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...rights of such national groups as the Ukrainians and the Lithuanians. Two weeks ago, Father Dmitri Dudko, 57, was arrested and imprisoned in Moscow's Lubyanka Prison. As revered a figure among Russian Orthodox Christians as Sakharov is among his secular adherents, Dudko is an eloquent preacher whose sermons circulate widely from hand to hand. One day after Sakharov was flown to Gorky, two contributors to the underground magazine Poiski (Quest) were arrested in Moscow; a third dissident, in the town of Vladimir, was detained for questioning by police...
Attracting such a well-known preacher as Buttrick to Harvard was part of Pusey's efforts to revive religious life at Harvard, Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, said yesterday. "Never before and never since has there been anything like a Buttrick Sunday," Gomes added...
...excellent choice. Khomeini accomplished what no politician or preacher in the U.S. could do. He aroused and unified our nation...
...where he became the first Pope to be received at the White House, he was an inspiring preacher of good will and compassion, but also a firm advocate of strict church discipline. Though his doctrinal positions against birth control, divorce, and married and women priests are opposed or ignored by many U.S. Catholics, his visit was still a huge success. In overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey, his long-range goal was restoration of harmony between the world's 700 million Roman Catholics and the 125 million adherents of the Eastern Orthodox faith, who have been divided since the 11th century...
...lawyer. He switched to his present vocation only after working his way through the philosophical skepticism of the logical positivists rampant at Cambridge University when he was there. He arrived in the U.S. for good in 1952, and has preached in Chicago for 18 years. As a preacher, he tries to translate the Gospel into the idiom of today, so that "the Bible comes alive and the Christian faith is made believable." One way that Davies makes the Bible come alive during his sermons is by gesturing, mimicking and acting out roles with the skill of a Marcel Marceau...