Word: preach
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...legal even though it caused a commotion in the church. But it was held to be a disturbance of worship for one faction of a congregation to enter a church while another faction was worshipping there and to inform the minister of the rival faction that he could not preach there that day. ( Morris us. State, Alabama, 1887.) Such behavior evidently crossed the line between reasonable interruption and unwarranted disturbance...
...sole worry about Elmwood concerns its small capacity for dinner guests, and he plans to enlarge the dinning area. But. he said recently, he hopes the job can be done at a reasonable price; "After all, I can't preach parsimony to the University and be profligate in my own affaires...
Gillette and Negre claimed, among other things, that the draft law violates the First Amendment ban against governmental "establishment of religion." It does so, they said, by favoring denominations that preach total pacifism while penalizing others that oppose only unjust wars. Speaking for the court majority, Justice Thurgood Marshall noted that the establishment clause requires that "when government activities touch on the religious sphere, they must be secular in purpose, evenhanded in operation and neutral in primary impact." By exempting objectors to all wars, Marshall held, Congress properly focused on individual consciences, not sectarian affiliations. It also avoided administrative chaos...
Among Protestant evangelicals, of course, communicating the Gospel is still the core of the missionary effort. They take the injunction to preach literally. Dozens of high-powered transmitters operated by various evangelical groups now permit Protestant radio to cover the world with round-the-clock broadcasts, including areas where missionaries are forbidden. California-based Wycliffe Bible Translators carry the command to imaginative lengths. They train in a test "village" of primitive huts in the jungles of Mexico, then are sent to live unaided in the Latin American bush for six weeks. In order to get the Bible to many primitive...
...inmates. But the imprisoned priests' main interest is prison reform. As self-assigned advocates for the nation's 20,000 federal prisoners, the Berrigans have already filed a class-action suit asking federal courts to halt censorship of prisoners' manuscripts, and to allow all inmates to preach, write and teach freely behind the walls...