Word: gospelling
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...Pope had a related goal: to urge balance between respect for African and Catholic traditions. "Having received the Christian faith, develop it," he bade the Togolese. But he warned, "It is not the Gospel that must change. It is the different cultures that must strive to better absorb the life and spiritual health brought to the world by Jesus Christ...
...Dotto and dozens of pitchmen like him are inundating television airwaves and packing conference halls across the U.S. with their gospel of "no money down." The seminars and TV programs are teasers for the real product: packages of booklets and tape cassettes that explain in more detail how to start from scratch in real estate. At about $300 and up, these home-study courses have earned millions of dollars for the gurus and probably started a few graduates on the path to success. But many mortgage lenders and real estate brokers, irritated by shaky financing schemes proposed to them...
Westerners often compare the Koran to the Bible, but as religion professors routinely explain, a closer Christian analogy is Christ himself, described in the opening of the Gospel of John as a divine expression ("In the beginning was the Word") subsequently made flesh. Like Christians regarding Christ, Muslims believe that the Koran was not created but has existed with God for all eternity. If "Jesus is God's revelation, and the meaning [to Christians] of that revelation unfolds in the events of his life as described in the Gospels," writes comparative religion expert F.E. Peters in his book The Monotheists...
That commandment too, however literal, seems to be selectively ignored. But according to the Alliance Defense Fund, the Bible is the “infallible, authoritative Word of God.” Hypothetically, nothing should be ranked above or below anything else, for everything is, literally, gospel...
Chloe tells us the calorie count of everything she eats ad nauseam and she dishes the dirt on her bikini-waxing ritual, trying to let us into her body anxiety: “I grab a bag of SoyChips, chips for us carbophobes who buy into the gospel that Vogue preaches,” she tells us conspiratorially. But her descriptions of the scanty (or nonexistent) outfits in which she trots off to parties, meant to make her audience revel in the bacchanalia of college life, don’t gel with her supposed embarrassment...