Word: sermon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SMOKING, EMANCIPATE YOURSELF IN FIVE DAYS began to brighten the dreary walls of lava stone buildings. Merchants reported a rush on licorice drops, peanuts, chewing gum, after-dinner mints and other tobacco substitutes. A man of God?his own flesh too weak to relinquish the weed completely?preached a sermon of support from his pulpit in the town's basilica. "I am not one of the courageous 155," acknowledged Father Leon Dumas. "But I have rationed myself down from ten to five cigarettes...
...might have been a sports event, a church sermon, an opera, a musical comedy. It was, in fact, all of those things. Produced at Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church, A Look at the Fifties comprised an entrancing hodgepodge of tap dancing, singing, recitations and thunderous chorales providing running commentary on, of all things, an actual basketball game. It won rave reviews, packed the church for three weekends recently-then vanished. So it goes with the work of the Rev. Al Carmines, who wrote the show and is fast emerging as one of New York's finest composers...
...direct experience as a welfare worker in St. Louis and New York, Harrington in 1962 wrote The Other America. A sermon about the extent of poverty in the U.S., the book was credited with inspiring the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations' poverty program. Now Harrington has lifted his gaze to the perspectives of history. In Socialism, his faith shines through. His moral sensibility is right on. Yet in detail and hard argument, his book falters...
...thought I'd be ready for the quietism Southern religion pushes on poor people, but I wasn't, Opiates look like Vitamin C compared to the politically deadening effect of today's sermon. And yet I can't help being ambivalent. I don't think I've ever seen a large group of people so fully focused on the same vibration at the same time. Everyone fell wholly into the rhythm of the sermon, everyone had to reach out and possess each maxim as if it were a truth of infinite wisdom that had never been expressed before. An organic...
...journals are not devoted exclusively to politics. Some have delved into the intricacies of Jewish religious law, Halakhah, as they apply to contemporary problems, genesis 2 printed an angry sermon on a Boston slumlord, urging that the Jewish community not ignore Halakhic prescriptions about a landlord's obligations to tenants. Response published a provocative piece by Rabbi Everett Gendler, suggesting that groups of believing families could find an alternative to the traditional synagogue by sharing their homes for services and celebrations...