Word: preachings
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...aiding refugees from the fighting. In Zambia, President Kenneth Kaunda recently warned that missionaries would be tolerated only if they did not "spread subversion." Many African rulers now expect missionaries to bulwark their policies. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, for example, exhorts his country's churches to preach his own brand of social revolution...
...counterploy to rebel youths who suspect that the game may not be worth the candle. "If you're a Christian," asks the Rebel Youth, "how come you live in a $60,000 house, have two cars, a color television set, and a cleaning woman? Didn't Christ preach against materialism?" The solemn Perfect Christian Response: "Suppose everyone did sell his belongings. Do you honestly think that people of means would be attracted to such a shoddy, lower-class type of Christianity...
Schoendoerffer acts as narrator, but does not preach. The mere sight of a white soldier holding the hand of his Negro buddy who has been wounded tells of the brotherhood of battle without words. The mood is enhanced by rock 'n' roll and blues music. In one sequence, Nancy Sinatra sings These Boots Are Made for Walkin' as the platoon trudges through a swamp...
...when he stood trial for asserting the church's right to preach, among other things, that Jesus was a Jew, Dibelius was asked by Hitler's Minister for Church Affairs, "Why do you keep on fighting when it is no longer your duty?" Replied Dibelius: "A Christian is never off duty...
After World War II, he was named Bishop of Berlin and head of the presiding Council of the Evangelical Church. Just as staunchly as he had rebuked Nazism, Dibelius attacked the "materialistic ideology" of Communism and repeatedly risked arrest to preach against atheism in his cathedral, East Berlin's Marienkirche. In 1957, after he signed an agreement with the Bonn Government on behalf of the church, providing for chaplain services to the new West German army, he was denounced by East Germany's Reds as the "NATO priest" and "atom bishop." Ultimately, he was barred from East Berlin...