gospel
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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
Technical analysis isn’t gospel, but it’s worth tracking as price action often reveals changes in supply and demand before the narrative catches up.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Mahalia Jackson’s gospel anthems and Harry Belafonte’s interpretations of calypso music took on special relevance for the civil-rights movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The publication took that as gospel, calling Music, Fashion, Film the star's "rock reinvention".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
It wasn’t a gospel tune exactly, but it carried all the personality of one.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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 also points out that the gospels can’t be read as “gospel.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
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
Always hoped that I'd be an apostle Knew that I would make it if I tried Then when we retire, we can write the gospels So they'll still talk about us when we've died.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2022
And three or four nights a week, they were in their storefront rehearsing for the next Sunday, I guess, shaking and rattling and rolling the gospels with their guitars and tambourines.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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