Word: preacher
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...lines from a famous love song, dropping low to an intimate whisper the next, and then suddenly soaring, cracking with emotion to a near shout. All the while, his free hand is waving, gesturing, pointing and then is clasped to his chest in rapture. Indonesia's favorite preacher breaks into a bawdy grin as he jokes about the challenges facing Muslim men with more than one wife. His eyes become grave and confiding as he talks about his own family. His face constricts with emotion for his finale, as he beseeches Allah to bring together Indonesia's bickering leaders...
Dershowitz agrees. “I don’t believe a teacher’s job is to be in the classroom,” he says, noting that his name comes from the Hebrew darshan—an itinerant preacher who would go from town to town to teach. Dershowitz also bears in his professorial title the name of Felix Frankfurter—a law-school professor who was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, to serve on the Supreme Court and was once referred to by the Saturday Evening Post...
...rates a full response, critical or otherwise, in “Cambridge’s Only Breakfast Table Daily.” I am grateful. Clearly we disagree—not simply on political philosophy, but on the nature of a sermon and the responsibility of a preacher. When a sermon ventures beyond anodyne pieties that will offend no one, it is bound to raise the hackles of those who are disappointed to find that the sermon does not agree with them. It is the nature of preaching to present “not just the facts...
...case of Steorts, it appears that he does not disagree with my theology or my vocation as preacher, but only with my politics when they disagree with his. Somehow, he must understand that the price of a free pulpit is to hear things you would rather not hear, as well as to say things with which others will not agree. Steorts is free to take issue with my views, but to suggest that they are inappropriate because they differ with his own is in fact to miss the whole point of the sermon: religious people who take both their faith...
...limited, as Gomes suggests, to “evangelicals who have found little fault with anything that this administration has done or proposes to do, and who seldom met a war they didn’t like.” This is abusive language for so ecumenical a preacher...