Word: gospeling
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...Huddleston, famed for his fight against apartheid in South Africa, called for even stronger condemnation by the churches: "Unless this is done, once again it will be clearly shown that principlcs of power politics count for more than justice, and that Western European civilization has forever forsaken the Christian gospel upon which it was founded...
...frequently upbraid Christianity for not disciplining and controlling Western civilization. Christians must impress on Islam, says Cragg, that "the Christian understanding of how man is put to rights is that it happens personally and through faith. . . . Thus the unit of Christianity [is] not society but persons in society . . . The Gospel of grace does not suppose that men are perfectible...
Where, came a voice out of a crowd in New Jersey, had the Democratic candidate for the presidency picked up his suntan? "Not from playing golf," grinned Adlai Stevenson, "but from preaching the Democratic gospel in public places." Other voices sounded out of other crowds: "We like Ike!" Stevenson replied: "I'd trust him with anything but public office." In Morristown, N.J. he spotted a picture of Eisenhower behind a window grille across the square. "Surely," he cracked, "there must be a more appropriate place for the President than behind bars...
...scrolls in caves to safeguard them from advancing Roman legions. But who were these people of the Dead Sea? The question is momentous, because they lived near the place where John the Baptist preached the Messiah's coming, during the time that Jesus taught and the Gospel sources were compiled. And some of their writings seem to show parallels of word and thought with the New Testament itself...
...century namesake, he snatched up the pen as quickly as he dropped the sword, wrote Divi Britannici, a monarchical history of England. In its lament for the plight of the Cromwellian realm, one hears the first rumblings of the famed Churchillian rhetoric: "The two great luminaries of law and gospel were put out: such as could not write supplied the place of judges, such as could not read, of bishops. Peace was maintained by war, licentiousness by fasting and prayer...