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preacher

noun as in person who gives religious instruction

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The son of a Pentecostal preacher, he revealed in a 2014 GQ interview with Amy Wallace that he taught himself to play Earth, Wind & Fire‘s “Boogie Wonderland” at the age of 4.

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"I'm actually in the game as a Scottish preacher so you might hear me!"

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But a decade later, Keaton directed “Heaven,” an entire documentary about the subject, in which she asked street preachers and Don King and her 94-year-old grandmother how they imagined the afterlife.

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But a preacher without a flock is powerless.

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The prediction comes from South African preacher Joshua Mhlakela, a born-again Christian who shared his “vision” in a YouTube interview earlier this year.

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