Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REV.) ROBERT L. RICKUS...
...World University Service has passed a resolution drafted by the Rev. Richard E. Mumma, Presbyterian member of the United Ministry at Harvard and WUS trustee, expressing "outrage" at the Central Intelligence Agency for "providing covert funds to voluntary organizations...
Ciay & Cardboard. Sometimes the search for the dramatic effect skates disturbingly close to pulpit gimmickry. In Birmingham, Mich., for example, the Rev. Robert Marshall of the community's Unitarian church once passed out lumps of clay and cardboard to his congregation, told them to sculpt themselves. His point: to make them meditate on the theme "What...
...Virginia, for example, intends to base his Easter sermon on Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Gammon's point: George and Martha's play-long dialogue about their nonexistent son suggests contemporary man's inability to distinguish fantasy from reality. The Rev. A. Cecil Williams of San Francisco's Glide Memorial Methodist Church uses movies and folk-rock songs as themes. Last year he related one sermon to a line from Fellini's La Strada-Anthony Quinn's complaint, "All I want is to be left alone." Williams then...
Disposable Products. Ministers also use some surprising visual aids to get across a point in contemporary terms. One Sunday, the Rev. Lon Chestnut, Methodist chaplain at Emory University, projected illustrations from Playboy onto the chapel wall. His theme was that Christians should not treat other human beings in the Playboy manner, as disposable consumer products. On another Sunday, the congregation of Cincinnati's St. Timothy's Episcopal Church was startled when one parishioner got up to leave in the middle of the sermon by the Rev. John Wesley Bishop. "Why are you leaving?" Bishop asked. "Because...