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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The most famous sermon ever preached in America was Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," which compared the sinner's plight to "a spider or loathesome insect" held over a fire. When Edwards preached, all New England shook in its boots. But the so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: American Preaching: A Dying Art? | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Today the pendulum is swinging back in favor of preaching. When search committees are scouting about for a minister to hire, the top things they are likely to look for are, as an old adage puts it, 1) Preaching. 2) Preaching. 3) Preaching. Right now there are around 200,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: American Preaching: A Dying Art? | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Like poetry, preaching is always a mystery. Each Sunday brings the danger of failure, and with that the question of potential impact. In his intriguing little book on preaching, Telling the Truth, Novelist and sometime Preacher Frederick Buechner describes the magic moment when the minister steps into the pulpit. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: American Preaching: A Dying Art? | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Though his church stands across the street from Mississippi's state capitol and his congregation includes the current Governor and three of his predecessors, Pollard's pulpit does not emphasize politics. He does speak out occasionally about racial equality and has always insisted on an open membership policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: American Preaching: A Dying Art? | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Pollard delivers three sermons a week, teaches a Bible class for some 500 prominent laymen every Tuesday, and prepares both a TV and a radio program weekly. "But if ser mons are not drawn directly from the Bible," he says firmly, they're "just speechmaking." With all the competing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: American Preaching: A Dying Art? | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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