Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time we suburbanites were shaken from our complacent parlor liberalism to practice what we preach. I'm sorry that some feel they have to hide their prejudice behind the "declining property value" argument. As a mother of small children in an adjacent child-oriented suburban community, I can only say, "we just can't afford not to be democratic...
Winston is a builder at heart, and wherever he goes-in more than 200,000 miles of travel a year-he preaches the need of more home building. He is convinced that good housing is the best insurance against Communism ("People want to divide what you've got, not what they've got"), even believes that it is the cure for such social ills as alcoholism. ("Mendes-France would have cut out a lot more drinking had he built homes instead of trying to persuade Frenchmen to drink milk.") Winston has plenty of housetops to preach from. Outside...
...Tanner-Don Juan is one of the greatest comic roles in the modern theatre. Its difficulty is compounded by the fact that though Tanner is the hero of the play and Don Juan its most eloquent spokesman, both of them, Tanner especially, serve also as satiric butts. Tanner may preach the Life Force, but the pursuing woman embodies the Life Force, which sweeps the protesting Tanner into her arms "as a sailor throws a scrap of fish into the mouth of a seabird...
...remark: ". . . The voice of the pulpit should be the voice of the congregation." This quotation is definitely not Presbyterian in meaning, and certainly it is not true to Reformed theology and to prophetic tradition. The Presbyterian Church has always zealously guarded the minister's own prerogative to preach as the Holy Spirit, not man, gives him guidance...
...honored guest at a Baptist Sunday service held in a large wooden hall crammed with more than 2,500 worshipers, most of them women. But he did not preach. He had the wrong kind of visa. Russian Baptist leaders explained politely: "It is not customary here to have tourists preach." Perhaps this would be possible on his next visit, they added, and Billy asked to be shown the mammoth Lenin Stadium, which seats 100,000. ("I knelt and asked God," he said later, "that some day it will be filled with people listening to the Gospel...