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The building, originally known as the Union Gospel Tabernacle, was built by riverboat captain Thomas Green Ryman and opened its doors in 1892, seven years after Ryman attended a tent revival in Nashville led by evangelist Samuel Porter Jones.
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Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024
Tom Raftery, a technology evangelist and podcaster focusing on sustainability and EVs, offered a more critical perspective.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
On Sunday, while delivering a sermon at The Potter’s House in Dallas, the renowned evangelist suffered a medical crisis.
—Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 25 Nov. 2024
In the 1980s, the Pentecostal televangelist Jimmy Swaggart used his personal column in his ministry’s magazine to endorse evangelist Pat Robertson’s campaign for president.
—Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2024
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Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024
Tom Raftery, a technology evangelist and podcaster focusing on sustainability and EVs, offered a more critical perspective.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
On Sunday, while delivering a sermon at The Potter’s House in Dallas, the renowned evangelist suffered a medical crisis.
—Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 25 Nov. 2024
In the 1980s, the Pentecostal televangelist Jimmy Swaggart used his personal column in his ministry’s magazine to endorse evangelist Pat Robertson’s campaign for president.
—Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2024
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Once again, right-wing activists are baselessly insisting that a mass shooter was trans.Abby Monteil, Them, 17 Dec. 2024
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He’s also taken other actions that have fallen short of the really dramatic and aggressive action that scientists and activists rightfully say is needed.Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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These missionaries are a destabilizing influence in a territory dominated by another version of Christianity, established and spread by the colonizing Belgians, that emphasizes the supremacy of a white Jesus.Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024
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But Native numbers began to decline with the arrival of Spanish missionaries, who brought diseases for which Natives had no immunity, including smallpox, malaria and diphtheria.CalMatters, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
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Trump's pick for the head of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been a staunch promoter of anti-vaccination policies and has pushed for the end of fluoride in water supplies.Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2024
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Yet the volume of the commentary about the Tyson fight, as well as the celebrities and public figures who chimed in, compelled the promoter to defend itself, an unusual step in the boxing world.Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 25 Nov. 2024
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Best revivalists: Green Day at Wrigley Field, Aug. 13 The once-novel idea of an artist performing a signature album in its entirety has become as ubiquitous as the $50 concert T-shirt.Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec. 2024
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The vallenato revivalist was recently honored as the 2024 Person of the Year by the Latin Recording Academy in Miami.Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2024
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In the 1960s, Gordon Bunshaft, the high-modernist apostle of SOM, designed an austere wing and enclosed an open courtyard that got little use or affection during Buffalo’s long, hard winters.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Sep. 2024
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The chapel was meant to house relics of the martyrs and apostles, Rossi said.Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.Phil Helsel, NBC News, 17 June 2022
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Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.al, al, 1 Dec. 2020
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In high-performing leadership teams, each leader is not only seen as a subject matter expert but also as a passionate advocate for the company’s goals, fostering trust and alignment across all stakeholders.Marina Cvetkovic, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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But, over the past decade, disability rights advocates have increasingly pushed companies to end the lower pay practice, describing it as discriminatory, dehumanizing and exploitative.Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
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In Florida, school boards are considering whether to allow volunteers to serve as chaplains or religious representatives for willing students after a law was passed this year.Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2024
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Manning the grill was Pastor David MacLellan, a Christian nationalist who is the chaplain for the Patriot Party of Arizona and subscribes to the extremist ideology of the Black Robe Regiment.David Gilbert, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Evangelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evangelist. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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