Word: communions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recommendation that their church donate $100,000 to the march on Washington. They agreed, moreover, to invest 30% of the church's unrestricted funds in housing and business enterprises in low-interest, high-risk areas. In a dramatic effort to invest church services with contemporary relevance, a new communion litany, which may become part of the permanent ritual, was written for the meeting. It was a litany of some relevance to citizens of any religion-or none-in which communicants publicly confessed their civic sins. Among the supplications: > "Forgive us for pretending to care for the poor, when...
...scored all forms of Southern extremism. Some of his most notable editorial writing, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958, has been in angry pursuit of the Ku Klux Klan and other advocates of violence. "To the Kluxer mentality," he wrote in one anthologized column, "the Christian communion cup must be a Dixie...
...personally touched by his fire, and who listened to the musical cadence and vaulting poetry of his speech--"I have a dream, the last, free at last, (only last Wednesday) I have been to the mountain top"--and those marched behind him for justice, we are together now, in communion with his spirit...
...International Exhibition of Surrealism, when 2,000 outraged Parisians staged a near riot. Or from Cologne's Dada exposition of 1920, when the entrance hall was a public lavatory, the visitors were supplied with an ax to chop up the art, and a young girl in a white Communion dress stood on a platform reciting obscene verse...
...John Pairman Brown was entitled "God Is Doing His Thing." When the congregation was invited to "donate something which has meaning to you," the collection plate yielded little money but plenty of beads, marbles, a draft card and even a package of morning-glory seeds. Later, Father York distributed communion to his turned-on friends...