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In 1988, he and his second wife, Alice Yelen Gitter, discovered Sister Gertrude Morgan, a self-taught artist and Christian street preacher whose paintings sometimes interpreted the Bible’s Book of Revelation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

“All they’re missing are the manger and the three wise men,” the preacher quipped.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Choudary had been at the heart of the al-Muhajiroun organisation since its founding in the late 1990s by a radical Islamist preacher who was later jailed for life in Lebanon.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Islam is the state religion but the constitution guarantees freedom of worship, subject to approval by the authorities for the place of worship and the preacher.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

After working with poor women in Boston as a doctor and a preacher, she decided that women’s problems couldn’t be solved by religion or medicine.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling