Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work of the committee enough? Some church leaders outside the state note that few white ministers have dared to preach on integration. Thus church-building may be a face-saving operation that permits the clerics to avoid confronting the root issue...
Made for a mere $230,000 by two young TV documentarists (Michael Roemer and Robert Young), Man is a polemic that does not preach. To begin with, it is careful to state that the black man is no black angel. The hero, played by Actor Dixon with a knowing mixture of shrewdness and spontaneity, is courageous but confused, decent but primitive. When he brags that he is "runnin' free," he really means he is running away from the Negro he is and secretly despises; when the white man bullies him, he hates it so much he turns right around...
King crowned a whirlwind one-day trip to Boston yesterday with a speech to an overflow crowd of 1730 admirers in Rindge Tech auditorium. Earlier in the day he was from Logan Airport to preach a sermon in Memorial . That was followed by a lunch given by the Rev. P. Price, Preacher to the University, and later a sponsored by the Young Democrats...
Unwanted Vacation. Unlike Du Bay, a lowly parish assistant, Coffield is widely respected in Los Angeles as a longtime pastor learned in modern Catholic theology and devoted to youth work and urban renewal. Last May he began to preach against Proposition 14, a referendum to void state laws against racial discrimination in housing by establishing the "absolute discretion" of any property holder to "decline to sell, lease or rent" to anyone. About the same time, Coffield invited a San Francisco Biblical scholar to speak to a group of priests. Weeks later, the cardinal told him that the invitation violated canon...
...seeker after Christ," says Anglican Theologian Harry Williams, "you preach a 4th century Christ, or a 16th century Christ, or a 19th century Christ, you are still giving him a stone instead of the living truth." For many churchmen, the Christ that must be preached to this century was defined by Bonhoeffer: "The man existing for others." The Jesus for now is not so much the Son of God but the Son of Man, not so much the risen Lord of Easter as the suffering servant who agonized in near despair on the Cross, who died that the world might...