Word: sermonize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christ had been put on television to preach the Sermon on the Mount," says British Writer (and former Punch Editor) Malcolm Muggeridge, "viewers would either have switched on to another channel, or contented themselves with remarking that the speaker had an interesting face." Yet Christ is currently much in evidence on British TV. Most startling example: a Passion play in which Christ is a young man with an Elvis Presley haircut, scuffed loafers and worn jeans. The Virgin Mary, plump and nondescript, was the British version of anybody's mum. Pontius Pilate was suave and courteously detached...
Converts are pouring in. attracted by billboards, magazine ads. TV programs and. in the Lutheran Hour, the most widely broadcast sermon on radio (1,209 stations). A campaign of "Preaching. Teaching and Reaching." organized by the Evangelical Lutheran Church, is ringing doorbells and organizing study groups. The Lutherans support 1,460 parochial elementary schools. New congregations are springing up at the rate of one every 54 hours, and there are by latest count, 7,379,819 U.S. Lutherans, nearly 2,000,000 more than ten years...
Dramaliturgy. In Baltimore, the Rev. George F. Packard, illustrating a sermon, produced a rubber-band-propelled model rocket (decorated with orange fins and the word "Soul"), created an illusion of blast-off by dropping Dry Ice in water at the moment of launching, sent the missile to the ceiling of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, cried: "Confirmation launches us into the flight of life, and the fuel is Holy Communion...
During the wave of rapes and stabbings in New York City schools this winter, the South's segregationist dailies pounced jubilantly on the story as a Yankee-sent sermon on the evils of mixing the races in the classroom. When a Brooklyn principal killed himself during a grand jury investigation of violence at his junior high school (TIME, Feb. 19), Mississippi's extremist Jackson Daily News front-paged the story with a picture of a Negro policeman guarding the school. Caption: "Mixed school violence led to this...
...question has bubbled through Unitarianism for years (temperatures reached new highs last May when the monthly Christian Register changed its name to the Unitarian Register). Last week another vote for the negative was cast when the temporary pastor of Washington's influential All Souls Church used his Sunday sermon to bow out of Christianity...