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...portrayal of Church and its influence on Benny, however, is laughably cliched. From the scolding sermon ("Will your body be a garden of Jesus or a vessel of sin?) to the stock confessional scene ("Father, I have had impure thoughts"), the Church seems to be just about as much of an obstacle to these girls' sexuality as Dear Abbey would be to their American contemporaries...
...hurrying to classes and socializing on the weekend, FM has often overheard single young adults complaining about the rarity of dating on campus. Too many forget that prime scoping location: church, Lamont Professor of Divinity Paul D. Hanson, master of Winthrop House, found divinity in more than just the sermon while a first year Near Eastern Studies PhD candidate here at Harvard. Hanson clearly remembers "that a group of us went out to lunch after church at the Peacock Restaurant...I was standing at the top of the steps and Cynthia was at the bottom...
...true masters are motormouths like Hamblin, Boortz, Hannity -- and the supremo, Rush Limbaugh, whose syndicated sermon is attended by 20 million people a week on 660 stations. Talk radio trails only country music as the nation's most pervasive format; it commandeers more than 15% of the fragmented audience. More than 1,000 talk stations (up from 200 ten years ago), and hundreds more with Evangelical Christian commentators, deliver hot chat to an avid constituency. About half of all American adults listen to the format at least once a week for at least an hour, according to Talkers magazine...
...interpretation; ethics do change with the times. Most Judeo-Christians don't prohibit shellfish anymore or appease the deity with slaughtered rams. But there's something suspect about a brand of Judeo-Christianity that can get all het up about the spilling of seed while gliding right past the Sermon on the Mount. We seem to have chosen the easy path, the one that comforts the already comfortable and harangues the already hard pressed. We're the post-Judeo-Christian generation, and the Christian Right is turning out to be nothing more than Christian Lite...
...steps toward the executive offices in Pretoria's imposing Union Buildings, Mandela is preaching what amounts to a sermon of reassurance and inclusion. He stresses over and over that all the minorities -- 5 million whites, 3.5 million coloreds and 1 million Asians -- will be valued for their contributions and have nothing to fear from his government. He says not only that whites should stay, but also that those who left in recent years should come back and help rebuild. "They have knowledge, skills and expertise," he says. "We are going to need them. We are going to rely on them...