Sentences with phrase «town preacher»

The dark and moody series follows a small - town preacher with superhuman powers and his best friend, an Irish vampire.

This act of violence sets off a series of events and recollections, including the story of Alexander Bedward, the 1920s town preacher who claimed that he could fly; and the school's modern - day principal, a wealthy white woman who hires Gina to be her housekeeper without knowing the secret behind the black woman's connection to her family.

Among the multiple lines of critical and cultural discourse surrounding the film, however, one particularly stands out: the notion of There Will Be Blood — with its central conflict between cutthroat oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) and zealous small - town preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) in 1911 California — as a kind of demonic origin tale for the state of contemporary American political culture, with narrow - minded religious fervor and bald - faced capitalistic excesses forming two sides of the same tarnished coin.

The show is, of course, based on Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's comic book series, which follows Jesse Custer, a small - town preacher in the US who is on a... Read More

Jamie is the daughter of the town preacher (Peter Coyote), who predictably objects to his daughter's budding romance and spouts boilerplate dialogue about God and morality.

Now in his fifties, Larry seeks out two old buddies from Vietnam, Sal (Bryan Cranston), a motor - mouthed alcoholic who owns a bar in Norfolk, Virginia, and Mueller (Laurence Fishburne), once known as «Mueller the Mauler» but now a small - town preacher.

Ren's a big - city high school rebel who relocates to a small town, takes up the right to dance to loud, groovin» music as his cause (laws on the books forbid it), and eventually wins over everyone from the town preacher's trouble - making daughter, Ariel (Julianne Hough), to the reverend himself (Dennis Quaid).

He's quite like a small town preacher, but an extraordinarily effective one.

He writes that the «sensuous aspects of his faith — the familiar fundamentalist hymns, the voices of small - town preachers crackling through his AM radio, the «thunderous, rhythmic word pounding the Spirit of God» — bound him, far more than dogma did, «like a slip knot, loosely but decisively to my religious place.»

Not exact matches

Ever been to a town event and hear some street corner preacher screaming at you at the top of their lungs?

Later, DeMoss talks about being turned off by the evangelical street preachers he'd seen on the street corners there, preaching to Mormons in town for the church's annual general assembly.

In a smaller than small Vermont town, I was the shy new girl, the daughter of the visiting preacher; she was the bubbly, outgoing girl from the unchurched family.

King just happened to be on the scene in Montgomery, Alabama, when the bus boycott began — a young preacher newly come to town.

Then a noted preacher had come to town and had aroused such public interest that my friend, out of sheer curiosity mingled with scorn, went to hear him.

Just think, this preacher thing from a town of 3100 peoples just p issed off most of the US.

In a South African shanty town, a black preacher might see priest and Levite as Western nations that soft - pedal sanctions against the apartheid government in Pretoria.

New York Times: One - Stop Sunday Mornings for Cowboys and Cowgirls in an Arizona Town From an improvised pulpit nestled on a slice of desert sand between a bull - riding ring and a bar serving biscuits and $ 3 beers, the preacher opened his last sermon of the year with a question and a revelation.

The Emperor had entered Augsburg on the eve of Corpus Christi, 15 June, and had immediately summoned those rulers who had signed the Protest at Speyer, and ordered their preachers to cease public preaching in the imperial town.

Well if the fundamentalists, evangelicals, snake handlers and town - to - town traveling preachers «reviving» something want to caucus with the Republicans, that's fine.

Preacher Mike (from Abilene, TX) «The book, Evolving in Monkey Town, was written by Rachel Held Evans, a young women (not yet thirty!)

All preachers from town and country were expected to attend it.

Consider the following: the pastor of a liberal Protestant church preaches a sermon on the story of the prodigal son called «Intolerable Love»; across town, a preacher at a small fundamentalist church delivers a sermon called «The Meaning of Life.»

But in the towns, the introduction of Christian discipline, at least as it was understood by the preachers, amounted to the regulation of the whole common life by laws designed to render the church omnipresent.

Nevertheless, the people of the towns were not exactly friendly toward the plans of the preachers.

Amid all these big ideas and small ideas and top - billed stars are Dick York (the small - town teacher teaching Darwin) and his fiancée Donna Anderson (who's the preacher's daughter).

You know the story: A smart - aleck city teen named Ren (Wormald) moves to a tiny rural town where dancing has been banned, falls for the defiant daughter (Julianne Hough) of a local preacher / city council member (Dennis Quaid), and, with the support of hayseed sidekick Willard (Miles Teller), ultimately pushes the town's moral needle by using Bible verses to recast his bumping and grinding as a holy act.

That earlier movie, which is now rather erroneously being referred to in the promotional material as a «classic,» was studded with soon - to - be Top Ten Hits and had a youth - pandering storyline: Because of a fatal accident that killed five teenagers after a night partying, the town council of a small southern community, led by a fire - breathing preacher, outlaws teen dancing.

Based on the twisted and popular»90s comic book franchise of the same name, «Preacher,» set to debut on Sunday, May 22nd at 10:00 p.m. ET / PT, is created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, and is the story of Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) a conflicted Preacher in a small Texas town who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that allows him to develop a highly unconventional power.

The visitor in Because of Winn - Dixie, which opens this week, is also the title hero, a stray dog in a small town in southern bayou country that's taken in by the ten - year - old heroine, Opal (AnnaSophia Robb), the daughter of a Baptist preacher (Jeff Daniels).

The pilot centers on Seth Davenport, a man masquerading as a small - town Iowa preacher in the hope of starting a full - blown insurrection against the status quo.

Perhaps the very definition of a guilty pleasure, Paxton's directorial debut Frailty owes at least a passing fancy to the Garth Ennis - penned comic «Preacher» in its assignation of the Holy Ghost to something so mundane as a small - town axe murderer.

We scored the international trailer for Momentum Pictures» newly acquired western / thriller Brimstone, which shows a family / town being tormented by a preacher (Guy...

In this case, it's Jose Prieto's 1967 Shanty Tramp, which sees a small - town Southern prostitute have to decide between her lust for a black man and her meal - ticket, the sleazy revival - tent preacher who's just rolled into town.

After killing some men trying to take him into town and taking some of their possessions, he walks to the town, where Meacham (Clancy Brown), the local preacher, fixes up a mysterious wound on his abdomen.

Because of Winn - Dixie opens with young Opal (AnnaSophia Robb) and her father, known simply as «The Preacher» (Jeff Daniels) moving to a very small Southern town, so that «The Preacher» can start a new church inside an old convenience store.

The Duel (R for profanity and graphic violence) Classic Western, set in the 1880s, pitting a Texas Ranger (Liam Hemsworth) against the deranged preacher (Woody Harrelson) terrorizing a frontier town.

Most people remember it as a rock «n» roll flick about a kid who brings back dancing to an uptight Midwestern town where the local preacher has successfully had it banned.

Nat grew up a deeply - religious boy, and was turned into a traveling preacher tasked with spreading the word of God to fellow slaves from neighboring towns.

We've already told you about Mr. Mercedes, the noir detective story scheduled for June 3 — yesterday, the author announced that 2014 would also bring Revival, the story of a charismatic preacher who takes a small New England town by storm in the mid-20th century.

But they start with just three: Grace Salter is the new girl in town, whose family was run out of their former community after her southern Baptist preacher mom turned into a radical liberal after falling off a horse and bumping her head.

In Hanging Moss, Mississippi, in 1964, 11 - year - old Gloriana Hemphill, the daughter of a widowed preacher, hasn't noticed the racial injustices in her town until she meets a girl from the North who points them out to her.

Still, Mary creates a clean and orderly home life for her stormy husband, Jack, and her sons, while she adapts to the isolation of a rural town through the inspiration of a local preacher.

And he's got another problem: the town needs a preacher.

In the mill town at the foot of the mountains - a hotbed of violence, moonshine, and the burgeoning sport of stock - car racing - Rory is bewitched by the mysterious daughter of a snake - handling preacher.

All kinds of drama ensues as the preacher attempts to save his Texas town from violent and sinister forces.

But, as a woman of true faith, she decides to move west and accept a position as a school teacher.When she arrives in Brown Ridge, a small town filled with faith and anger, Greta is soon cast into the middle of a family battle involving a bitter cowboy, a preacher, and an innocent newborn baby.

After Gus arrives to the town of Archangel, death follows in rapid succession, and he finds himself not only fighting for his own life, but protecting the local preacher and a young, violated girl, as he makes his way south to confront Hardin.The inevitable final showdown is about to take place in the dusty Mexican pueblo...

A boy and a sheriff must solve the mystery of a haunted Appalachian church when a strange preacher returns to town.

You soak up the story through the town PA system, where the preachers share their dogma and beliefs.