Word: gospeling
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...More than two-thirds of our Spanish workers have either been executed, exiled, or imprisoned," Missionary Percy J. Luffard reported to Britain's Spanish Gospel Mission. "Four-fifths of the Evangelical places of worship have been closed or confiscated. . . . There is a great deal of persecution almost everywhere, and in some cases whole churches have been dispersed...
...notes of modern culture so much harmony as the unanimous opposition of modern man to Christian conceptions of the sinfulness of man. The idea that man is sinful at the very centre of his personality ... is universally rejected. It is this rejection which has seemed to make the Christian gospel simply irrelevant to modern...
...defense of our own land, for the preservation of Christian civilization . . . through Christ our Lord. Amen." >Said Archbishop Chrysanthos of Athens, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church:' "Fascist Italy has indeed forgotten that from our land proceeded the Holy Fathers who first gave her the light of the Gospel and fed her with the milk of true reverence...
Christ is seldom mentioned reverently in a nightclub, and His story has never been made into a floor show-until last year in Manhattan. Since then the gospel story, sung in a spiritual called John the Revelator, has regularly evoked pin-drop silence in both downtown and uptown branches of Barney Josephson's Café Society. John the Revelator is one of the hit songs of a Negro group named the Golden Gate Quartet, whose hushed voices, to the rhythm of reverential thigh-slaps and foot-taps, make spirituals sound-in the jazzmen's phrase-out of this...
...history of the Near East, found such disagreement among scholars over the origins of Christianity that he "was compelled to devote precious years to the investigation of the New Testament for myself." Historian Olmstead's findings made most of his Bib Lit colleagues sputter. They think the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke) give the truest picture of Christ's life, assign a much later date to St. John's Gospel. Dr. Olmstead said roundly that it was the earliest, written only a few years after the Crucifixion, and by far the most reliable of the four...