Word: sermonic
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...Agnosticism, the experience of many seems to indicate, is not a state in which one can long dwell," President Pusey yesterday told the members of the Class of 1958 in the sermon of the Baccalaureate Service, "for trust we must in someone or something. The final answer must, we hope," Pusey concluded...
...Seniors, in caps and gowns, listened in silence to Pusey's sermon, during the impressively simple service led by George A. Buttrick, chairman of the Board of Preachers...
...pink stucco home just north of Manhattan, famed Protestant Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick, longtime (1930-46) pastor of Manhattan's Rockefeller-endowed interdenominational Riverside Church, turned 80 and offered a wise, gentle explanation of why many sermons are boring. "The business of an essay is elucidation," said he. "The business of a sermon is transformation. Some sermons are deadly dull because they are little essays on pious subjects...
...Sunday is becoming the church's chief contribution to the long weekend. Why not, then, this spring, as not too radical a solution, extend Sunday morning worship opportunity into the week? Free the conscience of individuals for enjoyment of the long weekend by repeating the Sunday service and sermon the following Thursday night. In the spirit of Jesus, we might say: the sabbath was made for man-especially in New England in the springtime...
...sermon was interpreted by some to represent the "voice of Unitarian Boston," clarifying "fundamental principles...