win converts to conservatism.