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...collect trinkets and complete silly tasks is a perennial activity aimed at getting teenagers into their doors. But at Calvary Baptist Church in Bellflower, Calif., a scavenger hunt is also a metaphor for the lifelong pursuit of meaning and happiness that begins in adolescence--and rich grist for a sermon targeted to teens. "A scavenger hunt is a search," youth leader Doug Jones, 20, tells the 80 teens who have just returned from a race through this working-class city 30 miles east of Los Angeles. Quoting from Romans 10: 13 ("Anyone who calls on the Lord will be saved...
...outside on the street or in the garden or in the park or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it, whose fault is it--the cats' or the uncovered meat?" SHEIK TAJ ALDIN AL HILALI, Muslim cleric in Australia, implying in a sermon that it would be the fault of an unveiled woman if she was raped because her lack of a covering would tempt...
...hardship, the grounding of faith in struggle, that the historically black church offered me a second insight: that faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts, or that you relinquish your hold on this world. Long before it became fashionable among television evangelists, the typical black sermon freely acknowledged that all Christians (including the pastors) could expect to still experience the same greed, resentment, lust, and anger that everyone else experienced. The gospel songs, the happy feet, and the tears and shouts all spoke of a release, an acknowledgment, and finally a channeling of those emotions...
...restaurant is closing—and I break off with soberer friends. All of us are walking by Winthrop when we see a shirtless collegian charging down the street with a girl riding piggyback atop him. The eponymous Rev. Increase Mather leaps to mind, who noted in his sermon “Woe to Drunkards” that “a Beast will drink no more than shall do him good; and therefore a Drunkard is worse than a Beast. Reason is that whereby a man Excels a Beast; but this Sin depriveth him of his Excellency...
...fundamentalists. But Papantonio's main point is that the tie-in between fundamentalism and political agendas violates America's fundamental church-state separation. This is self-evidently true and at a moment when a church in Pasadena is under investigation by the IRS because a liberal, election-eve sermon was preached from its pulpit, while no one looks into the doings at Devil's Lake or at the churches of the evangelical ministers who endorse them, his is a worrisome point. But it seems to me the main point only in a rather technical, legalistic sense...