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Divinity School Dean Ronald F. Thiemann will deliver the Sunday sermon at Memorial Church...
...inner city someone is doing crack and someone else is preaching a sermon about it. A Crip member warns a Blood wannabe not to clown him and then sells some coke to the fat white guy in the BMW form the suburbs...
...Connor even talks up a little sermon at the end of the album about death, pain, crucifixion and the Holy Roman Empire. But the speech is reassuring--it's nice to know that she didn't have a complete personality transplant for this project. She's still subversive, trumpets, string section and all, which in its own way is quite an accomplishment...
This gloomy and roughly powerful novel is not a politically correct sermon on cultural diversity. There are no heroes of tolerance here, native or otherwise, although Vollmann grudgingly admires Samuel de Champlain, the stodgy soldier who founded Quebec. French lay explorers craved beaver pelts. The priestly black gowns wore hair shirts and spiked girdles in self- mortification, and lusted to harvest souls. They strove to break down native sexual and religious customs, but, as Vollmann tells it, were more tolerant of the Indians' prolonged and joyous ritual torture of captured enemies. Tribes sold their souls (literally) as dearly as possible...
...repeating the comforting aphorism that "there is no alternative to negotiations." The talks will probably resume once the tensions caused by Boipatong cool. But a successful conclusion to the talks may depend as much on whether blacks and whites can break out of their separate worlds. In a sermon after the massacre, Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said, "I hope, somewhere, somehow, it will sink into the consciousness of most of our white fellow South Africans that we are human beings who cry when our children die." As long as blacks are allowed, even encouraged...