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Instead of being smitten for heresy, the preacher-much to Bryan's chagrin -thrived and became famous. Harry Emerson Fosdick's 1922 sermon entitled "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?" flayed oldtime religionists for intolerance and became a rallying cry in U.S. Protestantism's biggest battle. By the time the conflict ended, Bryan and his beliefs had been repudiated by increasingly sophisticated Christians, while Fosdick had been elevated to the pulpit of New York's famed Riverside Church. There he remained, counseling and preaching, for 16 years until his retirement in 1946. And there he was eulogized last...
Treigle is an intensely religious man. "I was raised as a Baptist," he says, "but my religion really is the Bible." He takes a moralistic view of his evil doings in opera: "What better sermon could there be than the destruction of Satan?" His wife approves for another reason. "He's so kind and gentle at home. That's probably because he gets all the meanness out of his system on the stage...
Oswald C. J. Hoffmann, 55, chairman of the Congress, is a jowly, Laughtonesque spellbinder who attracts some 30 million listeners to his weekly Lutheran Hour radio sermons. A onetime Lutheran pastor and college teacher, Hoffmann was a public relations director for the Missouri Synod Lutherans when he joined the show in 1955. Though Hoffmann can roll out a soul-jarring sermon as if he had been stumping the hill country all his life, he insists that evangelism is not only "proclamation" but social action as well...
...Philip José Farmer, the hero, an intergalactic missionary named Father John Carmody, visits a planet where the inhabitants are only dimly aware that they have souls at all. He then prcceeds to instruct them, in one breathtaking passage, in the basic principles of the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, and the ritual of the Last Supper. As Carmody's spaceship moves away from the planet, the agnostic ship commander chides him. What the priest has done in his effort to instruct, says the captain, is to lay the foundations for a mythology in which...
...Sergio's enthusiasm spills over to his priests. Regional groups of priests meet voluntarily every week to discuss sermon topics and common solutions to pressing problems; all of the diocese's 100 priests meet twice monthly to discuss similar issues with Méndez Arceo himself. The meetings are characteristically free: last spring some of the priests publicly criticized the Mexican hierarchy for dragging its feet on putting into practice the reforms of Vatican...