Sentences with phrase «traveling preacher»

Soon massive and continuous revival meetings were being kept in motion by traveling preachers who were some of the best informed and most effective communicators of their day.

That was made up in the 19th century when this new evangelical trend first started gaining traction with travelling preachers in rural America.

There is little to indicate its date, except that the author seems to blend the Jewish wisdom literature as found in Proverbs with the style of the Cynic and Stoic traveling preachers.

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

Before Neil Armstrong took «one giant leap for mankind,» McConnell, the son of a traveling preacher prominent in early Pentecostal circles, presented a large version to the National Council of Churches.

I have never seen any sort of evidence for the validity of the bible, or to think that Jesus was any more than a traveling preacher who had some radical thoughts for his time.

He also sent out traveling preachers, whose adherents became known as Lollards (from the old French word for «mumble»).

Up and down the frontier valleys, over the mountains, into the woods, traveled the preachers.

He wears string ties and speaks with deep, elongated vowels, gesticulates like a traveling preacher, and has a fondness for phrases like «that's the way the weenie wiggles.»

Parker stars in his own directorial debut as Nat Turner, a devoutly religious slave who becomes a traveling preacher — and, eventually, the leader of the bloodiest slave rebellion in American history.

A former slave, Truth would sell photographs of herself to finance her livelihood as a traveling preacher and activist stating,» I sell the shadow to support the substance.»