Word: preaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Secondly, they will not do the consciously inhuman things that conservative, self-consciously business-oriented administrations might. While their practice will inevitably full short of their preaching, liberal activists will at least preach many of the right things and begin, in a small way, to make the right kinds of human sentiment fashionable...
...children, who range in age from 19 to 44, spend most of their time at the mission aiding an average of 75 families a day. An ordained nondenominational minister, she goes about her works with a Christian devotion tempered by shrewd ghetto sensibilities. "I don't preach," she explains, "but if they ask for a message they got something coming." They also get food and clothing for a pittance if they have it, for nothing if they...
...internal problems seem endless. A substantial group of people still live below the poverty level. Religious differences have been papered over but hardly solved. Orthodox newspapers regularly preach against licentiousness and warn of a crisis in faith and morals. Israeli doctors recently carried out a two-hour work stoppage because extremists were daubing the homes and cars of pathologists with obscenities; the Orthodox object to autopsies, which are proscribed on religious grounds...
...Gaye has to squeeze in his sports when and if he can these days, he should be used to it. As children, Marvin, his two brothers and two sisters had to spend most of their free time at a pentecostal church in Washington, D.C., listening to their father preach. After the sermon, Marvin would take his guitar and entertain the three dozen or so faithful with His Eye Is on the Sparrow...
Half the Gospel. Theological liberals, he began, may sin by overemphasizing social action and underemphasizing the need for personal conversion, but conservatives can be just as one-sided in rejecting social involvement. "Insofar as we preach only half the Gospel," said Hatfield, "we are no less heretical than those who preach only the other half." As for presidential authority, declared Hatfield, respect for the office had got so out of hand that it carried "a potential of idolatry." Social issues of the day, he said, are everyone's problem, and Christians must not only accept their "collective guilt...