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...have a well-attended lecture," says Rabbi Abraham Heschel, a visiting professor at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, "discuss God and faith." Ministers have found that currently there is no easier way to boost Sunday attendance than to post "Is God Dead?" as the topic of their next sermon...
...traditional teachings: it qualifies every categorical "must" with an implied "but." Mixed marriages, to be valid in the eyes of the church, must be performed by a Catholic priest. But henceforth, the clergyman of the other partner's faith may be present at the wedding ceremony, deliver a sermon, say prayers. The non-Catholic partner must be "clearly told of the obligation to raise the children of the union as Catholics" and of the "unity and indissolubility" of the marriage. But the pledge need not be made in writing-an oral promise suffices. Perhaps the best indication...
...private civil ceremony by Burgomeister Gijsbertus van Hall. Then, to the strains of Bach and Handel, the couple exchanged rings and "I do's" before 3,000 guests at the Westerkerk. Holding hands, both were so relaxed that they burst into giggles at one point during the sermon...
Foreman is worth every carat. Recently he took on a Houston father who had gunned down his stepdaughter's teen-age lover in plain view of witnesses. Foreman excoriated the dead sinner, hauled a church pulpit in front of the jury, delivered a sermon on teen-age vice, and tearfully recited a Sir Walter Scott poem about "pious fathers." The father was acquitted...
Hudgins' job now is to find enough money to lend, especially since he plans to open a branch in Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York's other big Negro ghetto. To help attract new deposits, he preaches Sundays in Harlem churches. His invariable sermon subject: the virtue of thrift...