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as in preacher
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as in moralist
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Balmer, who visited him in Baton Rouge while researching a 1998 magazine piece about the disgraced preacher, said Swaggart struggled mightily after his fall from grace.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
2 July 2025 -
But the outcome was far different when the preacher went after Gorman, who like Swaggart had an international television ministry.—
Steve Marble,
Los Angeles Times,
1 July 2025
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But Kehlmann the moralist is also an irrepressible trickster, an endlessly fertile maker of fictional modes.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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Sardonic in tone—its moralists are hypocrites, the church oppressive, and only the rebels are appealing—the book still plays it safe: slavery is all but absent from this version of Hannibal.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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The beat-bread-and-fry blueprint is so well-established that even a dab of mustard is a dicey proposition among pork puritans.—
Bradley Hohulin,
IndyStar,
10 Mar. 2025
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Centuries after being burned at the stake, a witch named Jennifer (Veronica Lake) magically reappears and tries to torment the descendant of the puritan who led the charge against her — only to fall in love with him.—
Clark Collis,
EW.com,
18 Oct. 2024
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Of course, that split was just one of many themes from the reader comments.—
Greg Borowski,
jsonline.com,
11 July 2025
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But, first, Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker’s fiction editor, answers readers’ questions about writing.—
Deborah Treisman,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
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Reconciliation today Searching for a path forward, contemporary Sámi artist and Lutheran catechist Lars Levi Sunna began to produce church art that incorporated and celebrated pre-Christian Sámi symbols – some of the very traditions that had been demonized by clergy of the past.—
Thomas A. DuBois,
The Conversation,
27 June 2025
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But Philip Siphong Onphitak, the village religious teacher, or catechist, assumed leadership of his flock, keeping up resistance until Dec. 16, when he was murdered in the jungle, reportedly by Boonlue.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
18 Nov. 2019
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“Moralizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralizer. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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