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...Sermon & Song. In the pursuit of "relevancy," Negro churches in the North have been returning to the soulful spirit of the past in worship-and becoming more militant in political concern. Many congregations that had tried to imitate the sobriety of their white counterparts are again beginning to emphasize zeal and fervor in both sermon and song. And Negro pastors-although still a voice of reason in the ghetto-are getting tougher. One of Detroit's most militant black power leaders now is the Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., who calls his Central United Church of Christ "the shrine...
Seminarians and secular students alike find appeal in what Rylaarsdam calls "the worldliness of the Jewish Rylaarsdam also attributes in creased interest in Judaism to widely read Jewish novelists like Saul Bellow, whose moral in sights are "more attuned to this technological age" than many a Christian sermon...
...came for York's ordination, Episcopal officials invited his flower-power friends to participate, and modified the stately services to accommodate the spirit of the occasion. St. Mark's was decked out with gas-filled balloons and banners, children wandered along the aisles at will, and the sermon by the Rev. John Pairman Brown was entitled "God Is Doing His Thing." When the congregation was invited to "donate something which has meaning to you," the collection plate yielded little money but plenty of beads, marbles, a draft card and even a package of morning-glory seeds. Later, Father...
...Psalms. What little jazz there is in the score is far removed from the usual Brubeck sophistication: it is a more primitive, elemental sort, blended with folk overtones (including, at one point, a bit of Turkey in the Straw), depicting the rejoicing of the people of Galilee after the Sermon on the Mount...
...Vietnam. When the Justice Department last Friday indicted the generals--including Dr. Benjamin Spock and William Sloan Coffin Jr.--for conspiracy against the draft laws, it picked Ferber out of the ranks to join them. Despite the prospect of a five-year prison sentence for his October anti-draft sermon in Boston's Arlington Street Church, Ferber last night committed what the Attorney General might consider a similar "offense" in speaking at Harvard's anti-war, anti-draft Teach...