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Meantime, the Church of England is split down the aisle about whether the Christian thing is to embrace the protesters encamped on the doorstep of its cathedral – after all, St Paul was a tent-maker and Christ had a robust approach to moneychangers – or to join forces with the mammonites who run the City of London and have the protest camp evicted.

The protesters seem more adult than politicians and plutocrats | Andrew Rawnsley 2011

If cricket did not work out, I would continue in my studies and teach or do law, or go to art school, or become a missionary tent-maker.

Hopkins and Me : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

SANCHEZ: Moammar Gadhafi, the tent-maker, getting blasted by New Yorkers.

CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2009 2009

Paul, who as a Rabbi and then as a preacher of the Gospel to the Gentile world was also a tent-maker and earned his living with the work of his own hands, is no exception here, but stands within the common tradition of the rabbinate.

Archive 2008-09-07 papabear 2008

Paul, who as a Rabbi and then as a preacher of the Gospel to the Gentile world was also a tent-maker and earned his living with the work of his own hands, is no exception here, but stands within the common tradition of the rabbinate.

Zenit: Benedict XVI on the Roots of European Culture papabear 2008

And here, if my experience may be of value, I would suggest that travellers, instead of submitting their better judgment to the caprices of a tent-maker, who will endeavour to pass off a handsomely made fabric of his own, which is unsuited to all climes, to use his own judgment, and get the best and strongest that money will buy.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

We trace in it the same wisdom that sent a humble Ananias to remove the scales from the eyes of Saul, and made the poor tent-maker and his wife the instructors of the eloquent

Life of Dr Owen 1965

Not more sublime, in religious history appears the figure of Paul the tent-maker, proclaiming 'the Unknown God' at Athens, than that of the camel-driver

Notes on Islam Ahmed Hussain

Emperor himself instead of the worn, faded, travel-stained cloak of a wandering tent-maker.

The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

She was goatherd and milkmaid, fire-tender and cook, tailor and tent-maker.

Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe