gospel
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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
He renounced the prosperity gospel he once had preached, wrote a raw and wrenching biography about his missteps and vowed to work with the needy and most vulnerable when he was released.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
On long-distance buses, pastors can often be seen - and heard - preaching the gospel.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
It has also rejected comparisons to the prosperity gospel, the Christian theological movement that connects faith with material or financial rewards.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
He was young, and he looked up often as he read the gospel, his brown eyes piercing the congregation.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
Pope Leo then took the book of the gospels to bless the people.
From BBC ● May 18, 2025
Like a detective, she’s always on the lookout for contradictory gospels about Jesus’ origin story.
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
I went back to my cell with a new resolve: the next time I was permitted a shower I would take with me three of my gospels.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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