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...Word became flesh," says John's Gospel of the incarnate Christ of Bethlehem. In Christmas sermons before some 75 million Americans this week, words about Christ will become flesh in the person of the preacher. Through their strange and marvelous craft, Christianity has been transmitted and reshaped for every age since Christ himself went "preaching the Gospel of the kingdom...
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 the pews sit a college student there against his will, a banker who twice contemplated suicide that week, a contractor on the take, a pregnant girl who feels life stir within her, a teacher hiding his homosexuality. "The preacher pulls the little cord that turns on the lectern light...
Sheen, who died of heart disease last week at age 84, was American religion's first TV prima donna, complete with studio audience and commercial sponsor. At the peak of his popularity he became the nation's most famous preacher and most celebrated Catholic priest. In that cold war era, Catholicism was far more self-assured than it is now. The six extraordinary TV seasons of "the Microphone of God" made his Church of Rome less threatening to Protestants and Jews in the years just before John F. Kennedy...
...father's hardware store in El Paso, 111. (pop. 2,550), near Peoria. He was a debate champion in college and earned a doctorate at Louvain University in Belgium. Before TV stardom he was a renowned philosophy professor at Catholic University of America, and a pioneer radio preacher whose programs drew 6,000 letters a day. He wrote more than 50 books (among them God and Intelligence, Peace of Soul, Three to Get Married), and was almost as famous for person-to-person conversions as for oratory. Among his worldly converts: Louis Budenz, managing editor of the Communist Daily...
Then came the turn of elegant Eddie Burke. Expanding his chest, he pledged to wage war on drug pushers and rapists if elected. A Baptist preacher exulted that Burke would create a "spiritual surge that will lift us into orbit for God." More down to earth, Committeeman Marty Tuchow explained: "Nostalgia is fine, but I have to be practical." Translation: Daley is buried, Byrne is mayor, and Byrne was for Burke. Twenty-four committeemen supported Burke...